/default

  • Israel air drops Ramadan leaflets on Gaza, calling on people to feed the needy | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-air-drops-ramadan-leaflets-gaza-calling-them-feed-needy
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2024-03/2024-03-07T000000Z_254936113_MT1NURPHO000DTR4VU_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALE

    L’armée israélienne souhaite un bon jeûne aux fidèles musulmans de Gaza. Il n’y a pas de limites...

    A Palestinian journalist reported on Thursday that Israeli forces have airdropped Ramadan leaflets on Gaza, calling people to feed the needy.

    The journalist denounced it as an example of “psychological torture”.

    The poster reads “provide for the needy and speak kindly.”

    It also states that they wish that their fasts are accepted, ahead of Ramadan, the holy month which is set to start next week.

    The poster comes at a time where 20 Palestinians, including children, have died from malnutrition and dehydration since the start of the war.

    Israel has cut off all aid, electricity, water and fuel from Gaza since 9 October.

  • Israeli forces kill 83 Palestinians in past day, death toll over 30,800
    7 March 2024 09:47 GMT | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-83-palestinians-past-day-death-toll-over-30800

    Israeli forces have killed at least 83 Palestinians and wounded 142 more over the past 24 hours in nine “massacres”, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

    This brings the Palestinian death toll in nearly five months to more than 30,800, with nearly 73,000 wounded and at least 7,000 missing, believed to be dead and buried under rubble.

    More than 70 percent of the victims are women and children, according to health officials.

    #Bilan

    • It’s 12:30pm (10:30 GMT) in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.
      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/7/israels-war-on-gaza-live-20-starve-to-death-in-gaza-more-feared-dead

      The Israeli military has arrested more than two dozen people during raids across the occupied West Bank.
      UNRWA aims to use a road under the Israeli military’s control bordering Gaza to test its suitability for delivering humanitarian aid to the isolated north, where people are driven towards starvation.
      Israel has “groundlessly” blocked aid operations for Gaza as the enclave falls deeper into famine, according to a report by Refugees International.
      Israel’s orders to evacuate civilians in Gaza are illegal and have been used to forcibly transfer and detain Palestinians, says a UN special rapporteur.
      The Houthis, whose latest attack in the Gulf of Aden killed three sailors on a merchant ship, will continue targeting Israel-linked vessels as long as the Gaza war persists, a group spokesman has reaffirmed.

  • Chile bars Israeli firms from partaking in Latin America’s biggest aerospace fair
    6 March 2024 05:56 GMT | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/chile-bars-israeli-firms-partaking-latin-americas-biggest-aerospace-f

    The Chilean government announced that Israeli firms will be banned from the International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE) in Santiago in April.

    “By decision of the Government of Chile, the 2024 version of the International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE), to be held between 9 and 14 April, will not have the participation of Israeli companies,” the defence ministry said in a statement.

    While the government does not specify a reason, Chile’s leftist president Gabriel Boric has been critical of Israel’s “disproportionate” response in Gaza following the Hamas-led 7 October attack. The country also hosts the largest Palestinian diaspora outside of the Middle East.

    #IsraelChili

  • 🔴 En direct : quatrième jour de négociations au Caire pour une trêve à Gaza
    Publié le : 06/03/2024
    https://www.france24.com/fr/moyen-orient/20240306-%F0%9F%94%B4-en-direct-quatri%C3%A8me-jour-de-n%C3%A9gociations-a

    Le ministère de la Santé du Hamas annonce un nouveau bilan de 30 717 morts à Gaza

    Les opérations militaires israéliennes ont fait 30 717 morts et 72 156 blessés dans la bande de Gaza depuis le début de la guerre entre Israël et le Hamas, selon le dernier bilan communiqué par le ministère de la Santé du mouvement islamiste palestinien. La plupart des personnes tuées sont des civils.

    Le communiqué fait aussi état de 86 morts et 113 blessés au cours des dernières 24 heures.

    L’essentiel de la veille Avec AFP

    Les discussions pour une trêve à Gaza entre le Hamas et les médiateurs internationaux se sont poursuivies mardi au Caire, sans avancée décisive. Israël n’a fait aucun commentaire sur les négociations, notamment sur sa décision de ne pas y participer.

    Un enfant de moins de deux ans sur six souffre de malnutrition aiguë dans le nord de la bande de Gaza, selon l’Organisation mondiale de la santé, qui décrit une situation « particulièrement grave ».

    Les tensions continuent à monter entre l’agence de l’ONU pour les réfugiés palestiniens (Unrwa), qui a fait état de « tortures » contre ses employés, et Israël, qui a accusé cette agence d’employer « plus de 450 terroristes » à Gaza.

    #Bilan

    • 6 février 2024(09:40 GMT)
      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/6/israels-war-on-gaza-live-un-food-convoy-blocked-from-north-gaza-by-israel

      Il est 11h40 (09h40 GMT) dans les territoires palestiniens occupés et en Israël.

