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France 24
37 minutes ago
- France 24
Israeli airline's Paris offices daubed with red paint, slogans
Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian slogans and inscriptions, including "Free Palestine" and "El Al Genocide Airline", were written on the entrance which, along with the pavement, was also daubed with red paint overnight Wednesday to Thursday. "I condemn the barbaric and violent act against El Al and expect the law enforcement authorities in France to locate the criminals and take strong action against them," Israel's Transport Minister Miri Regev wrote on X. The act was the result of announcements by President Emmanuel Macron that "make gifts to" Palestinian militant group Hamas, she added -- an apparent reference to his announcement last month that France plans to recognise a Palestinian state. Israel's ambassador to France Joshua Zarka, visiting the scene, described the vandalism as an "act of terrorism" that aims to "terrorise El Al employees, terrorise Israeli citizens, scare them and try to make them feel that they are not welcome." According to El Al, quoted by Israeli TV channel N12, "the incident occurred while the building was empty and there was no danger to the company's employees. "El Al proudly displays the Israeli flag on the tail of its aircraft and condemns all forms of violence, particularly those based on anti-Semitism," the national airline added. French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot condemned the "acts of vandalism" on X, saying that "acts of hatred and antisemitism have no place" in France. Authorities have opened an investigation into acts of property damage committed on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality or religion, Paris's public prosecutor's office told AFP. In early June, several Jewish sites in Paris were sprayed with green paint. Three Serbs were charged and placed under arrest and are suspected by investigators of having acted to serve the interests of a foreign power, possibly Russia. The October 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel that sparked the war between Israel and Hamas resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, the majority of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Out of 251 hostages seized during Hamas's attack, 49 are still held in Gaza, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead. The Israeli offensive has killed at least 61,258 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to figures from the Gaza health ministry which are considered reliable by the United Nations. bla-dmv-sjw-ekf/jj
France 24
3 hours ago
- France 24
Lebanese cabinet holds second meeting on Hezbollah disarmament
Lebanon 's cabinet met on Thursday for the second time in days to discuss the thorny task of disarming Hezbollah, a day after the Iran-backed group rejected the government's decision to take away its weapons. The more than four-hour meeting considered a US proposal that includes a timetable for Hezbollah's disarmament, with Washington pressing Beirut to take action. Information Minister Paul Morcos said the cabinet endorsed the introduction of the US text without discussing provisions relating to specific timelines. The government said on Tuesday that disarmament should happen by the end of this year. The introduction endorsed in Thursday's meeting lists 11 "objectives" including "ensuring the sustainability" of a November ceasefire with Israel, and "the gradual end of the armed presence of all non-governmental entities, including Hezbollah, in all Lebanese territory". It also calls for the deployment of Lebanese troops in border areas and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the five places in the south they have continued to occupy since last year's war with Hezbollah. The November ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah stipulated that weapons in Lebanon be restricted to six military and security agencies. Following the cabinet decision on Tuesday, Morcos said the Lebanese government was waiting to review an "executive plan" on Hezbollah's disarmament. The army was tasked with presenting the plan to restrict the possession of weapons to government forces by the end of August. Only then would the government review the full provisions of the US proposal, whose implementation "is dependent on the approval of each of the concerned countries", the information minister said. US support Four Shiite Muslim ministers, including three directly affiliated with Hezbollah or its ally the Amal movement, walked out of Thursday's meeting in protest at the government's disarmament push, Hezbollah's Al Manar television reported. They also refused to discuss the proposal submitted by US envoy Tom Barrack, the report said. 02:15 Environment Minister Tamara Elzein, who is close to Amal, told Al Manar that the government "first hoped to consolidate the ceasefire and the Israeli withdrawal, before we could complete the remaining points" in Barrack's proposal such as taking away Hezbollah's weapons. In a post on X, Barrack on Thursday hailed Lebanon's "historic, bold, and correct decision this week to begin fully implementing" the November ceasefire. France's foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot in a message on X hailed Lebanon's disarmament initiative as "a brave and historic decision" that would enable the country to rebuild and "protect all its communities". Under Lebanon's sect-based power-sharing system, the absence of the Shiite ministers from this week's cabinet meetings could serve the claim that the decisions taken lacked consensual legitimacy. Before last year's war with Israel, Hezbollah had wielded sufficient political power to impose its will or disrupt government business. But the Shiite group has emerged from the war weakened, reducing its political influence. 'Correct the situation' Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc called on the government on Thursday to "correct the situation it has put itself and Lebanon in by slipping into accepting American demands that inevitably serve the interests of the Zionist enemy". The group said on Wednesday that it would treat the government's decision to disarm it "as if it did not exist", accusing the cabinet of committing a "grave sin". Late Thursday, hundreds of Hezbollah supporters took to the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs, to protest the government's decision, AFP photographers reported. Lebanese media shared footage of similar rallies in other areas of the country where Hezbollah holds sway, while troops deployed to maintain order. Israel -- which routinely carries out air strikes in Lebanon despite the November ceasefire -- has already signalled it would not hesitate to launch destructive military operations if Beirut failed to disarm the group. The Lebanese health ministry said Israel carried out several strikes on eastern Lebanon on Thursday, killing at least seven people. Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson for UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, said on Thursday that troops "discovered a vast network of fortified tunnels" in the south. UN spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters that peacekeepers and Lebanese troops found "three bunkers, artillery, rocket launchers, hundreds of explosive shells and rockets, anti-tank mines and about 250 ready-to-use improvised explosive devices". Prime Minister Salam said in June that the Lebanese army had dismantled more than 500 Hezbollah military positions and weapons depots in the south.
LeMonde
7 hours ago
- LeMonde
How Lake Chad became neglected by international aid
Small pools of water are becoming more numerous and wider, until the line between water and land is no longer visible. Even from the sky, it is impossible to discern the precise contours of Lake Chad, only to try to decipher the shapes drawn by its tongues of sand, dotted with green, flat islets like giant water lilies. On Monday, June 30, the United Nations Cessna 208B Caravan (a small propeller plane) took off one last time from the dusty airstrip in Bol, the capital of Lac province in Chad. After seven years of transporting NGO staff to the area, the link has been discontinued due to a lack of funding. The main donors – first and foremost the United States – have drastically reduced their aid. UN agencies estimated that they would lose two thirds of their funding for Chad in 2025 compared to the previous year. The remaining resources were redirected to other crises, and Lake Chad has faded into oblivion. However, 10 years earlier, the region made international headlines. The West discovered the brutality of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram: suicide bombings carried out by children, filmed beheadings, mass rape and abductions. The kidnapping of schoolgirls from Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014 sparked international outrage, embodied by the online campaign #BringBackOurGirls, which resonated worldwide. In a context of growing awareness of climate issues, NGOs and political leaders did not hesitate to draw a link between the insecurity in the region and the drying up of Lake Chad, which lost 90% of its surface area between the 1960s and 1990s, raising concerns that this natural environment could disappear altogether.
