UPDATE ON THE SITUATION – “We have no choice but to defy this decision. I will invite” Netanyahu “to come to Hungary where I can guarantee him that the ICC judgment will have no effect,” declared Viktor Orban.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the EU, announced on Friday that he would invite his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to protest against the arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). “We have no choice but to defy this decision. I will invite” Netanyahu “to come to Hungary, where I can guarantee him that the ICC judgment will have no effect”he said in an interview on state radio. Le Figaro takes stock of the situation.
Strikes on southern Beirut suburbs after Israeli call to evacuate
Strikes targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday, November 22, a stronghold of Lebanese Hezbollah against which Israel is at war, shortly after a call from the Israeli army to evacuate, according to images from AFPTV. In addition to the suburbs of Beirut, the Israeli army called overnight to evacuate several areas of southern Lebanon.
Israel says it “eliminated” five “Hamas terrorists” during Gaza night raid
The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had “eliminated” five “terrorists of Hamas » including two commanders, during his raid in the Beit Lahia area, in the north of the Gaza Strip during the night from Wednesday to Thursday.
In a statement, the army and the Shin Bet (domestic intelligence) say they have “eliminated five Hamas terrorists including a company commander Noukhba and another company commander who had participated in the massacre of October 7 (2023) and directed the murders and kidnappings in the Mefalsim area”a kibbutz in southern Israel.
