No ceasefire. Israel continues to bomb the Gaza Strip on Tuesday June 25. In the early hours of the morning, Palestinian civil defense reported 13 dead in strikes that hit Gaza City in the eponymous Palestinian enclave. Attacks also took place in Rafah, near Egypt, where Israel launched a ground operation in early May. In Washington, the head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant about efforts for a truce agreement in Gaza. Follow our live stream.
Fear of a new escalation in Lebanon. The exchanges of fire in recent months between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Hezbollah, an Islamist movement allied with Hamas, armed and financed by Iran, have led to the displacement of tens of thousands of inhabitants in southern Lebanon and the north. of Israel. The United States called for “avoid further escalation” and to “a diplomatic solution that allows Israeli and Lebanese families to return home”.
Did the Israeli army deliberately target journalists? The Forbidden Stories network, including the international editorial staff of Radio France, conducted the investigation “The Gaza Project” by documenting how journalists have been killed, injured or threatened since October 7, 2023. At the center of this investigation, the bombing of the AFP office in Gaza which was reportedly hit by Israeli tank fire.
Benjamin Netanyahu criticized. Former Israeli internal security agent who became a figure in the opposition movement to the Israeli Prime Minister, Gonen Ben Itzhak believes in an interview with AFP that Benjamin Netanyahu “destroy” the country. According to him, the head of government of the Hebrew state “really represents the greatest danger to Israel and believe me, I arrested some of the biggest terrorists during the second intifada”.