Emmanuel Macron evokes “intense discussions” for the release of the hostages

• United States President Joe Biden will travel to Israel on Wednesday for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. and to reaffirm its solidarity with Israel, announced Secretary of State Antony Blinken. On the same day, he will travel to Jordan, where he will meet King Abdullah II, President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi.
• The Israeli army announced Monday evening that it would bomb Hezbollah military positions in Lebanon. Since the start of the conflict on October 7, clashes on the Israel-Lebanon border have left around ten people dead on the Lebanese side, mostly combatants, but also a Reuters journalist and two civilians. On the Israeli side, at least two people were killed.
• The Israeli army and Israeli security services announced that they had killed Osama Mazini, a senior Hamas official, in an airstrike on Monday evening. It was he who was responsible for managing the case of Gilad Shalit, a Franco-Israeli IDF soldier detained by Hamas from 2006 to 2011, and exchanged by Israel for more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners.
• The United Nations Security Council rejected the Russian resolution on Gaza. The text proposed by Moscow, which condemns violence against civilians without mentioning Hamas and calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, obtained five votes for, four votes against and six abstentions, far from the nine votes required within the The body, which has fifteen members.
• Hamas released the video of a Franco-Israeli hostage it is holding in the Gaza Strip. The 21-year-old girl’s name is Mia Schem. Visibly injured in the arm, she explains that she was at the music festival attacked in the early hours of the Hamas raid on Israeli soil on October 7. “Please get me out of here as quickly as possible”she concludes in her message.
• Nearly 200 people were taken hostage by Hamas, according to an updated report from the Israeli army. For its part, Hamas says it holds “between 200 and 250 people”according to Abou Obeida, spokesperson for the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamist movement.
• The European Union will open a humanitarian airlift to Gaza via Egypt. “Palestinians in Gaza need humanitarian aid (…). The first two flights will leave this week, and they will bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza”, said M^me von der Leyen from Tirana, Albania. Saturday, Ursula von der Leyen announced to triple humanitarian aid to Gazabringing it from 25 million to 75 million euros.
• Around a million people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip by war, the United Nations (UN) agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Sunday. “This figure is likely to rise as people continue to leave their homes”, specified the UNRWA communications director. The evacuation order given by Israel concerns 1.1 million inhabitants of the north of the enclave.
• No ceasefire is in progress in the Gaza Strip, said Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, but a temporary cessation of strikes on evacuation routes has been decided, according to Israeli forces. They “will refrain from targeting axes delimited by 8 hours at 12 o’clock “declared an army spokesperson, on the social network X (ex-Twitter), Monday morning.
• The UN Secretary-General, for his part, urged Israel to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.. “Gaza lacks water, electricity and other essential supplies”alerted Antonio Guterres in a press release Sunday evening, estimating that the Middle East is “on the edge of the abyss”. He also again demanded the immediate release of the hostages by Hamas.
• At least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, killed in Israel since the attack, launched on Saturday October 7, on the Gaza Strip by Hamas. The number of deaths in the enclave controlled by Hamas rose to 2,750, according to a latest assessment.
• The toll of French nationals killed in Hamas attacks against Israel has risen further, reaching 19 dead and 13 missing, the French foreign minister reported on Sunday at the end of her visit to Israel. She is expected in Egypt on Monday.

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