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
The toll of French people killed in Israel by the Hamas attack on October 7 has once again changed unfavorably. It rose to 40 dead and eight missing, including hostages, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced this Monday. “The discussion is underway first with the Israeli authorities, but also with partners in the region” because “our priority is of course the release of the hostages,” recalled the head of government.
The number of the day
6. Like the number of ambulances transporting injured people who were able to reach Egypt via the Rafah crossing from the Gaza Strip. After being closed since Saturday, the terminal reopened this Monday to allow in particular the evacuation of foreigners and dual nationals.
Sentence of the day
Our people will not allow the United States to impose its plans to create an administration that suits them and the occupation [Israël]and our people will not accept a new Vichy government”
These are the statements of Osama Hamdan, the leader of Hamas in Lebanon. Tuesday in Congress, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Palestinian Authority should regain control of the Gaza Strip from Hamas “at some point”, and that international third parties could perhaps play a role. during an interim period.
“We remind those who seek to depose Hamas (…) that we are an integral part” of the Palestinian people, argued the Hamas executive. The last Palestinian legislative elections date back to 2006 and were won by Hamas. Prevented from exercising real power despite this victory, the Islamist movement took control of the Gaza Strip by force the following year by routing the security services of the Palestinian Authority.
Today’s trend
The armed wing of Palestinian Hamas announced Monday that it had fired 16 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, claiming to have targeted the south of the city of Haifa. In a statement, the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades said that these shots came “in response to the massacres of the occupation and its aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip”.