what to remember from Saturday, December 2

The conflict has entered its 57th day. Bombings and fighting resumed when the truce expired Friday morning.

Hostilities immediately resumed. The day after the truce in the war between Israel and Hamas, which entered its 57th day on Saturday, December 2, the bombings and fighting started again. Israeli forces said they struck “more than 400 targets” in the enclave since Friday morning, including 50 in the region of Khan Younes, the largest city in southern Gaza. French President Emmanuel Macron warned Israel: if “the objective” East “the total destruction of Hamas”, “the war will last ten years”. Here’s what to remember from this day.

More than 400 Israeli strikes since the end of the truce

The Israeli army claimed to have targeted more than 400 targets in the Gaza Strip since Friday, including more than 50 in the Khan Younes region (south), saying it had “hit Hamas terrorists and infrastructure”. The IDF sent text messages to residents in several areas, ordering them to “leave immediately”.

Israel now believes that senior leaders of the Islamist movement are hiding in the south of the enclave, where two million Palestinians have found refuge. A strategy that presents multiple military and humanitarian risks.

Of the “terrorist cells”a “mosque used by Islamic Jihad (the other major Islamist movement in Gaza) as an operational command center” and one “weapons storage complex” were also targeted in the north of the Gaza Strip by artillery fire and airstrikes, the army detailed. Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip will continue until “all its objectives are achieved”in particular the destruction of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday evening during a press conference.

A death toll of more than 200 in Gaza

The Hamas-led government in the small Palestinian territory announced that 240 people had been killed and 650 others injured since the expiration of the truce, which allowed the release of 105 hostages and the release of 240 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel

Since the start of the war, more than 15,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip, including more than 6,150 under the age of 18, according to the Hamas government.

According to Israel, 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the October 7 attack, during which around 240 people were kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip.

A barrage of rockets fired at Israel

The armed wing of Hamas and that of Islamic Jihad, for their part, announced that they had fired “rocket barrages” to Israeli locations near the Gaza Strip. An Israeli army spokesperson spoke of “more than 250 rockets” fired towards Israel since Friday morning, without reporting any casualties.

Israeli negotiators, who were continuing discussions in Qatar on a new truce with Hamas, returned to Israel because the dialogue was “at an impasse”the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.

Aid trucks arrive in Gaza

The Palestinian Red Crescent announced on Saturday that it had “received aid trucks” via the Egyptian terminal of Rafah, border post with Gaza, the first since the end of the truce. The organization announced overnight that Israel had “informed all NGOs and agencies” that “the entry of aid trucks was suspended until further notice”.

Emmanuel Macron offensive on Israel’s “objective”

Emmanuel Macron raised his voice on Saturday with unprecedented vigor towards the Israeli strategy, questioning since COP28 “the objective” of “total destruction of Hamas” : “Does anyone think this is possible?”launched Emmanuel Macron in front of the press in Dubai. “If that’s so”the objective, “the war will last ten years”he warned, calling on the Israeli authorities to “to specify”. The head of state called for “redouble efforts to achieve a lasting ceasefire.”

Thousands of supporters of the Palestinian people in Paris

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets again in support of the Palestinian people on Saturday in Paris with slogans demanding a “cease permanent fire” in the conflict and denouncing a “genocide” Palestinians.

Around forty rallies were organized in France. In Toulouse, there were 600, according to the prefecture, 2,000 according to the organizers, with signs like “Israel murderer, Biden accomplice”. In Montpellier, there were 500 according to the authorities, and in Rennes a few hundred, according to AFP.