The Israel-Hamas war

The Israel-Hamas war|The demonstrations
French police have stopped protest at top university

French police on Friday broke up a group of pro-Palestinian protesters who barricaded themselves at the Sciences Po university in Paris during the night, Reuters reports.

Police entered the prestigious university to disperse the non-violent protesters and remove about 90 people. On Friday, the university is closed.

Similar protests are taking place in the cities of Lille, Lyon and Reims, TT writes.

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The Israel-Hamas war|The reactions
Sources: Senators in the United States lobby against arrest warrants

Israel's leadership is so nervous about a possible arrest warrant that it turned to the United States and asked it to put pressure on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, ICC. This is reported by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharanot.

According to the newspaper's information, Israel has, among other things, turned to House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and several prominent senators and asked them to exert pressure on the ICC's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

On Wednesday, a group of US senators, from both Democrats and Republicans, held a meeting with high-ranking ICC officials, sources told Axios. They are said to have expressed concern about the ICC's investigation of the war in Gaza.
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The Israel-Hamas war|The negotiations
Task: Arab alliance can be part of the solution for Gaza

Members of the Israeli government have discussed a plan for Israel, along with several Arab countries, to review Gaza once the war is over, sources told the New York Times.

Such a plan reportedly involves Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The United States is also mentioned in this context. Under the proposal, Israel would agree to such a solution in exchange for normalized relations with Saudi Arabia. However, neither the Arab countries nor the Israeli far-right will accept the proposal at the moment, according to the NYT.

The source information is seen as the clearest sign so far that Gaza's future is still being discussed at the highest level in Israel.

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Israel does not believe in agreements - Sinwar is said to resist

Israel's leadership expects Hamas to reject the latest ceasefire proposal, a source told the Times of Israel. On Thursday evening, the country's war cabinet held a meeting where they discussed how to act in such a scenario.

According to information to the Wall Street Journal, it is Hamas's military leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, who refuses to accept an agreement that does not involve a permanent ceasefire. Israel has proposed a 40-day pause in the fighting, initially, and for negotiations to take place in the meantime.

At the same time, many Israelis are skeptical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's will to reach an agreement. Netanyahu is very unpopular and is expected to be forced out when the war is over, says Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas.

- He has only one goal and that is his own political survival. And that means there won't be an agreement if it's up to him, he told the WSJ.