"If we're shooting down a $50,000 one-way #drone with a $3 million #missile, that's not a good cost equation," Bill LaPlante, the #Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, told a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday. #RedSea #Houthis #Israel #Gaza
The Pentagon's growing costly headache: Cheap drones
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/16/us-military-attack-drones-pentagon
The South African legal team, which set out its case for fresh emergency measures the previous day, framed the Israeli military operation as part of a #GenocidalPlan aimed at bringing about the destruction of the Palestinian people. #Gaza #Rafah #TheHague #ICC
#Israel tells #WorldCourt #SouthAfrica case makes a mockery of genocide
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-tells-world-court-south-africa-case-makes-a-mockery-of-genocide/ar-BB1myJuN?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
#AidGroups warn of a looming crisis in #Gaza's southern city of #Rafah where they have no more #food to distribute since the closure of the Rafah border crossing over a week ago, even as the first trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza via a temporary pier built by the #US. #Israel
Rafah is running out of food, even as the U.S. pier starts operating in Gaza : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252095266/rafah-is-running-out-of-food-even-as-the-u-s-pier-starts-operating-in-gaza
#JERUSALEM - Israeli war Cabinet minister #BennyGantz demanded on May 18 that Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu commit to an agreed vision for the #Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after the war with #Hamas. #Israel
Israel's Gantz demands day-after plan for Gaza by June 8, threatens to quit Cabinet
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/israels-gantz-demands-gaza-day-after-plan-by-june-8-threatens-to-quit-cabinet
The crash comes as the #MiddleEast remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which #Raisi under Supreme Leader Ayatollah #AliKhamenei launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on #Israel just last month.
Raisi, 63, a hard-liner who formerly led the country’s judiciary, was viewed as a protégé of Khamenei and even as a possible successor.
#Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says
https://apnews.com/article/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-426c6f4ae2dd1f0801c73875bb696f48
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s foreign minister have been found dead hours after their helicopter crashed in fog. That leaves the Islamic Republic without two key leaders as extraordinary tensions grip the wider Middle East. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei quickly named a little-known vice president as caretaker Monday. The supreme leader has the final say in the Shiite theocracy. He insisted the government was in control, but the deaths mark yet another blow to a country beset by pressures both at home and abroad. Iran has offered no cause for the crash nor suggested sabotage brought down the helicopter. It fell in mountainous terrain in a sudden, intense fog.
The #warrants against the Israeli politicians mark the first time the #ICC has targeted the top leader of a close ally of the #UnitedStates. The decision puts #Netanyahu in the company of the Russian President Vladimir #Putin, for whom the ICC issued an arrest warrant over Moscow’s war on #Ukraine. #Israel #Gaza
ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl/index.html
The #InternationalCriminalCourt is seeking arrest warrants for #Hamas leader #YahyaSinwar and Israeli Prime Minister #BenjaminNetanyahu on charges of #WarCrimes and #CrimesAgainstHumanity over the October 7 attacks on #Israel and the subsequent war in #Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor #KarimKhan told CNN’s #ChristianeAmanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday. #TheHague
#ICC seeks arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders [VIDEO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRResOpPDhU
The international criminal court’s chief prosecutor has applied for warrants; what will happen now? #TheHague
Will the #ICC approve arrest warrants for #Israel and #Hamas leaders? | International criminal court
https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/20/will-the-icc-approve-arrest-warrants-for-israel-and-hamas-leaders
Food and medicine for #Palestinians in #Gaza are piling up in #Egypt because the #RafahCrossing remains closed and there has been no aid delivered to a U.N. warehouse from a U.S.-built pier for two days, U.N. officials warned on Monday.
#Egypt has said that the crossing is closed due to the threat posed to aid work by #Israel's military operation.
Gaza aid piles up in Egypt, US pier delivery falters
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/no-us-pier-aid-un-gaza-two-days-after-truck-incident-2024-05-20/
Settlers intercepting the vital #HumanitarianSupplies to the strip are receiving information about the location of the #AidTrucks from members of the Israeli police and military, a spokesperson from the main Israeli activist group behind the blockades told the Guardian.
