Iran threatens to intervene if Israel continues its action in Gaza; Antony Blinken visits Saudi Arabia

• Israel will launch “major military operations” once the civilians left, according to the IDF. “It’s really important that the people of Gaza know that we have been very, very generous with the timeLt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said on CNN. We have given enough warning, more than twenty-five hours… I cannot stress enough that it is now time for the Gazans to leave. »
• According to the UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in Gaza and moved south after the evacuation order given by Israel on Friday morning to the 1.1 million inhabitants of the north of the enclave.
• The Pentagon has ordered a second warship to be sent to the Mediterranean. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced in a press release published during the night of Saturday to Sunday the sending of Dwight Eisenhower in Mediterranean “to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts to expand this war following the Hamas attack.”
• During a call to Mahmoud Abbas, Joe Biden recalls the “right to self-determination” Palestinians. “Hamas does not defend the right of the Palestinian people to dignity and self-determination”declared the American head of state to the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to a statement from the White House broadcast Saturday evening. He also committed to bringing his “full support” to the PA in its efforts to provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, “ especially in Gaza”.
• At least 1,300 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israel since the attack on the Gaza Strip a week ago. The Israeli army confirmed on Saturday morning the presence of at least 120 people held hostage in Gaza by Hamas. The number of deaths in the enclave controlled by Hamas rose to 2,215, including 724 children, according to a final report from local authorities Friday evening.
• The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had found in the Gaza Strip ” some corpses “ hostages Israelis kidnapped by Hamas commandos during their October 7 attack in Israel.
• A leader of the Islamist Hamas movement who led the attack on Israel on October 7 was killed by the Israeli armysaid Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.
• The Israeli government’s national security adviser acknowledged Saturday “errors” intelligence services ahead of the bloody attacks carried out by surprise on October 7 by Palestinians from Hamas in Israel.
• An Israeli strike hit the airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, injuring five people, announced the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) on Saturday evening, a few days after similar strikes on the airports of Aleppo and Damascus.
• The toll of French nationals killed in Hamas attacks against Israel has risen further, reaching seventeen dead and fifteen missing.the entourage of the French Foreign Minister, who arrived in Tel Aviv, reported Saturday to Agence France-Presse.
• Three new repatriation flights between Israel and France planned for Sunday. Three new “special flights” are scheduled for Sunday, after the rotation of four flights between Thursday and Saturday which have already made it possible to repatriate 1,200 French people from Israel, according to the Quai d’Orsay.
• Saudi Arabia has decided to suspend negotiations on possible normalization with Israel sponsored by the United States. This decision was announced on Saturday by a source close to the government, during a visit to Riyadh by the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
• Iranian Foreign Minister Meets Head of Hamas Political Bureau in Doha on Saturday, in Qatar, according to the official Iranian news agency IRNA. This is the first official meeting between Iranian officials and Ismail Haniyeh since the Hamas attack in Israel. No details have been published on the content of the discussions between the two men.

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