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August 4, 2026
ISRAEL INTENSIFIES STRIKES ON GAZA AND REAFFIRMS IT WILL NOT WITHDRAW BEFORE HAMAS IS FULLY DISARMED
From August 2 to 4, 2026, seven texts. Le Monde reports from Jerusalem on one of the deadliest days in Gaza in recent weeks: Israel is intensifying strikes and reaffirms it will not withdraw from the enclave before Hamas is fully disarmed, four days after Donald Trump announced his plan. In Lebanon, amid ongoing negotiations, massive demolition blasts near the Beaufort fortress spread fear across the occupied south — President Joseph Aoun calls them a "direct threat" to the talks. In France, Mediapart reveals how the government is quietly generalising a contested definition of antisemitism after the Yadan bill was rejected. In the West Bank, Palestinian foreign minister Varsen Aghabekian warns of "armed, coordinated settler terrorism", while the Guardian reports from Turmus Ayya on Palestinian Americans abandoned by Washington. Two Haaretz analyses close the briefing: Ariel Handel on violence becoming a source of pleasure in Israeli society, and Amira Hass on settler escalation as Palestinian restraint begins to crack.
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1er août 2026
"WHAT PALESTINIANS ENDURE IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK GOES BEYOND ORDINARY VIOLENCE AND FITS THE DEFINITION OF TERRORISM EXACTLY"
On August 1, 2026, six texts extend the previous day's sequence. In an interview with Le Monde, political scientist Arie Perliger, a specialist in far-right terrorism, describes the ideological drivers of settler violence and the Israeli government's responsibility for its persistence. On Gaza, Itamar Ben Gvir calls the Hamas disarmament deal "unacceptable for Israel" — the first reaction by a minister to a pillar of the peace plan's second phase. RFI relays Amnesty International's warning that India risks complicity in genocide by continuing to sell weapons to Israel. Three readings complete the briefing: Étienne Balibar's forthcoming book "Palestine, faire face au génocide"; Franklin Foer's essay in The Atlantic on how Netanyahu lost America; and Helen Epstein's investigation in the New York Review of Books into Gaza's poisoned soil, whose toxic fallout could kill as many as the bombs.
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S31 · 2026
Week of July 27 to August 2, 2026
The week of July 27 to August 2, 2026 opens on what looks like a breakthrough. On Friday, July 31, Donald Trump announces a "historic deal"; Hamas confirms it accepts disarmament conditioned on the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip — the two key points of the second phase of the peace plan signed nine months earlier. France 24 lays out the terms; Le Monde notes the Israeli government's initial silence. That silence lasts twenty-four hours: the next day, Itamar Ben Gvir calls the deal "unacceptable for Israel", a reminder that the main obstacle to phase two may lie less in Gaza than inside the governing coalition.
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