UN wants to investigate accusations of sexual violence targeting Islamist organization

The United Nations is looking into the October 7 attacks. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, asked Israel, Wednesday, December 6, to allow its services to investigate “very serious” accusations of sexual violence committed during the attack orchestrated in the country by members of Hamas. “We take these accusations very seriously”he said, but “we must examine precisely whether it is a premeditated, generalized and systematic act”. Follow our live stream.

A vast arms cache emptied in Gaza. This is what the Israeli army announced that it discovered on Wednesday in the north of the Palestinian enclave. “One of the largest weapons depots in the Gaza Strip was discovered near a clinic and a school in the northern Gaza Strip”, says the Israeli army on Telegram, with supporting video. Rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles and “dozens of grenades” would have been discovered.

Fighting continues in the southern Gaza Strip. “Our forces surround Khan Younes”, the largest city in the south of the enclave, explained the chief of staff of the Israeli army in a press release. Israeli General Yaron Finkelman described Tuesday as the “the most intense day since the start of the ground offensive” Israeli.

Israel claims to have “eliminated” five senior Hamas officials. On its Telegram channel, the Israeli army claimed to have killed “most senior commanders” Hamas brigades operating from a network of tunnels in the northern Gaza Strip, and released a photo showing five senior members of the Palestinian movement that it said had “eliminated”.


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