► A new death toll of 43,799
The health ministry of the Hamas government in Gaza announced on Saturday, November 16, a new toll of 43,799 deaths in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel more than a year ago. At least 35 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, he said in a statement, adding that 103,601 people had been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
► Israeli air raids in southern Beirut suburbs
A series of Israeli air raids targeted Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon on Saturday. At least five strikes hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, after an Israeli army call to evacuate told residents they were “near Hezbollah infrastructure and interests”. The Israeli army indicated that it had notably targeted “a weapons warehouse, command center and Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure”.
The Lebanese National Information Agency (ANI) also reported a strike carried out on a central district of Tyre, also in the south, near an archaeological site housing Roman ruins listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. . This raid resulted in “the destruction of two buildings” and caused “damage to other surrounding buildings”specified the Lebanese agency.
► Two Islamic Jihad leaders killed in Israeli strike in Syria
Two leaders of Islamic Jihad, an armed Palestinian group that participated in the attack on October 7, 2023, were killed in one of the Israeli strikes on Thursday in the suburbs of Damascus, a source within the group said on Saturday. According to this source, Abdel Aziz Al Minaoui, member of the political bureau of Islamic Jihad, and Rasmi Abou Issa, responsible for external relations, died in this strike which hit the town of Qoudsaya, in the suburbs of Damascus. Islamic Jihad is still holding hostage people kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel. This week the group published two video clips of Sacha Trupanov, a 29-year-old Russian-Israeli hostage.
► Iran denies meeting between Elon Musk and its UN ambassador
The New York Times daily claimed that American businessman Elon Musk, a supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, met with Iran's ambassador to the UN on Monday to “relieve tensions” between Tehran and his country. The American daily, which cites two anonymous Iranian sources, specifies that the meeting lasted more than an hour on Monday in New York between Elon Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani. Iran “categorically denies such a meeting and expresses his surprise at the coverage of the American media”the Irna agency said on Saturday, citing the spokesperson for Iranian diplomacy, Esmaïl Baghaï.
Donald Trump was during his first term (2017-2021) the architect of a so-called policy of “maximum pressure” against Iran and reinstated heavy sanctions, which the Biden administration has maintained.
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