Find here our update on the situation yesterday
Israel claims to have killed three Hamas members in an airstrike on Friday, August 30, in the West Bank, on the third day of a vast operation launched on the sidelines of the war in Gaza. At least nineteen Palestinians have been killed since Wednesday by the Israeli army in the West Bank.
As part of an operation she described “anti-terrorist”The Israeli army on Wednesday sent columns of armoured vehicles to Jenin, Tulkarem, Tubas and their displaced persons camps in the northern West Bank, where armed groups are particularly active against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned of the continuation “military operations near hospitals” and the “serious damage” inflicted on infrastructure, cutting off electricity and telecommunications in some places. The Israeli military said it killed nineteen fighters on Wednesday and Thursday. The Palestinian Health Ministry also recorded nineteen deaths, including two teenagers aged 13 and 17, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad announced that at least thirteen of them were fighters in their armed wings.
Israeli forces were operating only in Jenin on Friday, following their withdrawal from Tubas and Tulkarem in the past two days, residents told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Witnesses reported an Israeli attack on a car in Zababdeh, southeast of Jenin. The Israeli military, meanwhile, said a plane had crashed into a “terrorist cell” in the Jenin region and said he killed three “Hamas terrorists”.
An American NGO announces four dead in an Israeli attack on one of its convoys in Gaza
The US NGO Anera told AFP on Friday that four Gazans who were accompanying one of its convoys transporting food in the southern Gaza Strip were killed in an Israeli air strike on Thursday.
Anera explains that shortly after the convoy entered Palestinian territory, “Four locals with experience from previous missions and committed to local security. (…) He showed up and asked to take control of the vehicle in the lead, claiming that the road was unsafe and there was a risk of looting.”.
The Four Men “it had not been approved and [leur présence] had not been previously coordinated”The NGO specifies, adding that “Israeli authorities maintain that there were several weapons in the lead vehicle”. “The Israeli airstrike was carried out without warning or communication”he insisted.
The Israeli army, for its part, said it had carried out a “precise hit” after “Armed attackers took control of the vehicle leading the convoy”. she says “insisting that the presence of armed individuals had not been coordinated” and that these men “They were not part of the pre-arranged convoy”On Wednesday, the UN World Food Programme announced it was suspending its movements in the Gaza Strip after Israel fired on one of its vehicles on Tuesday.
In Gaza, Israel announces the end of an operation in certain areas
The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had completed a military operation in areas of the southern and central Gaza Strip, claiming to have killed “more than 250 terrorists” within a month.
The global application
The morning of the world
Every morning, find our selection of 20 articles not to be missed
Download the app
On Friday, she said « 98my The division had completed its operation in the Khan Younes and Deir Al-Balah regions, after about a month of simultaneous activities on the ground and underground.It was during this operation that it recently recovered the bodies of six hostages killed in a tunnel in Khan Younes. It also removed a live hostage and the remains of a kidnapped soldier in the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023.
Kamala Harris calls on Israel to “end the war”
In the United States, with great support, US Vice President Kamala Harris promised to maintain arms supplies to Israel if elected president in November, while saying it was time to “end the war” in the besieged Gaza Strip, separated from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which has left more than 40,600 dead in almost eleven months.
The United Kingdom said “deeply concerned by the methods employed by Israel and by reports of civilian casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure” in the West Bank and called for a “Urgent de-escalation”. For France, these operations “worsening an unprecedented climate of instability and violence”Spain denounces for its part “a clearly unacceptable outbreak of violence”.
Israeli raids are a daily occurrence in the occupied West Bank, but rarely on this scale. Deadly violence in the West Bank has soared since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7.
