► The UN welcomes Trump’s “large contribution” to the truce
The UN Secretary General welcomed Wednesday January 22 in Davos the « large contribution » of Donald Trump to the ceasefire obtained on Sunday between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, just before he took office at the White House.
“There was a large contribution of the vigorous diplomacy of the then president-elect of the United States”said Antonio Guterres during a speech at the annual meeting in Switzerland of the World Economic Forum.
►Continuation of the Israeli operation in Jenin
The town of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, came under heavy fire and explosions on the second day of the Israeli military operation “Iron Wall”presented as “anti-terrorist”.
“The situation is very difficult. The occupying army bulldozed all the roads leading to the Jenin camp and the hospital”said the city’s governor, Kamal Abu Rub. “There are shots and explosions. A plane flies over the area »he added, reporting numerous arrests.
The latest report Tuesday evening showed ten dead and 35 injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
-► The attack in Tel Aviv led by a foreigner
The man who was killed after injuring five people, one of whom was seriously injured, on Tuesday in Tel Aviv in a knife attack is a foreign national who arrived in Israel a few days earlier, Israeli authorities announced.
“According to the first elements of the investigation, a terrorist took out a knife and started stabbing people on Nahalat Binyamin Street, injuring four civilians” before hurting ” another “slightly, in a neighboring street. The attacker, “a foreign national aged 28”was then killed by “armed security guards” adds the press release, without specifying his nationality.
Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said the attacker aroused the suspicions of immigration officials when he arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport, but that the Shin Bet (internal security service) decided to allow him to enter Israel after interrogation.
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