Oct 25, 2023 7:40 p.m
Netanyahu: “I too will have to explain it”
“October 7th was a black day. We will clarify everything that happened. Everyone will have to give explanations for this attack, starting with me.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this in what appeared to be the first admission of responsibility. “But – he continued – only after the war. My task now is to lead the country to victory in the war.”
Oct 25, 2023 7:29 p.m
Netanyahu: “We are preparing the invasion”
Israel is preparing for the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, but further details cannot be disclosed at this time. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this in an address to the nation.
Oct 25, 2023 6:47 p.m
Macron: “Gaza ground operation a mistake”
A “massive” ground operation by Israel in the Gaza Strip would be “a mistake.” This was stated by French President Emmanuel Macron. Among other things, Macron stated that this type of operation was “incompatible with respect for civilians, international humanitarian law and even the rules of war.” BfmTv reports it.
Oct 25, 2023 6:43 p.m
WSJ: “Militiamen trained in Iran”
Wall Street Journal: “In the weeks leading up to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, about 500 fighters from the militant Palestinian Islamist group received special combat training in Iran, according to intelligence sources familiar with the matter.”
Oct 25, 2023 6:39 p.m
Netanyahu will speak to the press in the evening
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a statement to the press this evening at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, where a War Cabinet meeting is currently taking place. The media reports about it.
Oct 25, 2023 5:34 p.m
The EU reprimands Guterres
In the chapter on the Middle East, the reference to Antonio Guterres disappears in the latest draft conclusions of the EU summit to be held in Brussels tomorrow and the day after. The previous draft provided for “support for the Secretary-General’s call for a humanitarian pause.” In the latest version, the reference to the “humanitarian pause” remains, but not to Guterres. However, negotiations on the final terminology are still open and range between the terms “pause”, “break” and “humanitarian window”. Yesterday there was a serious clash between Israel and Guterres at the United Nations following his intervention.
Oct 25, 2023 5:31 p.m
Israel attacks Guterres again: “He distorts reality”
“The UN Secretary General is once again distorting and distorting reality.” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan said this in a note after again calling for Guterres to resign. “Yesterday – he added – he said clearly that the massacre and the murderous madness of Hamas ‘did not take place in a vacuum.'” For him, “Israel is guilty of the actions of Hamas” and Guterres has “understanding and justification for the massacre shown”. “A Secretary who does not understand that the murder of innocent people cannot be justified and cannot be ‘controversial’ cannot, he concluded, be a Secretary-General.”
Oct 25, 2023 5:29 p.m
WSJ: “Waiting for US missiles to arrive”
Israel has accepted, at least for now, the American request to postpone the invasion of Gaza so that the United States can send rockets into the area. This is reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing several sources. The Pentagon is accelerating the deployment of a dozen air defense systems, the Wall Street Journal reports, to protect American troops in the region from rockets and missiles. American officials have persuaded Israel to wait until everything is ready, perhaps as early as the end of the week.
Oct 25, 2023 5:29 p.m
British government: “We do not agree with Guterres”
Rishi Sunak’s British Conservative government “disagrees” with some passages in yesterday’s speech to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a speech that infuriated Israel. A Downing Street spokesman underscored this in a briefing and explicitly distanced himself from Guterres’ statement that the bloody Hamas attack on October 7 was unjustifiable, but that it did not come about “out of nowhere” but in a way the “56 “years of oppressive occupation” imposed on the Palestinian people in the territories. “We obviously do not agree with this representation,” said the spokesman, pressed by journalists’ questions on the subject; to then add that the UK – a permanent member with veto power in the Security Council alongside the US, Russia, China and France – is not only “clear that there can be no justification for Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack”. “, but also believes it should be condemned as something motivated solely by “hatred and ideology.” Prime Minister Sunak, for his part, insisted on support for “Israel’s right” to self-defense in today’s Question Time in the House of Commons. While he limited himself to highlighting the need for “pauses” in the Gaza raids to allow humanitarian aid to be transported to exhausted Palestinian civilians, he did not go so far as to heed the request of some opposition MPs to join the appeal for one “immediate ceasefire” tout court. An appeal that was made by the UN Secretary General himself, among other things, for humanitarian reasons.
Oct 25, 2023 5:27 pm
Al Sisi to Macron: “Evacuation of Palestinians from Gaza does not solve the problem”
Egyptian President Al Sisi said in a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the end of their meeting in Cairo today that he spoke “in detail” with his interlocutor about ways to “contain the crisis” that “it cannot expand.” On the situation in the Gaza Strip, Sisi told Macron that evacuating Palestinians was “not the solution,” while he reiterated the need for a “proportionate” deployment of humanitarian aid to Gaza and thanked President Macron for his promise to set up a “hospital “to send a ship” to the region.