Gaza deprived of the Internet and electricity, activists of « Madleen » on the way to the airport … The news of the conflict to the Middle East this Thursday, June 12-Liberation

The United Nations General Assembly will decide this Thursday on a resolution project demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza strip. After the veto last week of the United States – support from Israel – having blocked the resolution, the UN will try this time to increase the pressure on the Hebrew State by calling for « All necessary measures » To impose respect for international law. In addition to the ceasefire, the draft resolution also requires the release of hostages. The text, subject to the vote of an assembly traditionally acquired to the Palestinian cause, goes further, and directly involves Israel, qualified as « Occupant power ». The whole thing is accompanied by an injunction to put « Immediately end to the blockade, Ouvr (ir) All passing points ” And allow the distribution of humanitarian aid « In sufficient quantity » throughout the Palestinian territory where the situation is disastrous after more than 20 months of war.

There Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), supported by Washington and Israel but criticized by NGOs, said it was the target of an attack on Hamas, killing eight people and injuring several of its Palestinian employees on Wednesday. « This night, around 10 pm, a bus carrying more than twenty members of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation team (…) was violently attacked by Hamas »said the organization. « We are still taking stock, but what we know is terrible (…) We fear that some members of our team have been taken hostage. » The Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister reacted by accusing Hamas on Thursday on Thursday« Integrate suffering in Gaza ». For its part, the Islamist organization qualified the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as « Immobile machine » in the service of Israel, « Used to attract civilians to fatal traps », Without responding to the GHF accusation that the Palestinian Islamist movement is behind the death of humanitarian workers.

GHF has been deployed since the end of May in the Palestinian territory. A series of chaotic and murderous events has occurred in recent weeks near the sites managed by this private company with opaque financing.

« On the recommendation of the security authorities, 56 humanitarian aid trucks of the World Food Program entered northern Gaza », announced the Israeli army on Wednesday June 12. In the photos transmitted by TSAhal, the trucks enter the Enclave in the Indian queue by the passing point of Zikim, to the north. At the same time, the enclave, ravaged by Israeli bombings, has once again been private since Thursday, telephone and internet networks. The Palestinian Telecommunications Ministry has pointed out a finger « Attack on the Main last line optical fiber still in service ”, specifying that « Threat of completely cutting the Gaza Strip in the outside world ».

THE Israeli parliament Thursday morning rejected a short majority a bill for dissolving law presented by the opposition Thursday. 61 of the 120 deputies of the Knesset voted against the text, and 53 for. If it had been adopted, this bill could have led to early elections, likely to bring down the Netanyahu government by rallying ultra-Orthodox parties bristling by the question of conscription of Jewish religious. The latter have benefited from an exemption from military service for decades, a privilege less and less accepted by Israeli society.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists mobilized in a Land convoy from Tunisia have Reached Wednesday June 11 Tripoli in Libya with the aim of reaching Gaza and « Breaking the blockade » of the Palestinian territory. The Soumoud caravan (« resistance » In Arabic), made up of a dozen coaches and a hundred cars, then hopes to enter Egypt, whose authorities have not yet delivered to leave. According to Ghassen Henchiri, a spokesperson for the convoy, negotiations are underway with Cairo to obtain entry authorizations (the Tunisians present in the convoy need, for example, a visa). On the Israeli side, the Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, pressed the Egyptian authorities on Wednesday to block this convoy. Egypt, ready to apply these pressures, said that any pro-Palestinian foreign delegation action on its territory was to obtain a « Prior authorization ».

The Israeli NGO Adalah, who assists activists of the boat for Gaza arrested by Israel, announced that it was informed by the immigration authorities that six of them, including the Franco-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan, were on the road to the airport in order to be expelled this Thursday or Friday. « After more than 72 hours of detention in Israel following the illegal interception (of the sailboat) Madleen in international waters, six volunteers are now transferred to Ben Gurion airport for their expulsion »said the NGO in a press release. Among the activists are two French people and four people from Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands and Brazil.

Updated at 1:55 p.m. with the reaction of Hamas on the death of humanitarian workers