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The surprise Hamas attack has dealt a blow to U.S. efforts to broker a landmark normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia and complicated Washington's approach toward Iran, Hamas' longtime benefactor. “Quite simply, all efforts at normalization are on hold for the foreseeable future,” said Jon Alterman, head of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, contradicting the official U.S. government line. Khaled Elgindy, a former Palestinian negotiations adviser, accused the Biden administration of leading an Israeli-Saudi normalization process that mostly bypassed the Palestinians and their hopes of ending Israeli occupation. “That sort of neglect is part of why we're seeing what we're seeing,” said Elgindy, now at the Middle East Institute. The immediate challenge is preventing the war from spiraling into a broader conflict, administration officials say, especially preventing the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah from opening a second front on Israel's northern border.

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☆ Attack on Israel boosts appeal of gold, safe-haven assets
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Amir Cohen Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The violence in Israel that erupted this weekend is prompting a move into safe-haven assets as investors closely watch events in the Middle East to gauge the geopolitical risk to markets. Gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas entered Israel in an unprecedented attack on Saturday. Western countries, led by the United States, denounced the attack and pledged support for Israel. Rising geopolitical risk would see buying in assets like gold and the dollar , and boost demand for U.S. Treasuries, which have been sold off aggressively, analysts said over the weekend. "It seems Wall Street has a new geopolitical risk after Israel declared war with Hamas," said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda in New York.

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☆ Pentagon Warns Iran, Hezbollah Against Joining Fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Pentagon warned Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to “think twice” before joining the conflict, and said it was prepared to come to Israel’s defense. A U.S. aircraft carrier strike force is due to arrive in the Eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday, a deployment that a defense official described as “a deterrent signal to Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah and any other proxy across the region” who might be weighing joining the conflict.

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☆ Israeli Military Says Deploying Against Possible Infiltration From Lebanon
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's military said it deployed troops against a suspected infiltration from Lebanon on Monday, which a local radio station said appeared to have taken place in the central part of the countries' border. Tensions in Israel's north have surged as it battles Palestinian Hamas gunmen who staged a mass-infiltration from the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. "A report was received regarding the infiltration of a number of suspects into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory. IDF soldiers are deployed in the area," the military said in a statement. Israel's Army Radio gave the location as near Adamit, across from the Lebanese border towns of Aalma El Chaeb and Zahajra.

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☆ Israeli military says deploying against possible infiltration from Lebanon
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

JERUSALEM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Israel's military said it deployed troops against a suspected infiltration from Lebanon on Monday, which a local radio station said appeared to have taken place in the central part of the countries' border. Tensions in Israel's north have surged as it battles Palestinian Hamas gunmen who staged a mass-infiltration from the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. "A report was received regarding the infiltration of a number of suspects into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory. IDF soldiers are deployed in the area," the military said in a statement. Israel's Army Radio gave the location as near Adamit, across from the Lebanese border towns of Aalma El Chaeb and Zahajra.

Persons: Aalma El, Henriette Chacar, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Israel's Army Radio, Thomson Locations: Lebanon, Israel's, Gaza, Adamit, Lebanese, Aalma

“We are still hunting down the last terrorist inside Israeli territory,” IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told CNN. Israeli fighters continued to clash with Hamas militants on Israeli soil early Monday morning in up to eight locations. Israel’s Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog told CNN Hamas fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel and sent hundreds of militants into Israeli territory. The IDF said Monday that Be’eri was “very badly hit,” and although most Hamas militants in the kibbutz have been killed, Israeli troops were still fighting there. Palestinians search for casualties under the rubble of a house destroyed in Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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☆ Hamas and Iran are longtime allies. Did Tehran help with its attack on Israel?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It’s something that we’re going to keep looking at closely.”Yet Iran’s evolving relationship with Hamas and its Palestinian militant partners, the Islamic Jihad, is well documented. Israel says Iran supports Hamas to the tune of some $100 million dollars a year. (Much of the Western world and some Arab countries consider Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad to be terrorist groups.) Therefore Iran is an asset for Hamas and Hamas is an asset for Iran,” Michael said. In April, Hamas’ senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh visited the Lebanese capital for meetings with Nasrallah.

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☆ US to send F-35 and F-15 jets to the Middle East to deter expansion of fighting beyond Israel's borders
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The US is sending squadrons of advanced fighter jets to prevent the war in Israel from escalating. US Air Force F-35, F-15, F-16, and A-10 jets will deploy in the region in a "deterrence posture." The US is also sending an advanced carrier and heavily armed strike group to Israel's coast. The jets will be deployed in addition to the US sending its most advanced aircraft carrier and heavily armed strike group to Israel's coast. The squadrons will be tasked with deterring the expansion of the war and preventing any potential Iranian aggression in the fighting.

