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Le Monde - July 31, 2024 - By Jean-Philippe Remy (Jerusalem (Israel) correspondent), Helene Sallon (Beirut (Lebanon) correspondent) and Ghazal Golshiri
<<Two Israeli strikes in Beirut and Tehran reshuffle cards of conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran on Wednesday, in an operation attributed to Israel by Iran. Earlier, Israel had claimed responsibility for a strike in Beirut targeting Fouad Shukur, a Hezbollah commander. Over the course of one night, two high-level killings carried out from a distance in two capitals, Beirut and Tehran, represented a show of force by the Israeli army and risked transforming the situation in the Middle East in an unpredictable way. The first, late on Tuesday, July 30, was carried out by Israeli fighter jets and targeted 62-year-old Fouad Shukur, one of Hezbollah's most senior military officers, based in Lebanon. Shortly before 8 pm on Tuesday, several strikes hit the top floor of an apartment building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, destroying part of the building. These strikes killed a woman and two children, and wounded at least 74 people in the surrounding area, according to an initial assessment by the Lebanese Ministry of Health. By Wednesday morning, Hezbollah had still not confirmed the death of Shukur. A <vicious and criminal action,> reacted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani, whose country is a sponsor of the Lebanese movement. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati denounced the <blatant Israeli aggression> and <criminal act.> For its part, the Israeli army claimed to have eliminated the man it presented as the <right-hand man> of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in charge of the precision missile project, and responsible for the attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams, on the occupied Golan Heights, where a Falaq rocket fired on Saturday at this Druze village caused the death of 12 boys and girls, aged between 10 and 16, on a football pitch. This was the highest number of civilian casualties in the territory annexed by Israel in 1981 since Hezbollah began exchanging fire with Israel on October 8, 2023, in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel. In a rare move, Hezbollah refused to accept responsibility for the strike, signaling its leaders' embarrassment at the number of casualties that could escalate into regional conflict. Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israel wanted to avoid any <wider conflict> with Hezbollah, but that its forces were ready for <all scenarios.> The second assassination, which took place late at night, targeted Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas's Qatar-based political bureau, in Tehran. As of Wednesday morning, this attack had not been claimed by Israel. "[Our] brother, the leader, the mujahid Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, died in a Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran after attending the inauguration of the new Iranian president," Hamas said in a statement. The Revolutionary Guards, Iran's ideological army, also announced in a statement that Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards had been killed in an attack on a residence in Tehran.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/31/two-israeli-strikes-in-beirut-and-tehran-reshuffle-cards-of-conflicts-with-hamas-and-hezbollah_6705922_4.html

BBC - July 31, 2024
<<The Palestinians heading to Paris to represent their people
Valerie Tarazi is proud to represent Palestinians at the Olympics
As she put in some last practice lengths in Paris last week, Palestinian-American swimmer Valerie Tarazi thought back to her moment of inspiration: watching the legendary Michael Phelps winning eight golds in Beijing in 2008. "That was like my first like, 'Oh my gosh, I want to be an Olympian'," she said. Paris is a dream come true, as it is for countless athletes taking to sport's biggest stage. But after more than nine months of war in Gaza and the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians, Tarazi says her participation is also an act of commemoration. "It's me honouring them," she said. A child of the huge Palestinian diaspora, Tarazi, who swims in the 200m individual medley next Friday, was born and raised in the US. But she celebrates her connections to one of Gaza's oldest Christian families. Valerie says news of bombings in Gaza takes its toll on Palestinian athletes
She says four members of her extended family were killed when a church was hit during intense Israeli bombing last December. "It takes a toll on us," she said of Gaza's rising death toll, which is now approaching 40,000. "This is our friends, our family, our teammates or national team members," she said. The International Olympic Committee has recognised the state of Palestine since 1995. Three quarters of UN members also now recognise Palestine, but the US, Britain and the host of this year's games do not. Despite her punishing training schedule and the sacrifices needed to compete at this level, Tarazi is acutely aware that she is in a uniquely privileged position, offered the chance to carry the flag in the world's greatest sporting jamboree. "My little bit of pain is absolutely nothing compared to what they have to go through every single day," she said of her compatriots back home. One of her less fortunate teammates, Tamer Qaoud, is having a hard time keeping his own sporting ambitions alive.
