Two Palestinian journalists, Moustafa Thuraya, a freelance videographer working with the AFP, and Hamza Waël al-Dahdouh, journalist for the Al-Jazeera channel, were killed on Sunday January 7 in an Israeli strike, while they were traveling in a car, announced the Hamas Ministry of Health. Waël al-Dahdouh, father of Hamza Waël al-Dahdouh, is the bureau chief of Al-Jazeera in the Gaza Strip. Recently injured in an Israeli strike, he had already lost his wife and two children in another Israeli strike. In a statement, the Qatari channel condemned “targeting and assassination” journalists in Gaza. Follow our live stream.
King Abdullah II of Jordan calls for an “immediate ceasefire”. While receiving American Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman (Jordan), King Abdullah II warned against “catastrophic repercussions” of a continuation of hostilities and called on the United States to put pressure on Israel to obtain a “immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip. He reaffirmed that “the region would not experience stability without a just solution to the Palestinian question and without the achievement of a just and comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution”, Palestinian and Israeli. The sovereign also stressed the need to end the “tragic humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip”.
Antony Blinken continues his visit to the Middle East. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken continues his visit to the Near and Middle East on Sunday. After Jordan, he will fly to Qatar, which played a mediating role in the truce between Israel and Hamas at the end of November. He will end the day in Abu Dhabi, before going to Saudi Arabia on Monday, then to Israel.
An Israeli officer and six Palestinians killed in Jenin. An Israeli officer was killed and three were injured on Sunday during a raid by Israeli forces on the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. The officer “was in a military vehicle that was hit by an explosive device”, said the police. The raid cost the lives of six Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry. At the same time, an Israeli civilian was shot and killed north of Ramallah on Sunday, according to the Israeli army.
Israel claims to have “dismantled” Hamas’ “military structure” in northern Gaza. “We have completed the dismantling of the Hamas military structure in the north of the Gaza Strip,” Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Saturday, adding that Hamas elements were still operating in northern Gaza. “without structure and without commanders”. “We are now focused on dismantling Hamas in central and southern Gaza”he added.