what to remember from Saturday January 13

Dozens of people, according to Hamas, were killed in the Gaza Strip, the south of which was shelled by the Israeli army, on the 99th day of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas has entered its 99th day. The south of the Gaza Strip was shelled on Saturday January 13 by the Israeli army. The Hamas Ministry of Health reported a new toll of 23,843 people killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7, during the unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israeli soil which left around 1,140 dead, according to an AFP count based on the Israeli toll. The toll in the Palestinian enclave cannot be verified by an independent source. Here’s what to remember from Saturday.

Dozens killed in southern Gaza Strip, Hamas says

Dozens of people, according to Hamas, were killed on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, the south of which was shelled by the Israeli army. Israeli strikes left more than 60 dead, mostly women and children, and dozens injured, according to the Health Ministry of Hamas, the movement which has controlled the small, besieged and overpopulated Palestinian territory since 2007. On the ground in Gaza, an AFP correspondent reported intense nighttime bombings in the south, in Khan Younes, which has become the epicenter of the fighting, and in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, where hundreds of thousands Gazans have fled the clashes further north.

The “hundred days” are “a stain on our common humanity”, according to the UN

“Death on a massive scale, destruction” And “the pain of the last hundred days” since the start of the war in Gaza are “a stain on our common humanity”the head of the UN Palestinian refugee aid agency (UNRWA) said on Saturday. “It has been a hundred days since this devastating war began, killing and displacing people in Gaza, following horrific attacks by Hamas and other groups against the people in Israel. It has been a hundred days of hardship and anguish for the hostages and their families”declared Philippe Lazzarini in a press release published while he was in the Palestinian territory.

US military strikes again at Houthi rebels in Yemen

The American army carried out a new strike on Saturday against Houthi rebel sites in Yemen, after first American and British strikes on Friday. The Houthis, who control large areas of Yemen, have stepped up their threats against international maritime traffic in the Red Sea. Early Saturday, the Houthi channel al-Masirah reported strikes on at least one site in the capital Sanaa. “The US-British enemy targets the capital, Sanaa, with a [certain] number of raids”, communicated al-Masirah on his X account, quoting his correspondent in the city. Then, the United States Central Military Command (Centcom) confirmed an American strike around 3:45 a.m. local Saturday (1:45 a.m. in Paris) “against a radar site in Yemen”.

Early in the evening, a military source allied to the rebels and a police source announced that a new strike had hit the western city of Hodeida in response to a rocket attack carried out by the Houthis from the port city . This strike was not immediately claimed. An AFP correspondent in Hodeida heard the sound of a missile followed by a powerful explosion, and an hour and a half later, another sound of a distant explosion.

In the context of the war between Israel and Hamas, tension has risen in the Red Sea in recent weeks with Houthi attacks targeting maritime traffic in solidarity with the Gaza Strip. Since Friday, the conflict has spread to Yemen, with two episodes of American and British strikes against the Houthi rebels. China denounced the American-British operations on Saturday, affirming through its representative to the United Nations that “this does not contribute to the protection of the safety and security of commercial vessels and the freedom of navigation”.

“No one will stop us,” warns Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Saturday January 13 that “person” would not stop his country in the war in the Gaza Strip. “No one will stop us, neither The Hague, nor the Axis of Evil, nor anyone else”he declared during a press conference in Tel Aviv, referring in particular to South Africa’s request before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of a genocidal act in the Gaza Strip.

Emmanuel Macron calls to “resume negotiations again and again” for the release of the hostages

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for “resuming the negotiations for liberation again and again” Hamas hostages, in a video posted on social networks and during a rally in Tel Aviv in support of the hostages. “The French nation is determined that (…) all the hostages from the terrorist attacks of October 7 are released. France does not abandon its children. This is why we must resume negotiations again and again for their release”said Emmanuel Macron, promising to “bring everyone home with us”.