A terrible toll. Fourteen people were killed, and 43 others injured, in a series of Israeli strikes on the night of Sunday 8 to Monday 9 September. in the province of Hama in central Syria, the official Sana news agency reported. “The number of martyrs resulting from the Israeli aggression on several sites in the vicinity of Mesyaf has risen to 14 and the injured are 43”said the director of the hospital in this region, quoted by Sana. An NGO had reported seven deaths in a previous report. Follow our live.
Criticism of former Israeli army chief Benny Gantz. “The Northern hour has come and, in fact, I think we are behind on this point”said Benny Gantz, who was participating in a Middle East discussion forum in the American capital, judging that Israel had “made a mistake” by evacuating as many people from the north of the country after the Hamas attack on October 7. This Former army chief, who left the governing coalition in June, believes that if a truce agreement with Hamas fails in the coming weeks, “we should go north.”
Three Israeli security guards killed at crossing with Jordan. Three Israeli security guards were killed Sunday when a truck driver opened fire at the Israeli-controlled crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, the Israeli military said. The attack occurred at the Allenby crossing, the only access to the outside world for Palestinians in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
More than 40,000 dead in Gaza, according to Hamas. The Health Ministry of the Hamas government, the Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip, announced on Sunday a new death toll of 40,972 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel, which has entered its twelfth month.