• It is the 102nd day of the war: 24,285 Palestinians dead, including around 10,000 children, according to Hamas. In Israel, 1,200 died in the October 7 attack.
• Hamas: «Two of the three hostages shown on Sunday dead». And he releases a video of the bodies. According to Gallant, the hostages will not be freed “without continuous military pressure”.
• Attack in Raanana: a woman dead, two men arrested.
• Tajani: «In the next few days I will go to the Middle East, the objective is deescalation»
11.45 am – 27 terrorism suspects arrested in the West Bank
The Israeli army has arrested 27 people in the West Bank on suspicion of involvement in acts of terrorism. The military spokesman said this, according to which 2 of these were arrested after the interrogation of dozens of people in the village of Bnei Naim, near Hebron, where the attackers came from who yesterday in Raanana, not far from Tel Aviv, caused the death of an elderly woman and the injury of 17 other people including children. Soldiers then “mapped” for destruction the home in Ramallah of a Palestinian who was responsible for the attack on the Jewish settlement of Ofra in the West Bank last week. Furthermore – according to the same source – “dozens of suspects were interrogated in the village of Idhna, also near Hebron, from where the 3 Palestinian militiamen, later killed, left who attempted to carry out an attack by infiltrating the Jewish settlement of Adora on Friday ¬ last. Since the beginning of the war with Gaza – according to data reported by the media – around 2,700 “terrorism suspects” have been arrested throughout the West Bank and of these around 1,300 are affiliated with Hamas.
11.37 am – Qatar: Gaza no longer exists
“Gaza is no longer there. I mean, there’s nothing down there anymore.” This was stated by the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.  «There are carpet bombings everywhere», he added, specifying that  «we cannot have a two-state solution without having a government and politicians in Israel who believe in peaceful coexistence. And we can’t have all this without putting an end to the war.”
11.16am – Israeli army chief issues warning about post-war situation in Gaza
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has repeatedly warned the political leadership that military gains made in the Gaza Strip could be eroded because there is no plan for a post-war Gaza. Channel 13 reports this citing an unidentified source. “We risk the erosion of the results obtained so far in the war because there is no strategy for the day after,” Halevi reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, according to the Israeli broadcaster. “It is possible that we will have to return to the areas where we have already completed the fighting,” Halevi also added, according to the same source.
10.46am – Premier Qatar: make 2-state solution mandatory
“Now everyone knows that as regards the Palestinian crisis the solution can only be that of two states. But we cannot continue to be held hostage by elections here and there. The UN resolution must be made mandatory, the international community must not leave the power to decide to the Israelis.” This was stated by the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, interviewed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “Israel controls everything, including the West Bank. This complicates the situation”, underlined Al Thani, observing that “the US can bring the parties back to the table” and that the “best guarantee for the Israelis is to give a state to the Palestinians, because this would normalize their relations with the Arabs”. “Now there is carpet bombing in Gaza. We will have to rebuild an entire city. We see extremist Israeli politicians calling for genocide of the Palestinian people and we do not see an adequate world reaction. We need responsibility. If this happened elsewhere – continued Al Thani – would there be this silence? And then, what can we expect from a generation (of Palestinians, ed.) who sees their parents, their brothers and sisters dying under the bombs with the world not taking concrete measures to put an end to all this?
10.24am – Hamas, 24,285 Palestinians killed in Gaza in Israel raid
At least 24,285 Palestinians have been killed and 61,154 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The Palestinian Ministry of Health, run by Hamas, says so. 158 Palestinians were killed and 320 injured in the last 24 hours, the ministry added.
10.11am – Exchanges of artillery fire with Israel are decreasing
Today there is a decrease in the intensity of clashes along the border between Israel and Lebanon starting from yesterday. This comes after an overnight escalation in which the Israeli army used large firepower between the Jezzine and Nabatieh regions, causing a power outage in the region. The Lebanese group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack against 8 Israeli sites, conducted with bombings of Israeli army concentrations. The two sides exchanged fire in the southern border area, with no reports of casualties in the area. Lebanese media reported that Israeli shelling targeted Hamams Hill in Surda and the Marjayoun plain. An artillery shelling hit the town of Rab Thileen, causing a house fire. The Israeli army also searched the outskirts of the city of Adissa, in the eastern sector, with machine guns and bombings. In the western sector, Israeli artillery shelled the outskirts of the cities of Al-Dahaira, Al-Jebain, Tayr Harfa, Aita Al-Shaab, Hanin and Shihin, in conjunction with a heavy drone flight.
09.35 am – Rocket salvo from Gaza, town of Netivot hit
About fifty rockets were fired today from the north of the Gaza Strip in the direction of the Israeli town of Netivot, 15 kilometers away. According to military radio, several rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense systems, but one still exploded in the city, destroying a shop. No casualties were reported.
09.26 am – IDF: dozens of Hamas fighters killed in northern Gaza
Dozens of Palestinian Hamas fighters were killed in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahia, while nine others were killed in Shati camp. The Israeli army says so. The IDF said it had located “60 ready-to-use rockets” in Beit Lahia and “100 missile installations.” An unknown number of fighters were killed in Khan Younis. According to Al Jazeera, the Israeli raid also hit numerous civilians in southern Gaza, including an entire family with children in Rafah.
