Israel’s conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon are set to dominate meetings in the Middle East and at the White House this week, after deadly Israeli airstrikes over the weekend highlighted the increasingly brutal toll.
On Monday, top officials from Arab and Islamic countries are meetingfor a summit in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, to “discuss the continued Israeli aggression on the Palestinian territories and the Lebanese Republic, and the current developments in the region,” according to Saudi state media.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday, although it is not clear how much influence the Biden administration has over Israel after Trump’s presidential election victory.
Here are other key developments
- Hezbollah spokesman Mohamad Afif said Monday that the Lebanese militant and political movement has “enough weapons, equipment and supplies for a long battle” with Israel.
- Israeli airstrikes killed dozens of people, at least 20 of them children, across Gaza and Lebanon on Sunday, health authorities said. The strikes included an attack that hit homes in the besieged Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
- At least 43,603 people have been killed in Gaza during the war and 102,929 injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. At least 3,243 people have been killed and 14,134 injured in Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry said. Neither agency distinguishes between civilians and combatants.
- Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, including more than 300 soldiers. It says 368 soldiers have been killed in its military operation in Gaza….
The IDF has destroyed the ability of Lebanese Hezbollah to conduct ground attacks into northern Israel, according to senior IDF officers. Hezbollah continues to threaten civilians in northern Israel with relatively long-range weapons, however.
Some in Iran’s new, more moderate government think the result of the presidential election provides an opportunity to make a lasting deal with the United States.
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