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Israel-Gaza war: IDF says 24 soldiers killed in Gaza in one day
MOUSHUMI RAHMAN MOU
The Israeli armed forces revealed that 24 of its fighters were killed in Gaza on Monday - the deadliest day for its forces since the start of their ground operations.
It included 21 reservists who were killed in an explosion possibly caused by mines that Israeli forces planted in two structures to destroy them, the Israeli Guard Forces (IDF) said.
A rocket fired by Palestinian armed fighters is believed to have hit a tank near the structure.
IDF research occurred.
Its chief representative, Rear Chief of Naval Operations Daniel Hagari, said the defenders were killed in the focal Gaza on Monday around 16:00 (14:00 GMT) - near the Kibbutz of Kisufim on the Israeli border.
He said they were involved in an activity to encourage residents of southern Israel to consider returning safely to their homes after tens of thousands of people were evacuated following an October 7 attack by Hamas.
On Monday, Israel's military previously confirmed that three officers were killed in a separate attack in southern Gaza.
Israeli state leader Benjamin Netanyahu described Monday's aftermath as "one of the most troubled days since the conflict ended."
"For our legends, for our lives, we will not give up the fight until we win outright," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said it was a "very disturbing morning" to learn of the level of casualties.
"For the entire country, I console the families and appeal to God for the recovery of the injured," he said.
Israel ended the conflict with the ostensible point of destroying Hamas when a flood of its gunmen killed 1,300 people - mostly regulars - and kidnapped around 250 in an unprecedented attack.
According to the IDF site, 217 fighters have been killed since the start of Israel's ground incursion on October 27, out of 545 killed since October 7.
No less than 25,295 people – mainly women and children – have been killed in the Israeli military mission in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Wellbeing Service.
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Saturday, January 20, 2024
Rifts emerge among top Israeli officials over how to handle the war against Hamas in Gaza
M.AMINUR RAHMAN
An individual from Israel's ConThe Conflict Office cast uncertainty over the country's system for handing over prisoners held by Hamas, saying only a truce can free them, while the state leader dismissed the United States' rights to re-escalate its hostilities.
The statements by Gadi Eisenkot, former head of the armed forces, marked the latest sign of conflict among top Israeli authorities over the importance of the conflict against Hamas, now in its fourth month.
In his most memorable public explanations of the course of the conflict, Eisenkot said that ensuring that the many prisoners could be released involved more than just a truce, besides spreading "hoaxes" - an analysis by top state leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who heads the Office of Five-Party War and that demands that the pursuit of conflict will achieve its delivery.
Eisenkot's claims came as certain relatives of prisoners have escalated their fights, an indication of growing disappointment over the public authority's apparent lack of progress toward an agreement to hand over the remaining hostages.
Eli Shtivi, whose son Idan, 28, has been held in Gaza since he was captured by Hamas raiders during the Clan of Nova's live outside event on October 7, began a longing strike Friday night in front to Netanyahu's confidential beach house. border city of Caesarea. Shtivi vowed to eat only a quarter of a pita a day (the revealed daily feast of the prisoners) until the head of state consents to meet him. Many people joined him in what coordinators said was a short-term fight.
The other day, Israeli police armed with rifles fought with protesters who blocked a major highway in Tel Aviv to demand a quick deal to hand over prisoners. Police confined seven dissidents for short periods, according to Israeli media.
Meanwhile, mail began slowly returning to Gaza after a nearly eight-day power outage, the longest since the conflict began. The telephone and Internet blackout made it almost impossible for people in Gaza to communicate with the rest of the world or within the territory, hampering the delivery of philanthropic guidance and rescue efforts amid the Israeli bombardment.
For a week, Gaza's occupiers have been trying to get a signal on their phones. Many head to the ocean side, where some may find a non-Palestinian organization. With families dissipated in the small Mediterranean region, networks are critical to ensuring family members stay alive as Israeli airstrikes destroy their homes.
