Mediation efforts to secure a new truce in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip continue despite continued Israeli bombardment. “reduce the possibilities” of a positive result, said the Prime Minister of Qatar on Sunday, December 10. “Our efforts, deployed by the State of Qatar jointly with our partners, continue. We will not give up”, assured Mohammed ben Abdelrahmane Al-Thani during the Doha Forum. Sfollow our live stream.
The Israeli army continues its offensive in the Gaza Strip. The IDF and Hamas are engaged in heavy fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of people are desperately trying to protect themselves. According to the Palestinian movement, the Israeli air force carried out “very violent air raids” near Khan Younes as well as on the road between this town and that of Rafah, near the border with Egypt.
A French frigate shoots down two drones coming from Yemen in the Red Sea. “The interception and destruction of these two identified threats” took place 110 kilometers from the Yemeni coast, near Hodeida, a territory controlled by the Houthi rebels who threaten to disrupt the conflict. They vowed on Saturday to attack any ship in the Red Sea heading towards Israel if the people of the Gaza Strip did not receive emergency aid.
Mahmoud Abbas accuses the United States. The president of the Palestinian Authority said on Saturday that he held the United States “responsible for the bloodshed” in Gaza, after their veto of a UN resolution for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in the Palestinian territory. The leader accuses the United States of being “partners” of Israel in its “crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing and war”whether committed in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.