what to remember from Sunday September 29

A second Frenchman has died in Lebanon, after Israeli bombings in recent days, franceinfo learned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Exchanges of fire continue between Israel and Hezbollah. A second Frenchman died in Lebanon, after Israeli bombings in recent days, franceinfo learned on Sunday, September 29, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The head of French diplomacy, Jean-Noël Barrot, arrived in Beirut.

The Israeli army assured during the day that it had carried out around 120 additional strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, two days after killing its leader Hassan Nasrallah. At the same time, the Islamist movement claimed to have fired “salvos of rockets” to respond to Israel’s attacks. Here is what to remember from this new day of conflict in the Middle East.

A second Frenchman died in Lebanon after Israeli bombings

A second Frenchman died in Lebanon, after Israeli bombings in recent days, franceinfo learned on Sunday from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a man over 60 years old. The first French victim was an 87-year-old woman. She died Monday after a “strong explosion” in a village in southern Lebanon, according to the Quai d’Orsay.

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs travels to Lebanon

Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot arrived in Beirut on Sunday evening for a 24-hour visit. He announced the sending of humanitarian equipment to the site. Two advanced medical posts, capable of treating 1,000 seriously injured people, will be transported. A second delivery will arrive in the coming weeks.

“Lebanon is a friendly country of France, already so weakened, dragged into a war that it did not choose”declared Jean-Noël Barrot. “France stands alongside Lebanon in the hardest times”added the minister.

Nearly 50 dead in Israeli strikes

The Israeli army carried out around 120 additional strikes on Sunday against Hezbollah in Lebanon, where the Islamist movement fired rockets into Israeli territory. These new strikes by the Jewish state left nearly 60 dead.

In southern Lebanon, 37 people were killed in Israeli raids and in the east of the country at least 25 died, according to a new report from the Ministry of Health.

The number of displaced people in Lebanon over the past year could reach a million

Nearly a million people may have been displaced by Israeli strikes on Lebanon, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Sunday. This would be equivalent to one sixth of the country’s total population and would be the “largest population displacement in the history of the country”.

The World Food Program (WFP) has also launched an emergency operation to provide food aid to a million people affected by the recent escalation of the conflict in Lebanon, this UN agency announced on Sunday. “As the crisis deepens, we are preparing to help up to a million people with a mix of cash and food aid”announced Matthew Hollingworth, WFP director for Lebanon.

Israel carries out strikes in Yemen

Four people were killed and around 30 injured in Israeli airstrikes on two ports and two power plants in Houthi-controlled western Yemen, a rebel-affiliated channel said on Sunday. The Israeli army announced that“during a large-scale air operation, dozens of air force aircraft (…) attacked military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the regions of Ras Issa and Hodeida “.

Iran threatens Israel with retaliation

The head of Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, promised Sunday that the death of a general of the Revolutionary Guards, killed in the bombing which targeted Hassan Nasrallah on Friday, “would not remain unanswered”. “The diplomatic apparatus will also use all its capabilities… to pursue criminals and their supporters,” he said.

Pope Francis calls for immediate ceasefire in Lebanon

Pope Francis expressed on Sunday from Brussels his “pain” faced with the widening conflict in the Middle East and called for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon “martyrized”. “I continue to follow with pain and concern the widening and intensification of the conflict in Lebanon”he declared at the end of a mass at the King Baudouin stadium. “Lebanon is a message but at the moment it is a martyred message, and this war is having devastating effects on the population”he continued.

Asked, on board the plane bringing him back from Belgium, about the consequences for civilians of Israeli strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, he replied: “A country which, with force, acts thus, whatever country may be, which acts in such a superlative manner, [se prête à] immoral actions”.