Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, showed lame-duck President Joe Biden the U.S.’s game plan to bomb Iranian nuclear sites if it feels compelled to act before the inauguration of Donald Trump, according to a report in Axios last week.
Israeli forces—backed fully by the U.S.—continued their ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza last week and pushed Palestinians to the southern region of the enclave—forcing them to leave without their belongings, despite the cold winter months ahead.
The IDF ordered the evacuation of two main hospitals in northern Gaza last week, claiming that the facilities are being used by Hamas to regroup and carry out attacks—a claim rejected by the group.
At least seven babies in Gaza have succumbed to the cold and lack of shelter as 7,700 newborns “lack lifesaving care,” according to UNRWA.
Israeli forces are making themselves at home in Syria after last month’s swift fall of Bashar al-Assad, and—after staking claim to new land in the country, have expanded their land grab to include the city of Quneitra, which is further into Syria and shares a border with the Golan Heights.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is, once again, working to make any ceasefire deal in Gaza impossible by adding last-minute demands, according to a report in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
The United States military announced last week that it intensified airstrikes in Yemen to punish the Houthis for standing up to Israel during its genocide in Gaza.
At least nine heritage sites in Lebanon have been destroyed and 15 suffered major damage amid Israel’s monthslong bombing campaign against Hezbollah, according to a report last week.
The Israeli Defense Force pushed deeper into southern Lebanon with tanks and bulldozers as they continued to violate the ceasefire agreement.
The U.S. is growing concerned about Turkey’s growing military presence in northern Syria, “raising alarm that Ankara is preparing for a large-scale incursion into territory held by American-backed Syrian Kurds,” according to The Wall Street Journal.