Diplomacy is in action. Blinken arrived in Jordan after meeting Erdogan – where he assured that Turkey's role in post-war Gaza would be “positive and productive” – while Borrell held a conversation with a senior Hezbollah official. But the number of deaths continues to rise. There are 16 victims in the night raids in Gaza. An airstrike killed six Palestinians in Jenin in the West Bank, fatally wounding an Israeli border guard. And an Arab-Israeli was killed in Ramallah: “attack hypothesis,” says the army. The IDF and the Shin Bet then demand the elimination of the Hamas leaders responsible for the massacres at Beeri Kibbutz. The risk of escalation remains very high in Lebanon. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for firing around sixty rockets into northern Israel as an “initial response” to the assassination of the Arouri leader. The Israeli reaction was immediate.
11:27 a.m
Ministry of Health in Gaza: “Two journalists killed in Israeli raids”
The health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip said two journalists were killed in an Israeli attack on Palestinian territory. It would be approximately Mustafa ThuriaReporter from the AFP news agency, and another journalist Hamza Wael DahdouhSon of Wael Al-Dahdouh, the Palestinian journalist who heads Al Jazeera's Gaza Strip bureau and lost his wife and two other children in October when bombs fell on the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp. The two reporters were traveling in a car, the ministry and the doctors said
Journalist Hamza, son of journalist Wael al-Dahdouh, and journalist Mustafa Thuria were killed in an Israeli bomb attack on journalists west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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11:12
Washington Post: “US fears Netanyahu wants to expand conflict in Lebanon”
The US fears that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuHe also wants to expand the war in the Middle East Lebanon to ensure his political survival in the face of domestic criticism of his government's inability to prevent the October 7 Hamas attack. The Washington Post revealed it today. The newspaper cites “private conversations” in which the government allegedly warned Israel of a significant escalation in Lebanon. If this is the case, a new secret assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has found that it will be difficult for the IDF to succeed with this initiative because its resources and military assets are too spread across the various fronts of the IDF USA scattered would be conflict
11:09
The King of Jordan to Blinken: “The US is putting pressure on Israel”
Jordan's king says the US must pressure Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza. This was reported by Haaretz, citing Portal. Today King Abdullah II warned the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whom he met in Amman, about the “catastrophic impact” of the continuation of Israel's military operation in Gaza, the Jordanian Royal Palace reported in a statement. King Abdullah also told Blinken that Washington must play an important role in pressuring Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the statement said.
(Portal) 10:22
Blinken on Turkey's role in post-war Gaza: 'It will be positive and productive'
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday that Turkey was determined to play a “positive and productive” role for Gaza after the conflict and was ready to use its influence in the region to prevent the conflict between Israel and Hamas from spreading further. The American diplomat's latest mission to the Middle East opened with talks Türkiye And Greecebefore moving into the region to have “not necessarily easy conversations” with allies and partners about what they are willing to do “to build lasting peace and security.”
09:53
Blinken meets King Abdallah II and the foreign minister in Jordan
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with King Abdullah II and Jordan's foreign minister on Sunday and visited a World Food Program camp in Amman. In doing so, he continued an urgent diplomatic mission in the Middle East to prevent an expansion of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. On his fourth visit to the region in three months, Blinken stressed the need for Israel to modify its military operations to reduce civilian casualties and significantly increase the amount of humanitarian aid reaching Gaza, while emphasizing the importance of it was to prepare detailed plans for the postwar future of the territory decimated by fierce Israeli air strikes and ground offensives. Blinken also visited the World Food Program regional coordination camp in the Jordanian capital, where trucks are being loaded with aid to be delivered to Gaza through the Rafah and Kerem Shalom border crossings
(afp) 09:39
Israeli army budget: “8,000 terrorists killed so far”
In exactly three months of war, Israel killed “around 8,000 terrorists.” Hamas: This is what the army (IDF) says on its website. In the northern part of the Gaza Strip, in a densely populated area with 1.2 million people, a military structure was created consisting of two brigades, including 12 battalions, with a total strength of 14,000 men. In total, the armed forces in the Gaza Strip have so far found and destroyed 30,000 to 40,000 weapons and other combat equipment stored in Hamas bunkers, but also in schools, hospitals, mosques and houses
09:24
Kerman Public Prosecutor's Office: “32 people arrested for Wednesday's attack”
Mahdi BakhshIranian city prosecutor Kerman, scene of the attack that killed at least 90 people and injured 248 others last Wednesday, announced the arrest of 32 people involved in the attack. Bakhshi assured on television last night that all those responsible for the attack in Kerman had been arrested. In the past few months, 23 IS exponents prepared to carry out suicidal terror operations have already been arrested in Kerman province and over 60 devices have been found in other provinces. This was reported by the Iranian agency IRNA
09:05
An Israeli officer was also killed in an attack in the West Bank
Israeli police said an officer was killed during the raid on the refugee camp Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. “The officer was on board an emergency vehicle that was hit by an explosive device,” the force said, after the Palestinian Health Ministry earlier reported that six Palestinians were killed in the “bomb attack.”
