Des combats entre forces israéliennes et membres du Hamas se poursuivaient dimanche dans le sud de l’État hébreu au lendemain de l’attaque surprise lancée par le groupe islamiste palestinien. Plus de 659 Israéliens ont été tués et plus de 100 sont prisonniers aux mains du Hamas, selon le gouvernement israélien. À Gaza, contrôlée par le Hamas, 370 palestiniens ont péri, indiquent les autorités locales. L’armée israélienne a annoncé avoir procédé à des frappes de représailles à Gaza ainsi que sur le sud du Liban. 

La Première ministre italienne Giorgia Meloni s’est entretenue dimanche par téléphone avec son homologue israélien Benjamin Netanyahu, à qui elle “a réaffirmé le pleine solidarité” de Rome après l’offensive du Hamas, ont annoncé ses services.

Israel moving massive amounts of armoured vehicles to the Gaza border earlier today.

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“Le gouvernement italien travaillera avec les partenaires internationaux pour coordonner le soutien” à Israël, ont-ils indiqué dans un communiqué. “L’Italie est au côté au peuple israélien dans ce moment difficile”.

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Giorgia Meloni “a réaffirmé la pleine solidarité du gouvernement italien pour les attaques subies et la solidarité aux familles des victimes, aux otages et aux blessés”.

Le vice-Premier ministre et ministre des Affaires étrangères Antonio Tajani doit se rendre mercredi et jeudi au Caire, où il rencontrera le président Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, une visite prévue avant l’offensive du Hamas.

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“Etat de guerre” confirmé

Le cabinet de sécurité israélien a confirmé que le pays était officiellement en état de guerre et qu’il pouvait donc entreprendre une “action militaire significative”.

C’est ce qu’a annoncé le bureau du Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu, qui avait déjà parlé d’un état de guerre après l’incursion de centaines de miliciens du Hamas en Israël.

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Le vote du cabinet de sécurité israélien confère à la déclaration de Benjamin Netanyahu une valeur juridique. Cette décision est conforme à la loi 40 de l’État d’Israël, qui stipule que le pays ne peut entrer en guerre sans une décision gouvernementale en ce sens.

Last night, the Security Cabinet approved the war situation and, to this end, the taking of significant military steps, as per Article 40 of Basic Law: The Government.

— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 8, 2023

L’Autorité palestinienne veut une réunion auprès de la Ligue arabe

L’autorité palestinienne demande une réunion d’urgence auprès de la Ligue arabe après “l’agression israélienne brutale et persistante contre les citoyens palestiniens dont la prise d’assaut de la mosquée al-Aqsa par des milliers de colons”. La concertation devrait être initiée par les ministres des Affaires étrangères conformément à la requête, précise l’agence de presse WAFA.

Des confrontations ont lieu régulièrement aux alentours de la mosquée al-Aqsa à Jérusalem qui est considérée par les musulmans comme par les juifs comme un lieu saint.

La Ligue arabe comporte 22 membres. Elle a été fondée en 1945 afin de renforcer la collaboration entre les États-membres. Parmi eux, de plus en plus établissent des relations avec Israël, au grand dam notamment du Hamas.

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The presence of Israeli hostages held at gunpoint in at least two locations close to the Gaza-Israel border presents Israel with a delicate dilemma where there are no easy options.

A rescue operation by Special Forces is an obvious choice and the IDF – Israel Defence Forces – have said they are already deployed in more than one location.

The risk here is that the captors kill the captives before the rescuers can reach them.

Negotiation is the other option but it’s hard to see this happening in such a febrile atmosphere where the death toll on both sides is still mounting by the hour.

It’s also worth noting that when the Israeli serviceman Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid in 2006 it took five years of tortuous negotiations.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN has said Hamas “holds the sole responsibility and will bear the results” of the ongoing fighting.

“The state of Israel will act in any way necessary to protect its citizens and sovereignty from the ongoing terrorist attacks originating from the Gaza Strip and carried out by Hamas and other terrorist organizations,” Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan wrote to the 15-member UN Security Council in a letter.

Hamas says fired 150 rockets at Tel Aviv

The latest barrage of rockets came at 8pm local (17:00 GMT). The military wing of Hamas has said the rockets are a response to Israel’s attack on a high-rise building in the heart of Gaza City.

A spokesperson for Israel’s national emergency medical service, Magen David Adom, said it was searching areas with reports of injuries, including in Yavne, Givatayim, Bat Yam, Beit Dagan, Tel Aviv and Rishon Letzion.

