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Hans India
05-08-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Israel Set to Assume Full Control of Gaza? IDF Expected to Advance Into Areas Holding Hostages
This is a major Hamas conflict update battle against Israel. According to a top source in Netanyahu's office, renowned Israeli reporter Amit Segal, who is the anchor of Channel 12 reported, 'The decision has been taken... we're going to be occupying this area of the Gaza Strip. " Netanyahu's Gaza strategy comes amid the complete breakdown of ceasefire talks, and a growing resentment in the Israeli leadership about the inability to make progress towards releasing hostages who are held by Hamas from the conflict's beginning days. "Hamas will not be able to release the hostage situation in Gaza without surrendering completely. If we do not act now, hostages are likely to die from starvation and Gaza remains under Hamas under Hamas' control," Segal quoted the official according to an article from Fox News. A turning point in a protracted war It is expected that the Israeli Security Cabinet is set to meet on Tuesday in order to decide on the next steps for Gaza. In a report by The Times of Israel, various ministers have said Netanyahu has been using the phrase "occupation of the Gaza Strip military escalation" to describe Israel's Gaza occupation plan in a stark departure from the previous resistance of the government to return to areas with a high population. The footage of David received condemnation from Western powers as well as shocked Israelis. France, Germany, the UK and the U.S. were among countries who expressed their outrage. The foreign ministry of Israel announced that they will inform the UN Security Council will hold an extraordinary session on Tuesday, January 11, to discuss the issue of the status of hostages in Gaza.
Time of India
05-08-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
'Decision made': Israel to take full control of the Gaza Strip? IDF may enter hostage-held areas
In a major development, Israel may come up with a new plan for Gaza Strip that may include the possibility of taking full control of the Palestinian enclave and escalating military action in areas they have refrained from entering, according to local media reports. This signals a dramatic escalation in its nearly two-year-long war against the Hamas terror group. Quoting a senior source in Netanyahu's office, prominent Israeli journalist Amit Segal of Channel 12 reported, 'The decision has been made… we are going to occupy the Gaza Strip." The move comes amid a total breakdown in ceasefire negotiations and growing frustration within the Israeli leadership over the lack of progress on freeing hostages held by Hamas since the conflict's early days. "Hamas will not release hostages without total surrender. If we do not operate now, the hostages will die of starvation, and Gaza will remain under Hamas' control," Segal quoted the official as saying, according to a report from Fox News. A turning point in a protracted war The Israeli Security Cabinet is set to convene on Tuesday to finalise the next steps in Gaza. According to The Times of Israel, several ministers confirmed that Netanyahu has privately used the term "occupation of the Strip" to describe his intentions, a sharp pivot from the government's previous reluctance to re-enter densely populated zones. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Top Audiologists Angry About New $160 Device That Makes Hearing Crystal Clear Again Top Trending News Today Learn More Undo A senior official quoted by the Ynet news site said bluntly, "The die is cast — we are going for a full occupation of the Gaza Strip." Currently, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) control around 75% of Gaza's territory. The new plan would see Israeli forces enter all remaining areas, including zones where hostages are reportedly being held, a controversial move that could risk the lives of captives and escalate civilian casualties. Divisions within Israeli leadership According to The Times of Israel, the reported shift has exposed internal cracks within Israel's military and political establishment. According to Hebrew media, IDF Chief of Staff Lt Gen Eyal Zamir opposes the occupation strategy. In response, a senior source close to Netanyahu allegedly said, "If the chief of staff doesn't agree, he should resign." The rift underscores the deep unease surrounding the operational and humanitarian implications of such a full-scale takeover, especially at a time when Gaza's infrastructure is in ruins, and humanitarian aid remains insufficient. US envoy's visit fails to halt escalation The decision to escalate comes just days after US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff visited Israel to promote a new peace framework. Despite assurances that negotiations were ongoing, both sides now appear to have abandoned diplomatic channels. Netanyahu's reported plan, if approved, could have sweeping consequences for Gaza's over two million residents, as well as for regional stability. Aid agencies have warned that continued fighting, especially in densely populated urban pockets, could trigger a humanitarian catastrophe.
News18
01-07-2025
- Politics
- News18
Israel Intercepts Suspected Houthi Missile From Yemen, First Since Ceasefire With Iran
Last Updated: First Houthi missile strike on Israel since Iran ceasefire; air raid sirens triggered. Israeli Defence Forces on Tuesday said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen in a social media post on site X. Following the interception, air raid sirens were sounded in several areas including Jerusalem. 'Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile that was launched from Yemen was intercepted" by the Israeli air force, an army statement said. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have repeatedly targeted Israel with missiles and drones since the Gaza war began following Hamas's October 2023 attack. Last Saturday, the Houthis said they fired a ballistic missile towards Israel in response to Israel's conduct towards Palestinians during the Gaza war. Houthis have also threatened to upend global shipping but have maintained that only specific ships could be targeted. 🚨Sirens sounding across several areas in Israel due to projectile fire from Yemen🚨 — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 1, 2025 Since the Gaza war began last October, Houthi rebels have expanded their attacks beyond Israel, targeting commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden to pressure Western and Israeli interests. A photo taken of the intercepted Houthi missile, indicating it was intercepted outside of the atmosphere. — Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) July 1, 2025 It was the first missile launch against Israel announced by the Houthis since the June 24 ceasefire between Israel and Iran which ended their 12-day war. N12 News' chief political analyst Amit Segal posted pictures of the skyline following the interception and said that the missile could have been intercepted outside the atmosphere. Historian Qalaat Al Mudiq in an X post said that the missile interception was visible from the Syrian capital of Damascus. The Houthis, who say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians, paused their attacks during a two-month ceasefire in Gaza that ended in March, but renewed them after Israel resumed its offensive. Israel has carried out several retaliatory strikes in Yemen, targeting Houthi-held ports and the airport in the rebel-held capital Sanaa.
