“We want the international community to put pressure on Hamas to release all the hostages.” Around ten families of Franco-Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian organization Hamas arrived in Paris on the evening of Monday, October 31, to “to make heard”. They were welcomed at Roissy airport by around twenty people who held up portraits of hostages. These families will go to the Israeli embassy in Paris on Tuesday and will meet several elected officials, accompanied by the association “October 7, 2023, broken life in Israel”, which brings together families of French victims. Follow our live stream.
Almost a month of war. At the start of the 25th day of conflict on Tuesday, the Israeli army claimed to have carried out airstrikes in Lebanon targeting the Shiite movement Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas. “Among the infrastructure attacked, weapons, positions and sites used by the organization were destroyed”, she said. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati assured Monday that his country was doing everything possible to avoid being drawn into the conflict, saying he feared “that an escalation does not encompass the entire region”.
Strikes near a hospital in Gaza. The Palestinian Red Crescent was alarmed on Tuesday by strikes near one of its hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip, where around 14,000 civilians took refuge to protect themselves from Israeli bombardments. “The building is shaking and the displaced civilians as well as the teams at work are in the grip of fear and panic”, described the organization. This weekend, the Israeli army gave the order to evacuate the site, a call condemned by the World Health Organization, which judged “that it is impossible to evacuate hospitals full of patients without putting their lives in danger”.
Israel says it is making progress in Gaza. The Israeli army “has extended its land entry into the Gaza Strip, it is doing so in measured and very powerful stages, progressing methodically”said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, according to whom the “third phase” of the military operation began. The UN has called for a “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”, “a matter of life and death for millions of people”an appeal rejected by Israel which refuses to “surrender to Hamas”.