On the fourth day of the war unleashed by the Palestinian Islamist movement, the Jewish state announced that it had found around 1,500 bodies of Hamas fighters on its soil.
Four days after the start of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation launched by the Hamas terrorist movement on the Jewish state, the human toll continues to climb: more than 1,000 dead in Israel, according to the brigadier general Dan Goldfus; 922 dead and “around 4,650 injured” Palestinian side, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Here’s what to remember from Tuesday October 10.
At least eight French people dead, 20 missing
France ever more bereaved. According to the new report given by the head of French diplomacy, early Tuesday evening, eight French nationals were killed. Catherine Colonna, who warns that this figure risks increasing, also announced that 20 other French people were still missing. VSsome “were most likely kidnapped”, of which “at least one child and perhaps several.”
France and Germany announce special flights
Paris will charter a “special flight” Air France “this Thursday” For allow the French to return to national territory, “pending the resumption of regular commercial flights”. “Vulnerable people (unaccompanied minors and pregnant women in particular), with disabilities or in medical situations presenting a particular emergency, will be given priority,” specifies the Quai d’Orsay. Timetables and registration procedures for this flight are available on the website of the French Embassy in Israel.
Berlin also announced “several special flights” to repatriate German nationals who would like to leave the country.
Israeli army announces fire on Syria in response to shooting in Golan Heights
These are the first exchanges of fire between Syria and Israel since the new escalation of violence which began on Saturday. In a short press release published on the evening of Tuesday October 10, theIsraeli army announces having fired shells into Syria from the Golan Heights in response to “shots” of projectiles in this territory occupied by Israel since 1967. Soldiers “are responding with artillery and mortars towards the origin of these shots in Syria”we can read the Telegram account of the Israeli army.
Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu called each other
During a telephone interview with the American president Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister said Hamas attack on Israel was“a savagery never seen since the Shoah”. “Hundreds of massacres, families destroyed in their beds, in their homes, women brutally raped and murdered, more than a hundred kidnappings (…), they took dozens of children, tied them up , burned and executed, they beheaded soldiers.
The head of American diplomacy will visit Israel on Thursday
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel on Thursday. “It will be a message of solidarity and support”, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters. Antony Blinken must also go to Jordan.
International medical NGOs warn about the health situation in Gaza
International medical NGOs are warning about the health situation in the Gaza Strip, shelled by the Israeli army since the Hamas attack on Saturday. “The situation is catastrophic (…) I don’t think anyone is safe in Gaza”, lamented Sarah Chateau, head of the Palestine program for Doctors Without Borders. On site for more than 20 years, MSF has 300 Palestinian employees and 20 internationals. “We transferred our teams to a United Nations building. The bombings were so massive that the risks were too great”.
Two senior Hamas officials killed in Gaza strikes
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas confirms the death of two of its senior officials during Israeli army strikes on the Gaza Strip. The information was initially announced by the IDF army.
Both members of the Hamas political bureau, Zakaria Mouammar headed the economic section, and Jawad Abou Shamala coordinated links with other Palestinian factions, as head of the national relations department, the movement added in a press release.
“About 1,500 bodies” of terrorists found in Israel
The Israeli army announced on Tuesday that it had identified “around 1,500 bodies” of Hamas fighters on its territory, since the attack launched on Saturday by the Palestinian Islamist movement. Until then, the IDF had spoken of a thousand infiltrated Palestinian fighters.
A massacre in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza
Absolute horror. An endless evacuation of bodies. The attack by Hamas fighters perpetrated against the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, in the south of the country, gave rise to carnage. No official report has yet been communicated. But according to Israeli soldiers, who let journalists in on Tuesday October 10, dozens of civilians were killed. Among them, “women, children, young children and the elderly”.
“They came to every house, to every room, everywhere, testifies a survivor who managed to flee. Those they did not take away and kill, they set fire to their houses leaving them inside to burn. They killed children, babies, elderly people. Everyone.”
It didn’t take long for the terrorists to reach this agricultural community, where the cars and modest homes attest to the relative affluence of the occupants. The Gaza Strip, where they came from, is 800 meters away.