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Tel Aviv, 17 Jan. (Adnkronos) – “The possibility of war in the north is greater than before”. This is a warning launched by Israel’s Chief of Staff, General Herzl Halevi, referring to the possibility of a conflict with Lebanon, thus the escalation of the war between Israel and Hamas. Yesterday, in a meeting with soldiers in the north of Israel, during an exercise to simulate an attack in Lebanon, Halevi said that the Israel Defense Forces “increase the readiness of the fight in Lebanon, we have learned a lot from the fight in Gaza, which is very important for the fight in the country Lebanon, and there are some that need to be fixed.”

“We want to achieve a very clear goal in Lebanon, to return the residents to the north, all the northern communities,” he added, referring to some 80,000 Israelis displaced by Hezbollah’s daily attacks. “I don’t know when the war in the north will happen. I can tell you that the possibility of this happening in the coming months is greater than it was in the past”, stressed the Chief of Army Staff.

253 people were taken hostage in Israel during the Hamas attack on October 7. This has been announced by the office of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel believes there are still 132 hostages in Gaza, including 105 alive and 27 dead. Other hostages were released or released. According to what was shown by the Israeli broadcasting station Channel 13, Netanyahu in recent days has blocked the proposed agreement on the exchange of prisoners created by the ministers of the war cabinet.

Moreover, according to information from the Jewish state media, the prime minister of Israel ordered the army to inspect the trucks with drugs to be delivered to the Gaza Strip, some of which were intended for hostages still in the hands of Hamas.

CNN aired a video showing a Hamas terrorist beheading two Israelis on October 7. This was reported by Haaretz, according to which the footage was taken by a security camera at the Nir Oz kibbutz and was provided to CNN by an Israeli source.

At the same time, a Hamas source in Beirut told Dpa that Hamas leaders will not voluntarily leave the Gaza Strip, in anticipation of an increase in the number of Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian territory. “It will be victory or martyrdom,” the source said the Gaza Strip is the land of the Palestinians and Hamas, adding that the blood of the group’s leaders is worth more than that of the people.

Eliminating Hamas leaders from the Palestinian territory is one of the most important goals of Israel’s retaliation for the October 7 attack. Hamas leaders are believed to be mostly hidden in the dense network of tunnels built in the Gaza Strip, which poses a major challenge to the Israeli army. The number one target is Yehya al-Sinwar, head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces bombarded the area near Nasser’s hospital without any evacuation order, causing patients and thousands of displaced civilians who had sought refuge to flee in fear. This was reported by a surgeon of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.

“The situation is a disaster. There are too many patients that the staff cannot manage – said Leo Cans, the head of the MSF delegation to Palestine, when he visited the Nasser hospital, which is currently the largest health center operating in Gaza, which is operating at 300% of capacity – Fighting it is very close to us. We hear a lot of bombs and a lot of shooting. There was an airstrike (January 15) 150 meters from the hospital gate which killed eight people and injured more than 80.”

Tensions between Iran and Pakistan are at an all time high. Islamabad has repatriated its ambassador to Iran following an “unfounded violation” of its airspace by Tehran and has decided not to “for now” allow the Iranian ambassador, who is currently in the Islamic Republic, to return to Islamabad. This was stated by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Islamabad, Mumtaz Zahrah Baloch, after the attack by Iran with drones and missiles that targeted two centers of the Sunni separatist group Jaish al-Adl in Pakistan, which claimed responsibility and several attacks in Pakistan. southeast of the Islamic Republic.

“Pakistan reserves the right to respond to this illegal act and the responsibility for the consequences will fall directly on Iran,” the spokesman said during a press conference, noting that Pakistani authorities “have conveyed this message to the Iranian government.” Baloch also added that Islamabad has suspended all ongoing or planned high-level visits between Pakistan and Iran.

“Our missiles and drones did not target any citizen of Pakistan’s friendly and brotherly country. Our target was the terrorist group Jaish-al-Adl, which is based on the Iran-Pakistan border,” the Minister said on Foreign Affairs of Tehran. Affairs Committee, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in his speech at the Davos conference.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tehran spoke by phone with his counterpart in Islamabad, Jalil Abbas Jilani, and, according to a report in the Iranian media, he confirmed to his colleague that the security of Iran has been constantly threatened by Jaish al-Adl, stressing that The Islamic Republic “respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan”.

Meanwhile, a Revolutionary Guard colonel, Hossein Ali Javadanfar, was killed in a “terrorist” attack in the Sistan and Baluchistan region. Tasnim news agency reported that, noting that the colonel was killed by gunfire on the Khash-Zahedan road.