"The people behind me came to mind from their peers, relatives, friends and relatives," Karam Mezre said, alluding to others sitting with him on a rock next to the ocean in central Gaza, checking their phones.
In any case, when the mail does return, "it is irregular and not constant," said Hamza Al-Barasi, who was uprooted from Gaza City.
The power outage has also made it difficult for data to escape Gaza about daily passage and destruction by Israel's hostiles. The attack has hit much of the Gaza Strip, home to some 2.3 million people, as Israel vows to pulverize Hamas after its phenomenal October 7 attack on Israel. About 1,200 people, generally ordinary people, died in the assault, and another 250 were kidnapped. Israel has stated that more than 130 prisoners remain in Gaza, but it is not accepted that all of them are alive.
Israel's hostilities, one of the deadliest and most damaging military missions in history, have killed nearly 25,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health experts, and wiped out more than 80% of the region's population.
Israel has also withdrawn all but a flow of supplies into the blockaded region, including food, water and fuel, sparking what U.N. officials say is a merciful debacle.
The United States, Israel's closest partner, has important areas of strength to provide and political help for the mission, but has progressively moved closer to Israel to reduce its attack and move toward designing a Palestinian state after the conflict, an idea which Netanyahu has sufficiently ruled out.
During a widely reported news conference on Thursday, Netanyahu reiterated his long-standing resistance to a two-state deal, saying Israel "should have a security command in the entire area west of the Jordan waterway."
On Friday, President Joe Biden and Netanyahu spoke by phone after a glaring nearly four-week gap in direct correspondence amid central contrasts over their dreams for Gaza once the conflict ends.
Biden, for all he cares, in Friday's call reaffirmed his obligation to continue helping the Palestinians move toward statehood.
Netanyahu and Defense Pastor Yoav Courageous have also said the fighting will continue until Hamas is crushed and maintain that major military activity can secure the release of prisoners.
In any case, observers have begun to question whether Netanyahu's goals are reasonable, given the slow pace of the hostile and developing global analysis, including accusations of massacre at the United Nations world court, which Israel strongly denies. Experts blame Netanyahu for trying not to delay investigations into legislative deceptions, taking care of his alliance and postponing the elections. Polls show that the notoriety of Netanyahu, who is being investigated over corruption allegations, has declined during the conflict.
Speaking on Israeli TV Station 12's analytical program "Uvda," Eisenkot said that Israeli prisoners "will possibly return alive in case there is an agreement, related to a critical respite in the battle." According to him, the sensational rescue efforts are far-fetched, since the prisoners are clearly fanned out, many of them in underground passages.
Ensuring that prisoners can be released by means other than an agreement "is spreading deceptions," said Eisenkot, whose son was killed in December while fighting in Gaza.
The Brave Guard cleric has said the troops weakened Hamas' order structure in northern Gaza, from which critical numbers of troops were withdrawn earlier in the week, and that the focus is currently on the southern part of the Gaza Strip. region.
However, Eisenkot also excused the idea that the military has dealt a definitive blow against Hamas.
"We have not yet reached an essential achievement, or rather something," Eisenkot said. "We did not end Hamas."
The group of attackers has continued to retaliate throughout Gaza, including in the most devastated regions, and has launched rockets towards Israel.
At his meeting, Eisenkot also stated that a negative cautionary signal against Hezbollah's civilian army in Lebanon was canceled without a second to spare during the start of the conflict. He said he was among those who opposed such a strike at an October 11 Bureau meeting that, he said, left him screaming.
Such an attack would have been an "essential mistake" and would likely have triggered a local conflict, Eisenkot said.
In a less than subtle analysis of Netanyahu, Eisenkot also said that key decisions regarding the course of the conflict should be made cautiously and that a conversation about a final plan should have started after the conflict began.
