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.
News of the day
Franco-Israeli hostage Mia Shem has been released. Kidnapped during the attack on the Tribe of Nova festival, the 21-year-old young woman had already appeared in a video published by Hamas on October 16, where she gave her identity while someone treated her arm. It is “a great joy that I share with his family and all French people,” Emmanuel Macron reacted this Thursday on X.
“It’s the happiest day of my life,” his father David Shem responded to Israeli television channel Channel 12. “The army called me, I almost had a heart attack,” he said. he testified. “I’m not going to leave her for a long time. » A video showing Mia’s mother, Keren, shedding tears of joy on the phone, was circulating on the networks.
The number of the day
3. Three Israelis, including two women, were killed Thursday in an attack on a bus stop in West Jerusalem carried out by two Palestinians affiliated with Hamas, according to Israeli police. The Islamist movement, considered terrorist by the United States, the European Union and Israel in particular, said it was behind the attack.
Hamas said the two attackers were members of its armed wing and originally from Sour Baher, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian part of the city occupied and annexed by Israel. Israeli police confirmed that the attackers, two brothers, had been shot dead.
Sentence of the day
The truce produced results. »
This is what Antony Blinken, the head of American diplomacy, visiting Tel Aviv, wants to remember from the last few days. “Hostages have returned home, reunited with their families” and the truce has also allowed “more humanitarian aid to reach innocent civilians in Gaza, who desperately need it,” he told Tel- Aviv, where he arrived before dawn on an official visit. “It’s important and we hope it can continue. »
Today’s trend
French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Qatar on Saturday after the COP28 on climate in Dubai, to meet the emir of this mediator country who plays a key role in the release of hostages held by Hamas since its attack on Israel on 7 October, the Elysée announced on Thursday.
Furthermore, the Egyptian president of last year’s COP27, Sameh Choukri, head of Egyptian diplomacy, called at the opening of COP28 for a minute of silence for “all civilians who have died in the current conflict in Gaza”, at the same time as for two veteran COP diplomats who recently died.