Israeli soldiers and police tipping off groups that attack #GazaAid trucks | #Israel-#Gaza war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/israeli-soldiers-and-police-tipping-off-groups-that-attack-gaza-aid-trucks
#France backs the International Criminal Court (#ICC) and the "fight against impunity", its foreign ministry said after the court's prosecutor sought an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin #Netanyahu, Defence Minister #YoavGallant and three #Hamas leaders. #Israel #Gaza
France backs ICC after it seeks arrest warrants for Israeli, Hamas leaders
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240521-france-backs-independence-of-icc-after-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-warrants-for-israel-hamas-leaders
France backs the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the 'fight against impunity', its foreign ministry said after the court's prosecutor sought an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders.
In recent weeks, #EU members #Ireland, #Spain, #Slovenia, and #Malta have said they plan to announce the recognition, possibly in a coordinated manner and in #Madrid and #Dublin, recognition has been part of the government’s programme. Ten out of the EU’s 27 member states currently recognise #Palestine as a state. #Israel #Gaza
Spain, Ireland, possibly others to announce recognition of #PalestinianStatehood
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/spain-ireland-possibly-others-to-announce-recognition-of-palestinian-statehood/
#LONDON — The Spanish, Irish and Norwegian governments announced Wednesday they would recognize a #PalestinianState, saying there would be no peace in the #MiddleEast without a nation for the #Palestinians
In response, Israeli Foreign Minister #IsraelKatz ordered the immediate recall of the Israeli ambassadors to #Norway and #Ireland. #Spain #Norway #Gaza
Norway, Ireland and Spain recognize Palestinian state; #Israel condemns move
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/22/norway-ireland-palestine-state-recognition/
#Ireland, #Spain and #Norway have announced plans to formally recognise a #PalestinianState on Wednesday, amid warnings from #Israel that recognition will ‘fuel extremism and instability’.
The Guardian video team have produced a video showing the announcements this morning from each of the prime ministers of the three countries. #Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/22/israel-gaza-war-hamas-palestinian-state-middle-east-benjamin-netanyahu?page=with%3Ablock-664db9798f0859606f44568f#block-664db9798f0859606f44568f
#France said on Wednesday conditions were not right to officially recognise a #PalestinianState and that such a decision must be more than just symbolic or political posturing. #Israel #Gaza
France says conditions not right to recognise Palestinian state
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-says-conditions-not-right-to-recognise-palestinian-state/ar-BB1mR8F2?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
#Egypt threatened on Wednesday to withdraw as a mediator in #Gaza ceasefire negotiations after CNN reported that Egyptian intelligence changed terms of recent truce proposal and scuttled a deal. #Israel
Egypt says it may withdraw as Gaza ceasefire mediator
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/egypt-says-it-may-withdraw-as-gaza-ceasefire-mediator/ar-BB1mS4ye?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
Thousands of #Israelis took to the streets overnight demanding their government help free the #hostages in #Gaza. The demonstrations were triggered by the release of a graphic video showing five female soldiers in #Hamas captivity. The video was made public by their families. #Israel
Israelis protest after disturbing new video released of hostages in #Gaza [VIDEO]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israelis-protest-after-disturbing-new-video-released-of-hostages-in-gaza/vi-BB1mVgOP?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
The international court of justice is expected (#ICJ) to issue a new ruling on #Israel’s conduct of its war in #Gaza at 3pm (1400 BST, 2100 PHT) on Friday, as the #US expressed concern over Israel’s growing diplomatic isolation among countries that have traditionally supported it. #TheHague
ICJ expected to make new ruling on Israel’s war in Gaza | Israel-Gaza war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/24/icj-expected-to-make-new-ruling-on-israels-war-in-gaza
I have a feeling that the #ICJ arrest warrants for the #Hamas & #Israel leaders won't be long in coming either
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Reading out a ruling by the International Court of Justice (#ICJ) or #WorldCourt, the body’s president #NawafSalam said provisional measures ordered by the court in March did not fully address the situation in #Gaza now, and conditions had been met for a new emergency order. #TheHague
ICJ orders Israel to halt assault on Gaza's #Rafah
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/24/israel-gaza-war-live-icj-rafah-benjamin-netanyahu-latest-live-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6650978b8f080a302f01e72f#block-6650978b8f080a302f01e72f
By July 5 though, the UK may shift it's position again once the (heavily elections favored) Labour party takes over.
