Islamic Resistance strike with Iranian-made kamikaze UAV (Ababil-2 variant) in Iraq against American Harir base near Erbil.

U.S. forces were unable to intercept the UAV.

Israeli soldiers continue large-scale demolitions with explosives in Gaza.

Saudi Crown Prince MbS in his tent with the members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, including U.S. Senator & chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Mark Warner.

The Pentagon did not tell President Joe Biden and other top officials about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization for three days.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan and other senior White House aides didn’t know of Austin’s Jan. 1 hospitalization until the Defense Department sent over word Jan. 4.

Sullivan informed Biden shortly after DOD’s Thursday notification.

The first footage of American-supplied Abrams M1A1SA tank in Ukraine.

Israeli terror in occupied West Bank.

An Israeli border police officer was killed and others were wounded when their vehicle was ambushed by Palestinian roadside bomb in Jenin, occupied West Bank earlier this morning.

Six Palestinians were killed during Israeli raid in Jenin.

Suspicious drones fly every week over military training grounds and Bundeswehr barracks, where the Ukrainian Army is trained, Bild reports.

Data on drone flights goes back to October 2022. Most of them appear over places where the Bundeswehr trains Ukrainian soldiers, and especially over the Klietz military training area.

Military police use jammers against drones, “but the little spy devices kept flying.”

Not a single drone has been caught in more than a year.

The suspicion: Russia is behind it.

Reports claim American UAV strike targeted a convoy of 5 vehicles belonging to pro-Iranian militias in Deir ez-Zur, Syria.

North Korea will immediately launch a military strike in response to any provocation, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said.

"I make myself clear once again that the safety catch of trigger of the Korean People's Army (KPA) had already been slipped.

As already declared, the KPA will launch an immediate military strike if the enemy makes even a slight provocation."

Adviser to the commander of the Quds Force in Iran in an interview with Al Jazeera:

The resistance in Gaza will have anti-aircraft systems in the future, to deal with Israel's airstrikes.

Romania is building a new highway to the border with Ukraine, which will create a new transport corridor.

The goal is to provide access from Ukraine to Romanian ports, bypassing Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

Romanian media reports that around 3,000 workers and hundreds of vehicles are working 24/7 to continue the construction of the highway from Bucharest to the Ukrainian border.

Netanyahu:

I suggest Hezbollah learn what Hamas has learned in recent months.

U.S. officials are concerned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may see an expanded fight in Lebanon as key to his political survival, WaPo reports.

In private conversations, Biden administration has warned Israel against a significant escalation in Lebanon.

If it were to do so, a new secret assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) found that it will be difficult for Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to succeed because its military assets and resources would be spread too thin given the conflict in Gaza.

Italian foreign minister calls for formation of EU army

The European Union must form its own armed forces that could play a role in maintaining peace and preventing conflicts, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani said.

"If we want to be the bearers of world peace, we need a European army. This is a fundamental prerequisite for an effective European foreign policy.

In a world with such powerful players as the US, China, India, Russia, with crises stretching from the Middle East to Indo-Pacific region, Italian, German, French or Slovenian citizens can only be protected by what already exists, and this is called the European Union.

Therefore, defense and a common army must become a concrete fact. And this cannot be postponed."

Israeli fighter jet carrying out mock raids over Lebanon.

Israeli soldier poses for photographs allegedly at the home of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza.

Israel preparing for war against Lebanon

Senior Israeli officials say “the time has come to change the military focus from Gaza to Lebanon, to switch to offensive operations”.

Israeli officials said that the IDF's operations must be shifted from defense to attack; that diplomacy will not work, and that Hezbollah must pay a painful price and feel the pressure.

They say that Israel should prepare its forces for action on the Lebanese front, and promote operational plans for the war against Hezbollah.

Important meetings were held this week, and some plans have already been approved.

Source: Israeli journalist Amir Bohbot