2023-12-14 07:52:52
08:52
In the field
Palestinians in Gaza and the specter of the exodus
As the majority of Gaza’s residents are displaced and Israeli troops push deeper into Palestinian territory, UN officials are raising the specter of expelling residents to Egypt. According to the United Nations, more than two months of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which took power in the Gaza Strip in 2007, have forced nearly 85% of the population to leave their homes.
07:45
Explication
At least 17 journalists have died since the start of the conflict
Forty-five journalists were killed around the world in 2023 while doing their job, according to RSF’s annual report published Thursday. This is the lowest since 2002, despite the “tragedy” of the war between Israel and Hamas, during which at least 17 lost their lives. Last year, the global toll of journalists killed was 61. You have to go back more than 20 years to find a total lower than this year (33 in 2002). More than a third of the losses are linked to the conflict in the Middle East.
Read also: “Bury our loved ones and return to work”: in Gaza, the fight of journalists to document the war
This in no way reduces the tragedy in Gaza, but we observe a steady decline, far from the more than 140 journalists killed in 2012, then in 2013.
07:32
Explication
In Israel, the worrying rush towards firearms
Since October 7, 260,000 Israelis have applied for gun permits. In Jerusalem, pushed by the extremist fringe of the government, civilians are crowding into armories, which worries Palestinian defense NGOs and feminists.
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04:57
White House security adviser expected in Israel this Thursday
Without stopping the strikes in Gaza, Israel must find a way to reduce the intensity of the strikes, suggested Jack Sullivan, White House security adviser expected Thursday and Friday in Jerusalem for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . “The discussions are extremely serious,” said John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, adding that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Israel shortly as part of a regional tour.
Without calling into question its support for the Israeli operation, the United States is beginning to become exasperated by the toll of victims in the Gaza Strip. President Joe Biden spoke on Tuesday of “indiscriminate bombings” and a possible “erosion” of the Western support for Israel. “We want an end to this conflict […] but we also do not think that it would be relevant to stop the operation now […] because terrorist attacks against Israel would continue, which, in the long term, is not in the security interests of anyone in the region,” declared Matthew Miller, the spokesperson for American diplomacy.
04:39
Israel continues air raids on Gaza
Israel increases air raids in the Gaza Strip. Before dawn, the Hamas administration’s Health Ministry announced the deaths of 19 Palestinians in Israeli strikes in Gaza City, Nuseirat and Rafah after a day of airstrikes and intense street fighting. An Israeli raid also killed two people and injured others in Jenin, a stronghold of armed factions in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said.
04:38
Wednesday’s day
Find our follow-up of the events of December 13, 2023.
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