Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any post-war scenario. “The prime minister must be able to say no to his friends,” Netanyahu said. “In any future agreement, Israel needs to control the security of all territory west of the Jordan,” Netanyahu said. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller has insisted that “there is no way” to resolve Israel’s security problems in the region and “the short-term challenges of rebuilding Gaza and establishing a Government” in the region. enclave without establishing a Palestinian state.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, indicated this Thursday that the American and British attacks against the Houthi rebels in Yemen will continue given the persistence of attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Referring to the attacks, Biden stated: “Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Will they continue? Yeah”. For the fourth time in less than a week, the US military attacked the Houthis in their territory overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, with ground attacks against 14 missiles of the pro-Iran rebels. The attacks occurred hours after Washington warned the Islamist organization that it will once again include them on the list of terrorist organizations. The Government of Yemen has asked this Thursday for international help to carry out ground operations against the Houthi rebels, in support of the air strikes carried out against them by the United States.
The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, urged Iran and Pakistan this Thursday to “exercise maximum restraint to avoid a further escalation of tensions” after an exchange of military attacks between both countries, according to his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric.
Several representatives of the United Nations have affirmed that the situation in the Gaza Strip, where Israel’s attacks continue after 105 days, is one of extreme need for the civilian population, with 1.9 million displaced, a shortage of food and sick children. “Since my last visit, the situation has gone from being catastrophic to being on the brink of collapse,” Ted Chaiban, deputy executive director of Unicef, said in a statement after a three-day visit to the Palestinian enclave. For its part, the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by Hamas, has raised the death toll in the Strip to 24,620 — most of them children and women — since Israel began its offensive on October 7. In the last 24 hours alone, 172 Palestinians have died and 326 have been injured. In addition, the operation, launched in response to the terrorist attack against Israeli territory carried out that day by the Islamist militia Hamas, has caused 61,830 injuries to date.