what to remember from Sunday January 7

Al Jazeera announced the death of two Palestinian journalists working for it in Gaza. They were killed, she said, by an Israeli strike on their car.

The war entered its 4th month on Sunday January 7, with no sign of respite. The Israeli army has carried out new deadly strikes on the Gaza Strip. Among the victims were two Palestinian journalists who worked for Al-Jazeera and AFP. A “unimaginable tragedy”, commented Antony Blinken. On tour in the region, the American Secretary of State is working to avoid a regional conflagration. Here’s what to remember from the day on the front lines of the war between Israel and Hamas.

Two Palestinian journalists killed in strike

An Israeli strike killed two Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas Health Ministry said on Sunday. Moustafa Thuraya, a freelance videographer working with AFP, and Hamza Waël al-Dahdouh, a journalist for the Al-Jazeera channel, were killed while driving, according to the ministry and rescuers.

Waël al-Dahdouh, father of Hamza al-Dahdouh, is Al-Jazeera’s bureau chief in the Gaza Strip. Recently injured in an Israeli strike, he had already lost his wife and two children in another Israeli strike during the first weeks of the war. Al Jazeera channel has “sentenced” this deadly strike, which, according to her, also injured journalist Hazem Rajab.

As of December 31, at least 77 journalists and media workers have been killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Seventy were Palestinian, four Israeli and three Lebanese. “I“There is a real eradication of journalism in the Gaza Strip.”denounced on franceinfo Anne Bocandé, editorial director at Reporter sans Frontières.

Bombings on the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank

During the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Israeli army carried out several strikes, including at least six in Rafah, close to the Egyptian border, noted an AFP correspondent. According to the Hamas health minister, at least 64 people were killed in these bombings. According to witnesses, Khan Younes, the main town in southern Gaza and the new epicenter of the fighting, was also bombed.

In the occupied West Bank, eight Palestinians were killed on Sunday, including seven in a new Israeli raid in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed factions in this territory where the violence also left two Israelis dead, a policewoman and a civilian, Palestinian sources said. and Israelis to AFP.

The Israeli offensive has left 22,835 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the latest Hamas report. The bombings razed entire neighborhoods there, displaced 85% of the population and caused a catastrophic humanitarian crisis according to the UN.

Antony Blinken warns conflict could ‘metastasize’ in region

“This is a conflict that could easily metastasize, causing even more insecurity and more suffering,” Antony Blinken said at a press conference, affirming that the United States was working to “prevent the conflict from spreading” in the Middle-East.

THE American Secretary of State also estimated “imperative” that Israel do more to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza. “Palestinian civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow”declared the head of American diplomacy in Doha alongside Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdelrahmane Al-Thani, as part of his new tour of Arab countries and Israel.

King Abdullah II of Jordan calls for an immediate “ceasefire”

While receiving Antony Blinken in Amman (Jordan), King Abdullah II warned against “catastrophic repercussions” of a continuation of hostilities and called on the United States to put pressure on Israel to obtain a “immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip. He reaffirmed that “the region would not experience stability without a just solution to the Palestinian question and without the achievement of a just and comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution”, Palestinian and Israeli. The sovereign also stressed the need to end the “tragic humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip”.

“We must continue until total victory,” insists Benjamin Netanyahu

Despite international pressure and calls for a ceasefire, Israel remains inflexible. “I have a clear message to our enemies: what happened on October 7 will never happen again”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. “This is the commitment of my government (…) We must continue until total victory”he continued.

The day before, the Israeli army, which launched its ground offensive on October 27 in the Gaza Strip, announced that it had “completed the dismantling of Hamas’ military structure in the north”specifying focus “now in the center and the south” of the territory.