Tamer. Tamer dreamed of making the Olympics but he says he was unable to leave Gaza. His house in Gaza has been destroyed. He and his family have been forced to move twice during the war. They’re now living in a tent in Deir el-Balah, in the middle of the Gaza Strip. "My dream was to reach the Olympics," he told the BBC this week. "Unfortunately, due to the war and circumstances, we couldn't leave Gaza." Qaoud, a 1500 metre runner, has already represented his country twice. A year ago, at the Arab Games in Algiers, he wore running spikes for the first time. It was also the first time he'd ever run on anything other than concrete. In September, he joined Tarazi at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, in China. They were still there when war broke out in Gaza in early October. Qaoud says he had to go home. Tamer had run on only concrete until a year ago. His best time is well outside the Olympic qualifying mark, but any faint chance he might have had of competing in Paris, even on a wild card, quickly vanished. "I wanted to compete with the world's best athletes, like Jakob," he said, referring to the current men’s 1500 world champion, Jakob Ingebrigtsen. "I wanted to'run alongside him, to feel what it's like to compete with the world's best." Amid the tents, the dust and the date palms of Deir el-Balah, he still trains, wearing his white Palestinian uniform, watched by small groups of bewildered children. His old training ground, Gaza City's Yarmouk Stadium, is a waste ground of rubbish and displaced Palestinian families, seeking shelter amid the stands. Gaza City's Yarmouk Stadium has been damaged during the bombings. And his coach, Bilal Abu Samaan, was killed in an Israeli airstrike last December, one of an estimated 182 athletes and sports officials killed since last October, according to the Palestinian Football Association. Qaoud knows his time has not yet come. Unless he can get out of Gaza, he fears it never will. "The war destroyed everything, shattering our dreams," he said. "I hope to leave Gaza, join a training camp, regain my old strength and come back stronger than before." Back in the pool in Paris, another Palestinian swimmer, Yazan al-Bawwab, said he was proud to be an ambassador for a place where just playing sport is a challenge. "We don't have a pool in Palestine," he said. "We don't have infrastructure."
Like Tarazi, al-Bawwab was born and raised abroad, but he wears his uniform, and his identity, with fierce pride. "France does not recognise Palestine as a country," al-Bawwab said defiantly, repeating the sentence for emphasis.
"I'm here, raising the flag.">>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz475vdd97qo

Le Monde - July 31, 2024 - By Laure Stephan (Beirut, Lebanon, correspondent)
<<Targeted assassinations, Israel's double-edged weapon of choice
Throughout the intermittent war that Israel and Hezbollah have been waging for over 40 years, the elimination of political and military leaders is ancient history. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has been a highly effective practitioner of targeted elimination. Thanks to the development of military technology and its intelligence agencies, including Mossad, over the years, Israel has perfected an assassination machine unrivaled in the Western world. The two strikes that targeted Fouad Shukur, one of Hezbollah's most important military leaders, on Tuesday, July 30 in Beirut, and Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, a few hours later in Tehran, are further proof of this - even if the condition of the former has not yet been fully established. In the intermittent war that Israel and Hezbollah have been waging for over 40 years, the taking out of political and military leaders is an old story. In 1992, Abbas al-Musawi, a charismatic leader of the Party of God, was killed by a missile strike from Israeli helicopters while driving with his wife and 6-year-old son on a road in the Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon. In 2008, Imad Mughniyeh, a military leader and mastermind behind several attacks, including the one against the American embassy in Beirut in 1983 at the height of the civil war, was killed in a car bomb explosion in Damascus, where he was residing. These spectacular attacks, which highlighted the movement's internal security flaws, had a destabilizing effect in the short term. But they did not weaken Hezbollah in any significant way. Al-Musawi was succeeded by Hassan Nasrallah, a leading strategist immensely popular with his followers. Under his leadership, Hezbollah stood up to Israel in the war of summer 2006. Then, from its intervention in the Syrian civil war in 2012, alongside Bashar al-Assad's regime, it became a regional non-state player, a key link in the pro-Iranian <axis of resistance.>
Several leaders eliminated
