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[Live] Gaza: relentless fighting, Anthony Blinken goes to the Middle East with a view to a truce
American Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives this Monday, February 5, in the Middle East to encourage a truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where fighting and bombings continue unabated.
Israeli soldiers drive a tank across the border with the Gaza Strip, Sunday, February 4, 2024. © Ariel Schalit / AP
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What you must remember
■
Tensions continue in the Red Sea
, where maritime traffic is
threatened by the Yemeni Houthi rebels
, close to Iran, who say they are in solidarity with the Palestinians in
Gaza
.
■ As the war enters its fifth month on Wednesday,
the Israeli army again bombed Khan Younes
, in the south of the territory, on Sunday, where according to it, leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement are hiding.
Airstrikes
also targeted Rafah
, further south, hitting a kindergarten, according to Hamas.
■
More than a million displaced Palestinians
, threatened by shortages and epidemics,
are now crowded into shelters and makeshift camps in Rafah
.
■ A proposed humanitarian pause in
Gaza
and an exchange of Palestinian hostages and prisoners would be considered. But
Benyamin Netanyahu
assured this Sunday that
Israel was not ready to accept any agreement to free the Israeli hostages
.
■ According to the latest report from the Hamas Ministry of Health, Friday February 2,
27,365
people
have been killed in Gaza
since the start of the war on October 7. The majority of the dead are women, adolescents and children. There are
66,630
injured
.
Times are given in universal time (Paris-1),
05:50: The UN Security Council meets today to discuss recent US strikes in Iraq and Syria
This is an emergency meeting at the request of the Russian representative to the UN. For Russia, the American strikes are “a threat to peace and security”. The representative of Moscow will defend this position this afternoon before the United Nations Security Council, reports our correspondent in New York
Loubna Anaki
. This meeting is taking place as Washington carried out a series of strikes this weekend in Iraq, Syria, but also in Yemen.
In Iraq and Syria, the United States has targeted pro-Iranian armed groups in response to the killing ten days ago of three American soldiers in a drone attack. In Yemen, it was once again the Houthi rebels who were targeted. In total, more than 120 targets were bombed in these three countries in less than 48 hours, while the United States assures that it does not want an escalation in the region, and especially not a war with Iran. But Joe Biden, under pressure after the death of the three American soldiers, believes that his country has an obligation to act to “
protect American troops and international maritime trade in the Red Sea
”. He does not rule out new operations in the region.
Given that Washington, like Moscow, has the right of veto in the Security Council, today's meeting is unlikely to result in concrete measures.
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