Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the Middle East as the United States seeks to avoid escalation in the region, with the prevention of a wider war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah being a primary objective, The Washington Post reported. Nearly 90 percent of Gaza’s population has been forcibly displaced in three months of war, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said, warning that a famine is looming.
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Israel-Gaza war live updates: Blinken in Middle East as U.S. seeks to avert war between Israel and Hezbollah
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The Israeli military has dismantled Hamas’s “military framework” in northern Gaza, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman, said Saturday. The IDF will now focus on similar operations in the Strip’s central and southern areas, he said. Israel says it has killed 8,000 Hamas fighters in northern Gaza.
Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top diplomat, said during a trip to Lebanon that it is “imperative to avoid a regional escalation in the Middle East.” Citing the “worrying intensification of fire” between Israel and Lebanon, he said at a news conference with Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib that “nobody will win from a regional conflict.”
Hezbollah said it launched dozens of missiles into northern Israel on Saturday in an “initial response” to the suspected Israeli assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Beirut last week. The IDF later said it struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and accused the militant group of dragging Lebanon into an “unnecessary war.”
At least 22,722 people have been killed in Gaza and 58,166 wounded since the war began, the Gaza Health Ministry said. Israel estimates that 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
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The Israeli military has dismantled Hamas’s “military framework” in northern Gaza, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman, said Saturday. The IDF will now focus on similar operations in the Strip’s central and southern areas, he said. Israel says it has killed 8,000 Hamas fighters in northern Gaza.
Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top diplomat, said during a trip to Lebanon that it is “imperative to avoid a regional escalation in the Middle East.” Citing the “worrying intensification of fire” between Israel and Lebanon, he said at a news conference with Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib that “nobody will win from a regional conflict.”
Hezbollah said it launched dozens of missiles into northern Israel on Saturday in an “initial response” to the suspected Israeli assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Beirut last week. The IDF later said it struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and accused the militant group of dragging Lebanon into an “unnecessary war.”
At least 22,722 people have been killed in Gaza and 58,166 wounded since the war began, the Gaza Health Ministry said. Israel estimates that 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.