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The #US and the #UK will reject the international court of justice order directing #Israel to end its offensive on #Rafah after slowly blurring their red lines that once stated that they could not support a military offensive in Rafah. #TheHague
US and UK to back #Israel over #ICJ ruling after blurring their Rafah red lines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/24/us-and-uk-to-back-israel-against-icj-while-blurring-their-rafah-red-lines
#Biden also told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah #AlSisi in a call that he supported efforts to reopen the southern #RafahCrossing under terms acceptable to both #Egypt and #Israel and that the #US would send a senior team to Cairo next week for talks, according to a White House statement.
US, Egypt Agree to Allow Aid Into #Gaza Through #KeremShalom
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-05-24/us-egypt-agree-to-allow-aid-into-gaza-through-kerem-shalom
The longer the war drags on, without any concrete plan for the day after, the lower morale drops. Talks to free the 100 or so remaining #IsraeliHostages have repeatedly collapsed, while #Hamas and #Lebanon’s #Hezbollah are still disrupting daily life with rocket attacks.
‘We are divided’: unity in #Israel fades as war in #Gaza approaches ninth month
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/27/unity-israel-war-in-gaza-approaches-ninth-month
The strike, one of the deadliest single incidents in the eight-month war to date, came two days after the international court of justice in #TheHague, which arbitrates between states, ordered #Israel to stop its operation in #Rafah immediately. #Gaza
Global shock after Israeli airstrike kills dozens in Rafah tent camp
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/27/global-shock-after-israeli-airstrike-kills-dozens-in-rafah-tent-camp
#YossiCohen, the former head of the #Mossad (#Israel’s foreign intelligence agency) allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (#ICC) in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning a #WarCrimes investigation, the Guardian can reveal. #Israel #TheHague #Palestine
Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry
Residents said Israeli tanks were stationed on and around the #Zurub hilltop, a high ground overlooking western #Rafah, having advanced from the area near the Egyptian border crossing, where Israeli forces launched an incursion three weeks ago. #Israel #Gaza
Tanks reach Rafah’s centre as Israel presses assault despite global outcry
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/israeli-forces-press-rafah-offensive-despite-global-outcry
Tuesday's move by #Spain, #Ireland and #Norway will mean the majority of the #UN's 193 member states will now recognise #PalestinianStatehood.
These include many Middle Eastern, African and Asian countries. #Israel #Gaza
Ireland, Norway join Spain in ‘historic decision’ to formally recognise a Palestinian state
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240528-ireland-norway-to-join-spain-in-historic-decision-to-formally-recognise-a-palestinian-state
Spain, Ireland and Norway will formally recognise a Palestinian state on Tuesday in what Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday called a "historic decision". The move has been slammed by Israel as a "reward" for Hamas more than seven months into the devastating Gaza war.
Investigation reveals how #Israel's intelligence agencies tried to derail #WarCrimes prosecution, with #Netanyahu ‘obsessed’ with intercepts.