Fox News
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Morning Glory: Trump's Iran strike and Trump's Doctrine
Print Close By Hugh Hewitt Published June 26, 2025 A half-dozen B-2 bombers dropped at least a dozen Massive Ordinance Penetrators on Iran's nuclear weapons faculty at Fordow, but since the mountain didn't explode like the Death Star in Star Wars, the mission was deemed a disappointment by some in legacy media and many online keyboard warriors. "Minimal damage causing a month or two delay": That's a summary, composite "take" of TDS-afflicted journalists and their sources who appear to suffer from JCPOA separation anxiety disorder. The idea that Iran's nuclear weapons program was set back for only a matter of months—as opposed to the "several years" that Israeli intelligence has concluded—is not a serious assessment but yet another "product" of a hyper-politicized "intelligence community." (Recall that 51 of the "IC"'s best and brightest retired "leadership" told the legacy media and via them the entire country in 2020 that Hunter Biden's laptop bore "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.") Israeli journalist Amit Segal, armed with the first layer of Israeli IC assessments that concluded "that US and Israeli strikes set back Iran's nuclear program by 'several years,' but did not completely destroy it…" added the next day: "Don't forget: It wasn't just scientists who Israel eliminated. Indeed, I can now reveal the scale of Israel's opening strike against Iran: Israel eliminated 29 Iranian officers with the rank of brigadier general and higher." CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION "They don't have the scientists, and they don't have the centrifuges, and they don't have the infrastructure," Jonathan Conricus, a former IDF spokesman and current senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon. "Even if it hasn't been destroyed," Conricus added, "it is out of reach, most likely buried under hundreds of feet of rock and concrete. At the end of the day, the Iranian ability to develop nuclear weapons sustained quite extremely heavy blows." TRUMP SAYS US WOULD STRIKE AGAIN IF IRAN REBUILDS NUCLEAR PROGRAM I asked the last National Security Advisor to President Trump in Trump's first term, Ambassador Robert C. O'Brien, now chairman of American Global Strategies, for his overall take. "The air raid on Iran's nuclear bomb factories was the essence of an 'America First' foreign policy," O'Brien emailed me. "The Ayatollahs have been kidnapping, maiming and killing Americans in Beirut, at Kobar Towers, in Iraq and Afghanistan for forty years," O'Brien continued. "The regime's supporter chant 'death to America in their mosques each Friday. Letting these radicals get an atomic bomb and the ballistic missiles to deliver it to our homeland would be a monumental mistake and would have put the American people at risk." "Donald Trump said 'no.'" O'Brien concluded. "And, he meant it. The Iranians thought they were dealing with Obama or Biden. They found out last night what happens when you string President Trump along." The widespread destruction of regime assets by the Israeli airforce before the American strikes occurred had already humbled the regime of Ayatollah Khamenei. When the mullahs sent up a fireworks display over Qatar is was their penultimate gesture of resignation to defeat and harmless. Their final attack did kill four Israeli civilians and underscored the regime's lawlessness as the missile was aimed at civilians to kill civilians. Still so deep does hatred for President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu run that their critics have already assumed the attitude of the Black Knight is the old "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" movie, shouting "it's only a scratch." I'm going to believe Israeli intelligence and the political leadership of both countries. Not only did the Israelis use some sort of version of the weapon Woody Harrleson wielded as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy —a Yaka Arrow" — it did so armed with Intel on where everyone was sleeping or gathering. The precision nature of every Israeli blow should lead anyone unburdened by deep, deep confirmation bias needs (say, everyone who worked on the "JCPOA") to conclude the nuclear ambitions of Iran are in a smoldering heap, like their "doomsday clock for Israel" and the gates of Evin Prison. Trust the Israeli IC. They appear to have free run of everything the Iranian regime says and does. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP What Trump ordered done was a history-altering event as well as a war-ending blow. Again, Iran cannot be expected to concede its humiliation. But its leaders must now know they are no longer feared in the Middle East as a dominant power, and that if even token gestures are taken by it to hurt Americans or Israelis, or to resume forbidden nuclear weapons development, retribution will be swift. President Trump is sending the same message again and again: "Don't harm one American. Don't even think about restarting the nuke program." Every leader in the world got the same message as did the mullahs: Trump and the prudent use of American military force are back. Finally, Americans should have learned, again, that they cannot trust the "fake news" of much of legacy media. The underlying disorders of these former "newsrooms" are too deep to treat. They are as broken as Natanz nuclear weapons complex. Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor, and host of "The Hugh Hewitt Show," heard weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh drives America home on the East Coast and to lunch on the West Coast on over 400 affiliates nationwide, and on all the streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel's news roundtable hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University's Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in broadcast, and this column previews the lead story that will drive his radio/ TV show today. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM HUGH HEWITT Print Close URL
Mint
23-06-2025
- Business
- Mint
Where the Iran war goes from here. Three scenarios for oil and stocks.
