After carrying out a new operation in the Gaza Strip, Israel announced having killed three terrorists this Thursday. However, their Defense Forces (IDF) They are analyzing whether one of the liquidated persons is Yahya Sinwarthe primary leader of Hamasthe armed force of Iran.
The investigation is also being carried out by Israel General Security Service (ISA), an organization that in a statement reported: “during IDF operations in the Gaza Strip, three terrorists were eliminated. The IDF and the ISA They are verifying the possibility that one of the terrorists was Yahya Sinwar”.
Likewise, they anticipated that they still cannot verify the identities of those killed. In that sense, they assure that ““There were no signs of the presence of hostages in the area.”in reference to the building where the operation was carried out.
Finally, the Israeli militias concluded their message by informing continue their activities operating in the area “with the required precaution,” and that will confirm the speculation regarding Sinwar They can barely verify it.
He Hamas group leader is pointed out as the main ideologue of the attacks that Iran initiated against Israel that October 7, 2023. For this reason, it is the objective to eliminate that the country commanded by Benjamin Netanyahu always had it as a priority.
Sinwar passed 22 years in an Israeli prison, and he was released in 2011. This was due to that exchange between Palestine and Israel, where the latter handed over more than 1,000 prisoners If the Middle Eastern country returned the soldier Gilad Shalitwho was detained in Gaza.
The whereabouts of this military leader are unknown since the beginning of the conflict last year. Likewise, Israel claimed that he was hiding in the tunnels accompanied by hostages.
The operation that led to his possible death was a bombing of a school in the refugee camp Jabaliya. The Israeli army denounced that said place functioned as “command and control center” of the Palestinian Jihad and Hamas.
The new map of the Middle East that Israel imagines
Israel currently is surrounded by tensions: Gaza to the south, the West Bank to the east and Lebanon to the north. These active fronts add to an escalation with Iran and its allied militias. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters see an opportunity to redefine Middle East geopolitics and ensure the country’s security. However, some experts believe that Israel could also be trying reconfigure your own borders.
For Roxane Farmanfarmaianan expert on Middle East politics at the University of Cambridge, Israel seems to be in a process of establish full control over the West Bank, Gaza and parts of southern Lebanon. The most extreme ministers in Netanyahu’s government have openly expressed their desire to ensure complete sovereignty from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.
Settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has accelerated since the start of the conflict in Gaza, affecting the viability of a two-state solution. David Schenker of the Washington Institute warns that the possibility of a Palestinian state is at its furthest point since the 1993 Oslo Accords.
In Gaza, Israeli army faces Hamas and has displaced 90% of the Strip’s 2.2 million inhabitants, with calls for possible reoccupation. The death toll is now approaching 42,000.
In the West Bank, Israel has increased its occupation of Palestinian landsallowing the expansion of settlers at an unprecedented rate. Meanwhile, in southern Lebanon, Israel has deployed approximately 15,000 troops and evacuated dozens of villages, occupying a quarter of the territory, according to UN estimates.
The reoccupation of the UN in the face of new Israeli bombing in Lebanon
New Israeli attacks in Lebanon They left last Saturday at least 15 people dead. Three towns north and south of Beirut were bombed by the Hebrew army.
As detailed by the Lebanese Ministry of Healththere was a “bombing by the Israeli enemy in Maaysra“, a town north of Beirut, with “nine dead and 15 wounded”; in Deir Billaon the north coast, left “two dead and four injured”; and in Barjasouth of the capital, left “four dead and 18 injured.”
In recent days, the Israeli army recently urged the inhabitants of 25 towns to move north, at the same time that it intensified its bombings and began ground raids in southern Lebanon.
The United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in Lebanon (Finul) This Saturday, he expressed his fear that the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon will lead to a “catastrophic” regional conflict.
Andrea Tenenti, The Finul spokesperson told AFP that the conflict in Lebanon threatens to “very soon become a regional conflict with catastrophic consequences for everyone.” Finul on Thursday accused the Israeli army of “repeated” and “deliberate” shooting at its positions.
Source: Ambito
