A French frigate patrolling the Red Sea shot down, on the night of Saturday December 9 to Sunday December 10, two drones coming from northern Yemen, a territory controlled by the Houthi rebels who threaten to disrupt traffic on this strategic maritime route as part of of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
“The interception and destruction of these two identified threats” took place 110 kilometers from the Yemeni coast, near Hodeida. Houthi rebels on Saturday threatened to attack any ship in the Red Sea heading towards Israel if the population of the Gaza Strip did not receive emergency aid. Follow our live stream.
The Israeli army continues its offensive in the Gaza Strip. The IDF and Hamas are engaged in heavy fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of people are desperately trying to protect themselves. According to the Palestinian movement, the Israeli air force carried out “very violent air raids” near Khan Younes as well as on the road between this town and that of Rafah, near the border with Egypt.
A UN position hit in southern Lebanon. The United Nations interim force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is in the process of “check” the origin of the shots. The incident did not “no casualties”but damaged a watchtower at the base, said UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti.
Mahmoud Abbas accuses the United States. The president of the Palestinian Authority said on Saturday that he held the United States “responsible for the bloodshed” in Gaza, after their veto of a UN resolution for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in the Palestinian territory. The leader accuses the United States of being “partners” of Israel in its “crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing and war”whether committed in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.