To better understand the latest events in the conflict between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Israel, 20 minutes takes stock every evening. Between the strong declarations, the diplomatic advances or the dramatic results of the fighting, here are the main points of the day.
The fact of the day
Fierce fighting took place this Monday in the Khan Younes sector, in the south of the Gaza Strip where the Israeli army is concentrating its operations against Palestinian Hamas, despite calls for a pause in the clashes, which are increasing in number international level.
In the morning, witnesses reported heavy artillery fire, advances of Israeli tanks and violent clashes near al-Aqsa University and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younes.
The number of the day
120. This is the number of wounded men and women from Gaza who were able to be transported and treated on the Diksmuide, a French helicopter carrier transformed into a floating hospital, around fifty kilometers from Rafah, the crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. 40 beds and 80 caregivers are on site.
The 120 injured people transferred were each time serious cases which required long hospitalizations. But these transfers are extremely rare, while the wounded number in the tens of thousands in Gaza and the hospitals there are almost no longer functioning.
Sentence of the day
“What other solutions are they thinking of? Make all the Palestinians leave? Kill them ? »
This was stated by Josep Borrell, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, on Monday, on the sidelines of a meeting of EU ministers. “The solution” that he and the EU defend is that of two states, one Israeli and one Palestinian. Borrell denounces the attitude of the Jewish state on the issue.
“We cannot be hesitant,” he said, calling on Europeans to “consider sanctions” in the face of Israel’s refusal to discuss a two-state solution, the only possible outcome for a large part of the international community, including the United States.
Today’s trend
The upward trend is that of victims of clashes between the Israeli army and Hamas in Gaza. The local Health Ministry, run by Hamas, gave a new human toll this Monday: 25,295 people have died since October 7.
Furthermore, according to this time the AFP, the Israeli army has killed more than 200 people since October 7 on the border with Lebanon, in the north. 146 of them were Hezbollah fighters.