In every confrontation with Israel, the Shiite movement sees its base tightening around it and rediscovering its raison d'etre, the fight against the <Zionist entity.> The militia party was born in the wake of the Islamic revolution in Tehran in 1979 and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It fought the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon until Israel withdrew in 2000. Since the start of fighting on the Lebanese-Israeli border in October 2023, several leaders of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah's military wing have been eliminated in southern Lebanon, confirming the extent of Israeli intelligence. <Hezbollah has been weakened a little by the series of targeted strikes, but it remains a powerful organization, and its military arsenal is intact,> said a Western diplomatic source before the attack on Tuesday, July 30, speaking from the southern suburbs.>>
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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/31/targeted-assassinations-israel-s-double-edged-weapon-of-choice_6705921_4.html

France 25 - July 31, 2024 - by NEWS WIRES
<<Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran, says group
Hamas's political chief Ismail Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards have been killed after their residence in Tehran was targeted, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement. Hamas said Wednesday its political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an Israeli strike in Iran, where he had been attending the inauguration of the country's new president. "Brother, leader, mujahid Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, died in a Zionist strike on his headquarters in Tehran after he participated in the inauguration of the new (Iranian) president," the movement said in a statement. Iran's Revolutionary Guards also announced the death, saying Haniyeh's residence in Tehran was <hit> and he was killed along with a bodyguard. <The residence of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political office of Hamas Islamic Resistance, was hit in Tehran, and as a result of this incident, him and one of his bodyguards were martyred,> said a statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's Sepah news website. Haniyeh had travelled to Tehran to attend Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment on reports of Haniyeh's death. Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas and bring back all hostages taken during the October 7 attack, which sparked the war in the Gaza Strip. The launched by Hamas on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. Militants also seized 251 hostages, 111 of whom are still held captive in Gaza, including 39 the military says are dead. Haniyeh was elected head of the Hamas political bureau in 2017 to succeed Khaled Meshaal, but was already a well-known figure having become Palestinian prime minister in 2006 following an upset victory by Hamas in that year's parliamentary election. Considered a pragmatist, Haniyeh lived in exile and splits his time between Turkey and Qatar.
He had travelled on diplomatic missions to Iran and Turkey during the war, meeting both the Turkish and Iranian presidents. Haniyeh was said to maintain good relations with the heads of the various Palestinian factions, including rivals to Hamas. He joined Hamas in 1987 when the militant group was founded amid the outbreak of the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israeli occupation, which lasted until 1993. Israel's retaliatory military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 39,400 people, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, which does not provide details on civilian and militant deaths. Iran has made support for the Palestinian cause a centrepiece of its foreign policy since the 1979 Islamic revolution. It has hailed Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel but denied any involvement.
(AFP)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240731-iran-says-hamas-chief-ismail-haniyeh-was-killed-in-tehran

REUTERS - July 30, 2024 - By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Mohammad Salem
<<Israeli forces quit east Khan Younis, Palestinians recover dozens of bodies
CAIRO/KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip, July 30 (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians returned to their homes in the ruins of Gaza's main southern city Khan Younis on Tuesday, after Israeli forces ended a week-long incursion there which they said aimed to prevent Islamist armed group Hamas from regrouping. Palestinian rescue workers and civilians collected dead bodies from the streets of the abandoned battle zone, bringing corpses wrapped in rugs to morgues in cars and donkey carts. The Hamas-run Gaza media office said Israel's eight-day-long raid in eastern areas of Khan Younis killed 255 Palestinians and wounded more than 300 others. At leas 30 people remained missing. The Israeli military said its forces killed more than 150 Palestinian gunmen during the week-long raid, destroyed militant tunnels and seized weapons. After the Israeli forces left, people streamed back to their homes on foot and with carts carrying their belongings. Many found their houses damaged or destroyed. The Hamas media office said more than 300 homes had been hit by Israeli fire during the raid, at least 30 of them inhabited when they were struck. Witnesses said army forces had bulldozed the main cemetery in Bani Suhaila, the town on the eastern outskirts of Khan Younis that was the main focus