what to remember from Friday January 5

France and Jordan have notably dropped seven tonnes of aid on Gaza, announced Emmanuel Macron.

The days follow one another and are similar in Gaza. Israeli air raids and artillery fire hit Khan Younes on Thursday, a large town in the south of the Gaza Strip which has become the epicenter of operations. The bombings and ground operations continued on Friday January 5. Since the start of hostilities, 22,438 people, mainly women, adolescents and children, have been killed, according to the latest, unverifiable report from the Hamas Ministry of Health.

France and Jordan have also dropped seven tonnes of humanitarian and health aid on the Gaza Strip, announced Emmanuel Macron. Here’s what to remember from the 90th day of conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Israel unveils plan for Gaza

The Israeli Defense Minister presented for the first time a plan for the post-war in Gaza, where Israel continued its bombings and ground operations on Friday, almost three months after the start of the conflict opposing it to Palestinian Hamas . The plan presented by Yoav Gallant, which has yet to receive the approval of a divided government, provides for the continuation of operations in Gaza until “return of the hostages”At “dismantling Hamas’ military and governance capabilities” and to “the elimination of military threats”.

France and Jordan drop seven tonnes of aid on Gaza

France and Jordan have dropped seven tonnes of humanitarian and health aid on the Gaza Strip, where the approximately 2.4 million inhabitants lack everything after almost three months of conflict, announced Emmanuel Macron. “The humanitarian situation remains critical in Gaza. In a difficult context, France and Jordan have delivered aid by air to the population and those who come to their aid”Mr. Macron said on X (formerly Twitter).

The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains critical. In a difficult context, France and Jordan provided aid by air to the population and to those assisting them. pic.twitter.com/RXQYgPa9Ep

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) January 5, 2024

According to the Elysée, the drop operation was carried out during the night from Thursday to Friday by two C-130s, military transport planes, one French and the other Jordanian, “with mixed teams of both Jordanian and French in both aircraft”. The Gaza Strip is “simply become uninhabitable”, “a place of death and despair” and its inhabitants “face daily threats before the eyes of the world”for his part declared the coordinator of humanitarian affairs of the United Nations, Martin Griffiths in a press release.

Hezbollah assures that its response to the assassination of Hamas number two is “inevitable”

The leader of pro-Iranian Hezbollah in Lebanon said a response to the strike attributed to Israel on its stronghold near Beirut that killed the number two of Palestinian Hamas was “inevitable”. The strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut “is serious and will not go unanswered”warned Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech, ensuring that his movement would “answer” on “the battlefield”. Saleh al-Arouri and six other Hamas officials and executives were killed Tuesday evening in a strike attributed to Israel against an office of the Palestinian Islamist movement, an ally of Hezbollah.

More than 76,000 people residing in southern Lebanon displaced

In a report released Thursday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced that the escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese border has displaced 76,018 people, mainly in areas bordering Israel in southern Lebanon. The IOM specifies that nearly 81% of the displaced are currently housed with relatives. Only 2% are housed in 14 collective shelters spread across the south of the country, mainly in the coastal city of Tire (south) and in the Hasbaya region (southeast), adds the agency. The rest of the displaced have rented apartments or settled in their second homes, in regions further from the border.