      Voici quelques-uns des principaux événements survenus jusqu’à présent :

      Le franchisé Starbucks au Moyen-Orient a licencié 2 000 employés - 10 pour cent de ses effectifs - après avoir été boycotté par les militants pro-palestiniens en raison de la guerre d’Israël contre Gaza.
      Depuis le 7 octobre, les attaques israéliennes ont fait 30 717 morts et plus de 72 156 blessés dans la bande de Gaza.
      Le ministère palestinien des affaires étrangères a appelé les autorités israéliennes à ouvrir les postes-frontières pour permettre l’acheminement de l’aide à Gaza.
      Le président Biden est confronté à des demandes croissantes de la part de certains de ses plus proches alliés au Sénat américain pour qu’il fasse davantage pour soulager les souffrances des Palestiniens à Gaza.
      Le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) a déclaré qu’il n’avait pas réussi à reprendre les livraisons dans le nord de la bande de Gaza, qui est au bord de la famine.

    • Morning update | Middle East Eye
      6 March 2024 05:35 GMT
      https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-update-24

      An Israeli strike on a family home in Deir al-Balah killed three civilians.
      The World Food Programme says Israel’s military denied the entry of a food aid convoy into northern Gaza, preventing the UN agency’s first attempt to deliver aid to the starving region since 20 February.
      CBC news reports that the Canadian government will resume funding the Unrwa after receiving an interim report from the UN regarding the staff members Israel accused of having taken part in the 7 October attacks.
      The US is urging the UN Security Council to back a resolution that calls for an immediate, but temporary ceasefire in Gaza.
      UK MP Rosena Allin-Khan said Israel blocked UK-provided water filters from entering Gaza.
      Hamas says Israel rejected its demands for a permanent ceasefire, but says it will continue negotiating.

  • War on Gaza: Jewish opposition to Israel is as old as Zionism itself Joseph Massad | 29 February 2024 14:20 GMT | Middle East Eye

    European and American Jews have been at the forefront of opposition to Zionism since its birth as a colonial-settler movement at the end of the 19th century

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-jewish-opposition-israel-as-old-as-zionism

    . Protesters demonstrate outside of the New York office of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), a pro-Israel lobby group, for its role in influencing US support for Israel during the ongoing assault on Gaza, on 22 February 2024 (John Lamparski/Reuters)

    Last week, hundreds of people protested at the Manhattan headquarters of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), the most formidable pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, as well as at the offices of US senators who receive funding from Aipac, demanding a ceasefire. New York police arrested 12 people.

    The action was organised by the New York chapter of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and was the latest of dozens of Jewish protests against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

    In November, Jewish activists occupied the Statue of Liberty, demanding an immediate ceasefire and chanting “Not in our name”. The ongoing protests since 7 October 2023 confirm what pro-Israel groups have feared for the past two decades: that support for Israel is dwindling among American Jews.

    In fact, a survey conducted by the Jewish Electorate Institute in June and July 2021 found that 22 percent of Jews believed that Israel was “committing genocide against the Palestinians”, while 25 percent agreed that “Israel is an apartheid State”, and 34 percent thought that “Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is similar to racism in the US”. Of those under 40 years old, 33 percent believed that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians. These numbers were collated two years before the current genocide.

    Like JVP, a Jewish congregation called Tzedek, founded in 2015, had initially described itself as “non-Zionist” but later redefined itself as “anti-Zionist”. The predominantly younger membership in such organisations also signals a generational shift within US Jewry. (...)

  • UK: Pro-Palestine groups and politicians hit back at Rishi Sunak’s ’extremism’ speech
    Published date: 2 March 2024 12:28 GMT | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-pro-palestine-groups-hit-back-rishi-sunaks-extremism-speech

    Pro-Palestine groups have hit back at UK Prime Minister Rish Sunak after he claimed Gaza demonstrations were indicative of “extremists” undermining British democracy.

    In an impromptu speech on Downing Street on Friday, Sunak said the UK’s “streets have been hijacked by small groups” that are threatening to “tear us apart”, calling on the police to adopt a tougher stance toward Gaza protests.

    “We have seen a shocking increase in extremist disruption and criminality. What started as protests on our streets has descended into intimidation, threats, and planned acts of violence,” he said.

    Earlier in the week, Sunak said that there was a “growing consensus that mob rule is replacing democratic rule”, in reference to the protests in the UK.

    He said “this situation has gone on long enough”, in reference to protesters, with a direct message that “threats of violence and intimidation are alien to our way of doing things”. (...)

  • Germany: Berlin schools asked to distribute leaflet describing the 1948 Nakba as a ’myth’ | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/berlin-schools-handout-leaflet-myth-israel-1948

    Germany’s leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDU) have ordered high schools in Berlin’s borough of Neukolln to distribute brochures titled The Myth of Israel #1948.

    During a public meeting of the Neukolln district council of Berlin on Wednesday, a motion was passed stating that "the district office is asked to advocate the use of the brochure “Myths#Israel1948” in Neukolln’s secondary schools to confront existing anti-Semitic narratives within the educational framework of the school".

    “The expanded definition of antisemitism of the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the German government should also be communicated”, the motion added.

    The brochure is created by the Jewish association Masiyot, which was founded in 2022 and enjoys the support of the Berliner Landeszentrale fur politische Bildung, the Federal Center for Political Education.

    It seeks to unite professionals from different disciplines to “raise awareness of authoritarian ideologies through education, enlightenment and criticism”, the website says.
    (...)
    The brochure states there are five “myths” around the creation of the state of Israel, which are subsequently refuted in short essays by various authors.

    In the first section, debunking myth #1, that Jews and Arabs lived together in peace before Israel was founded, Israel’s pre-state militia, the Haganah, responsible for the destruction of 531 Palestinian villages and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians between December 1947 and the summer of 1948, is promoted as a merely “defensive” Jewish resistance movement.

