Author: France 24

Missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two ships in the Gulf of Aden, authorities said Sunday, the latest assaults on shipping in the region. Source link

American composer and organist Kali Malone popped by FRANCE 24 to tell us about her new album “All Life Long” and how composing for an organ, a brass ensemble and a choir was a process that enabled her to reconnect with her own voice. We also check out new music videos by John Cale, Soprano and Billie Eilish. Source link

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returns to the Middle East this week as a proposed Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal hangs in the balance after the dramatic rescue of four Israeli hostages held in Gaza in a major military raid and turmoil in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Source link

Palestinians gathered to bid farewell to the men, women and children who were killed in Israeli strikes on the Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps in Gaza. People say Nuseirat’s mayor – who Israel accused of being a Hamas operative – was visiting a water pump station when a bomb hit. This is a community still reeling from a separate attack Thursday on a UN-led school in Nuseirat refugee camp that killed dozens of people. Click on the video for more. Source link

“The Israeli army says they spent several weeks planning for this rescue operation”, said Jordana Miller, ABC News Correspondent. “They built models of the two residential buildings they raided simultaneously– buildings that were just about 200 metres apart. They decided to carry out the raid during the day for the element of surprise,” she added.  Source link

The first aid from an American-built pier arrived in Gaza on Saturday since storm damage required repairs to the project, the US military said, relaunching an effort to bring supplies to Palestinians by sea that had been plagued with problems. The pier constructed by the US military was operational for only about a week before it was blown apart in high winds and heavy seas on May 25. Read FRANCE 24’s live coverage of the day’s events. Source link

Poland’s Iga Swiatek extended her French Open reign on Saturday as she thrashed Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1 in the final to win her third successive Roland Garros title. Source link

Iga Swiatek won her third consecutive French Open championship and fourth in five years by defeating Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1 in the final on Saturday. The 23-year-old from Poland is the first woman with three trophies in a row in Paris since Justine Henin from 2005 to 2007. FRANCE 24’s James Vasina reports. Source link

Hamas’s government media office said at least 210 people were killed Saturday in Israeli attacks on a central Gaza refugee camp from which four hostages were rescued. The deadly attacks came after the Israeli army announced the rescue of four Israeli hostages in Nuseirat earlier Saturday in an operation that they said took place “under fire”. Source link

Israeli troops on Saturday rescued four Israeli hostages held in Gaza since Hamas militants captured them on October 7 in the attack on the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Here are short profiles of the freed captives, identified by the army as Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv.  Source link