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France, the United States and Israel have agreed to establish a trilateral meeting to discuss a roadmap to defuse tensions between the Lebanese group Hezbollah and Israel. French President Emmanuel Macron said this while speaking to journalists at the G7 in Puglia.
France also announced today emergency aid of eight million euros to the Palestinian National Authority in the grip of a deep financial crisis that worries Western chancelleries. “In a context in which all Palestinians are affected by the crisis, this aid will contribute to the payment of the salaries of the Palestinian Authority, in particular, of the Ministry of Health,” reads a note released by the French Consulate General in Jerusalem . The financial situation of the Palestinian Authority continues to deteriorate, in particular, due to Israeli restrictions on tax revenues collected by Israel and which should go to the PA by virtue of agreements signed following the Oslo Peace Accords (1993), buried today.
Meanwhile, there are now dozens of rockets launched by Hezbollah against northern Israel, where tensions are increasing and there is fear of an escalation that Joe Biden’s US administration is doing everything it can to avoid. Then there remains the stalemate on the agreement for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages, which Washington continues to believe in and is working after the requests for changes made by Hamas which it tries to downplay: “They are not significant”, according to a senior Hamas official. Palestinian group cited by Reuters, while G7 leaders will also dedicate a passage of their statement to asking the militiamen to accept the deal, according to a draft of the text reported by Bloomberg. Hezbollah has claimed to have launched rocket and drone attacks on several Israeli army bases and positions, as “part of the response to the assassination” on Tuesday of their senior commander Taleb Abdallah. Israel counted at least 40 rockets fired against the Golan and the north of the country, which caused at least two injuries and several fires. “We will respond with force to all Hezbollah’s aggressions,” reiterated the spokesman for Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, David Mencer. “Through diplomatic efforts or otherwise, Israel will restore security on our northern border.” Words that worry the Biden administration.
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The Milan City Council recognizes the State of Palestine
With 23 votes in favor and 11 against, including the reformists Gianmaria Radice and Daniele Nahum, who are part of the centre-left majority, the Milan city council approved a motion by councilors Carlo Monguzzi (Greens), Angelica Vasile (Pd) and Enrico Fedrighini (Mixed) calling for recognition of the State of Palestine as sovereign and independent. In particular, we read in the document, the motion commits the mayor and the council to “adopt and forward to the Italian government the request for recognition of the State of Palestine as a sovereign and independent state, in accordance with United Nations resolutions, international law and to the indications of the resolution of the European Parliament to affirm its solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to independence and national sovereignty, as well as to live in peace and obviously equal solidarity and rights with the Israeli people”.
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