Hamas…Israel Conflict Day 342…..Destroy Hamas Humanitarian Operation?

Hand wringing and disappointment about NO REAL path to a cease-fire/peace solution…

I hope the ISW story is NOT true…..

If it is?

The US should cease any help to Israel….

Israel is gonna starve the Palestinians ?

Are we talking about GEOCODE?

 

Israel’s defense minister told a senior adviser to President Biden on Monday that “military action” was “the only way” to end months of cross-border violence between Israel and Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militia.

The defense minister, Yoav Gallant, met with the adviser, Amos Hochstein, who came to Israel in an attempt to prevent Israel’s long-simmering conflict with the Iranian-backed militia from escalating into a broader war. Mr. Gallant said Israel needed to change the security situation on the northern border, but it was unclear what military action he may be proposing.

The defense minister’s comments appeared to dampen hopes of a diplomatic solution, as the White House has been seeking. Hezbollah and Israel’s military have been trading near-daily fire since last October, when the start of the war in the Gaza Strip prompted the militia to launch rocket attacks on northern Israel in solidarity with Hamas.

The cross-border clashes have intensified in recent months, driving tens of thousands of civilians on both sides of the border out of their homes, and as Israel scales down its assault against Hamas in Gaza it has freed up more of its forces for a possible offensive in the north against Hezbollah….

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France — which maintains direct lines of communication with Hezbollah — has been pursuing its own diplomatic solution at the same time. In recent months, Mr. Hochstein has sought to better coordinate efforts with French officials, who have also been vocal about the risk of military escalation.

On Monday, France’s ambassador to Israel, Frédéric Journès, also warned of a wider conflict.

“If a full-scale war starts in Lebanon, it could turn this whole thing into a regional conflict, and then you have a regional conflict in Ukraine and a second regional conflict in the Middle East,” he said at the Haaretz National Security Conference in Israel.

“Nobody wants this war,” he added. “Iran doesn’t want it, Hezbollah doesn’t want it and Israel doesn’t want it, and yet it is very possible that it happens.”

Despite the warnings, the tit-for-tat violence continued on Monday. Israel’s military said that it had struck Hezbollah “infrastructure” in southern Lebanon on Monday after “a number of projectiles” crossed from the country into Israeli territory…..

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• Polio in Gaza: Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the main U.N. agency that aids Palestinians in Gaza, said on Monday that the first round of a polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip had been successfully completed, with hundreds of thousands of children vaccinated. The next stage of the campaign aims to administer a second vaccine dose to each child by the end of September, he added.

• West Bank Violence: Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian school in the occupied West Bank and wounded seven people, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent and Palestinian new media. In a clip shared widely on X, three men armed with batons and speaking Hebrew are seen beating people in a school courtyard. The Times verified the location of the footage to a school northwest of Jericho in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said it had responded to the scene, where “a number of Palestinians were injured.” Since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel and the start of the war in Gaza, attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians across the West Bank have surged.

• Netanyahu rival goes to Washington: Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel’s parliamentary opposition, was in Washington on Monday. His office said he had met with Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, and was also scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. Mr. Lapid’s office said he had told Mr. Sullivan that Israel faced “the danger of a severe war” and that “anyone who is able to prevent it must invest every effort in doing so.” In a post on social media, Mr. Lapid said he had also told Mr. Sullivan that time was running out for the hostages being held in Gaza and that a deal for their return was urgently needed.

• Hamas’s political chief, Yahya Sinwar, congratulated the Houthi militia in Yemen for its missile attack on central Israel over the weekend in a letter published by the Houthi-run Saba news agency on Monday. It was the third missive from Mr. Sinwar, who is being hunted by the Israeli military in Gaza’s vast tunnel network, to emerge in about a week after an extensive silence. Last week, he wrote to Hezbollah’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah, thanking Hezbollah for its support Mr. Sinwar also wrote to Algeria’s president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to congratulate him on his re-election.

• A Greek oil tanker burning in the Red Sea has been towed to a safe area without an oil spill, the European Union’s maritime military operation in the Red Sea said on social media on Monday. Houthi militants had attacked the ship in late August and subsequently threatened tugboats trying to salvage the vessel, raising concerns of a potentially catastrophic environmental disaster. The E.U. group will continue to monitor the situation as private companies complete the salvage operation, it said. Houthi militants backed by Iran have been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea in solidarity with Hamas and its war with Israel in Gaza since last year, disrupting international shipping in one the world’s major waterways.

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Iran Update, September 16, 2024Sep 16, 2024 – ISW Press