The bombings on Rafah continued on Saturday, May 25, despite the order given by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to the Israeli army to suspend its operations in this sector. Seized by South Africa,he highest court of the UN – whose decisions are legally binding but which lacks mechanisms to implement them – also ordered Israel to keep open the Rafah crossing, essential for the entry of humanitarian aid , but closed after launching its land operation in early May. For its part, Israel defended itself by asserting that it had “notnot carried out and will not carry out military operations in the Rafah area which create living conditions likely to lead to the destruction of the Palestinian civilian population, in whole or in part.”. Follow our live stream.
Emmanuel Macron discusses a two-state solution. The French president received the Prime Minister of Qatar and the Saudi, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers at the Elysée on Friday to discuss the implementation of the “two-state solutions”, or a viable State of Palestine alongside Israel, the Elysée announced. The leaders also spoke of “all the levers that could be activated in order to obtain the reopening of all crossing points” towards this Palestinian territory and examined how “increase and deepen their cooperation in humanitarian aid”.
The bodies of three hostages, including a Franco-Mexican, repatriated by the Israeli army. “The bodies of (Chanan) Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum and Orion Hernandez [Radoux, Franco-Mexicain] were recovered during the night during a joint operation” of the Israeli army and intelligence services in Jabalia, in the north of the Palestinian territory, the army said in a statement Friday. Still according to the Israeli armed forces, the hostages “were murdered during the massacre of October 7” and their bodies taken to Gaza by Hamas fighters.
Nearly 100 aid trucks arrived in Gaza via the temporary American jetty. Since the first unloading on May 17, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), responsible for the operation from the unloading of cargoes arriving from Cyprus, “has taken possession of 97 trucks”, said Friday Stéphane Dujarric, door -spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.