France has decreed a six-month freeze on the assets of the leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement in Gaza, Yahya Sinouar, according to a decree published in the Official Journal on Tuesday, December 5. Yahya Sinouar, considered the architect of the October 7 attack on Israel, is one of the main leaders of the Islamist movement wanted by Israel. The Ministry of the Economy was not immediately available to specify the amount of these assets. Follow our live stream.
“An even more hellish scenario” is looming, warns the UN. “No one is safe in Gaza and there is nowhere left to go” since the resumption of hostilities, alert Lynn Hastings, UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian Territories, in a press release Monday, December 4 evening. She describes “shelters without space, a health system on its knees, a lack of clean and drinking water (…) a perfect recipe for epidemics and a public health disaster”.
The WHO accuses Israel of having requested the emptying of a medical aid warehouse in Gaza. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he has a “notification (…) to remove supplies from our medical warehouse in the south of the Gaza Strip within 24 hours, as ground operations will render it unusable”. He asked in a publication on “to withdraw this order”. The Israeli Defense body overseeing civilian activities in the Palestinian Territories denied sending such a request in another post.
Hamas does not want female hostages to testify, US says. “It seems that one of the reasons why [les membres du Hamas] do not want to release the women they are holding hostage and this break has been shattered, it is because they do not want these women to talk about what happened to them during their detention”Matthew Miller, spokesperson for the US State Department, told the press on Monday.
Thousands demonstrate in Ottawa in support of Israel. Several thousand people gathered Monday in front of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa. Dozens of buses had been chartered from Montreal or Toronto, where large Jewish communities live.