Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
16 January 2024 - Israel Special Weapons News
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- Prime Minister's Office announcement Israel - Prime Minister 16 Jan 2024 -- "Among the absurdities levelled against Israel at the Hague was the charge that after the October 7th massacre Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu incited genocide by quoting the biblical phrase "remember what Amalek did to you.""
- Prime Minister's Office Statement Israel - Prime Minister 16 Jan 2024 -- On instruction from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pursuant to the Director of the Mossad's agreement with Qatar on providing medicines to the Israeli hostages, two Qatari Air Force planes are expected to fly tomorrow to Egypt with medicines that have been purchased in France, according to a list that was compiled in Israel, according to the medical needs of the hostages.
- Israeli cabinet allocates $15 billion for Gaza war despite budget deficit IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- The far-right coalition cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved 15 billion dollars more for the Gaza war despite indications that the regime's economy is struggling.
- PM Netanyahu meeting with Local and Regional Council Heads from the Area adjacent to the Gaza Strip Israel - Prime Minister 16 Jan 2024
- Jan. 15: 'Axis of Resistance' operations against Israeli occupation Press TV 16 Jan 2024
- Israel Strikes Gaza After Defense Minister Says Intensive Phase of War with Hamas Will Soon End VOA 16 Jan 2024 -- Israel reported airstrikes Tuesday in northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, a day after the country's defense ministers said the intensive phase of Israel's war with Hamas would soon end.
- Zionists continue bombing southern Gaza IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- The Zionists have targeted the residential areas and medical centers of Khan Yunis in the south of Gaza, killing 11 Palestinian civilians early on Tuesday.
- Gaza: Fewer than 1 in 4 aid missions given green light, says OCHA UN News 16 Jan 2024 -- The Israeli authorities have continued to block lifesaving aid from reaching northern Gaza 102 days since Hamas-led terror attacks triggered the war, UN humanitarians have insisted, just as UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that "the long shadow of starvation" stalks the people of Gaza.
- Israel denying deliveries of medicine, lifesaving supplies to northern Gaza: UN Press TV 16 Jan 2024 -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the Israeli regime is denying access to aid missions delivering medicine and fuel to the northern part of the Gaza Strip, amid a deepening humanitarian disaster in the besieged enclave.
- US 'Hopeful' of New Release of Hostages Held by Hamas in Gaza VOA 16 Jan 2024 -- The U.S. said Tuesday it is "hopeful" that talks brokered through Qatar could lead to a new deal to release hostages held by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a cease-fire in the fighting between Hamas and Israel.
- FM: Iran does not welcome war and insecurity in region IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian underlined that the Islamic Republic does not welcome war and insecurity in the region, and said that over the past 100 days Tehran has made a lot of efforts to end the war and Israel's attacks on Gaza and create peace in the region.
- Further humanitarian assistance to Occupied Palestinian Territories and the region Australia MFA 16 Jan 2024 -- Australia will provide an additional $21.5 million in humanitarian assistance to the Middle East, including in response to the urgent and ongoing humanitarian needs resulting from the Hamas-Israel conflict.
- Gaza: Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell in the EP Plenary on the situation on the ground and the risk of regional escalation European External Action Service (EEAS) 16 Jan 2024 -- Subtitle: Speech delivered by Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, on behalf of High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell
- Israel Allows Entrance of Aid to Most Affected Areas of Gaza - Qatari Foreign Ministry Sputnik 16 Jan 2024 -- Israel has decided to allow entrance of medicines and humanitarian aid to the most war-torn areas of the Gaza Strip in exchange for delivery of medicines to the Israeli hostages held by Hamas, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- Maritime Safety in Red Sea Cannot Be Ensured Without Ending Fighting in Gaza - Qatar Sputnik 16 Jan 2024 -- The safety of ships in the Red Sea cannot be ensured without ending the war in the Gaza Strip, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said on Tuesday.
- China Slams US, Issues Statement With Arab League Calling for Gaza Ceasefire Sputnik 16 Jan 2024 -- "The US, which is pouring fuel on the fire in the Israel-Palestine conflict, also wants to play the role of fireman," read an article in Chinese media criticizing America's "unconditional support for Israel."