Videos on social media showed a barrage of rockets over Tel Aviv. It was not immediately clear how many had been intercepted.

Netanyahu invites opposition to form emergency government

Israel’s PM Netanyahu has invited opposition leaders – Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz – to form an emergency national government, according to a statement from his party Likud.

Earlier, Lapid told Israeli media that he is willing to form an emergency government with Netanyahu.

A short while ago, I met with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I told him that in this emergency situation I’m willing to form an emergency, narrow, professional government with him. Netanyahu knows that with the current extreme and dysfunctional security cabinet, he can’t manage a war.

Yair LapidLeader of Israeli opposition and Yesh Atid party

Public broadcaster Kan says Lapid and Gantz are meeting now to discuss the conditions for them entering government.

Palestinian militants have taken dozens of Israelis captive, both military and civilian, in an unprecedented development.

Some are thought to be being held in some of the small towns near the Gaza Strip, while others have been taken back into Gaza.

Video has emerged showing the moment a man, believed to be an Israeli hostage, is pushed into a car, which is then driven away.

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Tens of thousands of people rally in Tel Aviv to protest against the government’s proposed judicial overhaul.

Tens of thousands of Israelis have joined protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to overhaul the judiciary, despite soaring tensions after two deadly attacks a day earlier.

The protests against the plans, which were paused last month in the face of a wave of strikes and mass demonstrations, come amid surging violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

As protesters rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Ahed Salim, 20, was hit in the chest and stomach by live fire in Azzun near Qalqilyah, the ministry said.

Separately, the Israeli military said three rockets were launched from Syria toward Israeli territory. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket launches, which caused no damage or casualties.

Around Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, tens of thousands of worshippers were expected for evening prayers amid concerns about a possible repeat of nighttime Israeli police raids this week that were followed by rocket barrages into Israel and Israeli air attacks on Gaza and southern Lebanon.

Israelis were also on edge after a car-ramming in Tel Aviv on Friday that killed an Italian man and wounded five other tourists, hours after a shooting attack killed two Israeli sisters and wounded their mother near an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Netanyahu has mobilised border police reservists and ordered the army to reinforce security positions to head off possible trouble, amid calls for calm from the United Nations, the European Union and the United States.

People ignore government calls

In central Tel Aviv, crowds waving the blue and white Israeli flags that have become a hallmark of the protests during the past three months gathered in a show of defiance against plans they see as an existential threat to Israeli democracy.

Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Tel Aviv, said that some 145,000 people were expected to attend the protest.

“There were calls and warnings issued by the government asking people not to attend the protest today due to the security concerns,” he said.

“However, protesters say that the government is using security as an excuse and it is not going to stop them from taking to streets,” he said.

“They say that it is a historic moment for the country and they are here to save democracy in Israel.”

The judicial proposals, which would give the government effective control over the appointment of Supreme Court judges and allow parliament to overrule many decisions of the court, have caused one of the biggest domestic crises in Israel’s recent history.

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, including army reservists, business leaders, members of Israel’s tech industry and leading academics have taken part, facing off against supporters of Netanyahu’s far-right religious-nationalist coalition.

Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said that the growing crisis is further isolating Netanyahu.

He said that he is losing control of his government and was being subjected to “blackmail” by his coalition partners.

“He is losing big time in the polls in Israel. He is also losing the security situation as well as so-called stability and prosperity in the country.”

The government, which has accused activist judges of increasingly usurping the role of parliament, said the overhaul is needed to restore a proper balance between the judiciary and elected politicians.

Critics have said it will remove some of the vital checks and balances underpinning a democratic state and hand unchecked power to the government.

Before the protests, police had urged people to leave roads clear to allow emergency services to move freely following Friday’s car-ramming on a popular shoreline promenade in Tel Aviv.

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Four people have been shot dead on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, medics say, in the third deadly attack of its kind within a week.

The moment of the beginning of the armed operation of the Palestinian fighters in occupied Palestine tonight

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It happened in Bnei Brak, one of the country’s most populous ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas.

The gunman was shot dead by police, a paramedic at the scene said.

Israel security forces were on high alert after attacks by Israeli Arabs last Tuesday and Sunday, which left six people dead.

Reports say the gunman in the latest attack shot at people while he was riding a motorbike.

Victims were killed on adjacent streets, and one was found dead in a car, the Jerusalem Post news site says.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is holding an emergency security meeting.

Israeli emergency personnel carries a body at the scene of an attack in the city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel. At least five Israelis were killed in a shooting attack by Israeli Arab gunmen.
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