To better understand the latest events in the conflict between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Israel20 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
As calls for ceasefires continue, France announced on Monday that it would deliver 700 tonnes of additional aid intended for the Palestinian population of Gaza, specifying that half will leave on Wednesday from the port of Le Havre by boat. . “The other half will leave the following week,” French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said at a press conference in Beirut the day after a visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank.
With these new deliveries, “we will triple our aid within 10 days,” declared the head of French diplomacy, emphasizing the need to ensure “a continuous flow of aid” for civilian populations who lack everything.
The number of the day
110. The number of people killed since Sunday in Israeli bombardments in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health. Hamas called on the international community to “protect health facilities in the Gaza Strip.” According to the same source, Israeli military operations have left 19,453 dead and 52,286 injured since the start of the war.
Sentence of the day
They didn’t want to protect me, he wanted to keep a trophy.
Detained in a house in Gaza until her release on the sixth day of the truce, Yarden Roman-Gat told the American channel CBS about her captivity. “I was under constant surveillance, I was never hidden, not for a single moment,” says this 36-year-old physiotherapist, mother of a 3-year-old girl, kidnapped from Kibbutz Beeri.
To date, 129 people are still being held. Hamas also broadcast a video on Monday evening of three elderly Israeli hostages, alive, sitting on chairs.
Today’s trend
Ten days after an American veto, the UN Security Council meets again to try to decide Monday evening on a new text calling for an “urgent and lasting cessation of hostilities” in Gaza, at a time when Washington is showing signs of impatience with its Israeli ally.
The vote, initially scheduled for Monday at 9 p.m., was officially postponed until later in the evening but could still be postponed, perhaps to Tuesday, to allow negotiations to continue and avoid a new deadlock for the Council.
At the same time, concerns remain strong about an extension of the conflict towards Lebanon. In Israel, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin notably called on “Hezbollah to ensure that it does not do things that could provoke a wider conflict”. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs called on Lebanese leaders to show restraint to avoid an escalation in the south of the country, after having launched a similar appeal the day before to Israeli officials.