what to remember from Friday February 2

Following the deaths of three American soldiers killed in Jordan, the United States carried out retaliatory strikes targeting elite Iranian forces and pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria.

While negotiations for a possible truce continue, Israeli raids mainly targeted Khan Younes on Friday February 2. L’The American army, for its part, carried out strikes in Syria in response to a deadly attack against its soldiers in Jordan, and the Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for missile attacks against Israel.

Thousands of Palestinians flee fighting in Gaza

Thousands of Palestinians continue to flee on foot or crowded on carts from the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Israeli raids, according to witnesses, mainly targeted Khan Younes, the second city in the Palestinian territory, which became the epicenter of the battle. More than 1.3 million of the territory’s approximately 2.4 million inhabitants are now refugees in Rafah, a few kilometers south of Khan Younes.

At least 17,000 children are “unaccompanied or separated” of their families in the Gaza Strip, UNICEF alerted Friday. Pread by a million children, “almost all”need mental health help. “They show symptoms such as extremely high levels of anxiety, loss of appetite, they cannot sleep, they have emotional outbursts or panic every time they hear the bombings”according to a Unicef ​​spokesperson.

Houthis claim missile attacks against Israel

Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for new missile attacks against Israel on Friday. In a press release, they claim to have “carried out a military operation against specific targets of the Israeli enemy (…), with ballistic missiles”. The Israeli army, for its part, announced that its air defense system had intercepted “a surface-to-surface missile that approached Israeli territory in the Red Sea area”.

The Houthis, supported by Iran, added that they “would not hesitate to carry out other military operations” against the Jewish state “until the aggression against the Gaza Strip ceases and the blockade is lifted” imposed by Israel.

US carries out retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria

After the death of three American soldiers killed in Jordan, thehe United States carried out retaliatory strikes on Friday targeting elite Iranian forces and pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria. The American president had promised to respond to the drone attack carried out last Sunday near the Syrian border and attributed by Washington to groups supported by Iran.

The US Middle East Command said in a statement that these strikes had targeted more than 85 sites, including command and intelligence centers, as well as drone and missile storage infrastructure. In Syria, “at least 18 pro-Iranian fighters were killed” during these airstrikes, including five in Deir Ezzor, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Iraqi government, for its part, castigated “violation of its sovereignty”.