The Israeli army also said that its special forces carried out an attack in the Ayta ash Shab area of Lebanon. “IDF special forces struck to remove a threat in the Ayta ash Shab area in Lebanon,” the Israeli military said. The army also said an airstrike hit a Hezbollah anti-tank missile launcher in southern Lebanon.
08.56 am – Lebanese media: Biden’s envoy warns, risk of serious escalation
According to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, the visit of US President Joe Biden’s special envoy Amos Hochstein brought only one message: “Restore security in Israel and bring residents back to their homes”, which “seems like a warning before of a serious escalation”. The newspaper also reports that Hochstein has asked Lebanese authorities to move Hezbollah fighters 7 kilometers beyond the Blue Line, and have the Lebanese army replace them. “Otherwise Israel will launch a war against Hezbollah,” Hochstein was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
08.47 am – IDF: «100 rocket launchers found, killed dozens of Hamas militiamen»
The Israel Defense Forces said they found 100 rocket launchers and killed dozens of Hamas militants in an operation around the town of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
08.23am – Another Israeli soldier killed in Gaza, the toll now at 189
Israel has announced the death of another soldier killed in combat in southern Gaza. The military spokesperson made this known, adding that he is reservist Nitzan Schessler (21 years old). The toll of soldiers killed – since the start of the ground operation – is now 189.
08:09 – IDF: “Noa is alive, we didn’t hit the house with the hostages”
The Israeli military believes Noa Argamani, the 26-year-old hostage in Gaza who appeared in three videos released by Hamas, is alive, the Times of Israel reports. Military spokesman Hagari said Hamas’s claim that the military struck a building where the three hostages, Itay, Yossi and Noa were held, killing the first two was false. “Itay was not killed by us. It’s a lie,” Hagari said. ‘The building where they were prisoners was not attacked.’ “We don’t strike if we know there are hostages. We hit targets close to that place”, “the families informed of the concern about their fate”.
07.48 am – The macabre roulette of the Hamas hostages
(by Davide Frattini, Jerusalem correspondent) The lottery of death is even more cruel. It is up to Noa Argamani to announce that the other two hostages did not survive, in front of the camera held by the kidnappers she says that they were killed in the Israeli bombings.
It is the girl who became a symbol of the victims at the rave festival in the desert – the video shot on social media shows her being taken away on the saddle of a motorbike blocked at the front and back by the terrorists – who “won” the perverse roulette staged by the fundamentalists. Who already knew the result, when on Sunday and again yesterday afternoon they released the first videos, the faces of Noa, Yossi Sharabi and Itay Svirsky swirl like the tiles in a horror slot machine until they stop with the final writing: who is it died? After sunset, in time for the most followed news programs in Israel, they showed the bodies of the two men, army spokesmen denied that one of them had been hit in a bombing.
07:09 am – IDF: fire opened on armed men on the border with Egypt
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced this morning that they had opened fire on a group of armed people near the Nitzana crossing on the border with Egypt. «Shortly ago, around 20 suspects, including several armed men, arrived from Egyptian territory towards the area of the border with Israel, adjacent to the Nitzana crossing. IDF soldiers operating in the area opened fire on the armed people,” the IDF said in a statement on Telegram.
05.12 am – Hamas: two of the three hostages shown in the video dead
The al-Qassam Brigades announced the death of two of the three Israeli hostages who appeared yesterday in a video from the armed wing of Hamas in which it was announced that the fate of the three would be revealed yesterday evening. In the new video, the third, one of the three hostages, 26-year-old Noa Argamani, confirmed the deaths of Yossi Sharabi and Iti Sabirsky in the Israeli raids. And at the end of the clip we see the bodies of the two deceased hostages.
Hamas had previously said it had lost contact with some hostages as Israeli forces bombed Gaza, stressing that they could have been killed in the raids.
03.20 am – Guterres: investigate Hamas sexual violence of 7/10
“The reports of sexual violence committed by Hamas and others on 7 October must be rigorously investigated and prosecuted”: the secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, wrote on his X account. “Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, wounding and kidnapping of civilians. Nothing can justify launching rockets at civilian targets”, adds Guterres in a post published in the early hours of today.
00.51 am – Gaza: 25 dead in new Israeli raids on the Strip
The Palestinian news agency Wafa says 25 people were killed and dozens more injured in Israeli shelling carried out Monday evening in several areas of the Gaza Strip. Local medical sources report eleven victims of air raids on a house in Mirage, north of the southern city of Rafah; eight people died following a bombing near the Civil Protection headquarters in Khan Yunis, in the center of the Strip; four victims were caused by a raid on the Bureij refugee camp, also in the central area of the Palestinian enclave; two people died in a bombing in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza city. The death toll from Israeli attacks on the Strip in the last 24 is at least 132 deaths, again according to Palestinian medical sources cited by Wafa.
2024-01-16 10:52:30
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