Details of #Israel’s nine-year campaign to thwart the #ICC’s inquiry have been uncovered by #TheGuardian, an Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Local Call, a Hebrew-language outlet. #TheHague
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the #ICC exposed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying-hacking-intimidation-israel-war-icc-exposed
An investigative reporter with #Israel’s leading leftwing newspaper, #Haaretz, has said unnamed senior security officials threatened actions against him if he reported on attempts by the former head of the #Mossad to intimidate the ex-prosecutor of the #InternationalCriminalCourt. #ICC #TheHague #Gaza
Israeli journalist describes threats over reporting on spy chief and ICC
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/journalist-threatened-over-reporting-on-spy-chief-and-icc-israeli-newspaper-says
Citing #TheGuardian’s investigation, Dutch MPs from the liberal-progressive #D66 and #Green-#Labour alliance have condemned the alleged activities and called for more information on what the Dutch state knows about it, and an independent investigation. #TheHague #Gaza
#DutchMPs call for inquiry into reports #Israel spied on #ICC lawyers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/31/dutch-mps-call-for-inquiry-into-reports-israel-spied-on-icc-lawyers#img-1
#Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
But, #Israel’s war on #Gaza has fuelled anti-Israeli sentiment in Egypt and ties are strained amid fears in #Cairo that Israel wants to trigger a mass exodus of desperate #Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt’s #SinaiPeninsula.
Egypt denies agreement with Israel to reopen #Rafah border crossing: Report
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/31/israels-war-on-gaza-live-unrelenting-nightmare-for-weary-palestinians?update=2938811
#US president outlines deal that would offer #PermanentCeasefire and Israeli withdrawal for #HostageRelease and rebuilding effort. #Israel #GazaCeasefire
#Biden urges #Hamas to accept Israeli plan for #GazaCeasefire: ‘Time for this war to end’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/31/biden-hamas-israel-gaza-ceasefire-plan
#Indonesia's president-elect, #PrabowoSubianto, said on Saturday that his country was willing to send peacekeeping troops to enforce a ceasefire in #Gaza if required.
Speaking at the #ShangriLaDialogue, Asia's premier security conference, Prabowo said U.S. President #JoeBiden's three-phase proposal for a #GazaCeasefire was a step in the right direction. #Israel
Prabowo says #Indonesia willing to send peacekeeping troops to #Gaza
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/prabowo-says-indonesia-willing-to-send-peacekeeping-troops-to-gaza/ar-BB1nrscJ?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
#SouthAfrica's case against #Israel over allegations of #genocide before the #InternationalCourtOfJustice has raised a central question of international law: what is genocide and how do you prove it? #TheHague #ICC
Why genocide is so hard to prove?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/why-genocide-is-so-hard-to-prove/vi-BB1mqzXs?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
#Israel’s opposition leader has urged Benjamin #Netanyahu to heed Joe Biden’s call for a #GazaTruce under which #Hamas would free hostages. #Gaza
The battles in #Jabaliya between lightly armed #Hamas militants and a powerful #IDF force underlined the ability of Hamas to return to parts of #Gaza from which it was forced to retreat by earlier Israeli offensives, threatening a “#ForeverWar” for months or even years to come.
Hamas still strong in areas ‘cleared’ by #Israel in northern Gaza, say experts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/hamas-still-strong-in-areas-cleared-by-israel-in-northern-gaza-say-experts
"Numerous leaders and governments, including in the region, have endorsed this plan and we call on the #SecurityCouncil to join them in calling for implementation of this deal," said US Ambassador to the U.N. #LindaThomasGreenfield in a statement. #Israel
#US seeks #UN backing for proposed #GazaCeasefire deal
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-seeks-un-backing-for-proposed-gaza-ceasefire-deal/ar-BB1nz4hI?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
#Israel's parks authority said earlier on Monday that fires had already covered hundreds of acres. The national fire service said its #firefighters were operating late into the night in several spots, including in the town of #KiryatShmona, where they were trying to protect a line of houses. #WildFires #Gaza
Fires set off by #Hezbollah rockets spread through northern Israel
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/fires-set-off-by-hezbollah-rockets-spread-through-northern-israel/ar-BB1nBerf?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
This leapt out to me this morning. It's significant, but I'm not sure why.
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#JERUSALEM (Reuters) - #AharonBarak, a former president of #Israel's #SupremeCourt, has resigned from his role as ad hoc judge on an #InternationalCourtOfJustice panel weighing a #genocide
allegation filed over the country's war in #Gaza, officials said on Wednesday. #TheHague
Israel's Barak quits ICJ panel, citing personal reasons
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/israel-s-barak-quits-icj-panel-citing-personal-reasons/ar-BB1nHoh8?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
News of #Israel’s inclusion on the list follows eight months of war on #Gaza, in which more than 13,000 children are estimated to be among the 36,500 killed, and comes a day after the Israeli bombing of a #UNSchool in central Gaza, which killed more than 40 Palestinians, some of them children.