    Under ’Myth #2: Israel was established on stolen Palestinian land’, Masiyot states that the acquisition of land by Jewish immigrants to Palestine took the form of a legal exchange of capital for an official title deed.

    At no point in history was land illegally conquered by Jewish immigrants, the author of the text, Michael Spaney, claims.

    Even land conquered following the wars of 1948 and 1967 and the subsequent construction of settlements, which are internationally recognised as a violation of international law, did not occur unlawfully, it says.

    “Anyone who uses the accusation of land theft as an argument demonises Israel and denies its legitimacy, i.e. acts out of antisemitic motives,” Spaney wrote.

    “Myth #5: Israel is to blame for the Nakba”, includes a text by researcher Shany Mor titled “the UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba: its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely one-sided”.

    In the text, Mor states that “displacement during war - then and now - was nothing unusual”.

    He also labels the UN’s attention to the Palestinian cause “obsessive” and the Arab defeat of 1948 a myth.

    “In the 1948 War of Independence, 6000 Jews were killed, fully 1% of the total population (was it a genocide?)”, a Twitter post by Mor reads.

  • Israeli forces kill 118 Palestinians in past day, death toll over 29,300
    21 February 2024 09:27 GMT | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-118-palestinians-past-day-death-toll-over-29300

    Israeli forces have killed at least 118 Palestinians and wounded 163 more over the past 24 hours in 11 “massacres”, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

    This brings the Palestinian death toll in 137 days to more than 29,313, with over 69,300 wounded and 7,000 missing, who are believed to be dead and buried under rubble.

    Over 70 percent of the victims are children and women, according to health officials.

    #Bilan

  • Israel-Palestine live : Israel is ’dehumanising Palestinians’, Saudi Arabia tells ICJ
    20 February 2024 12:59 GMT | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-army-chief-says-we-are-not-killing-spree-after-more-29000

    The Israeli army Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi said his forces “not on a killing spree, revenge or genocide” according to a report by the Israeli daily Haaretz.

    “We must be careful not to use force where it is not required, to distinguish between terrorist and non-terrorist, not to take anything that is not ours – a souvenir or military item – and not to film revenge videos,” said Halevi.

    Israeli forces according the UN and other human rights organisations has waged a unprecedented war on Gaza resulting in more than 100,000 Palestinians mostly women and children being killed and wounded in the spree.

    While Israeli forces have been documented in torturing Palestinian men and made videos looting Palestinian homes.

    On Monday UN experts decried reports of rape and sexual assault of Palestinian women and girls held in Israeli detention.

    The independent experts, part of the UN’s fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, confirmed in a statement receiving reports of Palestinian female detainees being subjected to “multiple forms of sexual assault,” with at least two detainees reportedly raped, while others were allegedly threatened with rape and sexual violence.

  • Lula accuse Israël de « génocide » à Gaza
    le 18/02/2024 à 12:17 | Mis à jour le 18/02/2024 à 16:20
    https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/france-monde/lula-accuse-israel-de-genocide-a-gaza

    Le président brésilien, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a accusé dimanche Israël de commettre un "génocide" des Palestiniens dans la bande de Gaza, établissant le parallèle avec l’extermination des juifs mise en oeuvre par le régime hitlérien.

    « Ce qui se passe dans la bande de Gaza n’est pas une guerre, c’est un génocide », a déclaré M. Lula à la presse depuis Addis-Abeba, en Éthiopie, où il assiste à un sommet de l’Union africaine.

    « Ce n’est pas une guerre de soldats contre des soldats. C’est une guerre entre une armée hautement préparée et des femmes et des enfants », a ajouté le dirigeant brésilien, vétéran de la gauche.

    « Ce qui se passe dans la bande de Gaza avec le peuple palestinien ne s’est produit à aucun autre moment de l’histoire. En fait, cela s’est déjà produit : lorsque Hitler a décidé de tuer les juifs », a-t-il martelé.

    Ces propos font partie des commentaires les plus virulents jamais formulés sur le conflit en cours entre Israël et le mouvement islamiste palestinien du Hamas par Lula, éminente voix du Sud dont le pays assure actuellement la présidence tournante du G20.

    Le dirigeant de 78 ans avait condamné l’attaque du 7 octobre du Hamas contre Israël en la qualifiant d’acte « terroriste » dans la foulée.

    Mais il s’est depuis lors montré très critique à l’égard de la campagne militaire de représailles d’Israël.

    L’attaque sans précédent du Hamas sur le sol israélien a entraîné la mort de 1.160 personnes, pour la plupart des civils, selon un décompte de l’AFP à partir des chiffres officiels israéliens.

    Les assaillants ont également pris en otage environ 250 personnes, dont 130 sont toujours à Gaza, parmi lesquelles 30 présumées mortes, selon les chiffres israéliens.

    Les bombardements et l’offensive terrestre menés depuis par Israël à Gaza ont tué au moins 28.985 personnes, en majorité des femmes et enfants, selon le ministère de la Santé du Hamas.

    Le président brésilien a aussi critiqué les récentes décisions d’importants donateurs occidentaux de suspendre leur financement de l’agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés palestiniens, l’UNRWA, dont Israël a accusé 12 employés d’être impliqués dans l’attaque du Hamas.

