Blinken en Israël pour trêve à Gaza, l'ONU demande cessez-le-feu
Le secrétaire d'Etat américain Antony Blinken se rend vendredi en Israël pour tenter d'arracher un accord de trêve à Gaza au moment où le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU doit se prononcer sur une résolution des Etats-Unis appelant à un "cessez-le-feu immédiat" dans le territoire ravagé par la guerre.
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00:00 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be in Israel on Friday to try to
00:04 pull out a truce agreement with Gaza when the UN Security Council must
00:08 pronounce a resolution from the United States calling for an immediate ceasefire in the
00:11 territory ravaged by the war. While the diplomats are active,
00:16 clashes continue in the Gaza Strip, in particular in and around the Al-Shifa hospital,
00:20 the most important in the territory, where Israeli forces have claimed to have killed
00:24 more than 140 Palestinian fighters and arrested more than 350 others since the beginning of the week.
00:30 After five and a half months of war, the gap has shrunk in negotiations for a
00:35 truce associated with a hostage release, said Thursday Mr. Blinken.
00:39 "If it is difficult to reach an agreement, it is always possible," he added.
00:44 In parallel to these talks, the United States for the first time presented a resolution
00:50 to the UN Security Council calling for an immediate ceasefire on the release of hostages
00:55 held in Gaza since the beginning of the war. The text, consulted by the AFP and which must
01:00 be submitted Friday to the vote of the Security Council, underlines the need for an immediate and
01:05 sustainable ceasefire to protect civilians on all sides, to provide essential humanitarian aid.
01:10 Rafa, a mistake. The United States, a historic ally of Israel, has already put its veto on
01:17 several resolutions of the Security Council calling for a ceasefire,
01:20 estimating that it would have benefited Hamas. But faced with the heavy human burden and the
01:25 threat of famine, Washington is now doubling efforts to reach a truce and thus
01:30 avoid a terrestrial offensive on Rafa. "There are better ways to deal with the threat of Hamas,"
01:35 said Thursday Mr. Blinken, calling it a mistake and useless a possible terrestrial invasion of Rafa,
01:41 the Egyptian border town of Santas, according to the UN about 1.5 million Palestinians.
01:46 The majority displaced by the war in the rest of the territory.
01:49 The 27 countries of the European Union have also exhorted Israel Thursday not to launch
01:54 operations on Rafa and to call for an immediate humanitarian pause.
01:57 But despite international pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
02:03 affirms that an offensive on Rafa is necessary to militarily defeat Hamas in Gaza and avoid
02:07 another October 7. The war broke out that day when Hamas-infiltrated commandos from Gaza
02:13 carried out an unprecedented attack in southern Israel, which led to the death of at least 1,160
02:18 people, for most civilians, according to one of the accounts of the AFP established from
02:22 Israeli official data. According to Israel, about 250 people were taken and 130 of them
02:29 are still hostages in Gaza, of which 33 would be killed.
02:32 In retaliation, Israel swore to destroy Hamas and launched a vast offensive which has so far
02:38 not been successful. The death toll in Gaza was 131,1988, said Thursday the Ministry of
02:43 Health of the Islamist Movement, while early Friday witnesses were witnessing new deadly
02:47 strikes.
02:48 Mossad and CIA in Qatar
02:49 During his sixth tour in the Middle East since the start of the war, Mr. Blinken met
02:55 Thursday at the Cairo, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to discuss ways to achieve a ceasefire,
03:00 before a meeting with the heads of diplomacy of five Arab countries, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi
03:06 Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, who called for a full and immediate ceasefire.
03:09 Discussions on a truce continue in Doha between representatives of the United States, Qatar
03:15 and Egypt. The Mossad chief, the Israeli intelligence services, David Barnea, must meet
03:21 there on Friday the CIA director, William Burns, as well as Qatari Prime Minister
03:26 Mohammed Ben Abdel-Rahman Al-Thani and the head of Egyptian intelligence services, Abbas
03:30 Kamel.
03:32 After demanding a definitive ceasefire, Hamas has inflated its position last week by
03:37 accepting the principle of a six-week break in the fighting. But differences seem to
03:42 persist over the exchange of Israeli hostages detained in Gaza against Palestinian prisoners
03:46 held in Israel.
03:47 "Israel demands from Hamas before a truce the list of hostages still alive, while the
03:52 Islamist movement wants to choose the identity of the main Palestinian prisoners who will
03:56 be released," the Israeli media emphasize about these talks which also include
04:00 increasing aid to Gaza.
04:02 "The children are starving. Israel has imposed a full siege on the Gaza Strip since the
04:07 beginning of the war and strictly controls the aid that arrives mainly from Egypt via
04:11 Rafah. However, these tight controls, according to the UN, could reduce the number of trucks
04:16 entering the territory.
04:17 "The children are starving. They are deprived of food," the United Nations Children's
04:23 Rights Committee said on Thursday.
04:25 "Even the crumbs are difficult to find," it says.
04:30 In order to relieve the population, several countries have organized food parachuting
04:34 and have opened a maritime corridor from Cyprus to Gaza.
04:37 But the aid remains insufficient in the face of the immense needs of the 2.4 million inhabitants
04:42 of Gaza and only reaches very difficultly in the north, where more than 300,000 people
04:46 live, according to the UN.
04:46 "Here are our children, do you see their state? We do not know how to feed them,"
04:52 a Palestinian woman who fled the fighting in the Al-Shifa hospital sector said on Thursday
04:55 at the AFP.
04:58 "We have been besieged for three days, we cannot give them anything to eat or drink."