#UN adds Israel to list of states committing violations against children
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/07/united-nations-israel-children-rights-violation
Saturday’s operation, the first successful military mission to free hostages since February, brings the number of #hostages rescued by the Israeli military to seven. There are still 120 hostages in the #GazaStrip, a third of whom are believed to have died.
#Israel rescues four hostages in #Gaza taken from #NovaMusicFestival
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/08/israel-rescues-four-hostages-in-gaza-taken-from-nova-music-festival
The Israeli politician and former military chief Benny Gantz has followed through on a threat to resign from Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency war cabinet, leaving the prime minister more reliant than ever on far-right elements of his coalition government.
He has accused #Netanyahu of pushing strategic considerations such as a hostage deal aside for his own political survival. #Israel #Gaza
Moderate politician #BennyGantz resigns from Israeli war cabinet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/09/moderate-politician-benny-gantz-resigns-israeli-war-cabinet
#Nuseirat market was crowded with #civilians when a #HostageRescue vehicle got stuck, and the bombing began. #Gaza
Like the horrors of judgment day’: the cost to #Palestinians of #Israel’s #HostageRescue
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/09/like-the-horrors-of-judgment-day-palestinians-on-israels-hostage-rescue
#Washington is struggling to gain the unequivocal backing of #Israel or #Hamas for a three-stage deal proposed by the #US president, #JoeBiden, that would lead to the release of all the remaining #hostages in return for Israel accepting steps towards a permanent ceasefire and the eventual withdrawal of its forces from #Gaza.
US to ask #UNSecurityCouncil to back Joe Biden’s #GazaPeaceDeal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/10/us-un-security-council-joe-biden-gaza-peace-deal
14 council members voted for Monday’s resolution, none against, and only #Russia abstained on the #US-drafted resolution, which calls for an initial exchange of #elderly, #sick or #women hostages for #PalestinianDetainees held by #Israel in the course of an initial six-week ceasefire.
The #ceasefire would evolve into a permanent end to hostilities and the release of all #hostages in a second phase.
#UNSecurityCouncil endorses US-backed hostages-for-ceasefire #Gaza deal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/10/un-security-council-us-gaza-ceasefire
The Lebanese militant group #Hezbollah has launched its biggest salvo of rockets at #Israel since the war in #Gaza began in apparent retaliation for the killing of a senior field commander, bringing the two sides closer to all-out conflict. #Lebanon
Hezbollah fires big salvo of rockets at Israel after senior commander killed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/12/hezbollah-fires-big-salvo-rockets-israel-senior-commander-killed?utm_source=press.coop
This simply can't go on.
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The attacks impacted at least 65 countries and forced at least 29 major energy and #ShippingCompanies to alter their routes, according to the rare public assessment by the #Pentagon’s Defence Intelligence Agency. #Houthis #Israel #Gaza
#RedSea attacks drove 90% drop in #ContainerShipping, US intelligence officials say
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/red-sea-attacks-drove-90-drop-in-container-shipping-us-intelligence-officials-say
She's hard to read isn't she? The #US #Republicans are children by comparison.
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Although she stressed it was necessary to remember the attacks on Israeli women and children on 7 October, #Meloni added “it seems that Israel has fallen into a trap, a #Hamas trap that had the aim of isolating it, and it seems to be working. We are working on its security". #Gaza #EU #HardRight
#Israel has fallen into #HamasTrap in #GazaWar, says Giorgia Meloni at G7
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/15/israel-hamas-trap-gaza-war-giorgia-meloni-at-g7
One #FilipinoSeafarer dead, his body will be repatriated asap by the government.
