06:17 – Air alert in northern Israel
The Israeli army announced that a “hostile aircraft infiltration” had triggered an air alert in a village in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon. “Sirens sounded in the Arab al-Aramshe region to signal the intrusion of a hostile aircraft. Details are under review,” the Israeli army wrote on social media.
06:06 – At least 8 dead in Gaza
At least eight people were killed in Israeli bombings on Gaza City, a spokesperson for the Palestinian territory’s civil defense announced.
Five and two people were killed respectively in strikes on apartments in northwest Gaza City, and another in a raid on a house in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the west of the city, said spokesman Mahmoud Bassal.
The night’s news
– Israel and Lebanon agreed on Wednesday to “the implementation of a ceasefire” and the creation of “pilot zones” under the control of the Lebanese army, according to a joint declaration published at the end of two days of talks in Washington.
– “At the end of the negotiations carried out under the aegis of the United States, Israel and Lebanon agreed to the implementation of a ceasefire”, which will be subject to “the complete cessation of Hezbollah fire and the evacuation of all Hezbollah members from the South-Litani sector”, we can read in this declaration signed by the three parties to the negotiations.
– Israel and Lebanon also agreed to participate in a new round of talks the week of June 22 with a view to a “comprehensive agreement,” the statement added.
– Donald Trump said earlier on Wednesday that he wanted to “separate” discussions on Lebanon from those on Iran, while Tehran considers, on the contrary, that they are one and the same subject. “I would like to separate them,” the American president said during an exchange with the press in the Oval Office.
– The American House of Representatives adopted a text ordering the withdrawal of American troops in the war against Iran, a snub for Donald Trump who engaged the United States in this conflict on February 28. The resolution – adopted with the votes of four Republican deputies – however has a primarily symbolic significance, due to the American president’s right of veto.
