Macron could recognize the Palestinian state in June, Israel said to seize the « large sectors » of Gaza … The news of the conflict in the Middle East this Wednesday, April 9-Liberation

Emmanuel Macron announced this Wednesday that France could recognize a Palestinian state « In June » On the occasion of a conference which she will co -reside with Saudi Arabia in New York. « We have to go towards recognition and therefore in the coming months we will go »he said in an interview with the France 5 channel broadcast on Wednesday. « Our goal is somewhere in June, with Saudi Arabia to chair this conference (on Palestine) where we could finalize this movement of reciprocal recognition by several »he added.

The Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that the army seized « Vast sectors » of the Gaza Strip by integrating them into buffers emptied of their inhabitants, in order to force Hamas to release its hostages. « Vast sectors are seized and integrated into Israeli security zones, reducing Gaza and more insulation »said Israel Katz during a visit to the axis of Morag, recently created by Israel to separate the cities of Khan Younès and Rafah (South).

A Israeli strike killed on Wednesday in Gaza at least 23 Palestinians, including children, according to the local civil defense, the Israeli army claiming to have targeted a commander of the Islamist movement Hamas. The strike targeted the Choujaïya district in Gaza-Ville, in the north of the Palestinian territory devastated and besieged by Israel from the start, 18 months ago, the war launched by the unprecedented attack in Hamas in the Israeli South on October 7, 2023. « Several missiles » Targeted a four -story building and the surrounding area where there were tents of displaced, said Ayoub Salim, 26, a resident of Choujaiya. « Shards stolen in all directions (…) We heard the cries of panicked people »he added, describing « A terrifying scene » and reporting with shredded bodies and others buried under the rubble.

THE Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, met the CIA chief John Ratcliffe on Wednesday in Jerusalem, said his office in a statement. « Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met CIA chief John Ratcliffe on Wednesday evening in the presence of the Mossad chief »David Barnea, says the text, a few days before discussions planned between the United States and Iran on the Iranian nuclear program and when the efforts are continuing to restore the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The Houthis rebels of Yemen, supported by Iran, said on Wednesday that 10 people had been killed in strikes attributed in the United States, led overnight in the coastal province of Hodeida, in the west of the country. « The assessment of the massacre committed by the American enemy in the inhabited district of the Al-Hawk district rose to 10 dead, » said Rebelles television, Al-Massirah. The chain had reported on Tuesday evening an American strike in an inhabited area of ​​the Al-Hawk district in Hodeida. The spokesman for the Ministry of Health Houthi, Anis Al-Asbahi, had given an initial assessment of four dead and 13 injured, then said early on Wednesday that four children and two women were killed.