The French presidency said on Monday February 5 that it was considering a “memorial time” in the future for “French victims of the bombings in Gaza”, after the national tribute which will be chaired on Wednesday by Emmanuel Macron to the French victims killed in the Hamas attack. “It is obvious that we owe the same emotion and the same dignity to the French victims of the bombings in Gaza, and this tribute will be paid to them at another time”added the Élysée in response to a journalist, explaining that the terms of this “memorial time” would be fixed later.
In a statement sent to AFP, France insoumise “greet” the Elysée declaration. “It is a decision that we welcome and a request that I addressed to the President of the Republic at the beginning of November 2023. We will fully associate ourselves with this tribute”, declared the head of the rebellious deputies, Mathilde Panot. Follow our live stream.
Antony Blinken is expected in Saudi Arabia. The head of American diplomacy returns to the region to work for a truce. This visit is the first stop on a first leg of a tour to the Middle East. This is the fifth since the Hamas attacks in Israel. While saying continue to support “Israel’s right to defend itself”the United States displays growing frustration with the Israeli government, as fighting and bombings continue unabated.
Khan Younes bombed again. The Israeli army again struck this town in the south of the Gaza Strip on Sunday where, according to it, Hamas officials are hiding. She claimed to have invested a complex used by the Palestinian Islamist movement to prepare the bloody attack of October 7. It served, according to the army, as a training center, with models of kibbutz entrances, military bases and Israeli armored vehicles.
A possible military offensive in Rafah. Fears are growing at the idea that the Israeli army could target this border town with Egypt, overpopulated after the influx of many displaced people and where the humanitarian situation is disastrous, according to NGOs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thus assured that the IDF had destroyed the majority of “battalions” of Hamas and that “Most of those remaining are in the southern Gaza Strip and Rafah”affirming its intention to “to take care of”.