2023-10-22 05:06:56
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Israeli army accuses Hezbollah of ‘dragging Lebanon into war’
The Israeli army accuses Lebanese Hezbollah of seeking military escalation in the border area at the risk of dragging Lebanon into war after new exchanges of fire between Israel and the Shiite group.
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Casualties in new exchanges of fire on the Israel-Lebanon border
New exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters have caused casualties in the border area.
Hezbollah said four of its fighters were killed in the clashes. Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian armed group, announced the death of one of its fighters.
Israeli soldiers on a Merkava tank as they occupy a position on the border with Lebanon, October 21, 2023. © Jalaa MAREY / AFP
The Israeli army reported a series of incidents in northern Israel, such as the firing of an anti-tank missile which injured three Israeli soldiers.
It also said it struck a position from which Hezbollah was seeking to fire anti-tank missiles toward a border town.
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Israel claims it killed ‘terrorists’ in airstrike on West Bank mosque
The Israeli army claimed this Sunday to have killed, during an airstrike, “terrorists” sheltering in an underground passage at the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
“The army carried out an air attack on a terrorist compound belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives, who were responsible for several terrorist attacks in recent months and who were planning another imminent terrorist attack,” the army said Israeli in a press release.
The director of the Jenin Red Crescent, Mahmoud Al-Saadi, was quoted by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa as saying one person was killed and three others injured in the strike.
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Qatar considers possible release of hostages “very soon” thanks to ongoing discussions
While Hamas, which according to the Israeli army holds 210 hostages, released two American women this Friday, Qatar considers possible a release “very soon” of the hostages thanks to ongoing discussions, declared the spokesperson for the Qatari Ministry of Defense. Foreign Affairs, in an interview Saturday with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
The UN, for its part, reiterated its call for the “immediate and unconditional release” of all those kidnapped by Hamas.
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The situation in the Gaza Strip is “catastrophic”
In the Gaza Strip, where a million Palestinians according to the UN have fled bombings in the north to mass in the south, near the border with Egypt, the situation is “catastrophic”, five agencies said on Saturday United Nations.
“Time is running out before mortality rates skyrocket due to the outbreak of disease and lack of health care capacity,” these agencies warned.
“A massive delivery of aid is necessary,” said Antonio Guterres, calling for a “humanitarian ceasefire” to “end the nightmare” of the population.
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Twenty trucks full of humanitarian aid were able to cross from Egypt to the Gaza Strip
The Rafah border crossing, the only exit from the Gaza Strip not to be controlled by Israel, closed after the passage of this convoy of 20 trucks, largely insufficient according to the UN, which requires at least 100 trucks per day to meet the needs of the region’s 2.4 million inhabitants.
More than 44,000 bottles of drinking water, “just enough for 22,000 people for a day”, were sent to Gaza, the UN said.
The UN particularly insisted on the need to deliver fuel, vital for the Palestinian territory.
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Egypt denounces an international scene incapable of “finding a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian question”
Gathered “for peace” in Cairo, world leaders demanded on Saturday a “ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, pleading for “massive” aid to Gaza and a definitive “solution” to 75 years of conflict Israeli-Palestinian.
The negotiations failed on two points, according to them: on the one hand, “Western countries wanted a clear condemnation of Hamas”, whose attack on October 7 against Israel triggered a war that left 1,400 dead in this country.
On the other, they demanded “a call for the release of the hostages”, some 200 people kidnapped during the attack by Hamas.
The Arab countries refused to include these points and the summit ended with a press release from the Egyptian presidency denouncing “an international scene which has revealed in recent decades its incapacity to find a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian question”.
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The Israeli army will intensify its strikes on the Gaza Strip
Hello everyone, welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the conflict between Israel and Hamas as well as the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army, which is preparing for a ground offensive, has announced that it is intensifying its strikes on this Palestinian enclave carried out for two weeks in response to the Hamas attack, a few hours after the entry of a first humanitarian aid convoy. , coming from Egypt.
On Saturday, Israeli bombardments continued on Gaza while rocket fire from Palestinian groups continued to target Israel.
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