All the most recent traits from the Israel Hamas struggle.
Warnings of crisis if Israel invades crowded Rafah
Israel’s neighbours and key mediators warned on Saturday of disaster and repercussions if invades Gaza’s southern town of Rafah.
Israel in the past ordered Palestinians to evacuate to the Egyptian border town, the place greater than part of Gaza’s 2.3 million individuals are filled in dire prerequisites.
Concerns are emerging that Israel’s endgame is to push the Palestinians into Egypt – one thing Israel denies.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stated any Israeli flooring offensive on Rafah would have “disastrous consequences.”
He claimed Israel targets to ultimately pressure the Palestinians out in their land, which Egypt has warned would threaten the four-decade-old peace treaty between the 2 international locations.
Saudi Arabia warned of “very serious repercussions,” plus there is even expanding friction between Netanyahu and the United States, whose officers have stated a Rafah invasion without a plan for civilians there would result in crisis.
“The other folks in Gaza can’t disappear into skinny air,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on X.
Despite mounting criticism, Netanyahu has vowed to go ahead with plans to invade Rafah. On Saturday, the hardline Israeli leader announced he had asked his military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people ahead of an invasion. But he gave no details or timeline.
IDF shows alleged Hamas tunnels under UN headquarters
The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City.
The unveiling of the alleged tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel’s campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas.
Recent Israeli allegations that a dozen staff members participated in the Hamas attack on Israel 7 October plunged the agency into a financial crisis, prompting major donor states to suspend their funding as well as twin investigations.
Israel has provided no evidence to back its claims that workers from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in the Near East (UNRWA) are Hamas members, its head told The Financial Times last week.
The army invited journalists to view the tunnel on Thursday.
It did not prove definitively that Hamas militants operated in the tunnels underneath the UNWRA facility, but it did show that at least a portion of the tunnel ran underneath the facility’s courtyard.
UNWRA says it had no knowledge of the facilities underground, but the findings merit an “independent inquiry,” which the agency is unable to perform due to the ongoing war.
Israeli attacks continue to spread
An Israeli drone struck a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, security officials said.
The strike came as tensions across the Middle East grow due to the Israel-Hamas war.
A drone attack last month killed three US troops in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have attacked vessels passing through the Red Sea.
ADVERTISEMENTThe drone strike close to the coastal the city of Jadra happened about 60 kilometres from the Israeli border, making it one of the most farthest within Lebanon since violence erupted.
An Israeli safety reputable, talking on situation of anonymity in keeping with rules, stated the objective of the strike in Sidon was once Hamas reputable Basel Saleh, who was once “injured to an unknown extent.”
The reputable stated Saleh was once chargeable for enlistment of recent Hamas recruits in Gaza and the West Bank.
