Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrates toughness and names the conditions for an end to the Gaza war. Threats are coming from Iran against Israel, which is said to have killed a general in the Revolutionary Guard. The overview.
Israel continues to use military force against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Hamas fired rockets again at the border area with Israel. The sirens wailed there. The humanitarian situation for hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip remains precarious. After the death of an Iranian general in Syria, the conflict threatens to spread.
Netanyahu sets three conditions for ending the Gaza war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to troops fighting in Gaza that Israel would “deepen the fight in the coming days.” In a guest article for the “Wall Street Journal” (Tuesday), he named three conditions for peace: “Hamas must be destroyed, the Gaza Strip must be demilitarized and Palestinian society must be de-radicalized. These are the three conditions for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in the Gaza Strip.”
Netanyahu rejected international criticism. Israel “continues to act in full accordance with international law.” Israel is doing its best to keep the number of civilian casualties “as low as possible.”
The war was triggered by the terrorist attack by Hamas and other extremist groups on October 7th. They killed more than 1,200 people. Israel responded with massive air strikes and a ground offensive that has so far killed more than 20,600 people and injured more than 54,500, according to the Hamas-controlled health authority.
Report: Israeli minister discusses strategy in Washington
Netanyahu’s Minister for Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, wanted to present plans in Washington for a new, low-intensity phase in the war that would begin by the end of January, the news portal Axios reported, citing Israeli and US officials. The US wants Israel to move to more targeted operations.
The Israeli army continued its bombardment. According to the coastal strip’s health authority, which is controlled by the Islamist Hamas, at least 52 people died. According to the army on Tuesday, dozens of fighter jets in conjunction with ground troops attacked more than 100 targets – including tunnel shafts belonging to the Islamist Hamas and military installations.
The information from the army and the Gaza Strip could not initially be independently verified.
Hamas rejects new ceasefire
Hamas rejects a temporary ceasefire and calls for a permanent ceasefire. Hamas responded to an Arab media report that Egypt had drawn up a draft to end the Gaza war in several stages. This provides for a ceasefire of at least two weeks, it was said. During a first ceasefire lasting several days at the end of November, 105 hostages were exchanged for 240 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
After the death of a general: Sharp threats from Tehran to Israel
The death of an Iranian general in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Syria raises tensions in the region. Iranian Defense Ministry spokesman Reza Talaei-Nik threatened Israel, according to the Tasnim news agency: “The Zionists (Israel) must prepare for the consequences of their crime… and they will be painful.”
Senior member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), General Sejed-Rasi Mousavi, was killed on Monday in an explosion in a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus.
According to information from the New York Times, Mousavi is said to have helped oversee the delivery of rockets and other weapons to the Lebanese Hezbollah militia.
The only thing the Israeli military said about the general’s death was that it did not comment on foreign media reports. The New York Times wrote that Israeli officials acknowledged that they were preparing for possible Iranian retaliation.
Israel is attacking targets in Syria to prevent Iran from expanding its military influence there with the help of militias. Both Lebanon and Syria are neighboring countries of Israel.
For Tehran, Syria is part of the so-called “Axis of Resistance” in the fight against Israel, alongside the Shiite organization Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Islamist Hamas. According to US intelligence, Iran also supports the Houthi rebels in Yemen and militias in Iraq.
Mutual shelling continues on the Israeli-Lebanese border
In the border area between Israel and Lebanon, Hezbollah and the Israeli army once again fired at each other. The Shiite militia said it had shelled military targets in Israel and scored “direct hits.” An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon hit a church in northern Israel, according to the Israeli military. A civilian was also injured in the town of Ikrit. The information provided by both sides could not initially be independently verified.
Source: Stern
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