A woman reacts after an Israeli army operation on an area previously designated by the Israeli army as safe for displaced Palestinians, Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 28 May 2024.
“We have another seven months of fighting to deepen the achievement and attain what we define as the destruction of the governmental and military capabilities of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad,” Tzachi Hanegbi said on Wednesday in an interview with state broadcaster Kan. Islamic Jihad is a separate anti-Israel militant organisation that also has fighters in Gaza.
While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has never set a timeline for what he calls “total victory”, and Hanegbi said the army always stated 2024 would be a year of fighting, many analysts believe Hamas has been more resilient than the Israeli army expected. “Right now we’re not seeing gen AI being used in terribly sophisticated ways,” Meta’s policy director of threat disruption, David Agranovich, said on Tuesday during a press briefing. Tactics such as creating AI-generated profile photos or using artificial intelligence to produce large volumes of spammy content, had not been effective so far, he said.
Israel’s foreign affairs ministry said it had not yet received an official notification about the change, and that it will summon Brazil’s charge d’affaires for a meeting on the matter Thursday.with Israel after accusing it of “genocide” earlier this month. Petro last week ordered his government to open an embassy in the Palestinian administrative capital of Ramallah.
Xi’s visit to Saudi Arabia in late 2022 was hailed as a landmark by both countries. Last year, China followed up bya surprise accord between the kingdom and Iran, the Islamic world’s biggest rivals. The détente has held up even amid the strains caused by the Gaza war, and there are signs it’s been followed by an acceleration of investment between China and the Middle East.
While China’s economic and diplomatic weight in the region is rising, the US remains the key security partner for Gulf Arab states. It has major military bases in countries like Bahrain and Qatar and supplies defence technology.The White House said an Israeli strike on an encampment in Rafah that left dozens dead was devastating but would not cause President Joe Biden to freeze additional arms shipments to the country.