There are three broad paths forward in the wake of the U.S. decision to join Israel's war on Iran. First, Iran could admit defeat, explicitly or implicitly. The relative geopolitical calm would ease pressure on oil prices and allow stocks to continue on their bullish path. Second, Iran could escalate the conflict by retaliating against sensitive targets, including direct attacks on oil exports. The ensuing economic harm could range from modest to severe, depending on how the conflict spreads. Third, Iran could go through some version of regime change, through a coup, a domestic uprising or some other unforeseen circumstances. How that plays out is difficult to forecast. Here are how those scenarios might work out in more detail. The U.S. attack was calibrated to allow Iran to essentially admit defeat. The Israeli operation has included a campaign of assassinations and other effects to degrade the Iranian regime. The U.S. mission, however, was accompanied by messaging indicating that Washington intends only to eliminate the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon. President Donald Trump said in his White House address Saturday evening that the next steps were up to Iran: 'There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran." This scenario would be much like the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1998, which saw the previous supreme leader accept a humiliating defeat in the interests of living to fight another day. Israel would essentially write this version of history. 'The strongest military in history has acted decisively to eliminate the most tangible existential threat the Jewish state has faced," Israeli political analyst Amit Segal writes. Markets would embrace the vision of a new, more peaceful Middle East. 'The price of oil should fall and stock markets around the world should climb higher," writes Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research in a client note. Gold would fall. The Iranian regime may instead make good on the many threats it has made to inflict pain on the U.S. and Israel in the event of an attack like last night's. Some prominent analysts believe Iran's theocratic leaders will feel compelled now to do so. 'I don't see a scenario in which they would not respond, because that would mean accepting unconditional surrender," said Vali Nasr, an Iran expert at Johns Hopkins, on CNN Sunday. 'No regime, no government, would survive that in Iran in the long term." Nasr believes Iran may hit Israel rather than the U.S. directly, but many options are available on a menu of geopolitical risks analysts have cooked up over the years. The most damaging would be attempting to mine the Strait of Hormuz. Some analysts believe Iran might first direct its remaining paramilitary proxies in Iraq to attack pipelines there, potentially taking up to five million barrels of supply a day off global markets. Oil prices could exceed $100 a barrel. Iran has a stockpile of enriched uranium that could be used to make a crude nuclear weapon. The stockpile's whereabouts are unknown, said Rafael Grossi, head of the watchdog organization the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran could use such a weapon to target the U.S. or Israel. The first nuclear use since World War II would trigger a flight to safety, with investors selling risky stocks and looking for safety in Treasuries and other similar safe haven assets such as gold. Unless Iran signals it is admitting defeat, oil traders are likely to price in conflict fears in Monday's trading, though it may fade if the conflict doesn't physically impede the flow of oil from the region to the rest of the world. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is 86. He has spent heavily on building a nuclear program that is now in ruins, if not permanently destroyed. The Iranian economy is weak, and discontent is widespread. There are at least two ways that the U.S. and Israeli attacks could see the end of his leadership. One is that he attempts to escalate but becomes vulnerable to attack in the process. In this version, 'He digs in and becomes a Hassan Nasrallah," writes Huss Banai, associate professor of international studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. Nasrallah was the longtime leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah; Israel killed him in September. President Donald Trump said last week that the U.S. has Khamenei's location and could kill him. Or, Banai writes, 'There's a coup and a different version of [Iran] appears." The Iranian regime as we know it was founded in the 1979 revolution. A coup could see Iran's military leadership take charge, or that leadership could fall in the face of a popular uprising. But because there is little in the way of organized political opposition in Iran, any new government would be at best weak, or in the worst case more radicalized and willing to pursue its grievances. How that would play out in the markets could range from benign—in the event of a democratic takeover—to sharply negative, if conflict continues without a clear negotiating partner for the U.S. and other world powers. It took years for the consequences of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq to become clear. Iran's interest in a nuclear program was one of them. But now that the fog of war has descended, it will be difficult to make definitive judgments about which scenario is unfolding, if any. Iran's public statements so far have been limited. 'Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people," Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on X. Khamenei has yet to make an appearance, leading some analysts to believe his grip may be weakening. For now, oil and other markets are likely to be highly responsive to any signs of escalation. Write to Matt Peterson at