of the raid, as well as houses and roads nearby. "I am coming back and I have faith in God. I don't know whether we will live or die, but it is all for the sake of the homeland," said Etimad Al-Masri, who had walked for at least five km back to her home. "Despite the suffering, we are patient and God's willing we will have victory." Many residents said they had been displaced from their homes several times. "We hope there will be a ceasefire and calm. We hope that they act on a ceasefire so that we can live in security and safety," said Walid Abu Nsaira, holding some of his belongings on his shoulder as he walked back home. As the Khan Younis assault has wound down, Israel has ordered thousands of people out of homes in al-Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, launching strikes there in apparent preparation for a new raid. Medics said an Israeli air strike in nearby al-Nuseirat killed 10 Palestinians as they fled from Bureij on Tuesday, and another strike killed four other Palestinians inside Bureij. Ten months into the war, Israeli forces have largely completed their storming of nearly the entire Gaza Strip and have spent the past several weeks launching new assaults on areas where they had already claimed to have rooted out Hamas. Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes, most of them previously displaced several times already. Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire through mediators, ongoing for months, are once again faltering. On Monday, Israel and Hamas traded blame over the lack of progress. Hamas wants a ceasefire agreement to end the war in Gaza, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the conflict will stop only once Hamas is defeated. There are also disagreements over how a deal would be implemented. The war began with an assault on southern Israel by Hamas-led fighters who killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and captured around 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. Since then Israeli forces have killed more than 39,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to health authorities there who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians but say more than half of the dead are women or children. Israel, which has lost around 330 soldiers in Gaza, says a third of the Palestinian fatalities are fighters.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-forces-quit-east-khan-younis-palestinians-recover-dozens-bodies-2024-07-30/

BBC - July 30, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<Thousands of Palestinians return to Khan Younis as IDF withdraws
Thousands of Palestinians fled from Khan Younis after Israel said it would renew operations there
Thousands of Palestinians are returning to their homes in Khan Younis, after the Israeli military said it had completed a week-long operation in the southern Gaza city. Israeli troops re-entered the city last week after officials said that Hamas was attempting <to reassemble its forces there>. Some 150,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes ahead of the operation, two UN agencies said. On Tuesday, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) officials said more than 150 gunmen had been killed during the week long offensive. But the Hamas-run Gaza media office said at least 250 Palestinians were killed and more than 300 injured during the fighting. Thirty more remain missing, they said. On Tuesday, aid workers could be seen in the streets of Khan Younis collecting dead bodies and wrapping them in rugs, before transporting them to morgues around the city, the Reuters news agency reported. Thousands of Palestinians - many carrying their possessions - streamed back into the city as Israeli forces withdrew, with many reporting extensive damage to their homes. Most arrived on foot. Witnesses told Reuters that the IDF had bulldozed the main cemetery in Bani Suhaila, the town on the eastern outskirts of Khan Younis. Nearby homes and roads had also been damaged, they said. According to the Hamas-run media office, around 300 houses were hit by Israeli munitions during the raid - 30 of which they said were inhabited at the time. Some residents returning said they had been displaced from their homes a number of times before. "I am coming back and I have faith in God. I don't know whether we will live or die, but it is all for the sake of the homeland," said Etimad Al-Masri. She had been forced to walk 5km (3 miles) in the intense heat.
Israeli forces had previously withdrawn from Khan Younis in April after months of intense fighting, with commanders saying their objectives in the area had been completed. Thousands of Palestinians subsequently returned, especially as IDF operations began in Rafah in early May.
But IDF troops have spent the past several weeks launching renewed assaults on areas it had previously left, saying it is seeking to prevent Hamas from regrouping. Elsewhere, Israel has ordered thousands of people to leave their homes in the central al-Bureij area. It comes as strikes have begun ahead of a possible new operation in the area. Since the conflict began in October more than 39,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza's health ministry.
