Hostages, Hamas postpones release plan. Blinken's new mission

Hamas ready to reject hostage deal. Netanyahu: “We will not say yes to an agreement at any cost”

It doesn't stop there war in the Middle East which now reaches day 122. Hamas he is ready to reject the agreement with Israel brokered in Paris for the hostages and the ceasefire in Gaza. This was reported by the Saudi media Al-Arabiya, also reported by the Israeli Ynet and Jerusalem Post. The movement would call for more Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel. From Tel Aviv, Netanyahu He made it clear that Israel “will not accept any deal, and not at any price.” Meanwhile there have been new US and UK raids on Sanaa, Yemen. In a joint statement, Washington and London explain that they have hit “dozens of Houthi targets”.

Middle East, green light for Blinken's mission: focus on truce and aid in Gaza

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken a new mission begins today in the Middle East, in an attempt to reach a new truce in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and obtain the entry of more aid to the Palestinian population. On his fifth trip to the region since the October 7 Hamas attack that sparked the war, Blinken will make his first stop in Saudi Arabia today, a country that before the conflict was reflecting on how to establish relations with Israel, a potentially historic step for the nation, custodian of the two holiest places in Islam. The head of US diplomacy will then fly to Israel, Egypt and Qatar; the latter is the main intermediary with Hamas which controls the Strip and maintains an office in Doha. Ahead of the trip he stressed the need to “urgently address humanitarian needs in Gaza”, after aid groups repeatedly raised the alarm over the devastating impact of nearly five months of war on the besieged territory.

Biden in Congress: “I will order more raids if necessary”

The president of the United States Joe Biden sent a letter to the US Congress today providing some details on recent raids against Iran-affiliated groups in Iraq and Syria. “Our aim is to discourage these groups from carrying out further attacks”, explained the president, underlining that the operation was conducted in a way “to avoid civilian casualties and limit the risk of escalation”. Biden added that he “will order additional raids if necessary.”

Biden advisor: “The hostage agreement is not close”

“The agreement on hostages kidnapped in Gaza it's not around the corner.” American security advisor Jake Sullivan said this in an interview with ABC news, underlining that “the ball is now in Hamas' court. These types of negotiations usually proceed slowly until they suddenly accelerate. And so it's difficult to put a precise timetable on when it will get there or even if it will get there,” the official explained.

Houthis: “Our military capabilities are difficult to destroy”

THE Houthi rebels They have criticized US and UK attacks on them, claiming they have military capabilities resistant to such raids. CNN reports it. In a statement published on his Telegram channel, Houthi spokesman Mohammad Abdul Salam highlighted the “resilience” and “gradual improvement” of the rebel movement's military capabilities, stating that “such capabilities are not easy to destroy”.

Iran in London: “Continuing the war is not the solution”

“Continuing the war is not the solution“. These are the words that the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, reports having said to his British counterpart David Cameron. “We strongly condemn the US and British military attacks on Yemen and the US aggression on Iraq and Syria”, the head of Iranian diplomacy himself wrote in a post on Gaza and the West Bank) as the security of the region”.