Israeli tanks and military vehicles take position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 13, 2023.Concerns about the risk of wider Middle East conflict triggered by the Israel-Hamas war rose today with the US dispatching more military assets to the region as Israel pummelled targets in Gaza and at Hamas supporters in Lebanon and Syria.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cautioned Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister that the Lebanese population would be affected if his country was drawn into the Israeli-Hamas war, the State Department said. A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system and additional Patriot air defence missile system battalions will be sent to the region and more troops put on standby, Austin said.
“We are going to go into the Gaza Strip… to destroy Hamasoperatives and Hamas infrastructure,” Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi told troops yesterday.today, military spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus said it was “to have a weakened, tired and dislocatedHamas in preparation for our next stage of military operations.”
They said military leaflets dropped on the narrow territory, just 45 km long, contained the added warning that they could be identified as sympathisers with a”terrorist organisation” if they stayed put. Israeli forces killed a fifth Palestinian in the West Bank overnight, bringing the number of deaths there to 90 since the war began, the Palestinian health ministry said today.
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