After the death of three American soldiers in Jordan on Sunday January 28 in a drone attack, American President Joe Biden promised to respond. Some 34 people were also injured at the base, according to the US military Middle East Command (Centcom). Iran refuted any involvement on Monday in a statement from its Foreign Ministry broadcast by the official Iranian agency IRNA. VSThis is the first time that American soldiers have been killed in the Middle East since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip on October 7, raising renewed fears of an escalation of tensions against a backdrop of latent war. between Israel and Iran. Follow our live stream.
Four men executed in Iran. They were accused of spying for Israel and were hanged at dawn, according to the Iranian justice agency Mizan Online. The four convicts were arrested in July 2022 while they were preparing an operation against a Defense Ministry center in Isfahan, a large city in central Iran, on behalf of the Mossad, the agency said. Their death sentences were handed down in September 2023.
France “does not plan any new payment” to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. UNRWA, accused of having been involved in the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, 2023, will not receive money from France until “the investigations launched in recent days have shed light on past events.” This announcement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which occurred on Sunday January 28, is valid at least for the first quarter of 2024. France, which paid 60 million euros to UNRWA last year, is in line with several Western countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy and Finland.
Thousands of Israelis are demanding settlements in Gaza. During this gathering held on Sunday evening in Jerusalem, 12 ministers were present, including the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who declared that he wanted “encourage voluntary emigration”, referring to a group of Israeli settlements once established in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far never supported the plan to relaunch settlements in Gaza, declaring that it was not “not a realistic goal”.