Fierce fighting took place on Saturday June 29 between the Israeli army and Hamas fighters in the north of the Gaza Strip. Since Thursday, the Israeli army has been carrying out an operation in Chadjaya, an eastern neighborhood of Gaza City, where it says there are “terrorist infrastructure”. During the night and Saturday morning, journalists from Agence France-Presse (AFP) heard explosions, airstrikes and gunfire coming from this area. The Israeli army said it had eliminated Friday “a large number of terrorists and located an arms depot in a school”.
The Palestinian Civil Defense reported on Friday that “many deaths” and the escape of “tens of thousands of civilians”after a call from the army to evacuate the area.
Tension on the border with Lebanon: Iran threatens Israel
Tehran warned Israel on Saturday that “all members of the ‘axis of resistance'”which includes Iran and its regional allies, could mobilize if he launched an offensive ” in large scale “ against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Iranian mission to the UN in New York wrote, in a message posted on “psychological warfare the propaganda of the Zionist regime concerning its intention to attack Lebanon”. More “If he embarks on a large-scale military aggression, an annihilating war will follow.”she added. “All options, including the full involvement of all members of the “axis of resistance”, are on the table”the message warned.
Fears of seeing the conflict spread to Lebanon have recently increased with a verbal escalation between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, an ally of Hamas. Since October 7, the two camps have exchanged fire almost daily in the border area, deadly violence having pushed thousands of residents on both sides of the border to flee.
Hezbollah said Friday it had launched several attacks on Israeli military positions near the border, and announced the death of one of its fighters, killed by Israeli fire. The official Lebanese news agency reported the death of three people, including two Palestinians, in an Israeli strike on the village of Kfar Kila, in southern Lebanon.
In northern Israel, rocket warning sirens sounded several times, according to the army, which later said three drones were launched from Lebanon before falling in the Galilee, causing no casualties. .
Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, US response
American forces announced Friday evening that they had destroyed seven drones and a checkpoint of the Yemeni Houthi rebels after the latter claimed responsibility for new shots targeting traffic in the Red Sea. “In the last 24 hours, the Middle East Command (CentCom) has destroyed seven drones of the Houthis, supported by Iran, and a command station” drones in an area of Yemen “controlled by the Houthis”he said in a https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1806836864424276406.
A few hours before the CentCom announcement, the Houthis’ military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, had claimed responsibility, on behalf of the rebels, for attacks on two ships in the Red Sea, including the chemical tanker. https://twitter.com/ameenhayan/status/1806772936046710822which flies the Liberian flag.
According to the British Maritime Safety Agency (https://twitter.com/UK_MTO/status/1806617502014673124), five missiles were fired on Friday at the ship, which was then located about 150 nautical miles (277 kilometers) northwest of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, controlled by the Houthis.
The majority of hospitals are destroyed, Gazans live in disastrous conditions
Of the 36 in the Gaza Strip, 32 have been damaged since October 7, and 20 of them are now out of service, according to figures released Friday by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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UNRWA mission officer Louise Wateridge described Friday as “disastrous” the living conditions in the territory, where humanitarian aid arrives in dribs and drabs. Residents are living in ruins of buildings or tents around a gigantic pile of waste, she told reporters in Geneva, via video link from the center of the Gaza Strip. “There is no water, no sanitation, no food. And now people are living in these buildings again, which are empty shells.”she observed.
Mme Wateridge stressed that difficulties in getting fuel to Gaza and distributing it safely in the Palestinian territory were impacting on the ability to deliver humanitarian aid. “Without fuel, humanitarian assistance really stops”she added.
69 people have been killed in the last 48 hours
According to data released on Saturday (June 29) by the health ministry of the local Hamas-led government, the war with Israel has left 37,834 dead in the Palestinian territory. At least 69 people have been killed in the past 48 hours, he said in a statement, adding that 86,858 people had been injured in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
The unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7 in Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count established from official Israeli data. During the attack, 251 people were kidnapped, 116 of whom are still being held in Gaza, of whom 42 died, according to the army.
