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On the front page of the press, the results of the Israeli response to the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7: more than 30,000 dead, according to the Hamas government, the vast majority of women and children.
This dizzying figure made the front page this morning of
Libération
- which specifies that this toll is considered "underestimated" by the NGOs on site, because it does not take into account the bodies still buried under the rubble, after almost five months of bombings.
The newspaper mapped the impact of the Israeli response, which we clearly see has particularly targeted the north of the enclave, without however sparing the south, where the vast majority of displaced people are massed: 978,000 people around Rafah, 775,000 around Khan Younes.
The newspaper also reports these alarming figures: 53% of Gazans are in a food emergency situation, 26% are already affected by famine.
Libération
, however, considers that "the horror of the massacre committed on October 7 by Hamas must be tirelessly recalled and condemned", that "everything must be done to free the Israeli hostages", but considers "intolerable" the way in which Palestinian civilians of Gaza are treated and denounces the attitude of Western and Arab countries, which "have shown themselves at best powerless to slow down the Israeli leaders, at worst supportive".
Le Monde
, for its part, investigated the behavior of certain Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza, boasting on social networks of their actions and the humiliations inflicted on Gazans.
The newspaper speaks of an "incessant flow of images" symptomatic, according to it, of "the feeling of impunity" which animates these soldiers and of a "form of dehumanization of the Palestinian population", as evidenced by captures of screen from videos broadcast on the social network destroyed", or a soldier cycling in front of an equally destroyed house, in northern Gaza, published on December 3.
Le Monde
mentions the existence of "even darker" images, notably of an "infantry soldier filmed setting fire to a cargo of food", while Gaza is on the verge of famine, or another "waving a banner for his hair salon next to corpses of Palestinians, whom song lyrics compare to
"animals"
and to "
Amalek",
a
reference to the ancient enemy of the Jewish people in the Old Testament, to the "hereditary enemy".
Also on the front page was the vote yesterday by senators in favor of including the freedom of women to have recourse to abortion in the French Constitution.
Libération
welcomes a “historic” vote by the Senate, which will have taken “an unexpected step aside from its conservative heritage” and opened the way for the vote in Congress next Monday.
A “relief” for feminist activists, according to
Le Parisien/Aujourd’hui en France
, which notably cites the reaction of Sarah Durocher, the president of Family Planning: “It is a strong message sent to all feminists from all over the world who are fighting for this right.
Our colleagues from
France Info
cite Claudine Monteil, who was one of the signatories of the "Manifesto of 343", the famous petition calling for the legalization of abortion in France, published on April 5, 1971. This historic feminist activist speaks of last night's vote as "one of the most important evenings of (her) life", and a "tribute
to Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Halimi and Simone Veil", three great figures of French feminism.
A joy not shared by
Le Figaro
, which criticizes "the media pressure" which would have "weighed" on certain senators, "
whose only fear (would have been) of being given the label of 'old-fashioned'".
The newspaper regrets the "dramatization" of this vote - "as if, basically, it was the very freedom to resort to abortion that was at stake" "as if, beneath the freedom of vote, there was an injunction of imperative mandate ", paving the way for a meeting of Congress "within a time frame of unprecedented brevity in the history of constitutional revisions".
Their victory is not unprecedented: the Spanish footballers won their second trophy in a few months last night by beating Les Bleues, 2-0, in the final of the Nations League.
After winning the World Cup this summer, the Seleccion offered themselves a second title which earned them the honors of the national sports press.
“Campeonisimas”, “Super champions”, exults
Mundo Deportivo
.
"Invencibles", "Invincibles", headlines
Marca
, quoting the comment of
Aitana Bonmati, author of one of the two goals: "
This team has no limits. We won the Nations League and we are going to the Games Olympics.
On the French side, obviously, it’s disillusioning.
“Glory will wait”:
L’Equipe
reminds that coach Hervé Renard only has five months left to “help Les Bleues progress before the Olympics”.
L'Equipe, to which we award the prize for pun of the day - about the Andalusian ordeal of the Bleues, last night: "The quagmire of Seville", a beautiful reference to Beaumarchais' play, "The Barber of Seville".
We won't leave each other on this.
Before saying see you tomorrow, just to distract you a little, I suggest you take a look at the
Huffington Post
, which tells us of the existence of a very small fish roughly the size of the nail of a inch but happens to be one of the loudest animals on the planet.
With a power of up to 140 decibels, the Danionella Cerebrum emits a sound, it seems, "as loud as a gunshot".
Small but noisy, so, like a mutt, ultimately.
Still in the “amazing critters” section,
The Guardian
reports that a mating of humpback whales has finally been photographed, for the first time, off the coast of Hawaii.
Particularity of this aquatic relationship: the two cetaceans were males.
The British daily specifies that homosexual behavior is common in the animal kingdom, and that it has already been observed among dolphins and orcas.
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