He said he analyzes every day whether he should remain in the War Office, which also includes Netanyahu, Chivalrous, former guard priest Benny Gantz and Ron Dermer, key firms serving in Netanyahu's government. Eisenkot is a parliament that is part of the Public Solidarity collusion resistance led by Gantz.
"I understand what my red line is," Eisenkot said when asked when he would stop. "It is associated with the prisoners, who are one of the targets, but on the other hand it is associated with the way we want to manage this conflict."
The conflict has spread across the Middle East, with Iranian-backed groups pursuing American and Israeli targets. Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah attackers in Lebanon leads to full-scale war, and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen continue to focus on global supplies despite US-led airstrikes.
The United States on Friday launched its sixth negative mark against Houthi rebels in Yemen, eliminating the enemies with rocket launchers that were ready to fire, according to a US official who spoke about the secrecy status to examine continuing military activities. President Joe Biden has acknowledged that the siege of the attackers currently does not seem to be able to stop their attacks on delivery in the important Red Ocean corridor.
AP-News
Friday, January 19, 2024
US strikes Houthi anti-ship missiles, shipping disruptions grow
MITALI RAHMAN MITA
The United States on Thursday sent new negative signals against Houthi foes for rocket transport aimed at the Red Ocean, as developing pressure on the region's sea lanes disrupted global trade and raised fears of supply disruptions that could reignite the expansion.
Two of the boat rockets designated for strikes by Yemen's Houthis were poised to end up in the Red Sea and were considered "an imminent threat" to shipping and US Navy ships in the district, the US military said.
Attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthi civilian army on ships in and around the Red Sea since November have eased trade between Asia and Europe and alarmed major powers in the escalation of conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza.
In the second attack on a US-operated ship in the district this week, the Genco Picardy was attacked in the Gulf of Aden late on Wednesday, setting off a fire and prompting the Indian Navy to rescue the group.
India has sent a warship to the area to protect the 22 crew aboard Genco Picardy, including nine Indians. The team was all safe and the fire was extinguished.
The Houthis say they are working firmly with the Palestinians and have taken steps to target US ships in light of American and British attacks on assembly sites.
The approach sought by U.S. President Joe Biden — a mix of limited military strikes and support — appears geared toward preventing a broader center-east struggle while Washington tries to repel the Houthis, security and military experts said.
Biden acknowledged on Thursday that the strike had not stopped attacks by the attackers but said the US military response would go ahead.
"Can it be said that they are stopping the Houthis? No. Can it be said that they will advance? Indeed," Biden told reporters aboard Flying Corps One.
The Pentagon tried to portray the US attack as a watchful display of maritime defense.
"We are not at war with the Houthis," Pentagon representative Sabrina Singh said. "The Houthis are the ones who keep sending cruise rockets, hostile to deliver rockets to innocent mariners... What we are doing with our allies, is self-defense."
In the most recent sign that the Houthis are trying to go after the ships steadily, British maritime security agency Ambre said a Marshall Islands-recognized material item revealed the robots' suspicious approach 103 miles southeast of the large hauler Aden.
The Houthis have claimed responsibility, saying they targeted an American boat chemical officer with a sea-based rocket, causing a "direct hit".
"The Yemeni military confirms that retaliation for the American and British attacks is inevitable, and that any new hostilities will not be tolerated," a demand from the rally said.
In another episode, Ambrey said, a U.S.-claimed large vehicle detailed four automated ethereal vehicles approached and surrounded the ship, about 87 miles southeast of Mukalla, Yemen.
Following the attack in Genco Picardy, the US military said its forces fired 14 Houthi rockets on Wednesday that "presented an imminent danger to shipping and US Navy ships in the area". White House public safety spokesman John Kirby told columnists on board the aviation-based Armed Forces One that Thursday's strike was similar to Wednesday's.
News Source-REUTERS
Thursday, January 18, 2024
After the Tehran attack, Pakistan sent retaliatory airstrikes to Iran, killing at least 7 people
MITHILA RAHMAN TUSI
Pakistan's aviation-based armed forces carried out retaliatory airstrikes in Iran early Thursday morning targeting the aggressors, an attack that killed at least seven people and heightened tensions between the neighboring countries.
