The conflict between Israel and Hamas is growing. Pakistan launched retaliatory strikes on Thursday (January 18) against militants in Iran, apparently in response to attacks launched by Tehran two days ago targeting sites within Pakistan’s borders belonging to a Sunni separatist militant group.
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⇒ Pakistan strikes ‘terrorist hideouts’ in Iran
⇒ New American strikes against the Houthis in Yemen
⇒Medicines intended for hostages entered Gaza, Qatar says
Pakistan strikes ‘terrorist hideouts’ in Iran
Two days after an Iranian attack on its territory, Pakistan announced, Thursday January 18, that it had carried out “strikes against terrorist hideouts” in Iran during the night, which left seven dead, according to Iranian public television.
Three women and four children were killed in explosions in the southeast of the country, Iranian state media reported. The official Iranian agency IRNA indicated that “several explosions were heard in several areas around the town of Saravan”, citing an official from Sistan-Baluchistan where the army has been facing a latent insurgency for decades.
The interim Prime Minister of Pakistan, Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, will cut short his trip to the Davos Forum (Switzerland), after the announcement of Pakistani strikes against “terrorist hideouts” in Iran, the government announced Thursday.
New US strikes against the Houthis in Yemen
The American army targeted the Houthis on their territory in Yemen for the fourth time in less than a week, with, during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, ground strikes on 14 missiles of the pro-Iran rebels who have been taking away maritime traffic for weeks.
These American strikes, in a Middle East which is approaching a regional conflagration, came a few hours after Washington once again described as a “terrorist” entity the Yemeni rebels who continue their attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aden. According to the rebel channel, al-Masirah, the nighttime strikes targeted “the governorates of Hodeida, Taiz, Dhamar, Al-Bayda and Saada”.
Jordan accuses Israel of damaging one of its hospitals in Gaza
The Jordanian army accused Israel on Wednesday of damaging one of its military field hospitals in the Gaza Strip and injuring two people during bombings in the besieged Palestinian territory where the health system is further collapsing each day. The hospital, located in Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip, suffered “significant material damage due to continued Israeli shelling in its surroundings” during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the army said in a statement. a statement.
The bombing injured a Jordanian hospital nurse in the right thigh and hand, the army said, adding that he will be evacuated by plane to Jordan. A Palestinian, being treated in the intensive care unit, “was also injured by shrapnel and a bullet during the attack,” the statement said, citing a high-ranking Jordanian military source.
Medicines intended for hostages entered Gaza, Qatar says
Medicines intended for hostages kidnapped in Israel on October 7 during the Palestinian Hamas attack were sent to Gaza on Wednesday, the Qatari mediator announced.
“During the last hours, medicines and humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip, in accordance with the agreement announced (Tuesday)” for the benefit of Palestinian civilians and hostages, wrote the spokesperson for the Gaza Strip. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Majed al-Ansari, on X, formerly Twitter.
‘Higher’ probability of war in northern Israel ‘in coming months’
The probability of war “in the coming months” in northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon, is today “much higher than it was in the past”, the Israeli government said on Wednesday. Israeli army chief of staff Herzi Halevi. “We will start it with a lot of advantages” over the enemy, the soldier declared to reservists training on the northern border with Lebanon where clashes with Lebanese Hezbollah have been daily since October 7.
The army had previously indicated that several shots coming from Lebanon towards Israeli territory had been identified. “In retaliation for these shots, army fighter planes destroyed terrorist infrastructure” in southern Lebanon, according to an army statement. The armed wing of Hamas, allied with Lebanese Hezbollah and which has fighters in Lebanon, for its part announced that it had fired 20 rockets from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel “in retaliation for the massacres in Gaza” and confirmed the death of one “fighter” in Lebanon.