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La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, October 25, 2024, p. 22
Paris. By highlighting that The war must end as soon as possiblethe President of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced yesterday urgent aid of 100 million euros to cover part of the needs of the population of Lebanon, within the framework of an international conference in Paris, in which a billion dollars were raised in humanitarian aid.
The conference brought together 70 government delegations and 15 international organizations, but the low presence of American delegates clouded the prospect of a quick cessation of fighting.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nasser Yassin told Reuters last Tuesday that his country would need at least $250 million a month to help more than a million people displaced by Israeli attacks.
Meanwhile, the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, informed his Israeli counterpart that Washington was concerned about the attacks against Lebanese, while urging Tel Aviv to guarantee the security of the Lebanese army and the peacekeeping mission of the UN in Beirut, the Pentagon reported.
In Doha, the head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, announced another $135 million in aid to the Palestinians and once again requested a ceasefire in Gaza, while the European Union will allocate more than $20 million to the Lebanese army. at the end of this year, and another 40 in 2025, announced the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, in Brussels.
An investigation by Al Jazeera revealed that the United States and the United Kingdom have provided military support to Tel Aviv through an airlift with more than 6,000 military aircraft to transport weapons, which has sustained Israel’s war in the strip and has allowed it to expand its operations to southern Lebanon.
The Qatari news network also reported that PEN International, an international association of writers that defends freedom of expression, condemned Israel’s accusations that six journalists from that outlet who work in the north of the strip are terrorists.
Khamenei’s call
Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on the country’s armed forces to prepare to respond to a possible attack by Israel, the New York Times reported.
Nearly 150 NGOs, including the Lebanese Center for Human Rights and the Jewish Network for Palestine, called for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, and called for an end to the impunity that has allowed Israel’s atrocities against civilians to escalate.