Author: France 24

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to deliver a landmark speech to the US Congress on Wednesday as he fights off intense pressure to quickly cut a Gaza war ceasefire deal with Hamas. Analysis by FRANCE 24 international affairs editor Kethevane Gorjestani. Source link

Tadej Pogacar will be firmly in the spotlight as he goes down the ramp last on Sunday’s final day individual time trial in his adopted home of Monaco, with a third Tour de France title all but secured. More information with FRANCE 24 sports journalist James Vasina. Source link

The Hamas government’s Ministry of Health for the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday a new death toll of 38,983 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel, now in its tenth month. Source link

Ukraine is sending its smallest ever delegation to this year’s Olympics – just 140 athletes from Ukraine will be competing here in Paris from next weekend, as war rages on at home. To help support the team, Kyiv has launched a special set of six postage stamps, which feature the various sports in which Ukraine has previously won awards and medals. Story by Rachel Griffiths. Source link

The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen early Sunday, hours after Israeli warplanes struck several Houthi targets in the Arabian peninsula country. Story by Charlotte Hughes and Ethan Hajji. Source link

Paris’s road to the 2024 Olympics has been anything but plain sailing. From political bickering, to last minute sponsors and nail-biting suspense over the cleanliness of the Seine river, the Games – held exactly 100 years since Paris last hosted the event – “must be a success”, an Olympic source confided. Source link

The Israeli military on Sunday said it struck Hezbollah weapons storage facilities overnight, after Lebanese state media reported an Israeli strike on an ammunitions depot deep in the south. Earlier on Saturday, Hezbollah and its Palestinian ally Hamas had fired rocket salvos and explosive-laden drones at Israeli positions. Source link

Israel’s military said it had intercepted a surface-to-surface missile headed for the Red Sea resort town of Eilat early on Sunday. Yemen’s Houti rebels later confirmed they had targeted the city with multiple ballistic missiles to avenge deadly Israeli air strikes a day earlier on the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah. Source link

A pregnant woman who was fatally wounded in an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in central Gaza managed to make it to hospital in time for doctors to deliver her baby through an emergency caesarean section, medical staff at the Al-Awda Hospital said Saturday. At least 30 people have been killed by Israeli bombardment across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, rescuers and medics in Hamas-run Gaza said. Source link

At least 13 people were killed in three Israeli airstrikes that hit refugee camps in central Gaza overnight into Saturday, according to Palestinians health officials, as cease-fire talks in Cairo appeared to make progress. Story by Jennie Shin. Source link