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Israel-Hamas war: Iran says it struck sites in Syria, Iraq
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had attacked Israel’s “spy headquarters” in Iraq’s Kurdistan region with missiles. Meanwhile, Israel said it would soon end its “intensive” Gaza operations. DW has more.
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An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps armed military personnel is standing guard next to an Iranian Kheibar surface-to-surface missile, during a military rally in Tehran, Iran
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has a wide range of missiles, including ballistic missilesImage: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/picture alliance
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Iran launches assault on “terrorist targets” in Iraq and Syria
Iraqi Kurdish government decries Iranian attack
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said intense military operations in Gaza to be drawn down
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Nearly 160 killed in Gaza in past 24 hours, health authorities say
One hundred and fifty eight Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry and the Hamas-controlled territory said.
In addition, some 320 people were injured in the past 24 hours.
The ministry said Israeli bombardment has killed 24,285 people and left 61,154 wounded in Gaza since fighting erupted following Hamas’ October 7 terror attack on Israel.
The Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties. A majority of the dead are women and children.
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Skip next section Qatari PM says ending the Gaza war would stop Houthi attacks
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Qatari PM says ending the Gaza war would stop Houthi attacks
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told the World Economic Forum that defusing the conflict in Gaza will stop the escalation on other fronts.
He said that concentrating on attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea, which led to retaliatory strikes by the US and Britain was “focusing on the symptoms and not treating the real issue.”
Al-Thani, who was among the opening speakers at Davos, said the current regional situation is a “recipe for escalation everywhere.”
“We should focus on the main conflict in Gaza. And as soon as it’s defused, I believe everything else will be defused,” he said, adding that a two-state solution was required to end the conflict.
Al-Thani also warned a military confrontation “will not contain” the Houthi attacks.
“I think that what we have right now in the region is a recipe of escalation everywhere,” he added.
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US, Iraq condemn Iranian missile strikes
The US State Department has condemned missile attacks by Iran targeting sites in Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdish region.
“We oppose Iran’s reckless missile strikes, which undermine Iraq’s stability,” said department spokesperson Matthew Miller.
“We support the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government’s efforts to meet the aspirations of the Iraqi people,” he said in a statement.
Iraq also condemned the strikes as an “attack on its sovereignty,” saying Iraqi authorities would “take all legal steps” necessary, including filing a complaint at the UN Security Council.
Baghdad said recalled its ambassador in Iran for consultations.
The strikes, claimed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, were said by them to have targeted groups opposed to Tehran and an alleged Israeli “spy headquarters.”
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Skip next section Israeli minister: Intensive phase of war in south Gaza ‘will end soon’
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Israeli minister: Intensive phase of war in south Gaza ‘will end soon’
The intensive phase of Israel’s war with Hamas militants in southern Gaza will end soon, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said.
The army had stepped up military operations and bombardments in the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah in recent weeks after saying Hamas’s military structures in the north had been dismantled.
“We made it clear that the intensive maneuvering stage would last for approximately three months,” Gallant told a news conference. He said the stage was already being reached in the northern Gaza Strip.
“In southern Gaza we will reach this achievement and it will end soon, and in both places, the moment will come when we will move to the next phase,” he said, without specifying a time frame.
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Meanwhile, the Israeli army said on its website an entire division of soldiers had completed their withdrawal from Gaza on Monday, after having “eliminated hundreds of terrorists” and destroyed kilometers of tunnels in central and northern areas of the Palestinian territory.
Israel had four divisions operating in Gaza before Monday’s announced withdrawal, though it was unclear how many soldiers were involved in the pullout.
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Skip next section Iran’s Revolutionary Guards target sites in Iraq, Syria
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards target sites in Iraq, Syria
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they attacked Israel’s “spy headquarters” in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, state media reported late Monday.
“Ballistic missiles were used to destroy espionage centers and gatherings of anti-Iranian terrorist groups in the region late tonight,” the Guards said in a statement, naming Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
In another statement, the Revolutionary Guards said it had hit “terrorist operations” including so-called “Islamic State” targets in Syria “and destroyed them by firing a number of ballistic missiles.”
Explosions were heard in an area about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Erbil in the Kurdistan region, three security sources said, in a neighborhood near the US consulate as well as civilian residences. No US facilities were hit by the missile strikes, US officials told Reuters news agency.
At least four civilians were killed and six injured in the strikes on Erbil, the Kurdish government said in a statement, calling the attack a “crime.” Multimillionaire Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee and several members of his family were reported among the dead.
The strikes come at a time of heightened tension in the region and fears of a wider spillover from the ongoing war in Gaza.
Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have launched near-daily drone attacks on bases housing US military forces in Iraq and Syria, in what the groups say is retaliation for Washington’s support of Israel and an attempt to force US troops to leave the region.
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