What you should know about the situation in the Middle East, Saturday March 8 at dawn
► Gaza Strip: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) adopted, Friday, the Arab Gaza Reconstruction Plan developed by Egypt, in response to the proposal of the American president, Donald Trump, to take control of the Palestinian territory. This alternative project, which does not generate the displacement of the 2.4 million inhabitants of the enclave, puts Hamas away and provides for a return of the Palestinian authority, driven from the territory in 2007 by the Palestinian Islamist movement.
- Yemen Houthist rebels threatened, on Friday, to resume their “Naval operations against the Israeli enemy” If the routing of humanitarian aid did not resume in Gaza within four days. Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthists have pulled dozens of missiles and drones towards Israel and targeted the ships they consider to be linked to it in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aden.
- Hamas has broadcast a video showing a living Israeli hostage, addressing their family by identifying themselves. The hostage calls on the Israeli authorities to implement the second phase of the truce agreement entered into force on January 19 and the first phase of which expired 1East March.
► Syria: the Human Rights Observatory reported” execution “Friday, from 162 Alawite civilians – including children – by the security forces of the new power, In the coastal region of this minority from which former president Bashar al-Assad came, during a vast sweeping operation in the west of the country.
- This brings more than 240 the total number of deaths since the outbreak of violence on Thursday, including 50 members of the security forces and 45 loyalist fighters of the former Syrian president. These are the deadliest clashes since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, overthrown on December 8 by a coalition of Islamist groups.
- The Syrian president, Ahmed al-Charaa, called on the Alawite insurgents to lay down their arms and to go before “Let it be too late”. “I ask all the forces involved in the fighting to fully comply with military commanders (…) To put an end to current abuses and allow security forces and soldiers to continue their work optimally ”He also said, without specifying the nature of these abuses.
► Lebanon: the Israeli army announced on Friday that it had conducted attacks against “Military sites” Hezbollah in the south of the country,, “Where weapons and rocket launchers of the organization have been identified”.