The war started when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd0j83x2kko

BBC - July 30, 2024
<<Relief as Palestinian medical evacuees leave Gaza
The war in Gaza has made it difficult to evacuate sick and injured civilians
Injured and critically ill Palestinians are on their way from Gaza to the United Arab Emirates for treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, in the largest single medical evacuation since the war began following the brutal Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October. Later on Tuesday the WHO said 85 sick and severely injured patients from Gaza had been evacuated to Abu Dhabi. The sweeping Israeli military operations that followed have wrecked Gaza's healthcare system. And the main route for medical evacuees through Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt was shut down after the Israeli military took control there in early May. The WHO says so far some 5,000 Gazans have received treatment outside of the territory, but another 10,000 still need to leave. This latest group began to gather on Sunday at pickup points for transport to a central location before departing. In the central city of Deir al-Balah the bus station was crowded with patients and their families. "I call on the whole world to look at us with compassion," said Shaza Abu Selim, who was pushing her daughter, Lamis, in a wheelchair. The young girl needs major surgery for scoliosis, which has been delayed now by six months. She barely moved, her face stained with tears and exhaustion. "I could not believe it when they contacted me [to say] that my daughter was among those on the list going outside Gaza for treatment," said her mother. "I do not know when the war will end… and may God make it easy and heal everyone." Lamis Abu Selim has been waiting six months for surgery. Even before the conflict some Gazans got care outside the territory because the health system wasn’t equipped to deal with complex medical conditions. But Israeli bombardments have closed hospitals, killed doctors, blocked medicines, and overwhelmed remaining facilities with casualties. Nasima al-Ajeel's story encapsulates the misery and desperation this has caused. "We were struck" she says. "My eldest son was killed, my father was killed, my youngest son, Asser, lost his sight." Ms al-Ajeel is sitting and holding little Asser, his eyelid closed over an empty socket. Her leg is wrapped in bandages.
"His left eye was blown out with a skull fracture," she said. "My middle son suffers from a leg injury and leg deformities, and I suffer a skull fracture, blindness in my left eye, and a broken shoulder and ribs." The Israeli army says it has discovered Hamas combatants and infrastructure inside hospitals and health clinics, something the militant Islamist movement, which controlled Gaza before the war, denies. But human rights activists have accused Israel of obstructing medical evacuations. Physicians for Human Rights in Israel and other groups filed a petition in Israel’s High Court of Justice in early June after the Rafah crossing was closed. Since Israeli forces captured the border area at the start of their ground operation there two months ago, Egypt has refused to reopen the crossing, the only route out of Gaza that does not lead into Israel and previously a main exit point for fleeing civilians and a major channel for aid. Egyptian officials have insisted that the Gazan side of the crossing must be returned to Palestinian control. As a result of the court action, the Israeli government committed to establishing a permanent mechanism for allowing regular medical evacuations. But it has yet to do so, and on Sunday it announced it was cancelling the expected evacuation without saying why. The Kan public broadcaster reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had made the decision himself, following a deadly Hezbollah attack in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights at the weekend which killed 12 children and teenagers. That seems to have been quickly reversed. Azza Ahmed Kafarneh, a 57-year-old mother and grandmother suffering from cancer, told the BBC that the patients had prepared to go back home on hearing the news, but were told to stay because <there is a big potential that they will agree for you to leave>. In the end the Israelis agreed to transfer the patients through Israel via Gaza's Kerem Shalom crossing and they flew out from an airport near the town of Eilat. "We hope this paves the way for the establishment of evacuation corridors via all possible routes, including the Kerem Shalom and Rafah crossings to Egypt and Jordan, and from there to other countries," the WHO said in a statement. "We also call for (medical) evacuations to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to be restored."
Nothing is certain in this war, and for those fortunate enough to escape it, the goodbyes are bittersweet. Sarah Marzouk, a 12-year-old girl who says she lost her foot when her neighbour's house was bombed, was wiping away tears at the bus station on Sunday. "I wish that the war would end and that all children like me would be able to come with me and have artificial limbs fitted and receive treatment abroad," she said. "I also hope that I will return to see my father in peace." Ms Ahmed Kafarneh said she wouldn't leave if she didn't feel so sick. She hasn’t heard of any medical evacuees who've returned to Gaza. "I am confused between leaving my family and going out to get treated," she said. "And things maybe will take a longer time and the war maybe will take a long time and things might get worse. Nobody knows." >>
Source incl. video:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj506dzqmqlo

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