While Israeli raids continue on the Gaza Strip, the leaders of both camps are nevertheless looking ahead to the future. “As for the day after in the Gaza Strip, [le Premier ministre israélien Benyamin] Netanyahu presents ideas that he knows very well will never succeed.declared Friday, February 23, an official of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. “This plan will not become reality (…) because the reality of Gaza and the reality of the Palestinians can only be determined by the Palestinians themselves”declared Osama Hamdane, during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Israeli Prime Minister recalled the objectives of his army in Gaza on Thursday in a document sent to the government security cabinet. He foresees that the Israeli army “will exercise security control over the entire area west of Jordan, including the Gaza Strip.” Follow our live stream.
Human rights are under attack more than ever in the Middle East. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights denounces, in an annual report published Friday, “gross violations” human rights “by all parties” in Israel, Gaza and the occupied West Bank, between November 1, 2022 and October 31, 2023. This report thus evokes the attacks perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, as well as the Israeli response and the first weeks of the conflict in the Gaza Strip. “Justice is a prerequisite for ending cycles of violence and for Palestinians and Israelis to take meaningful steps toward peace”declared the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, upon the publication of this report.
The Palestinians “also suffer from Hamas terrorism,” declares Joe Biden. “The overwhelming majority of Palestinians are not part of Hamas.” and the Islamist movement “does not represent the Palestinian people”, the American president declared on Thursday on. He believes that the Palestinians “also suffer from Hamas terrorism.” This statement comes as the United States on Tuesday vetoed again in the UN Security Council a resolution in favor of an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
Incessant Israeli raids on Gaza. Around a hundred people have died in the last 24 hours in Israeli bombings on the Gaza Strip, Hamas said on Thursday (a toll still impossible to verify from an independent source). International organizations are still alarmed by the catastrophic situation of some 2.4 million inhabitants under siege in the Palestinian territory.