- Palestinian Foreign Ministry calls for placing Israeli settler organizations on 'terror' lists Press TV 16 Jan 2024 -- The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has condemned the escalation of violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied territories, calling for putting the settler organizations on international terrorism lists.
- Israeli military far from defeating Hamas: Minister IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- A member of the Zionist regime's war cabinet has said that the regime's military is far from being able to defeat Hamas.
- Israeli forces preparing for ground offensive into southern Lebanon: Report Press TV 16 Jan 2024 -- The Israeli regime has been training its ground forces for a potential operation into southern Lebanon, shows a report, as trading of fire between the regime and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement keeps intensifying.
- Hezbollah carries out fresh attacks on Israeli regime targets IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement says it has staged a missile strike that targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in northern occupied Palestine.
- Supreme Leader admires Yemen's attacks on "lifelines of the Zionist regime" IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has admired Yemen's attacks on the lifelines of the Zionist regime.
- China-US freight rates rise amid Red Sea crisis Global Times 16 Jan 2024 -- The freight rate between Shanghai and the US East Coast roughly doubled in less than a month amid global inflation and the ongoing pressure from the Red Sea crisis.
- US pressuring shipping firms to avert Red Sea routes: Yemen IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- Yemen's Ansarullah movement says the United States is putting pressure on international shipping companies to suspend their operations in the Red Sea.
- Envoy: Linking Yemeni retaliatory strikes to Iran meant to conceal Israeli crimes in Gaza ISNA 16 Jan 2024 -- Iran's Envoy to the United Nations dismissed Western allegations about the Islamic Republic's involvement in attacks by Yemeni forces in the Red Sea, stating that such claims are meant to deviate the world public opinion from Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
- Yemen: US, UK ships legitimate targets of Yemeni Armed Forces ISNA 16 Jan 2024 -- Spokesperson of the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced that an American ship was targeted in the Gulf of Aden.
- British oil giant Shell halts Red Sea shipments after US-UK strikes on Yemen Press TV 16 Jan 2024 -- UK-based energy giant Shell suspended all shipments through the Red Sea indefinitely, amid heightened tensions in the Red Sea over Washington's unrelenting support for the Israeli genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli war minister admits Hamas 'far from being defeated' in Gaza Press TV 16 Jan 2024 -- In an unexpected turn of events, the Israeli war minister has admitted that Israel has been unable to defeat the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas during its months-long war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
- Iran's Leader hails Yemenis' great achievement in supporting Palestinians in Gaza Press TV 16 Jan 2024 -- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has hailed the Yemenis' anti-Israel naval operations in the Red Sea, saying they did a "great job" in defiance of US threats.
- US, UK forces can no longer pass through Bab el-Mandeb Strait: Yemeni official Press TV 16 Jan 2024 -- A Yemeni official has warned that American and British forces can no longer pass through the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait as tensions grow in the region following illegal US-led military strikes on the Arab country.
- Houthis Attack Maltese-Flagged Vessel in the Gulf of Aden VOA 16 Jan 2024 -- Yemen's Houthi militia group, which controls the capital, Sana'a and parts of Yemen's Red Sea coast, has attacked another ship in the Gulf of Aden, following a rash of attacks over the past several weeks. Iran's supreme leader is encouraging the Houthis, which serve as an Iranian proxy in the region, to continue attacking U.S. and western ships. Such attacks threaten to further exacerbate tensions in the region and the fragile economies of many regional states.
- Pounding Mossad's, terrorists' positions part of Iran's response: FM spox IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has emphasized that the recent missile attacks on a Mossad espionage center in Iraq's Erbil city and terrorists' hideout in the Syrian Idlib region are just a part of fair punishment inflicted by Iran on the security offenders.
- US envoy angry with Iran's attack on Mossad center in Iraq's Erbil IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- The United States Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski has shown her anger in reaction to Iran's missile attacks on a Mossad espionage center in Iraq's Erbil city as well as the strikes against American headquarters.
- Iranian missiles destroy Mossad HQ in Iraqi Kurdistan: IRGC IRNA 16 Jan 2024 -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps confirms it has targeted the espionage headquarters of the Zionist regime in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region with ballistic missiles as part of an operation against anti-Iran terror groups and networks in the region.
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