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The guns are not going to fall silent in Gaza just yet. Despite international pressure in view of the dramatic humanitarian situation, Benjamin Netanyahu was inflexible on Monday during an interview on the ABC News channel.
The Israeli Prime Minister declared that his country would have “overall responsibility for the security” of this territory for an “indefinite period” once the war with Hamas ends, therefore once again rejecting a ceasefire “without release of the hostages”. Earlier, UN chief Antonio Guterres had called for an end to “the humanitarian nightmare in Gaza” which had become “a cemetery for children”.
A former and a current Minister of Justice have an appointment at the bar this week. While Éric Dupond-Moretti has been before the judges of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) since Monday, another court, criminal this time, will hear one of his predecessors this Tuesday. Former Minister of Justice François Bayrou will in fact explain himself early this afternoon in Paris, where he is being tried in the case of parliamentary assistants from the UDF and the MoDem.
The three-time presidential candidate is appearing for complicity, by instigation, in embezzlement of public funds, which means he faces 10 years of imprisonment, a million euro fine and 10 years of ineligibility.
The literary world will, like every year, have its eyes glued this Tuesday to a lunch at the Drouant restaurant in Paris. It is in fact during this one that the Goncourt 2023 will be announced, as has been the tradition since 1914. The novelist Éric Reinhardt is favorite for the most prestigious French literary prize, with a novel with a daring form about the fall of a woman abandoned by her husband.
In front of Sarah, Susanne and the writerthe suitors are called Jean-Baptiste Andrea (Watch over her) and Gaspard Koenig (Humus). The prize has four finalists, but one of them has almost no chance: Snow Sinno. sad tigerthat the readers of 20 minutes plebiscite, in fact won the Femina on Monday. However, this prize was created in 1904 in reaction to the misogyny of Goncourt, and Goncourt wants to systematically distance itself from it.