In the press - Ukrainian strikes in Makïvka: "Putin hit, but not sunk"

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On the front page of the press, the reactions to the visit, yesterday, of the new Israeli national security minister, on the esplanade of the mosques, in Jerusalem.

The esplanade of the mosques, also called Mont-du-Temple, is at the heart of all the tensions in this part of the Middle East and the visit of Itamar Ben Gvir, condemned several times for racism in Israel, is therefore anything but trivial.

evokes the "global furor" triggered by this visit, deemed also potentially embarrassing for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: "The new security minister has made a political bet that the Prime Minister has had no 'other choice than to assume,' comments the newspaper.

While Itamar Ben Gvir's visit was uneventful, his decision to go to the esplanade of the mosques remains "one more irresponsible provocation", according to

, which believes that it "could also signal the start of a new policy plunging the most dangerous religious site in the Middle East into chaos".

The newspaper recalls that the visit to the site in 2000 by Ariel Sharon, then leader of the right-wing opposition, triggered the second Intifada.

"Ben Gvir blown (already) on the embers", denounces

, evoking the "outcry" caused by his visit.

According to the Lebanese newspaper, "the act of the new minister aims to change the rules of the game, to force the access of the Jews to the sacred site", where they are not authorized to pray, while putting "in the embarrassment" Israel's Arab neighbors, including Jordan and the United Arab Emirates - who have embarked on a process of normalizing diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, and denounced "an unnecessary provocation".

goes further and accuses Ben Gvir of having "rushed" to "steal Al Aqsa".

For the pan-Arab newspaper in London, his "rush" to go to the esplanade of the mosques proves "the speed at which the new fascist (Israeli) government intends to return to the status quo" existing on the square of the mosques.

Many reactions, also, this morning, to the Ukrainian strikes which hit a Russian military base in Makiïvka, near Donetsk.

Bombings that caused massive losses in the Russian army on January 1.

For

, the extent of the Russian losses "reinforces the questions about the competence of the general staff and the strategy of the Kremlin", and the idea that, for Vladimir Putin, the soldiers sent to the front "are only cannon fodder in an anachronistic war that he still intends to carry out".

The newspaper recalls that Moscow has published a toll of 89 soldiers killed, but that it is likely that there were actually hundreds of victims, and wonders if "this carnage" will push the Kremlin to reconsider its plans.

An unlikely hypothesis, according to Libé, who nevertheless notes that "the amateurism of the Russian commanders, the inferiority of their armament and the lack of discipline of their troops have been exposed to the whole world, including in Russia", where dozens people gathered in Samara,

, which reports "several hundred dead" and reports that several participants in this rally were pro-Kremlin.

The Russian English-language newspaper quotes one of them: "Together we will destroy the enemy. We had no choice. Neither we nor our husbands wanted war. But the West has closed ranks against we".

In the press, too, concerns about the state of health of Senegalese journalist Pape Alé Niang, on hunger strike since his new imprisonment on December 20.

Returned to detention for “disclosure of information likely to harm national defense”, “reception of administrative and military documents” and “dissemination of false news”, Pape Alé Niang would be “very tested” by his hunger strike according to his lawyer, quoted by

.

The magazine specifies that the "information" for which the boss of

was arrested on rape charges against Ousmane Sonko, a rival of President Macky Sall.

The information site run by Pape Alé Niang is reputed to be very critical of power, as evidenced by an editorial, which does not hesitate to raise the question of a hypothetical third term in 2024 for Macky Sall - a "mandate too many" , according to

, which considers this hypothesis "unconstitutional".

We don't leave each other on that.

No question of telling you tomorrow without throwing an eyelash at the Saudi press, which celebrates the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Portuguese player was officially introduced yesterday by his new club, Al-Nassr, to the delight of his Saudi fans - "in CR7th heaven", according to

.

For the trifle of 200 million euros per season, until 2025, Ronaldo pockets the jackpot, failing to have won the World Cup - hence the drawing by Hassan Bleibel, published by

, where we see him brandishing a big bag of money, while Lionel Messi lifts the World Cup trophy.

In the "stars" section, again: with more than 230 million records sold, she is undoubtedly one of the biggest interplanetary music stars - I am of course talking about Céline Dion, who does not appear in the ranking of Rolling Stones magazine's "200 Greatest Singers of All Time".

Tabernacle!

Obviously, this oversight goes badly in Quebec.

Oblivion? Snobbery?" asks

, which reports that the eviction of the native of Charlemagne has triggered a wave of indignation on social networks, where a tweeter notably said he wanted to "call the police “, who also replied, saying “understand his emotion”.

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