Internal emails among officials inside the Pentagon and U.S. State Department showed concerns about war crimes by the IDF in Gaza in the early stages of the war and that the rising death toll inside the enclave would hurt relations between Washington and other countries in the Middle East.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Iranians in a video message that they will be free soon “and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think.”
While much of the world’s focus has turned the Lebanon, the IDF continues to carry out major bombing campaigns across Gaza, bringing the genocide’s death toll to at least 41,615 and nearly 97,000 injured.
Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike in Beirut, prompting Iranian leadership to call for an urgent UN Security Council meeting.
Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, said in a speech last week that Israel “crossed all rules, laws, and red lines” with its pager attack on Lebanon and said the attack should be considered a war crime or a “declaration of war.”
The moral rot in the IDF was on full display last week when soldiers were seen pushing three Palestinians off a roof in the occupied West Bank.
Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense head, reportedly told a top U.S. negotiator on Monday that “military action” seems to be the only option to return tens of thousands of Israelis to their homes in the north amid an increase in violence with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Despite Israel’s genocide in Gaza, killing at least 41,206 people, an unsourced Israeli report said Hamas is recovering at a faster pace than the IDF is dismantling the group.
Israeli forces continued to punish Palestinians living in the West Bank and carried out their most severe crackdown in the territory since October—killing at least 39 in what news reports indicated were “unusually destructive” to the territory’s infrastructure.
At least 100 Israeli settlers, wearing masks and with the support of IDF troops, rampaged through the West Bank town of Jit last week—killing one Palestinian and injuring others in what was seen as the latest atrocity committed by Israelis against Palestinians.