UPDATE ON THE SITUATION – The Israeli army said it intercepted a drone coming from the east over southern Israel, in the Dead Sea region, on Tuesday.
While Israel announces having intercepted a drone coming from the East, the head of French diplomacy, Jean-Noël Barrot, is expected to travel to the Middle East on Wednesday. Le Figaro takes stock of the situation in the Middle East, this Tuesday, November 5.
Israeli army says it intercepted a drone coming from the East
The Israeli army said it intercepted a drone coming from the east over southern Israel in the Dead Sea region on Tuesday. “A drone that entered Israeli territory from the east was intercepted” by the Israeli Air Force, the army wrote in a statement, without specifying where the drone came from.
The head of French diplomacy in the Middle East on Wednesday
The head of French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Wednesday to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and “respect for international humanitarian law”he announced on France 2. “France has a vocation to carry messages and that is why I will go tomorrow evening to Israel and the Palestinian territories to meet the authorities, the humanitarian actors, to carry the voice of France in this region where the war has already lasted way too long.”Mr. Barrot said.
In addition to the ceasefire, the head of French diplomacy wants to insist on “respect for international law”. “Violations of international humanitarian law are unacceptable and must stop”he stressed, while Israel is accused of numerous violations of humanitarian law in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
Israel also banned the activities of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which it accuses of complicity with Hamas, causing an international outcry. Mr. Barrot had already visited Israel on the occasion of the first anniversary of October 7. This visit comes as relations between Israel and Paris have become significantly strained in recent weeks, after statements by President Emmanuel Macron calling for an end to sales of weapons used in Gaza or accusing Israel of “sow barbarity”. “The dialogue has never been broken”urged M. Barrot.
No short truce in the Gaza Strip, deplores Blinken
The head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken deplored on Monday that Hamas had once again rejected a temporary truce in the Gaza Strip, in a call with his Egyptian counterpart.
A Hamas official said Friday that the Palestinian Islamist movement had refused to study a proposal for a short truce in the Gaza Strip from the mediating countries – the United States, Egypt and Qatar – because it did not include a cease-fire. -permanent fire.
In a phone call with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Mr. Blinken “noted that Hamas had once again refused to release even a limited number of hostages in order to secure a ceasefire and relief for the people of Gaza”according to a statement from the State Department. The American Secretary of State “stressed the importance of ending the war in Gaza, securing the release of all hostages and increasing and maintaining the delivery of humanitarian aid”according to the text.
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