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Exactly two months ago, on October 7, Hamas attacked Israel massively and by surprise. Since then, the war has been fought in the Gaza Strip, creating a particularly dramatic situation for civilians. On Wednesday, the UN Secretary General said he feared that “even limited humanitarian aid” would become “impossible” in this Palestinian territory, highlighting “the constant bombings of the Israeli armed forces” and “the absence of shelter or minimum to survive. Antonio Guterres even invoked for the first time since his arrival at the head of the United Nations in 2017 article 99 of the Charter which allows him to “draw the attention of the Council” to a file which “could endanger the maintenance of international peace and security”. In response, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen described Antonio Guterres’ mandate as a “danger to world peace”.
Economy, immigration, terrorist threat… Elisabeth Borne is stepping up to reassure the French and defend her policy. In an interview Wednesday at Figaro, the Prime Minister says she is ready to put more resources into security after the knife attack committed on Saturday in Paris. She also returns to the very sensitive immigration bill, for which Gérald Darmanin has her “confidence” to find a majority in the National Assembly. But the head of government also says she is waiting for “proposals” from her and from the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau to possibly adapt the AME, state medical aid for undocumented foreigners. In this context, it also affirms that a renegotiation of a Franco-Algerian agreement of 1968, which confers a favorable status to Algerians for their conditions of movement, stay and employment in France, is “the order of the day “. On the economic front, she does not take up the proposal of her Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire to reduce the duration of unemployment compensation for those over 55. But like him, she wants to continue to “carry out reforms” to obtain “full employment”.
Gun violence is once again putting the United States into mourning. A shooting broke out on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas on Wednesday, leaving three people dead and one injured who was in critical condition that evening. The shooter, believed to be in his 60s, according to NBC News, was shot and killed by university police. UNLV University will be closed this Thursday and Friday, and will offer psychological support services to its 28,000 students.