What happened in the last few hours?
These are the main news stories about the Israel-Gaza war and the crisis in the Middle East this Friday, January 5, at 8:00 p.m.:
Lebanon files a complaint with the United Nations following the attack in Beirut that killed a senior Hamas official. The Lebanese government has filed a formal complaint with the United Nations over Tuesday's attack on the country's capital, Beirut, involving the number two of Hamas' political wing, Saléh al Aruri, and six other members of the Islamist group goods were killed. Palestinians, including two senior officials from their armed branch, the Al-Qassam Brigades.
Hezbollah's leader defends that the militia must respond to Tuesday's attack in Beirut. Hezbollah leader in Lebanon, Hasan Nasrallah, said in a speech that the entire Lebanon will be “exposed” if the group does not respond to the killing of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Aruri in Beirut. Nasrallah added that the armed operations carried out by the militia on the southern borders near Israeli territory had opened a “historic opportunity” for Lebanon to liberate its Israeli-occupied lands, and that the Islamic resistance in Iraq also had a perfect one Chance have an opportunity to get rid of the American presence in this country. Nasrallah also confirmed that the Iran-backed militia has carried out around 670 military operations on the Lebanese-Israeli border since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 8. Nasrallah added that Hezbollah destroyed a “large number of Israeli vehicles and tanks.”
Borrell travels to Lebanon to prevent a regional escalation of the conflict. The European Union joins increased international diplomatic efforts to prevent the conflict between Israel and Gaza from spreading throughout the region. The high foreign policy official, Josep Borrell, travels to Lebanon this Friday, where he will meet with the country's highest political and military authorities, as well as with the head of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), General Aroldo Lázaro.
UNICEF warns of a “shocking” increase in diarrhea cases in Gaza. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned this Friday of the “triple deadly threat” facing 1.1 million children in the Gaza Strip due to the “overwhelming” increase in diarrheal diseases and food poverty from Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
The Israeli army kills a Palestinian teenager in a military operation in the West Bank. According to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority (PNA), one Palestinian teenager was killed and at least four injured by shots fired by Israeli soldiers during a military operation in the occupied West Bank on Friday. Usaid Tariq Anis Al-Rimawi, 17, died and four other people were injured, two of them in serious condition, during an Israeli army operation in the West Bank city of Beit Rima, according to a statement from the ministry.
According to the Gaza Strip government, at least 22,600 people have died in Gaza since the war between Israel and Hamas began. The Gaza Health Ministry has reported that the death toll from Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to at least 22,600 since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. In addition, another 57,910 people were injured. The same statement said that some 162 Palestinians were killed and 296 injured in the last 24 hours alone.
Maersk will reroute all of its Red Sea routes through southern Africa. Danish shipping company Maersk, one of the world's leading container shipping companies, has announced that it will reroute all Red Sea routes through southern Africa in the “immediate future”. Maersk – part of AP Moller-Maersk, Denmark's largest industrial group – reported three days ago about the indefinite closure of these routes due to the attack on one of their ships last weekend.
Spain celebrates Israel's decision to reinstate its ambassador in Madrid. The government has welcomed the Israeli executive's decision to reinstate its ambassador to Spain, Rodica Radian-Gordon, early next week, thereby returning the situation between the two countries to “normality”. The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, expressed this in an interview on RNE when asked about the matter after Israel decided in November to withdraw its ambassador because of its disagreement with Spain's position in the conflict was dissatisfied.