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This Monday marks the fourth and final day of the truce between Hamas and Israel. Started on Friday, this allowed the release of hostages, prisoners and emergency aid in the Gaza Strip. The agreement can, however, be extended for a maximum of ten days. Every 24 hours, as long as the guns are silent, a dozen Israeli hostages kidnapped on October 7 must be released in exchange for three times as many Palestinians held by Israel. Chancelleries are therefore working to try not to hear the return of the sound of weapons on Tuesday. “France considers that a lasting pause is necessary, a truce which allows us to achieve a cease-fire”, with “the release of all the hostages”, insisted the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Sunday. Catherine Colonna. Joe Biden, for his part, said he would like the truce to be extended “as long as prisoners continue to come out”.
Justice will try to understand the spiral which led to the attack against Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020. Six teenagers are being tried from this Monday by the children’s court in Paris. The trial is expected to last two weeks. One of them is on trial for “slanderous denunciation”, after alleging that the teacher had asked Muslim students to leave the room. The five others are suspected of having designated the teacher as the terrorist, without knowing what tragedy they were exposing him to: death by decapitation. All of them face, because of their age, two and a half years in prison. A second trial, to judge eight adults, will take place before the special assize court in Paris at the end of 2024.
Bad weather continues to plague Pas-de-Calais. The department is once again on orange flood alert due to significant floods to come on the Canche and the Hem. It is also placed by Météo-France on yellow rain flood vigilance. Enough to fear the worst in a region which is barely recovering from almost three weeks of historic floods which caused numerous damages.