Attacks in Sistan and Balochistan regions followed an Iranian attack on Pakistani soil on Tuesday that killed two children in the southwestern Balochistan region. The attacks on Tuesday and Thursday appeared to target separate Baloch militant groups after the two countries claimed to be tracking down each other's sanctuaries.
The attack jeopardizes strategic ties between the two neighbors, as Iran and nuclear-armed Pakistan have long respected each other with suspicions of aggressive strikes.
News source - AP
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Iran says strikes targeted militant group in Pakistan
MITHILA RAHMAN TUSI
Iran says it has hit an aggressor bunch in western Pakistan, its third air strike on one more country this week after prior assaults on focuses in Iraq and Syria.
Iranian state television said the activity hit two destinations in Balochistan connected to the assailant bunch Jaish al-Adl.
Pakistani authorities said two youngsters were killed and three others harmed.
Islamabad said the air strike was an "unlawful demonstration" and cautioned it could prompt "serious outcomes".
The most recent air strike come during a period of developing pressure across the Center East, with over 100 days of extraordinary conflict among Israel and the Palestinian gathering Hamas in Gaza and US-UK air strikes on Yemen, from where Iran-supported Houthis have been going after business delivering in the Red Ocean.
Tuesday's strike in Pakistan hit a town in the huge south-western boundary region of Balochistan. Tehran said it was focusing on Jaish al-Adl, or "multitude of equity", an ethnic Baloch Sunni bunch that has completed assaults inside Iran as well as on Pakistani government powers.
Late on Monday Iran sent off terminated long range rockets against focuses in Iraq's northern city of Irbil, provoking judgment by the US.
Iran's Progressive Watchmen said they struck what they guaranteed were an Israeli "spy base camp" in Iraq's semi-independent Kurdistan Area. Four regular citizens were killed and six hurt in the assault, nearby specialists said.
Iran then, at that point, hit focuses in Syria's north-western Idlib territory, which is the final resistance fortification in the country, beyond Syrian government control, and is home to 2.9 million uprooted individuals, a large number of whom are residing in desperate circumstances in camps.
Iran's Progressive Gatekeepers said the strikes in Syria were in counter during the current month's self destruction besieging that killed 84 as groups denoted the fourth commemoration of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani's death by the US.
Tehran has proclaimed that it would rather not engage in a more extensive clash radiating from the conflict in Gaza. Be that as it may, bunches in its supposed "Hub of Obstruction", which incorporate the Houthis, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and different gatherings in Syria and Iraq, have been doing assaults on Israel and its partners to show fortitude with the Palestinians.
Following the assault an on its area, Pakistan censured what it called an "unjustifiable infringement of its airspace by Iran". It said added that it was "considerably really worried that this unlawful demonstration has occurred notwithstanding the presence of a few channels of correspondence among Pakistan and Iran".
Pakistan and Iran's relationship is sensitive however friendly. This assault occurred around the same time as Pakistan's top state leader and Iran's unfamiliar pastor met in Davos and keeping in mind that Iranian and Pakistan naval force kept military drills intact in the Bay.
However both have blamed the other for holding onto aggressor bunches that do assaults on the other in their line regions for a really long time. In 2017 the Pakistan unfamiliar service said that an Iranian robot was shot down as it was inside Pakistan region, and in 2014 Iranian security powers crossed the line to seek after aggressors.
Security on one or the other side of their common boundary, which runs for around 900km (559 miles), has been a long-running worry for the two legislatures.
Tehran has connected Jaish al-Adl with assaults last month near the boundary, which killed in excess of twelve Iranian cops.
At that point, Iran's inside serve Ahmad Vahidi said the aggressors mindful had entered the country from Pakistan.