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CNN —Israel has declared war on the Palestinian militant group Hamas after it carried out an unprecedented attack by air, sea and land on Saturday. Israel has pledged that Hamas will pay a heavy price and may now be preparing a ground incursion into Gaza. There, Hamas gunmen killed hundreds of people, including civilians and soldiers, and took hostages, sometimes from their homes. While Hamas has kidnapped Israelis before, it has never before taken dozens of hostages at once, including children and the elderly. On Monday, however, Iran’s mission to the United Nations said that the Islamic Republic was “not involved in Palestine’s response,” referring to the Hamas attack.

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☆ Oil price spikes on Israel war. Here’s what a wider conflict might mean
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

London CNN —Global oil prices climbed 4% Monday over fears that the unprecedented weekend attack on Israel by Hamas could escalate into a regional conflict embroiling oil-producing nations. The [attack] itself has no effect on the oil market directly,” Homayoun Falakshahi, a senior oil analyst at data provider Kpler, told CNN. Tighter oil sanctions? Should Washington decide to tighten the sanctions screw once more, “current flows to the global oil market might be compromised,” he added. “That would be a complete game-changer for the oil market,” Falakshahi said.

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☆ Israel-Hamas war: Latest news, market response and business impact
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Israeli TV channels said the death toll from the Hamas attack had climbed to 900. Gaza's Health Ministry said at least 687 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the blockaded enclave since Saturday. * The spokesman of Hamas' armed wing said the group will not negotiate over Israeli captives "under fire". AMERICANS, BRITONS DEAD OR MISSING* The United States said nine Americans were killed in Israel and other U.S. citizens were missing. INSIGHT, ANALYSIS* Hamas carried out a careful campaign of deception to pull of its stunning attack, accounts from Hamas and Israeli sources show.

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Political Cartoons View All 1205 ImagesHe acknowledged that Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group have helped Hamas in the past, but said that since the 2014 Gaza war Hamas has been producing its own rockets and training its own fighters. He also said Hamas believed Israel had plans to kill its top leaders. He said nearly 2,000 Hamas fighters have taken part in the latest fighting, out of an army of 40,000 in Gaza alone. On Monday, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group claimed it sent four gunmen across Lebanon’s border into Israel. Barakeh said Hamas is ready to fight a long war with Israel, saying it has an arsenal of rockets that will last a long time.

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A view shows an Israeli tank and military vehicles near Israel's border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad Acquire Licensing RightsBEIRUT, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A member of Lebanon's Hezbollah was killed in Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon on Monday, three sources in Lebanon said, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants expanded to the Israeli-Lebanese border. The man was killed in Israeli shelling into southern Lebanon prompted by a cross-border raid by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, which has been fighting alongside the Hamas group since it launched its surprise attack on Israel on Saturday. The Israeli army said soldiers backed by helicopters killed at least two gunmen who crossed the frontier. In a statement, the Israeli military said its soldiers "killed a number of armed suspects that infiltrated into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory".

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☆ Middle East risks prospect of fresh regional war after Hamas stealth attack on Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Clement Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"To take out the leadership of Hamas, it is not going to be a matter of days or weeks. "The Israelis are going to war," Bremmer told CNBC on Monday. Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas spokesman, reportedly told the BBC that the group had direct backing for the attack from Iran. "Nobody would consider that to be hard evidence at this point," Bremmer told CNBC. Normalization no moreThe weekend attacks on Israel by Hamas militants could potentially upend efforts brokered by the United States to normalize ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

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Witnesses said several Hamas security headquarters and ministries were hit, and the strikes destroyed some roads and houses. He said Hamas would execute an Israeli captive for every Israeli bombing of a civilian house without warning. There was no immediate response from the Israeli military to that threat. [1/5]Flames and smoke billow during Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 9, 2023. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan called on Hamas and Israel to immediately end violence and protect civilians, the Egyptian presidency said.

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☆ In pictures: Israeli forces deploy to Lebanon border amid fears of expanding conflict
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PicturesIn pictures: Israeli forces deploy to Lebanon border amid fears of expanding conflictIsraeli troops "killed a number of armed suspects that infiltrated into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory," the military said, adding helicopters "are currently striking in the area." Israel and Hezbollah, the armed group in Lebanon that supports Hamas, exchanged artillery and rocket fire on Sunday.

