LIVE – October 7: “France cries alongside Israel”, declares Jean-Noël Barrot at the scene of the attack

The October 7 attack brought Israel back to “square one,” a senior Palestinian Hamas official said on Monday. “The flood of Al-Aqsa brought the occupier back to square one and threatened its existence,” said Khaled Mechaal, the former leader of Hamas, on the Al Arabiya channel, using the name given by the Palestinian Islamist movement. to this unprecedented attack on Israeli soil.

Israel announces that soldiers belonging to a third division are engaged on the ground in Lebanon.

“The Hamas terrorists swept in to destroy life and love, in a disastrous procession of massacres, torture and rape,” declared the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, from Israel. “An immense tragedy has struck our children, our elders, our friends. France mourns alongside Israel our 48 compatriots victims of barbarism. We will never forget them. I think of the hostages, of their suffering, of their courage. France will never stop demanding the unconditional release of the hostages.”

“To our 180,000 compatriots in Israel: France loves you, the Republic will be at your side,” he says. “Darkness will never prevail over light. France is unfailingly attached” to Israel’s security.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer affirmed Monday that his country will “not weaken” in the “quest for peace”, a year after the “horrible” massacre of October 7 perpetrated by Hamas in Israel. “We will not waver in our quest for peace and on this day of pain and sorrow, we honor those we have lost and remain committed to recovering those still held hostage, helping those who are suffering and ensuring a better future in the Middle East,” declared the head of the British government.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot is traveling to Israel this Monday. He went this morning to Réïm, to the scene of the Nova music festival where at least 370 people were killed on October 7, 2023. “The President of the Republic has instructed me to tell you all his support, his brotherhood and his condolences,” he said.

Israel is a “cancerous” entity that must ultimately be “eliminated,” Hezbollah writes in a statement, affirming that it will continue to fight Israeli “aggression.” The powerful pro-Iranian formation claimed to have opened the front against Israel in southern Lebanon the day after October 7 to “defend Lebanon”, while recognizing having “paid a high price”.

The Minister of National Education Anne Genetet asks rectors “maximum vigilance with increased attention to the security and proper functioning of schools and educational establishments, rapid reporting of any incident or disorder affecting this proper functioning” as well as “systematic disciplinary sanctions in the event of violation of the law and the values ​​of the Republic, with which we cannot compromise,” indicates the ministry.

Manuel Valls disapproves of Emmanuel Macron’s call to stop certain arms deliveries to Israel. “A declaration which consists of saying that we do not need weapons does not appear as a declaration of friendship”, indicates the former Prime Minister on LCI. “I think the President of the Republic is wrong, he did not understand the meaning of October 7. The best way to fight against hatred of Jews is to support Israel.”

“It’s a day without end,” said former Prime Minister Manuel Valls on LCI, referring to October 7, 2023. “We witnessed a pogrom with a genocidal vocation, the desire of Hamas to kill and humiliate.”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, has just arrived in Reïm where the commemorations are taking place, one year after the attack on the Nova festival.

“There is a very deep misunderstanding” between Israel and France, said the Israeli ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, on RTL. “France has not abandoned us, but the President of the Republic does not understand our long-term goals. We want to create the conditions for peace with our neighbors. For this, Hamas must completely disappear as a military power. We cannot We can’t stop.”

Since Monday morning, Israel has been commemorating the first anniversary of the October 7 attack. Tribute ceremonies took place, such as in Reïm, where the Nova music festival was held a year ago. Return to a morning of commemorations.

Emmanuel Macron “is right to say that the ceasefire must come as quickly as possible, otherwise it is an endless war”, estimates François Hollande, PS deputy and former President of the Republic, on TF1. “Israel has not achieved all its war goals, but it has achieved many.”

On October 7, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel and killed more than 1,200 people. A year later, the victims’ families went to the site of the Nova festival this Monday for a tribute ceremony. The mother of Bar Zohar, killed at 23, testifies on LCI.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog calls on the world to “support Israel in its fight against its enemies.” October 7, 2023 leaves “a scar on humanity, […] a scar on the face of the Earth”, and “the world must realize and understand that to change the course of history and bring peace and a better future to the region, it must support Israel in its fight against its enemies,” he wrote in a statement.

The Families Forum announces the death of an Israeli hostage one year to the day after his kidnapping at the Nova music festival during the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on southern Israel. “The Forum of Hostage Families mourns the murder of Idan Shtivi”, 28 years old, whose “body is still” in Gaza, writes the Forum in a press release.

“The pain remains, as acute as a year ago,” wrote the President of the Republic in tribute to the victims of October 7. “That of the Israeli people. Ours. That of wounded humanity. We forget neither the victims, nor the hostages, nor the families whose hearts are broken by absence or waiting,” affirms Emmanuel Macron. “I send them our fraternal thoughts.”

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, claimed responsibility Monday morning for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, where the country marked the start of a day of celebrations on the first anniversary of October 7.

“We aimed [un kibboutz et une base militaire ainsi qu’un rassemblement de soldats israéliens] with a certain number of rockets”, indicates a press release from the al-Qassam Brigades. The Israeli army announced that it had intercepted three projectiles coming from the Gaza Strip, a fourth having “fallen on an uninhabited area”

The Israeli military said on Monday that four projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel as the country marked the start of ceremonies for the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

According to the army, warning sirens sounded at 6:31 a.m. (03:31 GMT) in several localities around the Gaza Strip, two minutes after the start of the ceremonies, including one in the presence of the Israeli president at the edge. of Palestinian territory. “Four projectiles were identified” as having been fired from the Gaza Strip, three of which “were shot down”, the fourth having “fallen on an uninhabited area”, indicates a military statement.