The war between Hamas and Israel FilesMore than a month after the Hamas terrorist attack, the Israeli army’s offensive to destroy the Islamist movement has now reached Gaza City. But the Jewish state does not have a clear position on how to continue the conflict or find a way out of the crisis.
In total :
– Israeli soldiers are operating this Wednesday, November 8, “in the heart” of Gaza City, in the north of the enclave, where ground fighting and bombing have intensified in recent days to “destroy Hamas,” explained the Minister on Tuesday evening defending the Jewish state.
– “It will not be an occupation,” Ron Dermer, Israel’s strategic affairs minister, said on Tuesday evening, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured on Monday that he wanted Israel to have “overall responsibility for the security” of the Palestinian territory after the war take over.
– Israel recorded more than 1,400 deaths, mostly civilians, in the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7th. On the Palestinian side, according to the Islamist movement, the threshold of 10,000 deaths was exceeded in Israeli bomb attacks on Gaza. The majority of them would be civilians.
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8:56 a.m
Marine Le Pen calls on “the entire” RN to march against anti-Semitism. The head of the far-right party called this Wednesday morning “all members and voters” of the National Assembly to join the march against anti-Semitism on Sunday to protest against the increase in anti-Semitic acts in France since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7. The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher and the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet called on Tuesday “all who recognize themselves in the values of our Republic” to take part in this “great citizens’ march”. The initiative was immediately welcomed by the majority, but also by the right and the extreme right. For its part, La France insoumise (Radical Left) said it reserved its response due to the presence of the Rassemblement Nationale.
8:05 a.m
MSF announces the death of one of its staff in a bomb attack in the Gaza Strip. The organization Doctors Without Borders mourned on Tuesday evening the death of one of its employees in Gaza, who was killed along with several of his relatives in an Israeli bomb attack on the Chati refugee camp on November 6th. Mohammed Al Ahel, a laboratory technician who had worked for Médecins Sans Frontières for more than two years, was killed in a bombing at the refugee camp that caused the building to collapse and killed dozens of people, Médecins Sans Frontières said in a statement on its website . “Our relentless calls for an immediate ceasefire have gone unanswered and we reiterate that this is the only way to prevent further deaths in Gaza and allow the arrival of humanitarian aid,” MSF added.
7:33am
The occupation of the enclave in question on the Israeli side. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “did not talk about the occupation of Gaza” after the war with Hamas, said Ron Dermer, Israel’s strategic affairs minister, in an interview on the American channel MSNBC on Tuesday evening. “We (Israel, editor’s note) completely withdrew from Gaza 17 years ago and reestablished a terrorist state. We can’t repeat this, it’s obvious. “Once Hamas is no longer in power and its infrastructure is dismantled, Israel will have to bear overall responsibility for security indefinitely,” said Dermer, who sits as an observer in Israel’s war cabinet. When asked how this responsibility will be organized, Ron Dermer acknowledged that the question is still open, but reiterated that “it will not be a matter of occupation.” The comments from this former Israeli ambassador to the United States, who is close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, come after Washington reiterated a day earlier that it was opposed to Israel’s renewed long-term occupation of the Gaza Strip. “In general, we do not support a reoccupation of Gaza, and neither does Israel,” U.S. State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters on Tuesday. This reaction follows Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on Monday in which he asserted that he wanted Israel to assume “overall responsibility for the security” of the territory after the war.
7:19 am
The fighting in the heart of Gaza City. Troops on foot, armored vehicles and tanks “have only one target: the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, their infrastructure, their commanders, their bunkers, their communication rooms,” emphasized Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday evening. He also stated that his soldiers had advanced into the heart of Gaza City and were “tightening the noose,” noting that the most senior Hamas official in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was isolated in his bunker. According to Portal, the Israeli military is beginning the next phase of its war, focused on locating and disabling the maze of tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip, and that it could take months to complete. “We are increasing the pressure on Hamas hour by hour, day by day. So far we have killed thousands of terrorists above and below ground,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address.