07:10
Arab-Israeli killed: “Suspected of being an attacker”
An Israeli man in his 30s was shot dead today while driving a car near the settlement of Ofra in the Ramallah area of the West Bank. This was reported on military radio, indicating the possibility of an attack. At the same time, the broadcaster added, “other clues are also being examined since the person killed was an Arab citizen of Israel.”
06:20
Demonstrations in Israel demand Netanyahu's resignation
Several thousand supporters, friends and family members of Israeli hostages captured by Hamas on October 7 gathered in Tel Aviv to demand the return of the prisoners and the resignation of the Netanyahu government. According to reports from the Arabic broadcaster Al Jazeera, there were also protests in Jerusalem in front of the house of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Israel: Thousands take to the streets in Tel Aviv for hostages held by Hamas
06:20
Jenin, Israeli border guard dead
The border guard seriously injured in an explosion in Jenin in the West Bank this morning has died. This was announced by the Israeli military spokesman. Three other officers were injured with her, one of whom is in serious condition.
05:59
Israel: Gunmen killed in Jenin
Israel says those killed in Jenin tonight were part of a group of Palestinian gunmen who threw explosives at troops involved in a counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said four border police officers were injured by a roadside bomb in Jenin that exploded as a police vehicle was passing by: While the wounded officers were being rescued by a helicopter, the armed group attacked, who threw explosives at the troops.
05:12
Qatar to the families of the hostages: The attack in Beirut is an obstacle
The Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed Al Thani, met in Doha with the families of the Israeli hostages who are still in the hands of Hamas. According to the American news site Axios, Thani told the families that talks with Hamas were complicated by the killing of the terror group's deputy leader, Saleh al-Arouri, and several other senior members of the ruling Gaza Islamist group in an attack in Beirut on Tuesday Attributed to Israel. Following Arouri's killing, Hamas reportedly froze negotiations between Qatar and Egypt, although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told relatives of the hostages on Tuesday that talks were underway for their return. Doha is “painfully aware of the suffering of the hostages and their relatives,” a Qatari official told Axios. “We have contacted the families directly to share as much information as possible and to reassure them that Qatar is committed to using all resources to ensure the release of the hostages,” the US media source added. “But Qatar is a mediator: it does not control Hamas.”
(afp) 04:50
Israeli airstrike in West Bank, 6 dead
An Israeli attack left six people dead in Jenin in the West Bank. This was announced by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which is based in the occupied West Bank. “An Israeli occupation bomb attack on a group of citizens killed six people.” According to a Palestinian Authority tally, at least 327 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the conflict began, and the city of Jenin and its refugee camp have been the scene of repeated raids.
(Portal) 04:05
Mofokeng (UN): targeted hunger reduction underway
The Gaza Strip is experiencing “a deliberate reduction in hunger, not a famine,” he said Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the right to health. The South African doctor commented, among other things, on the statements made by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that “widespread famine is imminent” in the Palestinian enclave. “We need an immediate ceasefire,” he added.
03:27
Guterres: “Widespread famine threatens Gaza”
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, warned that “widespread famine is looming” in the Gaza Strip. He did so in a report sent to members of the UN Security Council, as did Al Jazeera. Guterres also warns of a “public health disaster” as “infectious diseases spread rapidly in overcrowded shelters” with “appalling” sanitation conditions and “overflowing sewers.”
(agf) 01:15
Gaza, details of the attack
According to local sources cited by Wafa, 12 civilians were killed and 50 others injured in an attack on an apartment in the southern city Khan Yunis. According to the Palestinian Relief Organization, another four people died from bombs that fell on a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Maghazi refugee camp in the city center Deir al-Balah.
(afp) 00:50
An average of 16 dead and 50 injured in Gaza
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, at least 16 people died in Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip overnight. About fifty people were injured
00:07
Media: “Hostage cages discovered in Gaza”
During searches in the Gaza Strip, IDF soldiers identified some cages believed to have been built by Hamas to hold Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip. This was reported by the channel Khan 11, emphasizing that “this is consistent with the findings on the ground, which indicate that the cages were used by terrorists to hold hostages and also transport them from one place to another within the Gaza Strip, the same cages “Hamas also uses it for its prisoners.”