China on Wednesday asked Pakistan and Iran to show "limitation" and "keep away from activities that would prompt an acceleration of pressure". Unfamiliar service representative Mao Ning added that Beijing saw the nations as "close neighbors".
Jaish al-Adl is the "most dynamic and powerful" Sunni assailant bunch working in Sistan-Baluchestan, as per the workplace of the US Overseer of Public Knowledge. It is assigned as a psychological oppressor bunch by Washington and Tehran.
News Source-BBC NEws
Monday, January 15, 2024
Yemen Houthi rebels fire missile at US warship in Red Sea in first attack after American-led strikes
MITHILA RAHMAN TUSI
Yemen's Houthi rebels fired a rocket at an American destroyer in the Red Sea, but it was shot down by a US fighter jet in the latest attack to upset the global spread of Israel's conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, authorities said.
Sunday's attack marked the first US-recognized fire by the Houthis since the US and partner nations launched an offensive against the dissidents following a prolonged attack on supplies in the Red Sea on Friday.
The Houthis have designated the key passageway linking Asian and Middle Eastern fuel and cargo shipments to Europe over the Suez Canal in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, after moves to escalate the conflict into provincial unrest.
The Houthis, an Iran-aligned Shiite rebel group in the Yemeni capital in 2014, did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack.
On Sunday, Houthi fire came down the path of the USS Laboon, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer operating in the southern compass of the Red Ocean, US military headquarters said in a statement.
The US said the rocket reached the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, long held by the Houthis.
"An enemy boat sailed from the Iran-backed Houthi-controlled area of Yemen towards the USS Laboon," the headquarters said. "No injuries or damage were reported."
The main day of US-led strikes hit 28 areas on Friday and more than 60 centers were hit by rockets and bombs launched by competing aircraft, warships and a submarine. The US says the destination houses weapons depots, radars and war rooms, notable for its rugged mountainous terrain.
The Houthis are currently unable to identify the extent of casualties from the strike, which they say has killed five of their soldiers and wounded six others.
US forces attacked Houthi radar sites on Saturday.
Traffic through the Red Ocean slowed after the attack. The US Navy on Friday warned American-led ships to avoid areas around Yemen in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden for 72 hours after the alleged airstrikes.
As far as they are concerned, the Houthis have confirmed without providing evidence that the US hit a site near Hodeidah during the same season of rocket fire on Sunday. The Americans and the Unified Realm did not recognize any strike directive - suggesting the impact may have been from a stray Houthi rocket.
Since November, dissidents have repeatedly put designated ships in the Red Sea, saying they are retaliating against Hamas for Israel's hostilities in Gaza. Regardless, they are often designated as vessels with dubious or unequivocal connections to Israel, jeopardizing transportation on an important route for global exchange.
Indeed, even the head of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in a speech on Sunday noted the expansion of Houthi attacks on ships, saying that "the sea has become a battlefield for rockets, robots and warships" and accused the United States of attacking. This is due to the increase in sea pressure.
"The most dangerous thing is what the Americans have done in the Red Ocean (it) will destroy the security of all sea lanes," Nasrallah said.
But while the Biden organization and its allies have sought to calm tensions in the Middle East and prevent a larger conflict, the Red Sea attack took an enlightening step.
Saudi Arabia, which backs the Yemeni government far and wide, has been embarrassed that the Houthis are fighting, and has tried to reduce ties to attacks on Houthi areas as it tries to maintain a sensitive detente and cease-fire with Iran. It is in Yemen. The Saudi-led, US-led war in Yemen, which began in 2015, has killed more than 150,000 people, including fighters and regular civilians, and led to one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters, killing tens of thousands more.
The American military did not say specifically whether the fire marked Labun, following a US precedent since the Houthi offensive began. Nevertheless, US sailors received battle stripes for their actions in the Red Ocean - which are awarded exclusively to those facing a dynamic threat with enemy forces.
News source-ABC News
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