    Le Brésil va augmenter sa propre contribution à l’agence, a affirmé Lula, qui a rencontré le premier ministre palestinien Mohammad Shtayyeh samedi en marge du sommet, exhortant les autres pays à faire de même.

    « Lorsque je vois les pays riches annoncer qu’ils cessent de contribuer à l’aide humanitaire aux Palestiniens, j’imagine l’ampleur de la conscience politique de ces personnes et l’esprit de solidarité qui les anime », a-t-il ironisé.

    « Nous devons cesser d’être petits quand nous devons être grands ».

    Il a réitéré son appel à un règlement du conflit fondé sur la coexistence de deux États, avec une Palestine « définitivement reconnue comme un État souverain à part entière ».
    #IsraelBrésil

    • Netanyahu hits out at Brazil’s Lula for comparing war on Gaza to Holocaust
      18 February 2024 15:16 GMT | Middle East Eye
      https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-hits-out-brazils-lula-comparing-war-gaza-holocaust

      Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva compared Israel’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza to the Nazi genocide against Jews during World War Two, sparking Israeli backlash.

      “What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has no parallel in other historical moments. In fact, it did exist when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” Lula said on Sunday during the 37th African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

      The Israeli foreign ministry said it would summon the Brazilian ambassador over the remarks, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labelled as “disgraceful and grave”.

      “This is a trivialisation of the Holocaust and an attempt to attack the Jewish people and the right of Israel to self-defence. Drawing comparisons between Israel and the Nazis and Hitler is to cross a red line,” Netanyahu said.

    • Le président brésilien Lula déclaré « persona non grata » en Israël
      https://www.france24.com/fr/moyen-orient/20240219-%F0%9F%94%B4-en-direct-benny-gantz-%C3%A9voque-le-ramadan-comme-d

      Le ministre israélien des Affaires étrangères a déclaré le président brésilien Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva « persona non grata » en Israël . « Nous n’oublierons ni ne pardonnerons. C’est une grave attaque antisémite », a déclaré le ministre Israël Katz dans un communiqué.

      Dimanche, le président brésilien avait accusé Israël de commettre un « génocide » des Palestiniens dans la bande de Gaza, en comparant l’offensive israélienne à l’extermination des juifs par les nazis.

      Le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu a de son côté vivement réagi en dénonçant des propos « honteux et graves » et en convoquant l’ambassadeur brésilien en Israël, tandis que son ministre de la Défense Yoav Gallant a accusé le Brésil de « soutenir » le Hamas.

  • Energy firms face legal threat over Israeli licences to drill for gas off Gaza
    By Dania Akkad | 15 February 2024 14:28 GMT | Middle East Eye
    Rights groups say exploration licences handed to companies in first weeks of war encroach on Palestinian waters and may amount to the war crime of pillaging
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-energy-firms-legal-threat-companies-cease-activity-drill-gas-coa

    Major energy companies awarded licences by Israel to explore for gas off Gaza’s coast have been warned that they could face legal action for possible breaches of Palestinian maritime sovereignty and war pillaging.

    Israel’s Ministry of Energy granted exploration rights to three companies - Italian energy giant Eni, UK-based Dana Energy and Israel’s Ratio Petroleum - three weeks after the war on Gaza began in October.

    Lawyers working on behalf of three Palestinian NGOs - Al Haq, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights - notified the companies in letters this month that they would use “all legal mechanisms to the fullest extent” if they proceeded and called on them to desist from any activities relating to the licences.

    The organisations contend that over half of the zone for which the companies were awarded licences lies within Palestine’s maritime boundaries.

    Those boundaries were declared in 2015 when the Palestinians acceded to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the international agreement providing the legal framework for all marine and maritime activities. (...)

    #gaz #gaza #exploration_gazière #pillage_de_guerre

  • Guerre à Gaza : les forces israéliennes tuent un Palestinien après lui avoir demandé d’avertir les déplacés d’évacuer l’hôpital
    Par Nadda Osman et Areeb Ullah- Mercredi 14 février 2024 - 17:11 | Middle East Eye édition française
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/actu-et-enquetes/guerre-gaza-les-forces-israeliennes-tuent-un-palestinien-apres-lui-av

    Les forces israéliennes ont abattu un Palestinien mardi 13 février après l’avoir envoyé à l’hôpital al-Nasser de Khan Younès (sud) pour avertir les déplacés qui s’y trouvaient d’évacuer, selon les médias locaux.
    Sur des images diffusées en ligne, on voit l’homme, vêtu d’une combinaison de protection et les mains liées, parler à des Palestiniens à l’intérieur de l’hôpital.

    Selon le témoignage vidéo du journaliste palestinien Mohammed Akram al-Helo, relayé par les médias locaux, l’homme a été arrêté à l’hôpital et détenu par les forces israéliennes, avant d’y être renvoyé pour avertir les personnes présentes à l’hôpital qu’elles devaient quitter le bâtiment.

    « Il a raconté que les forces israéliennes l’avaient harcelé et maltraité, et que s’il ne faisait pas ce qu’on lui demandait, elles prendraient d’assaut l’hôpital, blesseraient les gens et le tueraient », explique Mohammed Akram al-Helo.

    « Lorsqu’il a finalement quitté l’hôpital après avoir fait ce qu’on lui a demandé, les soldats israéliens lui ont tiré dessus, à trois reprises, de sang-froid, à proximité de l’hôpital », ajoute-t-il. « Sa mère a essayé de le convaincre de ne pas sortir de l’hôpital, mais il devait sortir parce qu’il était gravement menacé. » (...)

