what to remember from Wednesday March 27

The Israeli army bombed the town of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.

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The city of Rafah was bombed on March 27, 2024, by the Israeli army.  (STRANGER APAIMAGES/SIPA)

Two days after the adoption by the UN Security Council of a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli bombings continued on Wednesday March 27 on the Gaza Strip, leaving several dozen dead and wounded. Two days after the publication of a report ensuring that there are reasons “reasonable” to believe that Israel has committed several “acts of genocide” in Gaza, its author, a United Nations expert, testified to having received “threat”. Franceinfo takes stock of the main information relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

UN expert threatened

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations expert who said Tuesday that there were grounds “reasonable” to believe that Israel had committed several “acts of genocide” in Gaza, says he receives “threat”. She assures that she does not want to resign. “I’m not saying it’s nice.” And “I sometimes receive threats, but which, until now, have not required additional precautions”affirmed the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, the latest report of which was released on Monday.

New deadly strikes on Gaza

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in intense Israeli bombardments on the Gaza Strip, where clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian Hamas fighters near several hospitals. A new report from the Hamas Ministry of Health shows 32,490 dead in this besieged territory. In 24 hours, 76 additional deaths were recorded, according to a press release from the ministry, which reported on Wednesday 74,889 injured since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7.

Bombing continues in the Rafah sector, despite calls for a ceasefire. Explosions were noted during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. Nearly 1.5 million Palestinians are crowded into this city at the southern tip of Gaza, the majority displaced by the clashes.

Clashes on the Israeli-Lebanese border

Sixteen people died in exchanges of fire on the Israeli-Lebanese border, including eight people affiliated with Hezbollah and its ally Amal announced these trainings. Seven other rescuers were killed overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday when strikes targeted an emergency center of an association belonging to Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese Islamist group close to Hamas.

Finally, the lifeless body of a civilian was found in Israel in a building hit by a strike from Lebanon. He was found in the north of the country, Israeli rescuers from the Magen David Adom organization said on Wednesday. on the social network. The victim is a “25 year old worker”, non-resident of the city. Lebanese Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, launched a salvo of rockets on northern Israel in retaliation for a nighttime bombing in Habariyeh (Lebanon) that killed seven “Rescuers”.


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