International human rights NGOs, including Reporters Without Borders (RSF), victims’ families and other media institutions called on Wednesday February 28 at the UN for an independent investigation into the Israeli strikes which killed and injured journalists in 2023 in southern Lebanon. Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, the powerful Lebanese Hezbollah has targeted Israeli military positions daily, in support of its Palestinian ally. And Israel is carrying out retaliatory strikes. Follow our live stream.
France and Qatar are calling for a ceasefire to be put in place “very quickly”. The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim ben Hamad al-Thani, visiting Paris, and Emmanuel Macron once again shared, during a dinner at the Elysée on Tuesday, their hope of arriving “very quickly to a ceasefire” in the conflict which has pitted Israel against Hamas since October 7. The release of the hostages is a “priority” absolute for Paris, recalled the French president. The Emir of Qatar, whose country is home to Hamas leaders, for his part denounced a “genocide of the Palestinian people”with some “forced displacements” and “wild bombings”.
An “almost inevitable” famine in Gaza. The UN was alarmed Tuesday by a “widespread famine almost inevitable” in the Gaza Strip. “If nothing changes, famine is imminent in northern Gaza”, Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), told the UN Security Council. No convoy has been able to reach northern Gaza since January 23, according to the UN, which denounces the obstructions of the Israeli authorities.
Lula denounces a “genocide”. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose country is hosting from Wednesday a meeting of G20 finance ministers dominated by the conflicts in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, also reaffirmed Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to a “genocide against women and children” Palestinians.