  • Egypt building buffer zone to possibly receive Palestinian refugees
    14 February 2024 19:26 GMT | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/egypt-building-buffer-zone-possibly-receive-palestinian-refugees-repo

    A report by the rights group Sinai Foundation for Human Rights said that construction is currently underway to create a security zone with Gaza, which would act as a buffer area that could receive Palestinian refugees if they are forced out of Rafah.

    The group said, citing local contractors, that the aim is to create an area in the Sinai peninsula that is surrounded by walls that are seven metres high. The reported plans would also pave over the destroyed homes of indigenous groups in the area.

    Middle East Eye could not independently verify the report.

    Earlier this month, Egyptian journalist Ahmed El-Madhoun posted a video online that showed workers strengthening the security wall separating Egypt and Gaza.

    Since the war in Gaza began in October, there have been several Israeli proposals reported in the media detailing plans to push Gaza’s Palestinian residents into Egypt, which Cairo has rejected.

    Sinai for Human Rights
    @Sinaifhr
    6:24 PM · 14 févr. 2024
    https://twitter.com/Sinaifhr/status/1757818082825851371

    السلطات المصرية تشرع في بناء منطقة أمنية عازلة محاطة بأسوار لإستقبال فلسطيني غزة .

    حصلت مؤسسة سيناء على معلومات من مصدر ذو صلة تفيد بإن أعمال البناء الجارية حاليا شرقي سيناء
    هي لإنشاء منطقة أمنية معزولة مع الحدود مع قطاع غزة بهدف استقبال لاجئين من غزة في حال حدوث عملية نزوح جماعي من سكان قطاع غزة.

    وفي مقابلة للمؤسسة مع اثنين من المقاولين المحليين قالا ان أعمال البناء التي حصلت عليها شركات محلية من الباطن بتكليف من شركة أبناء سيناء للتشييد والبناء المملوكة لرجل الأعمال المقرب من السلطة إبراهيم العرجاني، تهدف لإنشاء منطقة محاطة بأسوار بارتفاع 7 أمتار، بعد إزالة أنقاض منازل السكان الأصليين التي دمرت خلال الحرب على الأرهاب، وتمهيد التربة وتسويتها، على أن تنتهي هذه الأعمال في أقصر وقت ممكن لا يتجاوز العشرة أيام.
    كما أضاف أن هذه المعلومات جرى تداولها على نطاق ضيق بهدف عدم انتشارها، وأن العمل يجري تحت إشراف الهيئة الهندسية للقوات المسلحة وفي تواجد أمني كثيف.

    وكانت مؤسسة سيناء قد نشرت قبل يومين تقريرا مدعما بصور حصرية يوضح بدء السلطات في أعمال إنشاء بوتيرة سريعة للغاية، في ظل تشديد أمني كبير في المنطقة الحدودية شرق سيناء. كما رصد فريق المؤسسة صباح اليوم إنشاء جدار إسمنتي بارتفاع 7 أمتار بدء من نقطة في قرية قوز أبو وعد جنوب مدينة رفح ويتجه نحو الشمال باتجاه البحر المتوسط بموازاة الحدود مع قطاع غزة.

    وفي مقابلة مع مهند صبري، الباحث في شؤون سيناء والأمن في مصر، قال:" إن أعمال البناء التي شوهدت في سيناء على طول الحدود مع غزة - إقامة محيط أمني معزز حول مساحة محددة ومفتوحة من الأرض - هي إشارات جدية على احتمالية أن مصر تستعد لقبول والسماح بتهجير سكان غزة إلى سيناء، بالتنسيق مع إسرائيل والولايات المتحدة".

    وكانت الأعمال الهندسية قد بدأت في وقت مبكر من صباح الأثنين 12 فبراير في منطقة حدها الشمالي ينحصر بين قرية الماسورة غربا ونقطة على خط الحدود الدولية جنوب معبر رفح، بينما ينحصر حدها الجنوبي بين قرية جوز أبو رعد ونقطة على خط الحدود الدولية جنوب معبر كرم أبو سالم، في ظل تواجد تواجد ضباط تابعين لجهاز المخابرات الحربية وعدد من سيارات الدفع الرباعي تحمل عناصر قبلية مسلحة تابعة لمليشيا “فرسان الهيثم” التابعة لإتحاد قبائل سيناء الذي يرأسه رجل الأعمال إبراهيم العرجاني بالقرب من منطقة “قوز أبو رعد” جنوب مدينة رفح بصحبة عدد كبير من المعدات والجرافات برفقة عدد من المقاولين المحليين.
    #سيناء #رفح #غزة #مخيمات_لاجئين

    #IsraelEgypte
    https://seenthis.net/messages/1041350

    • Sinai for Human Rights
      @Sinaifhr
      Dernière modification :
      10:27 PM · 14 févr. 2024
      https://twitter.com/Sinaifhr/status/1757879298940149921

      Egypt to create a gated high-security area in the reception of Palestinian refugees from Gaza

      The Sinai Foundation obtained information through a relevant source that indicates that the construction work currently taking place in eastern Sinai, is intended to create a high-security gated and isolated area near the borders with Gaza strip, in preparation for the reception of Palestinian refugees in the case of the mass exodus of the citizens of Gaza Strip.

