Cover photo: Antony Blinken after meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, October 15, 2023. JACQUELYN MARTIN / AFP
- According to the IDF, Israel will launch “major military operations” once civilians leave. “It’s really important that the people of Gaza know that we have been very, very generous with our time,” Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told CNN. We have given enough warning, for more than twenty-five hours… I cannot emphasize enough that it is now time for the residents of Gaza to leave. »
- According to the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in Gaza and moved south after Israel ordered the evacuation of the 1.1 million residents in the north of the enclave on Friday morning.
- The Pentagon has ordered a second warship to be sent to the Mediterranean. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the deployment of the Dwight Eisenhower to the Mediterranean in a press release issued overnight from Saturday to Sunday “to combat hostile actions against Israel or any efforts aimed at extending this war to Hamas.” , to deter.” attack.
- During a telephone conversation with Mahmoud Abbas, Joe Biden recalls the Palestinians’ “right to self-determination”. “Hamas does not defend the right of the Palestinian people to dignity and self-determination,” the American head of state told the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to a White House press release issued on Saturday evening. He also pledged his “full support” to the Palestinian Authority in its efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians, “particularly in Gaza.”
- At least 1,300 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israel since the attack on the Gaza Strip a week ago. The Israeli army confirmed on Saturday morning the presence of at least 120 people held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The death toll in the Hamas-controlled enclave rose to 2,215, including 724 children. This emerges from a final report from local authorities on Friday evening.
- The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had found “bodies” of hostages in the Gaza Strip During their attack in Israel on October 7, Israelis were kidnapped by Hamas commandos.
- A leader of the Islamist Hamas movement who led the attack on Israel on October 7 has been killed by the Israeli armysaid Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.
- The Israeli government’s national security adviser acknowledged “mistakes” by the intelligence services on Saturday in the run-up to the bloody attacks carried out by Hamas Palestinians in Israel on October 7th.
- An Israeli attack hit the airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, injuring five people. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) announced this on Saturday evening, a few days after similar attacks at the airports in Aleppo and Damascus.
- The number of French nationals killed in Hamas attacks against Israel has continued to rise, reaching seventeen dead and fifteen missing.The entourage of the French Foreign Minister who arrived in Tel Aviv reported to the Agence France-Presse on Saturday.
- Three new repatriation flights between Israel and France are planned for Sunday. Three new “special flights” are planned for Sunday, following the rotation of four flights between Thursday and Saturday, which, according to the Quai d’Orsay, have already allowed the repatriation of 1,200 French people from Israel.
- Saudi Arabia has decided to suspend negotiations on possible normalization with Israel sponsored by the United States. The decision was announced on Saturday by a source close to the government during a visit to Riyadh by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
- Iran’s foreign minister meets the head of Hamas’ political bureau in Doha on Saturday, in Qatar, according to the official Iranian news agency IRNA. This is the first official meeting between Iranian officials and Ismail Haniyeh since the Hamas attack in Israel. No details were released about the content of the conversations between the two men.
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