In a speech, the Hezbollah leader praises Hamas’ attack on Israel. According to Israeli sources, Gaza City is said to be surrounded. All information in the news blog.
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Hamas terrorists crossed the border into Israel on October 7 and carried out massacres. Since then, Israel has been attacking targets in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. This live blog informs you about the current developments:
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Nasrallah: Hamas attack was “wise and courageous”
2:58 p.m.: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has expressly praised and justified the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip. The decision to undertake this mission came “wisely, courageously and at the right time,” said Nasrallah in a speech on Friday.
Already in the first hours of the attack it was clear that the “enemy was distracted, lost and amazed,” said Nasrallah. The attack heralded a “new historical phase of the conflict.”
New shelling in the border region between Israel and Lebanon
2:05 p.m.: Mutual shelling broke out again on the border between Israel and Lebanon. After an anti-tank missile was fired at an Israeli military post, the army bombarded the launch site in Lebanon with artillery fire, the military said on Friday. A “terror cell” was attacked that night and is said to have tried to fire anti-tank missiles at Israel. The Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah confirmed the attack on the Israeli military post on Friday.
Scholz talks to Xi about the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine
2:02 p.m.: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the situation in the Middle East and the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit announced this after the video conference in Berlin on Friday.
In the Middle East, the topic was “Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel and the current situation in the region,” explained Hebestreit. With regard to Ukraine, it was reiterated that “a nuclear war must not be waged and can never be won.” The conversation also discussed bilateral relations and economic cooperation between China and Germany.
So far, a “low single-digit number” of Germans have left Gaza
1:19 p.m.: According to the Federal Foreign Office (AA), a “low single-digit number” of German citizens have left the Gaza Strip in the past few days. The ministry is working “hard” to ensure that other Germans who are in the Gaza Strip can also leave the country, said a ministry spokesman in Berlin on Friday. The AA is assuming a “low three-digit number of Germans” there.
There is a promise that a set number of people can leave the country every day, the spokesman said. However, the controls at the border crossing are “more complex than expected”. As a result, fewer people have come out of the area so far than originally assumed. According to the information, the AA has sent a consular team to the border crossing. “We are coordinating with Egypt and the other parties involved,” said the ministry spokesman.
Israeli army kills six Palestinians in West Bank
12:17 p.m.: According to Palestinian information, six Palestinians were killed in a series of operations by the Israeli army in the West Bank. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Palestinian news agency Wafa, three of the victims, aged between 17 and 26, were killed on Friday in Jenin, and two other Palestinians aged 33 and 36 were killed in a raid on the Al-Fawwar refugee camp near the city of Hebron. In addition, a Palestinian in Nablus who was injured by Israeli fire on Wednesday succumbed to his injuries on Friday, the ministry said.
