Author: France 24

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

Two-time defending champion Iga Swiatek will face Jasmine Paolini in the French Open women’s final in Paris Saturday. The contrasts between the French Open finalists are obvious: Iga Swiatek, who turned 23 last week, already owns four Grand Slam titles, including three in Paris. Jasmine Paolini, 28, had never been past the second round at any major tournament until this season. FRANCE 24’s James Vasina reports. Source link

Israel said Saturday it rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, in the largest such hostage recovery operation since the war with Hamas began in Gaza. The army said it rescued Noa Argamani, 25; Almog Meir Jan, 21; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Shlomi Ziv, 40, in two separate locations in a complex special daytime operation in the heart of Nuseirat in central Gaza. FRANCE 24’s Irris Makler reports. Source link

Israeli forces bombarded a Gaza refugee camp Friday after a deadly strike on a UN-school there, as the war sparked by Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel entered its ninth month. Efforts to mediate the first ceasefire in the bloody conflict since a week-long pause in November appear to have stalled a week after US President Joe Biden offered a new roadmap. Source link