At least three people were killed on Friday April 26 in the bombing of a house in Gaza City by Israeli planes.
The war was triggered on October 7, 2023 by an unprecedented attack carried out against Israel by Hamas commandos, which resulted in the death of 1,170 people, mainly civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse report established from official Israeli data. More than 250 people have been kidnapped and 129 remain captive in Gaza, 34 of whom have died according to Israeli officials.
The health ministry of the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, announced on Friday a new death toll of 34,356 deaths in this territory since the start of the war. In twenty-four hours, at least 51 additional deaths were recorded, according to a press release from the ministry, which reports 77,368 injured in more than 200 days of war.
• Clearing the Gaza Strip of rubble and unexploded bombs could take fourteen years, says UN
A United Nations official said it would take about fourteen years to clear the numerous rubble and unexploded ordnance left by Israel’s devastating war in the Gaza Strip, including the rubble of destroyed buildings.
Pehr Lodhammar, a senior official at the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), told a briefing in Geneva that the war had left around 37 million tonnes of debris in the largely urbanized and densely populated territory. people. “ We know that there is generally a failure rate of at least 10% of ammunition that is fired and does not function. “, did he declare. “ We are talking about fourteen years of work with a hundred trucks. »
Paris confirms the disbursement of 33 million euros for UNRWA
“France confirms the disbursement of its annual contribution to the UNRWA humanitarian program, which amounts to 33 million euros for the year 2024”declared Christophe Lemoine, spokesperson for the French foreign ministry, without specifying the date of the disbursement. “Our support for UNRWA is accompanied by a requirement: that of the full implementation of the measures requested by the independent external audit report led by Catherine Colonna”former French foreign minister.
France attaches “particular importance (…) procedures for verifying the neutrality of UNRWA personnel and facilities, the banning of hate and anti-Semitic speech from school textbooks and the reform of unions and staff management”he added again.
UNRWA, which has more than 30,000 employees serving 5.9 million Palestinians in the region, is accused by Israel of employing “more than 400 terrorists” in the Gaza Strip. And twelve people have been accused by the Israelis of being directly involved in the unprecedented attack of October 7, 2023.
At Sciences Po Paris, the pro-Palestinian mobilization continues
The pro-Palestinian mobilization continues on Friday at Sciences Po Paris with the occupation and blockade of premises by students whose demands echo the protests agitating certain American campuses. They received the support of several LFI figures, including Franco-Palestinian activist Rima Hassan, candidate on the “rebellious” list for the European elections. “These students are truly carrying the honor of France”declared to the press Mme Hassan, more or less repeating the words of the “rebellious” leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who sent an audio message of support to the demonstrators.
However, the tension rose a notch around 4 p.m. with the arrival of around fifty pro-Israel demonstrators, notably shouting “Free Sciences Po” Or “Liberate Gaza from Hamas”. Some were masked and had motorcycle helmets. A stampede between supporters of the two camps occurred, among the many journalists present. The police then positioned themselves to separate the two groups without violence. The management, which estimates the number of occupants of the main building at around sixty, has decided to close several premises on its Paris campus. She “strongly condemns these student actions”.
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“Given the disturbances to public order, the Paris police prefect is evacuating the public roads”indicated the police headquarters, without being able to give details for the moment on the temporality of this evacuation.
In New York, Columbia University postpones campus evacuation
The office of the president of the New York university, where the movement in support of Gaza started more than a week ago, has postponed the Friday deadline for pro-Palestinian students to evacuate the occupied campus. to protest against the war in Gaza. “Negotiations have progressed and are continuing as planned”said the office of the president of the university, Minouche Shafik, in a press release. “We have our demands, they have theirs”continues the presidential office, denying that police intervention was requested.
“They call us terrorists, they call us violent. But the only tool we have is our voices”declared one of the students present at the pro-Palestinian rally.
More than 200 protesters were arrested Wednesday and Thursday at universities in Los Angeles, Boston and Austin, Texas, where some 2,000 people gathered again on Thursday.
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An Egyptian delegation to Israel. She comes to try to relaunch negotiations on a truce in the Gaza Strip associated with a release of hostages, while an Israeli offensive on Rafah is being prepared, according to Egyptian and Israeli media.
The ICJ rules on Tuesday in the case of Nicaragua against Germany. Nicaragua accuses Germany of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention by supplying weapons to Israel for the Gaza war.
The United States says it has shot down two drones. In a message posted on
The PS calls for the suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement. “You have children there who are now orphans, who are crippled, who are children who will only want one thing in life, and that is to take revenge for what they suffered”denounced Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party on Public Senate.
Two Jamaa Islamiya executives killed in Lebanon. In a press release, Jamaa Islamiya, the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, close to Hamas, announced the death of Mosab Khalaf and Bilal Mohamed Khalaf in an Israeli attack, which comes amid violence between the powerful pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel have gained in intensity over the past few days.