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A handout picture courtesy of the US Navy shows the guided missile destroyer USS Carney firing on missiles and drones launched from Yemen on October 19, 2023. Tensions have become more intense in the Red Sea since Iran deployed warships in the area.
AFP
The war in Gaza has entered its 108th day, and tensions in the Middle East continue to simmer as Hamas allies and pro-Iranian groups attack Israeli and American assets.
Two U.S. Navy Seals who went missing while boarding an Iranian ship in the Gulf of Aden that allegedly carried advanced conventional weapons were declared dead Sunday following an “exhaustive” 10-day search, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Sunday.
In the heated Israeli-Lebanese border, two Hezbollah members were killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike in Kafra, southern Lebanon, Lebanese security sources said. The strike was carried out after the Iran-backed terror group fired a missile toward northern Israel.
To continue protecting commercial shipping lanes in the turbulent Red Sea from continuing attacks by Iranian-backed Yemeni Houthi rebels, the United Kingdom said it will upgrade its air defense system in the area.
Back in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “outright” rejected Hamas’ demands for a ceasefire-hostage deal. He said the Palestinian militant group’s demands, which include the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from the enclave, meant that Hamas would remain “intact.”
Israel has vowed to eliminate Hamas following the terror group’s invasion of Israel wherein its operatives murdered more than 1,200 people and abducted over 240 others, around 130 of whom are still in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
Despite increasing pressure from allies and the international community to halt the fighting, Netanyahu remains unmoved as he draws from a frenzied history of the Israel-Palestine conflict that ultimately blew up during Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre.