      The foundation interviewed two local contractors who said that local construction companies had been commissioned this construction work by Ibrahim Al-Arjani - A close businessman to the authorities - Abnaa Sinai For Construction & Building, who had been directly assigned the commission through the Egyptian Armed Forces Engineering Authority. The construction work is intended to build a gated area, surrounded by 7-meter-high walls. After the removal of the rubble of the houses of the indigenous people of Rafah, who were displaced forcibly and their houses demolished during the war against terrorism against ISIS. The area is expected to be levelled and ready in no more than 10 days. They said this information is being circulated in closed circuits to avoid publication, noting that the work is being done under the supervision of the Egyptian Armed Forces Engineering Authority under heavy security presence.

      Sinai Foundation published a report two days ago -https://sinaifhr.org/show/333 - with exclusive images showing the Egyptian authorities starting rapid construction on the border area of eastern Sinai. Additionally, this morning the Institution’s team observed the building of a cement wall of 7 meters in height starting at a point in Qoz Abo Raad village south of Rafah city, directed towards the Mediterranean Sea north, parallel to the border with Gaza Strip.

      In an interview with Mr Mohannad Sabry, @mmsabry
      a researcher specialising in Sinai and Egyptian security, he said: “ The construction works seen in Sinai along the border with Gaza—the erection of a reinforced security perimeter around a specified and open stretch of land—are serious signals that Egypt could be preparing to accept and allow the displacement of the people of Gaza into Sinai, in coordination with Israel and the United States”.

      The construction works that started early Monday, February 12 have its eastern borders lying between a point southern of the Rafah border crossing and another southern of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, while its western borders lie between Qoz Abo Raad village and El-Masora village. Military intelligence officers are present as well as the ‘Fursan Al-Haitham’ militia that stems from the Sinai Tribal coalition headed by businessman Ibrahim Al-Arjani, near the Qoz Abo Raad area south of the city of Rafah, along with construction tools, bulldozers and local contractors.


      #sinai #rafah #Gaza

    • Standoff over Rafah assault tests Israel’s most important alliances
      By Steve Hendrix, Claire Parker and Miriam Berger
      February 15, 2024 at 12:27 p.m. EST
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/15/israel-rafah-gaza-war-displaced
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php.jpg
      Tents housing displaced Palestinians near the border separating the Gaza Strip and Egypt in the Rafah refugee camp on Tuesday. (Loay Ayyoub for The Washington Post)

      Egypt is concerned that an influx of Palestinians would destabilize northern Sinai, a sensitive military zone where its military recently spent a decade fighting off an Islamist insurgency.

      Cairo also opposes the displacement of Palestinians into Sinai on political grounds, refusing to become complicit in what President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi describes as the “liquidation of the Palestinian cause” — or a permanent exodus of Gazans from the Strip.

      But a report this week from U.K.-based Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, which has a monitoring team in northern Sinai, suggested that Egyptian authorities were creating an area to house Palestinian refugees who crossed the border.

      Footage obtained by the organization and shared exclusively with The Post shows trucks and bulldozers clearing debris from a rectangular plot of land measuring about eight square miles adjacent to the Gaza border, with a concrete wall being built around the perimeter. The Post verified some of the footage and obtained satellite images that show that two square miles within that area were cleared between Feb. 5 and Wednesday.

      Asked for comment, an Egyptian official referred The Post to a statement last month by Diaa Rashwan, head of the State Information Service. “Egypt has full sovereignty over its land, and has complete control over its entire northeastern borders, whether with the Gaza Strip or with Israel,” the statement said.

      Despite its public refusal to entertain any scenario in which Palestinians are pushed into Egypt, the country is probably preparing contingency plans, a former Egyptian official said.

      “If as a result of the attacks [in Rafah] tens of thousands of Palestinians cross the border, do you think the Egyptian army would shoot at them? The answer is no,” they said. “Any responsible government would have to think, ‘Okay, if we have the worst-case scenario, how would we deal with that?’”

    • L’Égypte aménage une zone qui pourrait abriter des Palestiniens à la frontière avec Gaza
      16 février 2024
      https://www.france24.com/fr/moyen-orient/20240216-%F0%9F%94%B4-en-direct-la-communaut%C3%A9-internationale-tente-de

      L’Égypte aménage une zone près de sa frontière avec Gaza où des Palestiniens pourraient être accueillis si une offensive israélienne à Rafah provoquait un exode vers son territoire, ont déclaré quatre sources à Reuters. Des installations de base, qui pourraient accueillir des réfugiés dans une zone située dans le désert.

      L’Égypte, qui a nié avoir entrepris de tels préparatifs, a prévenu à plusieurs reprises de la possibilité que l’offensive lancée par Israël dans la bande de Gaza déplace des Palestiniens dans le Sinaï, ce qui, selon le Caire, serait totalement inacceptable.

      L’une des sources a déclaré que l’Égypte avait bon espoir que les négociations visant à conclure un cessez-le-feu permettraient d’éviter un tel scénario, mais qu’elle établissait la zone à la frontière en tant que mesure temporaire et de précaution.

    • 16 février 2024 (10:55 GMT)
      Palestinian exodus into Egypt’s Sinai would mean ‘disaster’: UN
      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/16/israels-war-on-gaza-live-17000-children-torn-from-parents-un-says

      A mass movement of refugees from Rafah into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula would be a disaster for Palestinians and prospects for peace in the Middle East, the UN’s high commissioner for refugees says.

