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Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas released prisoners and hostages during the night from Thursday to Friday, a few hours before the expiration of their truce in the Gaza Strip. Then fighting resumed between the belligerents at 6 a.m. (French time), according to AFP journalists on site.
The Israeli army said in a statement that it had “resumed the fight against the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip”, while rocket warning sirens sounded in several Israeli localities close to this territory. In Gaza City, an AFP journalist reported dozens of Israeli artillery fire and airstrikes.
Eleven days after Thomas’ death, the tension has not subsided. The LR mayor of Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme), Marie-Hélène Thoraval, filed a complaint on Wednesday after receiving threats by telephone and on social networks, including one of death “by decapitation”, we learned on Thursday with the chosen one. The councilor says he received threats “in two stages”, on Wednesday two anonymous calls to the town hall and messages which called her a “fascho”, asking her if she “was the subject of protection” and if she was armed to defend themselves, she explained to AFP. “Then at the beginning of the afternoon, I received a private message on my Instagram account”, with “a death threat telling me that I was going to be decapitated and that someone would juggle with my skull”, a- she said.
The influential rating agency S&P Global Ratings must say on Friday whether or not it is lowering France’s financial rating, with Bercy fearing a downgrade synonymous with sanctioning the government’s economic policy. S&P closes the autumn reviews of the major rating agencies for France. The AA rating it currently gives it is equivalent to Moody’s Aa2. Fitch is one notch below with AA-, after having downgraded France in April.
But where Moody’s assigns a “stable” outlook to its rating, S&P has a negative outlook, a sword of Damocles that everyone is wondering if it will fall on French public finances on Friday in a context of interest rates. students.
“Everything is possible, it’s up to them. But I think that we have provided solid arguments on the credibility of our determination to reduce the debt, to bring deficits below 3% (by 2027, Editor’s note) and to maintain public spending,” the minister commented on Friday. of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, on France Inter. “We are reducing public spending, we are reducing deficits and we are accelerating public debt reduction,” he insisted, promising to reach a 4.9% deficit by 2023.
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