From December 3 to December 4, Xinhua News Agency published four news reports on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the situation in the Middle East. First, the Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Al-Halevi announced that the Israeli forces had launched combat operations in the southern Gaza Strip and planned to consolidate the gains they had made in northern Gaza.
Secondly, the office staff of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that Israeli army attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 700 Palestinians in the past 24 hours.
Third, the Iraqi militia "Islamic Resistance Group" announced that the US military attacked the "Popular Mobilization Organization" facility in Kirkuk Province in northern Iraq that day, resulting in the death of five members of the group. Finally, the U.S. ** command issued a statement saying that Yemen's Houthi launched a missile strike that day, hitting three merchant ships in the southern waters of the Red Sea, while the U.S. Navy then shot down three Houthi drones.
Houthi spokeswoman Yahya Sareya stressed that they will continue to obstruct the navigation of "Israeli ships" in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea until Israel stops its military operations in the Gaza Strip. By looking at these news stories continuously, we can see that there are some important messages contained in them. The resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip and the growing risk of conflict contagion are two important points for us.
Israel's renewed military operations in the Gaza Strip and the expansion of its operations to the south are bound to further intensify the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the same time, as the fighting escalates and continues, the risk of conflict contagion will increase significantly. Therefore, we need to continue to pay close attention to the latest developments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the situation in the Middle East.