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The Israeli army said on Sunday October 22 that one of its tanks had hit “by mistake” an Egyptian position on the border between the two countries. “A short time ago, an Israeli army tank mistakenly hit an Egyptian position near the border in the Kerem Shalom area”the IDF announced in a statement, saying “deplore” this incident and announcing the opening of a “investigation”. The Egyptian army reported “lightly injured” in its ranks after this strike, without giving the number.
Benyamin Netanyahu judges that Hezbollah would “the mistake of his life” by going to war against Israel. If the Hezbollah enters the conflict, “we will strike with a power that they cannot imagine and which will be devastating for the State of Lebanon.” the Israeli Prime Minister warned on Sunday. Since the start of the war triggered by the Hamas attack, tensions have been high in the border area between Israel and Lebanon. New clashes occurred this weekend at the border.
A second humanitarian aid convoy arrives in the Gaza Strip. Seventeen trucks crossed the Egyptian Rafah terminal on Sunday, heading towards the Palestinian enclave bombed and besieged by Israel. According to an AFP journalist on site, tanker trucks loaded with fuel entered the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli Prime Minister’s entourage, however, denied the delivery of fuel to Gaza, reports an RFI correspondent for Radio France in Jerusalem. On Saturday, after the passage of the first convoy of 20 trucks, the UN estimated that at least 100 trucks per day would be needed by the 2.4 million Gazans.
Israel intensifies its strikes on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army announced on Saturday evening the intensification of its strikes on the Gaza Strip, in preparation for a ground offensive on the Palestinian enclave. “From today, we will increase strikes” on the Gaza Strip, General Daniel Hagari, spokesperson for the Israeli army, warned on Saturday, the aim being according to him to “reduce risks to our forces in the next steps” of the conflict. The Israeli army has massed tens of thousands of soldiers on the borders of this cramped territory where 2.4 million Palestinians live. According to the Hamas government, in power in the Gaza Strip, at least 55 people were killed in the territory overnight from Saturday to Sunday. No on-site source or image can support this assessment.
Twenty-nine UN employees killed in Gaza. Twenty-nine employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNWRA) have died since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, the agency announced on Sunday on X (formerly Twitter). “Half of these colleagues were UNWRA professors”added the agency.
“Nothing should prevent Israel from defending itself,” according to Yaël Braun-Pivet. “What is important is that the civilian populations in Gaza are victims of this conflict as little as possible. But we also know that they often serve as human shields. They must of course be preserved, but nothing should prevent Israel from defending itself”declared the President of the National Assembly on Sunday while traveling in Israel.