what to remember from Sunday January 14

The Israeli army has again bombarded the Gaza Strip, whose population is experiencing a major humanitarian crisis, while the continuation of the conflict exacerbates regional tensions.

The war between Israel and Hamas passed the 100-day mark on Sunday January 14. The Israeli army has again bombarded the Gaza Strip, whose population is experiencing a major humanitarian crisis, while the continuation of the conflict exacerbates regional tensions. Israelis also expressed solidarity with the hostages held in the Palestinian territory by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and its allies to mark 100 days of their detention and support the mobilization of their families. Here’s what to remember from Sunday.

Israeli army kills three Palestinians in West Bank

The Israeli army has killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including two shot dead while trying to force an Israeli checkpoint, Israeli and Palestinian sources said. According to the Israeli army, soldiers chased a car that broke through a checkpoint near the city of Hebron, “fired at the terrorists and neutralized them”. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that two young men were killed in an incident and the Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed that it had recovered their bodies.

In a separate incident further north, another young man was shot and killed by the Israeli army in a refugee camp near Jericho, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Medical sources in Jericho told AFP that a 16-year-old boy was killed during an Israeli army raid aimed at arresting an individual.

Egypt and China demand a ceasefire and a “State of Palestine”

From Cairo (Egypt), Egyptian and Chinese Foreign Ministers, Sameh Choukri and Wang Yi, jointly pleaded for “a stop to violence and fighting”. During a joint press conference at the start of an African tour by the head of Chinese diplomacy, the two men spoke in favor of‘”an independent and sovereign State of Palestine, within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital”. In a joint statement, they also claimed “an international summit for peace in order to find a just, complete and lasting solution to the Palestinian question with the end of the occupation [israélienne] and an independent State of Palestine, with territorial continuity” while currently the Palestinians live in fact under two rival and parallel governments.

Israeli army says it killed ‘four terrorists’

While thehe exchanges of fire are becoming more and more frequent between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Hezbollah, ally of Hamas, on the border between the two countries, four terrorists were killed by the IDF during the night from Saturday to Sunday. According to the Israeli army,during a patrol “in the Har Dov area”Israeli soldiers “spotted a terrorist cell entering Israeli territory from Lebanon which opened fire” on them. Responding, Israeli soldiers killed “four terrorists”she added, specifying that one of her soldiers had been injured. The Israeli army also declared that shots coming from Lebanese territory had targeted localities near the border.

For its part, Hezbollah reported having carried out six attacks on Israel on Sunday, one of which in the border town of Kfar Yuval left people injured and dead, says the pro-Iranian Shiite party. Israeli aircraft bombed “Hezbollah positions” in Lebanon on Sunday, added the army which warns that it “will continue to defend its borders from any threat”.

New strikes on rebel sites in Yemen

News “American-British strikes” were carried out against the port city of Hodeida, in the western area of ​​Yemen controlled by pro-Iranian Houthi rebels, the movement’s media announced. These strikes come after those carried out on Friday and Saturday by Washington and London in response to attacks on ships in the Red Sea perpetrated by the Houthis, in “solidarity” with the Palestinians in Gaza. The origin of the strike was denied by the United States. “No US or coalition strikes took place today”said an American military official under cover of anonymity.

Rallies to demand the release of hostages in Gaza

Thousands of people gathered in London, Paris and Berlin to demand liberation “immediate” hostages still in the hands of Hamas. In the British capital, several thousand people gathered in Trafalgar Square under heavy police security, covering the square with Israeli flags and flying 132 yellow balloons, each symbolizing one of the hostages still held. In Paris, a 5-kilometer race and a photo exhibition were organized at the foot of the Eiffel Tower by groups supporting the hostages. In Berlin, hundreds of people also marched behind banners “100 days in hell” Or “Bring the hostages home now”at the request of the Israeli embassy in Germany.

In Israel, residents also expressed their solidarity with the hostages held in the Palestinian territory. But the spokesperson for the military branch of Hamas affirmed in the evening that many hostages were “probably killed recently”the others being “in great danger”which he rejected “full responsibility” on Israel.

Israel arrested two sisters of Hamas number two

Two sisters of Hamas number two, Saleh al-Arouri, killed on January 2 in Lebanon in a strike attributed to Israel, were arrested during the night from Saturday to Sunday, announced an association supporting Palestinian prisoners, the army Israeli confirming the arrest. The Israeli army said it had arrested the two women in the “village of Aroura”in the suburbs of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, for having “incited to terrorism against the State of Israel”.

Saleh al-Arouri, 57, number two in Hamas and one of the founders of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement, was killed by an airstrike in the suburbs of Beirut, stronghold of Lebanese Hezbollah.

Video journalist killed in Gaza

A 28-year-old Palestinian, video journalist for the Arab television channel Al-Ghad, based in Cairo, was killed on Sunday in Gaza, this media announced. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce that Al-Ghad video journalist Yazan al-Zwaidi was assassinated by Israeli fire” while he was “in the north of Gaza”, announced on X the Arab television channel, without giving further details. In addition to Yazan al-Zwaidi, at least 82 journalists and media professionals, the vast majority Palestinian, have been killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.