Latest news on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

In the Middle East overnight, Hezbollah announced a ‘new and escalating phase’ in its confrontation with Israel, while Iran said the spirit of resistance would strengthen following Israel’s reported killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Thursday.

According to a report on the Times of Israel website on the 10th, Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, said at a press conference in Tel Aviv that day that Hamas no longer controls most of the Gaza Strip.

According to the Jerusalem Post, on the 8th local time, the Israeli Health Minister reported to the Knesset Health Committee that since the conflict with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) broke out on October 7, 2023, a total of 13,000 Israelis have been injured. This includes more than 2,500 soldiers.

According to a report by Israel's Channel 12 TV station on the evening of January 8, the head of the Israeli security department has repeatedly warned Prime Minister Netanyahu in recent days that the situation in the West Bank is on the verge of escalation.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned that the war between Israel and Hamas "could easily" turn into a full-scale regional conflict. He is traveling across the Middle East to try to ease tensions and urge Israel to do more to protect civilians in Gaza.

Since the Israeli military air raided the Hamas office in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut on the 2nd, killing six people including Saleh Aluri, deputy chairman of the Hamas Politburo, the international community has become more concerned about the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. Fears of large-scale conflict are growing.

The nature of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has changed since then. Starting on October 7 last year, the main conflict was between Palestine and Israel. Now we see Israel and the United States on one side, and the resistance alliance represented by Iran on the other. The conflict has spilled over and is escalating.

Hamas sources said on the 2nd that Israeli air strikes on Beirut, Lebanon, killed Saleh Aluri, deputy chairman of the Hamas Politburo. Tensions between Lebanon and Israel are currently at their highest level.

The Israeli military said on the 1st local time that Israel would withdraw some troops from the Gaza Corridor. This is the first large-scale withdrawal of Israeli troops since the new round of conflict between Palestine and Israel in October last year.