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☆ Israel looks to be gearing up for an invasion to crush Hamas, but another enemy is stirring up trouble
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Israel appears to be gearing up for a ground invasion of Gaza after Hamas staged a brutal attack. In response to the massacre, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fighter jets immediately began a widespread bombing campaign of what it said were Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Strengthening our joint force posture, in addition to the material support that we will rapidly provide to Israel, underscores the United States' ironclad support for the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli people," Austin said on Sunday. Meanwhile, as Israel gathers its ground forces, IDF fighter jets continue to bombard the Gaza Strip for a third consecutive day, striking what the military said are thousands of Hamas targets. —Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 9, 2023It remains to be seen how an invasion might play out, should the IDF carry one out, although it is likely to be a costly campaign in brutal environment with intense urban combat.

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☆ Israel flashes geopolitical warning at shaky time
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( George Hay | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The Kingdom’s rulers have historically supported Palestinian rights and opposed Israel, while waging proxy wars against Iran. Indeed, one motivation of the Hamas attacks may have been to provoke an Israeli response that derails those negotiations. At a time when the global economy needs inflationary geopolitical risks to simmer down, more are flashing red. In response, Israeli air strikes hit housing blocks, tunnels, a mosque and homes of Hamas officials in Gaza, killing more than 400 people, Reuters reported. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that Israel had the right to defend itself and issued a warning to Iran and other countries hostile to Israel not to exploit the attacks.

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☆ Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Israel Trade Fire
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement exchanged fire on Monday evening after the Lebanese group said three of its members were killed in Israeli strikes earlier in the day, heightening fears of a wider regional war. Hezbollah said it shelled a pair of Israeli military installations in response to the killing of its fighters in Israeli attacks. Israel’s military confirmed strikes from Lebanon and said it responded with artillery fire. Earlier on Monday the Israeli air force said it launched strikes on a village inside Lebanon in response to an incursion by armed people who crossed into Israel. Israeli forces killed an unspecified number of suspects during the incident, the military said.

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U.S. President Joe Biden lholds a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the 78th U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 20, 2023. As president, Biden has frequently stressed support for independent Israeli and Palestinian states. Having returned to office in late December, Netanyahu opposes Palestinian statehood anytime soon and has approved thousands of new housing units for West Bank settlers. "If President Biden can stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes, I hope President Biden can stand with Israel for as long as it takes," said Republican Senator Tom Cotton, a foreign policy hawk, on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." "Biden is not in love with Bibi Netanyahu," he said, using the prime minister's nickname.

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☆ Attack on Israel likely to boost appeal of gold, safe haven assets
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Ashkelon in southern Israel October 7, 2023. Gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas entered Israel in an unprecedented attack on Saturday. Western countries, led by the United States, denounced the attack and pledged support for Israel. Rising geopolitical risk could see buying in assets like gold and the dollar and potentially boost demand for U.S. Treasuries, which have been sold off aggressively, analysts said. Washington has been trying to strike a deal that would normalise ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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☆ Attack on Israel could boost appeal of gold and safe haven assets
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

☆ Israeli Army Exchanges Fire With Militants on Lebanon Border
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Israeli army said Sunday it exchanged fire with militants on the Lebanese border, raising fears of a broader conflict. The Israeli army said mortars were fired from southern Lebanon, causing Israeli artillery fire in response. Palestinian militant groups have often fired on Israel from southern Lebanon, causing sporadic rounds of violence. The area is largely controlled by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

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☆ Israel strikes Lebanon after Hezbollah hits Shebaa Farms
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Smoke rises from Halta village as seen from Ibl al-Saqi village in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, October 8, 2023. REUTERS/Aziz Taher Acquire Licensing RightsOct 8 (Reuters) - Israel fired barrages of artillery into southern Lebanon on Sunday after Hezbollah targeted three Israeli military positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms. Israel has held the Shebaa Farms, a 15-square-mile (39-square-km) patch of land, since 1967. Both Syria and Lebanon claim the Shebaa Farms are Lebanese. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Hamas fighters killed at least 250 Israelis in clashes through the day and escaped back into Gaza with dozens of hostages. More than 230 Gazans were killed when Israel responded with one of its most devastating days of retaliatory strikes. Israeli troops battled Hamas gunmen through the night in parts of southern Israel. The West Bank has seen stepped-up Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks and assaults by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages. Hamas said the attack was driven by what it called escalated Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem and against Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

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