Israel: Lufthansa still does not fly to Tel Aviv

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Lerato Khumalo

Herzog expresses himself clearly. “We are sorry that we failed to defend your loved ones, we are sorry that we broke the most fundamental contract between a country and its citizens, which is to defend their lives and their security,” he says.

3:16 p.m.: In Israel, relatives of Hamas hostages loudly interrupted a speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during October 7 commemorations. Netanyahu stood motionless at the lectern during the ceremony in Jerusalem as listeners in the crowd shouted and interrupted him for more than a minute, as shown on Sunday in a live broadcast of the speech marking the anniversary of the Islamist Hamas attack on Israel on March 7. October last year according to the Jewish calendar.

“My father was murdered,” one of the family members present repeatedly shouted. After the killing of Hamas leader Jahja Sinwar in early October, hopes of reaching an agreement grew. However, critics accuse Netanyahu of dragging out the indirect negotiations.

2:48 p.m.: The foreign ministers of Germany, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, South Korea and Great Britain are warning the Israeli parliament against an anti-UNRWA law. The background is a Knesset debate about lifting the immunity of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees in the Middle East and banning any contact between Israeli government agencies and UNRWA. “Without UNRWA’s work, the delivery of assistance and services, including education, health care and fuel distribution, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would be severely hampered, if not impossible,” the joint statement said.