UPDATE ON THE SITUATION – This attack comes in the middle of a ceasefire between the two states. Another text relating to stopping the fighting in Gaza must also be examined today.
An Israeli strike killed at least one person in Lebanon on Wednesday, December 11. This attack comes as the UN General Assembly votes today on a draft resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. Le Figaro takes stock of the situation.
One dead in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that an Israeli strike killed one person in the south of the country, where a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is in force.
“A drone strike by the Israeli enemy on the town of Ainata killed one person and injured another”the ministry said in a press release.
Safe access and «without hindrance» to large-scale humanitarian aid
The UN General Assembly votes on Wednesday on a draft resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, a symbolic call after the American veto of a similar text in the Security Council. At the end of November, the United States once again used its veto power. The Americans, insisting on making the truce conditional on the release of the hostages, had this time prevented the Council from demanding a ceasefire. “immediate, unconditional and permanent” in Gaza.
The text thus demands “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” as well as “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages”. It also requires safe access and “unhindered” to large-scale humanitarian aid, including in the north “besieged” of Gaza and denounces any attempt to“starve the Palestinians”. The draft resolution also insists on “the principle of responsibility”and calls on the UN Secretary-General to present «propositions» to support the «respect» of this principle, through existing mechanisms or by creating new ones.
The text, considering that Unrwa is “irreplaceable”calls on Israel to respect its mandate and allow it to continue its operations “without hindrance or restriction” in the Palestinian territories. Israel denounced these new texts in advance. “If you really want peace, it starts with dismantling this structure of hatred and glorification of terrorism”declared Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, in reference to UNRWA, whose employees Israel accuses of having participated in the October 7 attacks. The country has more generally denounced new resolutions which “vilify Israel” and highlight the “bias and prejudice” of the United Nations.
UN calls for $4 billion for aid to Palestinian territories by 2025
This Wednesday, the UN requested more than 4 billion dollars to provide humanitarian aid to three million people in the occupied Palestinian territories next year.
It’s about helping “the entire population of Gaza, estimated at 2.1 million people, and 900,000 people in the West Bank”detailed the UN in its humanitarian appeal.
Gaza Civil Defense reports at least 22 dead in Israeli strike in north
Gaza Civil Defense said Wednesday that at least 22 people, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli strike overnight in the northern Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip. “There are 22 martyrs in the massacre committed by the occupying army after the bombing of a house belonging to the Abu al-Tarabish family, near the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza”Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.
