Friday, January 5, 2024

Gallant: Time running out on diplomatic efforts to end tensions between Israel and Hezbollah




Houthi leader: Any country involved in US-led Red Sea task force will be targeted

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of Yemen’s Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, said that any country to involve itself with the United States-led Red Sea coalition will lose its maritime security and be targeted.

Al-Houthi made the comments on Friday in an interview with the BBC.

Joining the US-led coalition to protect Red Sea shipping routes targeted by the Houthis are Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore and the United Kingdom.


UN humanitarian chief says Gaza has become ‘uninhabitable’ after three months of war

The United Nations humanitarian chief says Gaza has become “uninhabitable” three months after Hamas’ horrific attacks against Israel and “a public health disaster is unfolding.”

Martin Griffiths says in a statement that “people are facing the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded (and) famine is around the corner.”

And Gazans are “witnessing daily threats to their very existence – while the world watches on,” he says.

The UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs says tens of thousands of people, mostly women and children, have been killed or injured, families are sleeping in the open as temperatures plummet, and areas where Palestinians were told to relocate have been bombed.


US intelligence confirms Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch behind Iran blasts — sources

Army says it carried out strike on Hezbollah command center in southern Lebanon

The IDF says it carried out an airstrike on a Hezbollah command center in the southern Lebanese village of Blida in response to attacks on the border today.

It also says tanks and artillery shelled a number of areas along the border, apparently to foil planned Hezbollah attacks.

Following rocket fire on Kiryat Shmona earlier, the IDF says it is striking the launch sites.


Gallant: Time running out on diplomatic efforts to end tensions between Israel and Hezbollah

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says time is running out on diplomatic efforts to end tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, indicating that Israel will soon be left with no choice but to launch a major military offensive against the terror group in Lebanon.

“We prefer the path of an agreed-upon diplomatic settlement, but we are getting close to the point where the hourglass will turn over,” Gallant says during a situational assessment at the IDF’s Northern Command base.



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