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Marvie Basilan

Israel-Hamas Conflict: Hamas Official Signals Possible Israel Recognition; Iran Warns Against Red Sea Alliance

Hamas Israel United States Gaza Hezbollah IDF

KEY POINTS

  • Israel continues to strike Hezbollah assets in response to launches from Lebanese territory
  • Thirty-eight of 116 rockets fired from a humanitarian zone in Gaza fell inside the enclave, IDF said
  • White House's Jake Sullivan discussed regional stability with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday
Live Updates
Israeli soldiers gather in the Gaza border area in southern Israel on Dec. 12, 2023 amid ongoing battles with Palestinian Hamas militants. (Credit: AFP)

On the 69th day of the Israel-Hamas war, a senior Hamas official floated the idea of the Palestinian militant group possibly coming to terms with recognizing the State of Israel, marking a significant turnaround in the group's language when referring to Israel's existence.

The loved ones of remaining hostages in Gaza suffered another hard blow after Israel confirmed the deaths of two more hostages while in Hamas captivity.

Washington has reportedly delayed selling thousands of U.S.-made rifles to Israel over fears related to the ongoing violence in the West Bank.

  • Israel's cabinet blocks Mossad proposal to restart hostage deal talks in Doha: Report
  • US doesn't think Israel's campaign against Hamas should stop at this point in the war
  • Houthis attack Marshall Islands-flagged tanker in southern Red Sea: CENTCOM
  • 90% of Palestinians want Abbas to resign: Wartime poll
  • Hamas' Jabalia fighters 'maybe on the verge of breaking down': Local media
  • Israel asked Egypt to mediate new potential hostage-ceasefire deal: Report
  • Iran warns of 'extraordinary problems' for possible Red Sea coalition
  • Houthi minister issues warning against ships sailing towards Israel

Intense fighting continues across the Gaza Strip after Israel suffered its biggest personnel loss in a single operation during a multi-round ambush by Hamas in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Shuja'iyya.

Hamas leader and chief of the Palestinian terror group's political bureau Ismail Haniyeh warned Wednesday that a future being planned for Gaza without Hamas is a delusion.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that the Israeli army will continue fighting "to the end" until Hamas is destroyed even amid continuing pressure from the international community for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday met with the families of Americans abducted by Hamas who are still being held in the Gaza Strip along with more than 130 other hostages.

The war that started on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants stormed into Israel and killed more than 1,200 people stems from the decades-long history of the Israel-Palestine conflict that has drawn attacks targeting Israel from Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthi rebels.

The live update has ended.

Israeli army arrests 'dozens' of combatants leaving a Gaza hospital: IDF

Israeli troops arrested "dozens of terrorist operatives who left a hospital in the Gaza Strip," the IDF said Thursday. The detainees will be transferred to Israel's security services agency Shin Bet for further investigation. The militants were carrying weapons as they exited the hospital, the IDF added.

Local media identified the facility as the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

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