Beyond Gaza, tension has been growing in the Middle East in recent days with air strikes in Syria, bombs falling in Lebanon and violence erupting in the West Bank. Here are some of the key developments in recent days.
Beyond Gaza, tension has been growing in the Middle East in recent days with air strikes in Syria, bombs falling in Lebanon and violence erupting in the West Bank. On Sunday, Israel bombed the airports in the Syrian cities of Damascus and Aleppo.The Israeli government has hit targets in Syria over recent years but Sunday's strikes on the airports were the third in 10 days.
Some 26 Hezbollah fighters and at least five Israeli soldiers have been killed since, in what the Reuters News Agency has called"the deadliest escalation of frontier violence since an Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006." Hezbollah exerts significant social and security control within Lebanon and is often referred to as a 'state within a state'.
On Saturday, at the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter, the deputy leader of Hezbollah reportedly said to a gathered crowd:"Do you believe that if you try to crush the Palestinian resistance, other resistance fighters in the region will not act?"While the Israeli military regularly raids Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank, it rarely uses air strikes. However, on Sunday, it bombed a mosque in Jenin, saying it was being used by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.
Since 7 October, tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank have increased. More 90 Palestinians have been killed, the Palestinian health ministry said on Sunday. Hundreds have been detained during clashes and raids by the Israeli security services. "We cannot say for certain what these missiles and drones were targeting, but they were launched from Yemen heading north along the Red Sea, potentially towards targets in Israel," Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said.
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