🔻Channel 12 Hebrew: Settlers fleeing the Gaza perimeter refused to return despite the occupation allowing them to do so; Due to the continuous rocket barrages from #Gaza.

🔻 Initial reports of new heavy explosions in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan

🇪🇬 Egypt | President of the Suez Canal Authority: All companies have suspended navigation through the Suez Canal until further notice.

🇮🇪 Ireland | Clare Daley has a message for Joe Biden in the EU Paliament

The New York Times:

“Gaza tunnels are a nightmare for Israel.”

In January 2023, a top Israeli military official said Gaza tunnels would not even be a factor in any future war with Hamas because of Israel’s military strength — but today this shows otherwise.

NY times, cited US officials & the Israeli regime saying the scope, depth and quality of the tunnels built by Hamas have astonished them. Even some of the machinery that Hamas used to build the tunnels, observed in captured videos, has surprised the Israeli military.

Netanyahu: The war is expected to continue until 2025.

CENTCOM: U.S. Conducts Strikes in Yemen as Houthi Attacks Against International Shipping Continue

🇪🇺The European Union announces a contribution of 7 million euros to the World Food Programme to combat malnutrition in Yemen.

Iraqi sources: A photo of the Israeli “Mossad headquarters” in Erbil, northern Iraq, after it was destroyed by missiles from Iran.

Der Spiegel: Germany has agreed to deliver a shipment of tank shells to “Israel.”

🇹🇳 | Reuters: The Tunisian National Guard announces the loss of about 40 Tunisian migrants after sailing in a boat towards the coast of Italy last week.

Ex-Mossad deputy head,Ehud Lavi:
Military pressures did not lead to a deal but to the deaths of “hostages”.

Demonstration in the German capital, Berlin, expressing the people's anger against the German authorities for their stance in supporting the genocide committed by the Americans and israelis in Gaza.

🔻 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told his country’s officials to not attend the World Economic Forum in Davos this week due to the organizers’ position on Israel's war on Palestinians in Gaza, Bloomberg reported on 15 January, citing sources close to the matter.

  
“Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek was planning to attend the annual gathering of political and business leaders until Erdogan, who has criticized Israel’s conduct of its war in Gaza, stopped him from going,” the Bloomberg report says, citing unnamed sources.  

BREAKING: Iran: Attacks launched on militant bases in Pakistan | AP News

Qatari Foreign Ministry: Qatari mediation succeeds in reaching an agreement between Israel and Hamas to facilitate the entry of medicines and aid into Gaza.

🔻 Haaretz: EU Imposes Sanctions on Hamas' Political Leader, Yahya Sinwar, in Response to Oct 7 Attack on Israel