<a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/deadly-gaza-conflict-hamas-announces-over-7000-deaths-including-3000-children/" title="Deadly Gaza Conflict: Hamas Announces Over 7,000 Deaths, Including 3,000 Children”>Yahya Sinouar remains a “source of inspiration” in the Middle East, says Iran
The Palestinian leader “is a source of inspiration for resistance fighters in the region,” Abbas Araghchi said in a statement released after Hamas confirmed the death of its leader.
The Palestinian Islamist movement is part of the “axis of resistance”, bringing together armed groups aligned with Iran in the Middle East and which target Israel and its American ally.
Two attackers killed by Israel were members of the Muslim Brotherhood
The two attackers were “members of the brotherhood and have always participated in events in support of Gaza and the resistance,” said Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Moadh al-Khawaldeh.
Hezbollah launched drones at soldiers in northern Israeli city of Safed
In a statement, the powerful pro-Iranian formation added that this attack which targeted “gatherings of soldiers” in the city comes “in response to the attacks of the Israeli enemy on the villages” of southern Lebanon.
New death toll of 42,500 in Gaza
The Health Ministry of the Hamas government in Gaza announced a new death toll of 42,500 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel more than a year ago.
At least 62 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, he said in a statement, adding that 99,546 people had been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, sparked by an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Yemen’s Houthis offer ‘sincere condolences’
“Our sincere condolences […] to Hamas and the Palestinian people for the martyrdom of the great leader Yahya Sinouar, who fought for the noblest and most just cause,” their spokesperson Mohammed Abdelsalam wrote on X. They also vowed that “Gaza and the Palestinian cause will triumph regardless of the scale of the sacrifices.”
Lebanese Hezbollah will continue to “support” the Palestinians
Lebanese Hezbollah, which entered into open war with Israel in support of Palestinian Hamas, offered its condolences to its ally whose leader Yahya Sinouar was killed in Gaza, saying it “stands alongside the Palestinian people”.
In a press release, the pro-Iranian group, whose leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was assassinated at the end of September by Israel, salutes Yahya Sinouar “who fought the American project and the Zionist occupier and shed his blood to the point of becoming a martyr”. She says she “reaffirms her support for the Palestinian people” who “resist under criminal Zionist aggression”.
The head of the Italian government Giorgia Meloni arrived in Beirut
The Italian Prime Minister arrived in Beirut on Friday, the first head of state or government to visit Lebanon since the intensification of Israeli strikes on the country at the end of September.
Meloni, whose country is the first Western contributor to the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and which also holds the rotating presidency of the G7, was welcomed at Rafic Hariri airport in Beirut by her Lebanese counterpart Najib Mikati, according to his services.
Hamas says hostages will not return until ‘aggression against Gaza stops’
Hamas said Friday that the hostages would not be released until Israel ends its war in the Gaza Strip, its army withdraws from the territory and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel are not released. released.
The hostages “will not return…until the aggression against our people in Gaza ceases, there is a complete withdrawal from the territory and our heroic prisoners are released from the prisons of occupation,” Khalil al-Hayya, a Qatar-based leader of the movement, said in a video broadcast on al-Jazeera.
Hamas says Sinwar’s death will “strengthen” the movement
Hamas said Friday that the death of its leader, Yahya Sinouar, killed Wednesday by Israel, will only “strengthen” the Palestinian Islamist group.
“The martyrdom of our leader Yahya al-Sinouar… will only strengthen our movement and our resistance,” Khalil al-Hayya, a Hamas member based in Qatar, said in a video recording broadcast on the Al-TV channel. Jazeera.
Israel mobilizes additional troops near the Lebanese border
The Israeli army announced Friday the mobilization of additional troops in the north of the country to continue “the fight” against the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah.
The army “sends an additional reserve brigade for operational missions in the north”, in order to “continue the fight” against Hezbollah and “achieve the objectives of the war, including the return of the inhabitants of northern Israel » displaced for a year by Hezbollah rocket fire, she said in a statement.
Sinouar’s death provides opportunity for ‘a path to peace,’ Biden says
The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinouar opens the opportunity for “a path to peace” in the Middle East and a “better future in Gaza, without Hamas,” US President Joe Biden said on Friday , visiting Berlin.
With Israel’s elimination of the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement “hopefully opens the prospect” of a ceasefire in Gaza and that of an “agreement on the release of hostages” held since the October 7, 2023, declared Chancellor Olaf Scholz when receiving Joe Biden.
Lebanon denounces “blatant interference by Iran”, a first
The Lebanese Prime Minister denounced Iran’s “blatant interference” on Friday for the first time after remarks by an Iranian official claiming to be ready to negotiate a ceasefire in Lebanon and requested the summons of the person responsible for Iranian business in Beirut.
Israeli strikes in Gaza after the death of Yahya Sinouar
The Israeli army says it has “neutralized” two attackers who entered through Jordan
The Israeli army announced Friday that it had “neutralized” two attackers who entered Israel through Jordan south of the Dead Sea and opened fire on soldiers, the day after the death of Palestinian Hamas leader Yahya Sinouar.
The military “identified several terrorists who crossed the border from Jordan into Israeli territory south of the Dead Sea. Soldiers were deployed to the scene and two terrorists who opened fire on the soldiers were neutralized,” the army said in a statement.
The head of French diplomacy welcomes an “inflection” from Netanyahu
The head of French diplomacy welcomed on Friday an “inflection” in the rhetoric of the Israeli Prime Minister. “I see a change in the speech of Benyamin Netanyahu who yesterday (…) announced (…) the beginning of the end” of the war in Gaza, declared Jean-Noël Barrot, on France Inter.
“I hope that this is the moment when the war in Gaza ends, and the moment when the region moves resolutely in the direction of peace,” he added, stressing that Israel’s security is not could “be permanently guaranteed only on the condition that dialogue and diplomacy take precedence over force”.
For Emmanuel Macron, the death of Sinouar is a “turning point” in the war
For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron declared to the press that the death of the Hamas leader represented an “opportunity” to be seized to put an end to military operations. This is a “turning point” in the war, he wrote on the social network X later that night.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris react to the death of Yahya Sinouar
Thursday evening, after the announcement of the death of Yahya Sinouar, American President Joe Biden hailed a “good day for Israel, the United States and the world”. The President of the United States said he had telephoned Benjamin Netanyahu to congratulate him on the death of the Hamas leader, adding that he “hoped” to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza. Kamala Harris, Democratic candidate for the White House, also considered that his death offered “the opportunity” to “end” the war in Gaza.
For Iran, the death of Yahya Sinouar will “strengthen the spirit of resistance”
Iran, supporter of Hamas, assured that the death of Yahya Sinouar would “strengthen the spirit of resistance” with a view to the “liberation” of the occupied territories. “He will become a model for youth,” Iran’s mission to the United Nations in New York wrote on its X account, assuring that “the resistance will continue.”
Yesterday, the day was marked by the announcement of the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinouar
“The mass murderer Yahya Sinouar, responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was eliminated by the soldiers (of the Israeli forces),” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in a statement to the press.
Hello and welcome to this new live dedicated to the conflict in the Middle East
Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 Minutes is mobilized to give you all the information on the Middle East. As the guns speak in Lebanon and Gaza, causing thousands of civilian casualties, the conflict could further expand. Alongside its war against Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas, Israel claims to be preparing its response to the Iranian missile attack launched on October 1 against its territory.
