US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has become the latest United States government -
USS Antony official to warn Israel that it cannot “reoccupy Gaza” after the war with Hamas, in response to recent comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu raised concerns this week after suggesting that the Israeli military could control security in Gaza “for an indefinite period” when fighting in the besieged Palestinian enclave ends.
The Israeli government has contended that its occupation of Gaza ended in 2005, when it withdrew military forces and settlers from the enclave. But that position has been described by Israeli rights group B’Tselem as “entirely baseless” and rejected by intertantional law
week were a reference to anti-ship missiles acquired from Russia, two sources in Lebanon familiar with the Iranian-backed group’s weaponry told Reuters.
That arsenal inclues the Russian-made Yakhont missile, which has a range of 300km (186 miles).
The US has deployed two aircraft carriers and supporting ships to the eastern Mediterreanean in what it says is an attempt to prevent the Israel-Hamas conflict from spreading.
Nasrallah said in a highly-anticipated speech on Friday that the ships “do not scare us, and will not scare us”.
“We have prepared for the fleets with which you threaten us,” he added.
A joint statement by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and the World Health Organization (WHO) says a convoy with much-needed medical supplies has been delivered to Gaza’s main hospital, al-Shifa.
It is the second delivery of “lifesaving supplies” to the hospital since October 7, UNRWA and the WHO said.
However, the supplies are “far from sufficient to respond to the immense needs” in Gaza, the agencies said.
Describing the situation at al-Shifa Hospital as “disastrous”, they said medical facilities across the Palestinian territory are running out of supplies and fuel.
“The ability of hospitals and medical facilities to operate is paramount especially
US news outlet The Hill, citing a Democratic aide, reports that the resolution to censure Republican Brian Mast has been yanked.
Democratic Congresswoman Sara Jaobs had tried to censure Mast for comments he made on the House floor last week.
He said: “As a whole, I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians, as is frequently said. I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term innocent Nazi civilians during World War II.”
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