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Based on reports, #Houthi rebels off the western coast of #Yemen hit the #Liberia-flagged #MVTutor with #drones and #missiles on June 12. On board, the MV Tutor was 22 Filipino seafarers. #Philippines #Israel #Gaza
21 Filipino seafarers rescued from MV Tutor to arrive in #PH Monday
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/239728/21-filipino-seafarers-rescued-from-mv-tutor-to-arrive-in-ph-monday#ixzz8dJ4ZxInO
Move is apparent rebuff to #FarRight and attempt to tighten grip on decision-making over #Hamas and #Hezbollah. #Israel
Benjamin #Netanyahu dissolves Israeli war cabinet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/17/benjamin-netanyahu-dissolves-israel-war-cabinet
#Israel struck #Gaza on June 17 and witnesses reported blasts in the besieged territory’s south, but fighting has largely subsided after a day of relative calm and as Muslims marked #EidAlAdha
A daytime “pause” for aid deliveries announced at the weekend by Israel’s military around a southern Gaza route appeared to be holding.
Lull in Gaza fighting as Israel dissolves #WarCabinet
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/lull-in-gaza-fighting-as-biden-urges-truce-in-eid-message
We need a #ceasefire in #Gaza NOW - because we're THIS close to having the next Great #MiddleEastWar.
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The footage, if confirmed as real, would underline the mounting difficulties #Israel has encountered in dealing with the #DroneThreat from #Hezbollah, including several incidents where incoming #drones were not detected by Israeli air defence systems.
Hezbollah publishes surveillance drone footage it says shows locations in Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/18/hezbollah-publishes-surveillance-drone-footage-it-says-shows-locations-in-israel
The #USEnvoy had travelled to #Beirut following meetings in #Israel on Monday. #Israel’s #Haaretz reported that he had warned Israeli officials that continuing the Israeli-#Hezbollah confrontation could lead to a “wide-scale Iranian attack”. #Iran #Gaza
#US working to avert ‘greater war’ between Israel and Hezbollah: Biden envoy
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/18/us-working-to-avert-greater-war-between-israel-and-hezbollah-biden-envoy
The Greek-owned #MVTutor coal carrier attacked by #Houthi militants in the #RedSea last week has sunk, salvagers confirmed on Wednesday. The vessel was struck with #missiles and an explosive-laden remote-controlled boat, according to sources, reports Reuters. #USV #Israel #Gaza
Shipping industry urges #RedSea action as #Houthis sink second vessel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/19/israel-gaza-war-live-us-weapon-transfers-netanyahu-blinken?page=with:block-6672dd068f086ad5ae684ef4#block-6672dd068f086ad5ae684ef4
The head of the #Israel Defence Forces said the army is facing #TroopShortages amid rising #casualties in the war against #Hamas in #Gaza. Yet enlisting more troops is difficult due to rising #PublicOpposition to the war and an open conflict between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin #Netanyahu and his defence minister.
Israeli army in urgent need of troops amid rising casualties in Gaza
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240619-israeli-army-urgent-need-troops-amid-rising-casualties-in-gaza
The head of the Israel Defence Forces said the army is facing troop shortages amid rising casualties in the war against Hamas in Gaza. Yet enlisting more troops is difficult due to rising public opposition to the war and an open conflict between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his defence minister.
#AssafOrion, a former brigadier-general in the #Israel Defense Forces and its chief of strategy between 2010 and 2015, estimates that #Hezbollah has “tens times the arsenal of #Hamas” and implies that any conflict would be a similar order of magnitude greater than the hostilities in #Gaza after 7 October.
Israeli talk of war with Hezbollah almost certainly fresh attempt at deterrence
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/19/israeli-talk-of-war-with-hezbollah-almost-certainly-fresh-attempt-at-deterrence
@Norobiik Well if the claim that Hezbollah has 10X the combat strength of Hamas is true, Israel could actually lose this war the old fashioned military way.
Hezbollah's territory is a whole lot larger too. And Iran tends to help them.
Israel's enemies don't have to win on the ground, they just have to wear Israel out.
Norobiik @
mike805