This Saturday, October 7, Israelis woke up to screams and chaos: hundreds of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, and the Hamas army announced the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation targeting Israel. The Israeli army immediately indicated that terrorists had infiltrated from Gaza by sea, air and land. Fighting on Israeli soil is ongoing, and a local elected official was even killed during exchanges of fire. For now, at 6:30 p.m. French time, the Israeli Ministry of Health reported at least 70 dead and more than 1000 injured, all evacuated to hospitals. In Gaza, 198 dead were recorded by the Hamas Ministry of Health.
According to the latest information revealed by BFMTV, France Info and TF1, more than 5,000 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel. At least seventy people were shot and killed. Israel responded with air strikes targeting Gaza. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to this historic attack via X (formerly Twitter) by affirming that Hamas “will pay a high price for its war”. Leaders around the world are up in arms, and the French head of state, Emmanuel Macronreacted at 11:23 a.m. on X, sparingly: “I strongly condemn the terrorist attacks currently hitting Israel. I express my full solidarity with the victims, their families and loved ones.”
Julien Courbet is fed up
Host Julien Courbet is one of the rare faces in the French audiovisual landscape to have publicly displayed his anger and support for the attacked and bereaved Israeli people. On X, the host and producer who hosts two Sundays per month Capitalevery morning It can happen to youon M6 and on RTL, and occasionally Calls for witnesses in prime-time, revealed how it was becoming more and more complicated for him to host shows with the aim of entertaining the French, at a time when laughter is fading, and fear and tears are fading. intermingle: “A new week will start with even more wars, deaths, coffins, screams, on our screens. We try to take your mind off it every morning on RTL, but it’s becoming more and more complicated… but we will do it”reacted the host.