LIVE – War in the Middle East: Lebanon denounces Israeli “refusal” of a ceasefire – Libération

First shipment of French humanitarian aid to Lebanon. Lebanon received on Friday thirty tonnes of emergency humanitarian aid sent by France and intended for displaced people who had fled their homes. Plane lands at Beirut airport, first in series of organized flights “in cooperation with the European Union”pour “realize all the announcements made at the time of the conference” of October 24 in Paris, indicated the French ambassador to Lebanon, Hervé Magro, from the airport. “These are tents, blankets, health kits, in particular (…) for the displaced people who are in the mountains, since we know that unfortunately bad weather is coming,” he added.

WHO denounces Israeli attacks on health services in Lebanon. The World Health Organization (WHO) said this Friday:deeply worried» attacks carried out by the Israeli army against health services in its war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. “We emphasize again and again that health care is not a target“, declared Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the organization, during a press briefing in Geneva.

In Lebanon, the town of Baalbeck again targeted by the Israeli army. The Lebanese news agency Ani reported this Friday an Israeli raid on a neighborhood of Baalbeck, a large city in eastern Lebanon targeted by strikes in recent days. “Enemy aircraft raided al-Zahraa neighborhood in Baalbeck city», Specified the agency. The strike was not preceded by a call to evacuate from the Israeli army addressed to residents of the city, which is home to Roman ruins listed as UNESCO world heritage sites.

The United States has called on Lebanon to declare a unilateral ceasefire with Israel. According to Lebanese sources cited by the Reuters agency, the United States asked Lebanon, through its envoy Amos Hochstein, to declare a unilateral ceasefire in order to facilitate negotiations. Beirut, however, did not follow through, as such a move could amount to capitulation.

In the Gaza Strip, 47 Palestinians killed by Israeli bombings overnight. 47 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured, mostly children and women, by Israeli bombings that occurred overnight from Thursday to Friday in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian News Agency WAFA. The attacks took place in the town of Deir Al-Balah, the Nuseirat camp and the town of Al-Zawayda. The Israeli army, for its part, declared that its troops had identified and eliminated “several armed terrorists» in the center of the enclave and that they had eliminated “dozens of terrorists» during targeted raids in the Jabalia area, in the north of the territory.

Lebanese Prime Minister denounces Israeli “refusal” of ceasefire. For Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Israel does not want the ceasefire that American emissaries came to negotiate this week, and the “extension” of its strikes against Lebanon proves it. “The extension, once again, of the aggression of the Israeli enemy against the Lebanese regions […] and the fact that he once again targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut with destructive raids, are all indicators that confirm his refusal of all efforts made to obtain a ceasefire“, he declared in a press release this Friday.

Four Thais killed in Israel by rocket fired from Lebanon. Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa announced this Friday morning that four Thai nationals had been killed in Israel by a rocket fired from Lebanon. On the social networkdeeply saddened» by these deaths which occurred the day before near the border town of Metula. Another Thai citizen was injured in the attack.