Between the war between Israel and Hamas, the attacks in Arras and Brussels, the war in Ukraine, the bad news is piling up. Faced with this gloomy news, how to keep our spirits up, the question was 20 minutes Start of the week ? Well, we will easily understand that you followed our advice (to be found here) and that you opted for “a decentering activity”. Drawing, knitting, playing a little basketball with the family or cooking a little veal blanquette… we hope that this weekend will have allowed you to “get away from it all”, as they say. And as usual, the editorial team is here this Sunday evening to give you the five pieces of information to remember to start a new week well informed (hoping that the stew was good).
1. Humanitarian aid has arrived in Gaza
A new convoy of 17 trucks carrying aid entered the Gaza Strip on Sunday, besieged and in a catastrophic humanitarian situation. A first convoy of 20 trucks had arrived the day before. But according to the UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), at least 100 trucks per day would be needed to meet the needs of the population. Also on Sunday, six tanks of fuel stored in the Rafah crossing were delivered to the Gaza Strip, deprived of electricity and where there is a serious shortage of fuel to operate the generators.
As Israel prepares for a ground offensive, a new stage in this war which raises fears of a conflagration in the region, Iran, ally of Hamas, warned the United States and Israel on Sunday that the situation could become “out of control” in the Middle-East. The United States had previously announced the strengthening of its military assets in the region. As for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he warned that Hezbollah would make “the mistake of its life” by going to war against Israel.
Additional information: At Harvard, a controversy broke out after the distribution of a letter of support for the Palestinians, calling Israel an “apartheid regime”, by around thirty student groups. 20 minutes takes stock of this affair while elected officials and financial supporters of Harvard fuel it and several patrons threaten to withdraw their donations.
2. A draft ZAD in the commune of Saïx
Opponents of the A69 Castres-Toulouse motorway found themselves on Sunday facing the police who in the afternoon prevented access to a group of abandoned houses where demonstrators attempted to lay the foundations of a Zone to defend (ZAD). The face-to-face took place in the town of Saïx, about ten kilometers east of Castres. “We were eating, we saw a few trucks arriving and we said to ourselves that we were going to evacuate the most sensitive people and very quickly, there were tear gas bombs falling around us “, said environmental activist Camille Etienne.
Since the day before, several dozen activists opposed to the highway project had settled in the area, quickly painted with slogans like “Forests, not false dreams” or “Let’s break our chains, save our oaks”. Using tear gas to keep the opponents away, the mobile gendarmes, supported by two armored vehicles, took control of the buildings in a few minutes. This is where the day before, several thousand opponents of the A69 Toulouse-Castres motorway had marched, mostly peacefully, to chant “No to macadam”. The organizers had promised “ramdam”. “More than 10,000 people”, according to their last count at the end of the afternoon, responded to the call with force, percussion, drums, banners and slogans. The prefecture reported a main procession of 2,400 demonstrators and “2,500 radical and violent individuals”.
3. The baby found alive in a trash can has a first name
He will be able to thank the attentive ear of this resident. The baby found in a trash can Friday morning in Rennes is “in good health,” Rennes public prosecutor Philippe Astruc said on Saturday. The little miracle was even named Noah Briac Alban, according to the choice of the firefighter, midwife and doctor who rescued him. The baby was therefore found alive with the placenta on Friday morning in a garbage container in the Sarah-Bernhardt district of Rennes. “The live infant, male, mixed skin, was urgently transported to the pediatric department of the University Hospital,” Philippe Astruc indicated the same day. A criminal investigation into attempted murder was entrusted by the Rennes public prosecutor’s office to departmental security.
Additional information: Since his discovery, Noah Briac Alban has been welcomed into the maternity ward of Rennes University Hospital where he is expected to stay for several days. But after ? 20 minutes explains everything here.
4. South Africa beat England to the wire
It’s funny how a match can make you lose all your bearings. We were heading towards this semi-final between England and South Africa with the conviction that we would see the English pick up a nice one, a sort of childish consolation to give meaning to our lives after the great depression of the weekend. last. But South Africa beat England to the wire in the second semi-final of the World Cup, Saturday evening at the Stade de France. But there you have it, the English, who everyone imagined were in the lurch, put up a hell of a fight against the reigning world champions, only dropping the flag two minutes from the end on a 50-meter penalty from Pollard.
An outcome which can give them regrets… and here we are feeling something unclear and bordering on shameful for the lifelong rival after this elimination which took place in the very last minutes. We do our therapy here.
5. False bomb threats and emails from Switzerland
70. This is the number of false bomb threats that have targeted French airports since Wednesday. And all were sent from “almost always the same email address located in Switzerland”, indicated this Sunday the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune, suggesting that this put the authors of this “typical email which looks the same from one day to the next”. ‘other’ beyond the reach of some sanctions in the EU. The alerts at airports are the work not of “little jokers” but of “big idiots or even big delinquents”, the minister further underlined.
Clément Beaune invited hosting sites to help the French authorities: “Everyone has a responsibility, including platforms and social networks, to not support this type of attack and to cooperate as quickly as possible with aviation French civil society and our justice”. The minister also indicated that he had asked each airport, for each alert received by email or call, to systematically file a complaint. In total, “more than 60 investigations, all locations combined, were launched”.
Additional information: In addition to airports, certain public establishments are particularly targeted. The Palace of Versailles announced its temporary evacuation on Sunday for the seventh time in eight days.