      Filippo Grandi, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, said Egyptian authorities have made it clear that displaced Palestinians must receive assistance.

      “It would be a disaster for the Palestinians, … a disaster for Egypt and a disaster for the future of peace,” Grandi said of Israeli’s planned Rafah ground invasion.

      Asked whether Egyptian authorities had contacted Grandi’s agency about contingency plans, he said: “The Egyptians said that people should be assisted inside Gaza, and we are working on that.”

  • Morning update: Day 131 of Israel’s war on Gaza | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-update-day-131-israels-war-gaza

    Releasing Palestinian prisoners is now the “main gap” as truce negotiations continue, according to Israeli and US officials who spoke to Israel’s Walla news outlet

    A US funding bill which bans funding to UNRWA and gives $14.1bn to Israel has been adopted by the US Senate and will now go to a vote in the Congress

    Israeli drones have ordered people to leave Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis but Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) says those sheltering there are afraid to leave after reports people have been shot

    Israeli forces have arrested more than 7,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7, according to new figures released by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society

    • It’s just after 2am (00:00 GMT) on Wednesday, February 14, in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.
      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/14/israels-war-on-gaza-live-afraid-to-leave-as-israel-fires-on-hospital

      Here are some of the main developments:

      “Last night in Rafah was very tough. Hopefully, Maghazi will be safe, God willing,” Nahla Jarwan tells Reuters as she returns to the city she previously evacuated.
      “People are afraid to leave the hospital because they hear reports of people being shot at,” says Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) as Israeli drones order evacuation from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
      An Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent and a photojournalist working with him have been wounded in an Israeli air strike near Rafah, in southern Gaza.
      Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has warned that Israel’s incursion into Rafah in southern Gaza “would cause a further unmitigated humanitarian catastrophe.
      Another day of truce talks in Cairo has ended without agreement as calls continue for Israel to halt a full-fledged attack on the city of Rafah.

  • War on Gaza: EU’s Josep Borrell calls on states to ’provide less arms’ to Israel
    By MEE staff | 13 February 2024 10:27 GMT | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eu-josep-borrell-calls-states-provide-less-arms-israel

    Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, has urged states to stop arming Israel if they want to stop Palestinian civilians being killed in Gaza.

    Speaking on Monday, Borrell was responding to US President Joe Biden’s statement that Israel’s conduct in its military campaign in the besieged enclave was “over the top”.

    “Well, if you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people having been killed,” the EU chief diplomate said. “Is [it] not logical?”

    Borel was speaking in Brussels alongside Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa.

    “How many times have you heard the most prominent leaders and foreign ministers around the world saying too many people are being killed?” Borrell asked.
    “If the international community believes that this is a slaughter, that too many people are being killed, maybe we have to think about the provision of arms.”

    The comments came just hours after Israeli air strikes on Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least 67 people. (...)

  • [En direct] La pression internationale s’intensifie pour un accord entre Israël et le Hamas
    Publié le : 13/02/2024 - 06:11
    https://www.rfi.fr/fr/moyen-orient/20240213-en-direct-la-pression-internationale-s-intensifie-pour-un-accord-entre-

    ■ Le président américain Joe Biden a exhorté le Premier ministre Benyamin Netanyahu à « garantir la sécurité » de la population palestinienne tandis que plusieurs États ont mis en garde contre une « catastrophe humanitaire » en cas d’assaut sur la ville surpeuplée.

    ■ Joe Biden a annoncé qu’un accord de libération des otages détenus à Gaza, accompagné d’une pause « d’au moins six semaines » dans les hostilités entre Israël et le Hamas, était actuellement en discussion.

    ■ Le Premier ministre israélien Benyamin Netanyahu a déclaré avoir ordonné à l’armée d’élaborer un plan visant à évacuer les civils de Rafah, où il prévoit de lancer une « opération massive » et de vaincre les derniers bataillons du Hamas.

    ■ Selon le dernier bilan du ministère de la Santé du Hamas, communiqué ce mardi 13 février, 28 473 personnes ont été tuées à Gaza depuis le début de la guerre, le 7 octobre 2023. Il a fait état d’un total de 133 morts au cours des dernières 24 heures. Les victimes sont en majorité des femmes, des adolescents et des enfants. On dénombre également 68 146 blessés.

    #Bilan

  • War on Gaza: ICC prosecutor threatens Israel with potential action over military activity in Rafah
    By MEE staff - 12 February 2024 21:10 GMT | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-on-gaza-icc-prosecutor-threatens-action-Israel-over-military-acti

    International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan said he was “deeply concerned” about reports of the bombardment and potential entry of Israeli troops into Rafah in Gaza, saying that his office may be pushed to take action against Israel.

    “All wars have rules and the laws applicable to armed conflict cannot be interpreted so as to render them hollow or devoid of meaning. This has been my consistent message, including from Ramallah last year,” he wrote.

    “Since that time, I have not seen any discernible change in conduct by Israel. As I have repeatedly emphasised, those who do not comply with the law should not complain later when my Office takes action pursuant to its mandate.”

    Khan posted the statement on the social media platform X on Monday, adding that his office has an ongoing and active investigation “into the situation in the State of Palestine”.

    Agnes Callamard, the secretary general at Amnesty International, also took to X to say that there is nowhere safe for Palestinians to go following the air strikes in Rafah.

