Israel proposed a new agreement “comprehensive ceasefire” in three phases to Hamas, American President Joe Biden said on Friday, May 31. The agreement would involve the return of Israeli hostages from Gaza and the reconstruction of civilian areas, in exchange for a total withdrawal of Israeli forces for a period of six weeks. Joe Biden urged leaders on both sides not to “miss this moment”. “All those who want peace now must raise their voices and work to make this peace a reality. It is time for this war to end.”, he urged. Follow our live stream.
The UN deplores the “apocalyptic” life in the south of the Gaza Strip. “The exodus that we have been witnessing over the past twenty days from Rafah is an experience that is both impressive and horrible for a very large number of people”, lamented Matthew Hollingworth, director for the Palestinian territories of the World Food Program (WFP). Due to a lack of fuel, WFP bakeries in the south had to close. In the center and the north, the situation has improved but remains critical, according to the agency.
End of Israeli operations in Jabaliya, in the north of the enclave. An Israeli army spokesperson announced on Friday the cessation of ground operations in the Jabaliya region, located in the northern Gaza Strip, reports the Israeli daily Haaretz. These raids made it possible to recover “seven bodies of hostages”, to destroy “10 km of tunnels” and kill “more than 100 terrorists”claims the IDF in a published message on. The Rafah area (south of the enclave), where the strikes and the ground offensive continued on Friday, became the epicenter of the conflict.
Unwelcome Israeli industrialists at a defense exhibition in France. France canceled the participation of Israeli arms manufacturers in the Eurosatory defense exhibition on Friday, after a deadly bombing of a displaced persons camp in Rafah by the Israeli army sparked international outrage and sparked demonstrations in the hexagon. In reaction, Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet, asked France to “reverse” this decision.