FLASH
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Israel warned on Wednesday that it would eliminate the new leader of Hamas, Yahya Shinwar, as the war in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian Islamist movement, now in its eleventh month, threatens to spread across the Middle East.
The new political leader of Hamas, succeeding Ismail Haniya, whose assassination took place on July 31 in Tehran and was blamed on Israel, has vowed to take revenge. Israeli authorities accuse the main figure of the Palestinian Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip of being among the masterminds of the unprecedented October attack in southern Israel, the trigger for that war.
For years in Israel's spotlight, Yahya Sinwar, whose movement has been designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the US and the EU, has not been seen in public since October 7. "We will increase our efforts to find him", said yesterday the Chief of the General Staff of the National Defense of Israel, General Herchi Halevi, foreign media report.
While all mediation efforts have so far failed, the war, which according to the Hamas ministry has claimed at least 40,000 lives in the small besieged Palestinian enclave, threatens to spread across the Middle East between Iran and its allies. and on the other hand, Israel, and its allies, especially the US.
Tensions have risen since the July 30 deaths of Ismail Haniya and Fouad Soukr, a key figure in Hezbollah's military wing, in an Israeli bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut.
Hezbollah and Iran have an "obligation to take revenge" after the two killings, the leader of the Lebanese armed movement Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday, declaring that there will be revenge "whatever the consequences".
During yesterday's meeting in Saudi Arabia, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) declared that Israel was "fully responsible" for the murder of Ismail Haniya. Its acting president, Mamadou Tangara (Gambia), condemned the killing, which raised the risk of a "wider conflict" in the Middle East.
Faced with the risk of the war spreading, the international community is looking for ways to calm down and resume indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas in order to conclude a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which will be accompanied by the release of Israeli hostages in the Palestinian enclave in in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
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