Emmanuel Macron warns Benjamin Netanyahu of a “forced population transfer” in Rafah. The French president insisted that Israel open “without delay and without conditions all existing land crossing points to the Gaza Strip” The war broke out on October 7 after an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israeli soil that resulted in the deaths of at least 1,160 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally.

Around 250 people were kidnapped and 130 of them are still hostages in Gaza, of whom 33 are believed to have died.