    “The Israeli incursion will have devastating consequences. Mass killings, forced transfers, more war crimes. The carnage must stop,” Callamard said.

    Khan has been a vocal critic of Israel’s military assault in Gaza since the war on Gaza started on 7 October after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel. In late October, Israel said it would not allow Khan to enter the country, according to reports in the Israeli press.

    Khan, speaking from the Rafah crossing at the time, expressed his desire to enter Gaza and Israel to investigate potential crimes.

    Israel is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, which established the ICC, and is not a member of the Hague-based court.

    However, the ICC can investigate nationals of non-member states in some circumstances, including when alleged crimes are committed in the territories of member states.

    The Palestinian Authority is a member of the court. However, Israel refuses to allow members of the ICC to enter the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza.

    In December, Khan called on Israel to respect the international rules of war and said he was accelerating his investigation into violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, issuing a statement similar to the one made on Monday.

    “I was crystal clear, that this is the time to comply with the law. If Israel doesn’t comply now, they shouldn’t complain later.” (...)

    #CPI

  • Guerre à Gaza : l’armée israélienne libère deux otages après une opération nocturne à Rafah
    Publié le : 12/02/2024 - 06:09
    https://www.rfi.fr/fr/moyen-orient/20240212-en-direct-guerre-%C3%A0-gaza-l-arm%C3%A9e-isra%C3%A9lienne-lib%C3%A8re-

    Un hélicoptère de l’armée israélienne arive au centre médical Sheba de Ramat Gan avec à son bord les deux otages libérés à Rafah ce lundi 12 février. AP - HO

    ■ Israël a annoncé lundi avoir libéré deux otages à Rafah, ultime cible affichée de son offensive dans la bande de Gaza, où le Hamas au pouvoir a fait état de 52 Palestiniens tués lors de cette opération nocturne. les frappes dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi s’inscrivaient non pas dans le lancement de cette offensive, mais d’une opération pour récupérer deux otages enlevés le 7 octobre lors de l’attaque sans précédent des combattants du Hamas dans le sud d’Israël, point de départ de cette guerre.

    ■ Le Premier ministre israélien Benyamin Netanyahu a déclaré avoir ordonné à l’armée d’élaborer un plan visant à évacuer les civils de Rafah, où il prévoit de lancer une « opération massive » et de vaincre les derniers bataillons du Hamas. Après Gaza City, puis Khan Younès, Israël vise désormais une opération au sol dans cette ville jouxtant l’Égypte, à l’extrême sud de la bande de Gaza, dans le cadre de son offensive militaire contre le mouvement islamiste palestinien Hamas.

    ■ Le président américain Joe Biden a exhorté le Premier ministre Benyamin Netanyahu à « garantir la sécurité » de la population palestinienne tandis que plusieurs États ont mis en garde contre une « catastrophe humanitaire » en cas d’assaut sur la ville surpeuplée. Dans un entretien à la chaîne américaine ABC, Benyamin Netanyahu a affirmé que l’armée israélienne assurerait un « passage sécurisé » avant l’assaut prévu sur Rafah.

    ■ Selon le dernier bilan du ministère de la Santé du Hamas, communiqué ce dimanche 11 février, 28 176 personnes ont été tuées à Gaza depuis le début de la guerre, le 7 octobre 2023. Il a fait état d’un total de 112 morts au cours des dernières 24 heures. Les victimes sont en majorité des femmes, des adolescents et des enfants. On dénombre également 67 784 blessés.

    • Morning update: Day 129 of Israel’s war on Gaza
      12 February 2024 06:07 GMT | Middle East Eye
      https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-update-day-129-israels-war-gaza

      At least 60 people were killed as Israeli planes and ships bombarded Rafah overnight, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported

      The Israeli army says it rescued two captives from a house in Rafah’s Shaboura neighbourhood at about 1am local time

      The director of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, Suhaib al-Hams, has said that “the hospital is full of wounded people in a very dangerous situation”, Wafa reports

      On Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank

      Egypt warned of “dire consequences” of a potential Israeli military assault on the southern Gazan city of Rafah near its border

      Unrwa is facing growing administrative hurdles from Israel, with a shipment amounting to a month’s supply of food blocked in port, the agency’s chief said

  • [En direct] La riposte d’Israël à Gaza jugée « excessive » par Washingtion qui craint un « désastre » humanitaire
    Publié le : 09/02/2024
    https://www.rfi.fr/fr/moyen-orient/20240209-en-direct-la-riposte-d-isra%C3%ABl-%C3%A0-gaza-jug%C3%A9e-excessive-par

    ■ De nouvelles frappes américaines contre les Houthis au Yémen. Les États-Unis ont annoncé avoir mené des frappes jeudi visant quatre drones de surface et sept missiles de croisière « prêts à être lancés contre des navires en mer Rouge » par les rebelles Houthis du Yémen.

    ■ Les forces israéliennes ont intensifié les bombardements dans des quartiers de Rafah, jugés excessifs par les États-Unis qui craignent un « désastre » humanitaire.

    ■ Selon le dernier bilan du ministère de la Santé du Hamas, communiqué ce vendredi 9 février, 27 947 personnes ont été tuées à Gaza depuis le début de la guerre, le 7 octobre 2023. Il a fait état d’un total de 107 morts au cours des dernières 24 heures. Les victimes sont en majorité des femmes, des adolescents et des enfants. On dénombre également 67 317 blessés.