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UPDATE ON THE SITUATION – Two members of the Israeli security forces were attacked with knives on Wednesday at an entry barrier to Jerusalem.
15-year-old attacks Israelis with knives near Jerusalem, two dead in Israeli strike on car in Lebanon, UN denounces war “against children”. Le Figaro takes stock of the situation…
15-year-old armed with knife injures two Israelis near Jerusalem
Two members of the Israeli security forces were injured Wednesday in a stabbing attack committed by a 15-year-old boy at a checkpoint at the entrance to Jerusalem, police said. This attack took place around 8:15 a.m. (06:15 a.m. GMT) at the “tunnel checkpoint” where the teenager arrived on a bicycle, police said in a statement. “When the security forces present at the checkpoint wanted to control him, the terrorist took out a knife and began to stab them”, added the police. Soldiers “retaliated by shooting, neutralizing the terrorist”, she said again, without indicating whether he had been killed. Two members of the security forces were injured, according to police.
Two killed in Israeli strike on car in Lebanon
Two people were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a car Wednesday morning in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency reported. An AFP photographer on site saw a completely charred car near the coastal town of Tyre, close to the Rashidiyé Palestinian refugee camp.
The UN denounces a war “against children”
While a first boat loaded with food left Cyprus on Tuesday for the Gaza Strip on the verge of famine and bombarded daily by the Israeli army, a UN agency denounces a “war on children” in the besieged Palestinian territory. According to the Hamas health ministry, at least 27 people died of malnutrition and dehydration, including children.
“This war is a war against children”wrote on X the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), Philippe Lazzarini. “Dizzy. The number of children allegedly killed in just four months in Gaza is higher than the number of children killed in four years in all conflicts around the world.he said, referring to UN figures according to which 12,193 children died in conflicts around the world between 2019 and 2022.