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Hezbollah says 'total war possible' as France warns of Lebanese fallout

France has urged Israel and the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah to avoid destabilising the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon – warning that broadening the Israel-Hamas war would plunge Lebanon "into an abyss". However Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday said an escalation of hostilities was "a realistic possibility".

Radio France Internationale

What to expect from key speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?

As Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks publicly this Friday for the first time since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, much of the world's attention will be on whether he declares that his militant group will officially enter the conflict. Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has been…

France 24

Blinken urges Israel to show restraint in campaign to destroy Hamas

US secretary of state in Tel Aviv to call for pauses in fighting to allow more aid to enter Gaza

The Guardian - UK

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Live updates | Israeli troops tighten encirclement of Gaza City as top US diplomat arrives in Israel

Israeli troops have tightened their encirclement of Gaza City as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel to press for a humanitarian “pause” in the fighting with Hamas and for more aid to be allowed into besieged Gaza

The Independent UK

What’s Israel’s Hannibal Directive? A former Israeli soldier tells all

The controversial policy to avoid capture of Israeli soldiers isn’t formally in place now. But echoes persist in Gaza.

Al Jazeera

Israel's encirclement of Gaza City tightens as top US diplomat arrives to push for humanitarian aid

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel to press for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into besieged Gaza

The Independent UK

Most wanted: The Hamas leaders on Israel’s radar

Since the deadly attacks on October 7 that killed more than 1,400 people in southern Israel, Israeli authorities have been targeting Hamas leaders. The militant Islamist group, founded in 1987 during the first Palestinian intifada, has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007. FRANCE 24 takes a look at some of…

France 24

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UN says agency in Gaza ‘practically out of business’ – as it happened

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The Guardian - US

Afternoon Update: Qantas execs face investor fury; Blinken flies to Israel amid call to allow aid; Mechelle Turvey named WA Australian of the Year

Chair Richard Goyder and CEO Vanessa Hudson face a grilling from irate Qantas shareholders at a tense annual general meeting

The Guardian - AU

Israel rejects US pressure for 'humanitarian pauses' in Gaza without hostage release

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's pressure for a "humanitarian pause" in its war on Hamas, conditioning it on the release of hostages taken from Israel to Gaza. France reacted to an Israeli strike on the French Institute in Gaza with "astonishment" and "incomprehension",…

France 24

Israel and Hamas at war: what we know on day 28

Israeli military says it has surrounded Gaza City on three sides; more than 9,000 Palestinians killed, including 3,760 children, Hamas-run health ministry says

The Guardian - AU

Lebanon-Israel border fighting picks up before Hezbollah leader’s speech

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is set to speak Friday for the first time since the war began.

Al Jazeera

Israel’s troops in Gaza City as Netanyahu says his nation’s forces at ‘height of battle’

Head of military says country’s forces are surrounding the territory’s largest city as Israeli aerial bombardment goes on

The Independent UK

What does Iran want? Israel, Gaza and the spectre of regional escalation

All eyes are on this Friday’s duelling narratives. Lebanon will see the first speech since October 7 by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returns to the region, starting in Israel before Jordan and possibly Turkey. What does the US…

France 24

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The Guardian - UK

Tension escalates on Lebanese frontier amid Hamas and Hezbollah barrages

Hamas armed wing the al-Qassam brigades says it hit border town, while Hezbollah claims attack on 19 Israeli positions

The Conversation

Israel-Hamas war: Lebanese peace plan reflects country's lack of appetite for more conflict

As the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, outlined a three-step peace plan for the conflict in Gaza on October 31, he made a statement which may seem ordinary to a western audience: “We will consider the right of Israel and the right of the Palestinians.”

The Guardian - UK

Israeli forces surround Gaza City on three sides, says IDF chief

Lt Gen Herzi Halevi also says Israeli troops are operating inside city ‘fighting in close quarters’

Al Jazeera

Analysis: Houthis declare war on Israel, but their real target is elsewhere

Their cruise missiles won’t hurt Israel much, but they complicate regional diplomacy, especially for Saudi Arabia.

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Al Jazeera

‘This is Nasrallah’s moment’: Will Hezbollah’s chief declare war on Israel?

Hezbollah’s leader will speak Friday on the Israel-Hamas war. What he says could determine whether the conflict spreads.

Reason

Escalation in Gaza

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The Guardian - US

It looks inevitable that the war in Gaza will spread. Is it?

The Middle East is the greatest area of vulnerability for the United States, and many countries want to cause trouble

The Conversation

Iran's 'axis of resistance': how Hamas and Tehran are attempting to galvanise their allies against Israel

The devastating attack on Israel by Hamas on 7 October has transformed the Middle East, thrusting the Israeli-Palestinian question – considered a diplomatic side-issue for at least a decade – to the centre stage of the region’s geopolitics.

The Guardian - UK

‘We heard the missile come’: tensions rise on Israel’s northern border

On Israel’s Lebanese frontier, aggression is rising on both sides – but not everyone believes a two-front war is inevitable

The Conversation

How Houthi attacks affect both the Israel-Hamas conflict and Yemen's own civil war – and could put pressure on US, Saudi Arabia

Yemen’s Houthi movement launched missiles and drones at Israel on Oct. 31, 2023 – provoking fears of a dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict.

The Guardian - UK

How Iran uses proxy forces across the region to strike Israel and US

Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad at core of Iran’s foreign policy, resisting US in Middle East while avoiding all-out war

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