The war in the Middle East threatens to escalate further. The Israeli army has announced that it plans to intensify airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. Fighting is also taking place in the West Bank and Israel is now also warning Lebanon and the local militia Hezbollah, which has been attacking the north of the country with rockets from the Islamist Hamas since the October 7 massacres in Israeli border towns in southern Israel. the country. A live overview of the most important events of the day can be found here.
- The Israeli army has now issued a serious warning to Lebanon: “Hezbollah is attacking Lebanon and dragging it into a war in which it will win nothing but lose much.”
- The US is increasing its military presence in the Middle East. According to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, a battery of the state-of-the-art THAAD missile defense system will be deployed in the eastern Mediterranean. This will also be supported by units of the powerful Patriot air defense system.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on the phone with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip. Turkey calls for an early ceasefire.
Hamas’s brutal attacks and the war that followed are the latest sad chapter in the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Read a chronology of the bloody events here.
Source: Krone
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