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What happened in the last few hours

These are the most relevant news stories about the war between Israel and Gaza and the crisis in the Middle East at 8:00 pm on Friday, January 5:

Lebanon submits a complaint to the United Nations after the attack that occurred in Beirut and led to the killing of a senior Hamas official. The Lebanese government has submitted a formal complaint to the United Nations regarding the attack on Tuesday against the country's capital, Beirut, that claimed the lives of the second-in-command in Hamas's political wing, Saleh al-Arouri, and six other members of the Islamist group. Two Palestinians were martyred, including two senior officials of its armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades.

Hezbollah leader defends the need to respond to Tuesday's attack in Beirut. Hezbollah Secretary-General in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, said in a speech that all of Lebanon would “be exposed” if the group did not respond to the assassination of Hamas Deputy Chairman Saleh Al-Arouri in Beirut. Nasrallah added that the armed operations carried out by the militia on the southern border near Israeli territory opened a “historic opportunity” for Lebanon to liberate its land occupied by Israel, and that the Islamic resistance in Iraq also has an ideal opportunity to get rid of the American presence in that country. Nasrallah also confirmed that the Iranian-backed militia has carried out about 670 military operations on the Lebanese-Israeli border since October 8, when the war between Israel and Hamas began. Nasrallah added that Hezbollah destroyed “a large number of Israeli vehicles and tanks.”

Borrell travels to Lebanon to avoid a regional escalation of the conflict. The European Union joins the redoubled international diplomatic efforts to prevent the conflict between Israel and Gaza from spreading throughout the region. High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, will travel on Friday to Lebanon, where he will meet with the country's highest political and military authorities, as well as with the Commander of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), General Aroldo. Lazaro.

UNICEF warns of a “shocking” increase in diarrhea cases in Gaza. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday of a “triple fatal threat” facing 1.1 million children in the Gaza Strip due to the “overwhelming” increase in cases of diarrhea and food poverty amid the escalation of the conflict between the two sides. Israel and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas.

The Israeli army kills a Palestinian boy in a military operation in the West Bank. A Palestinian boy was killed on Friday by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank during a military operation, and at least four were wounded, according to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority. Aseed Tariq Anis Al-Rimawi (17 years old) was martyred and four other people were injured, two of them in serious condition, during an Israeli army operation in the town of Beit Rima in the West Bank, according to a ministry statement.

At least 22,600 people have been killed in Gaza since the war between Israel and Hamas began, according to the Gaza government. The Gaza Ministry of Health reported that the death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to at least 22,600 since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. In addition, another 57,910 people were infected. The same statement indicates that in the past 24 hours alone, approximately 162 Palestinians were killed and 296 others were injured.

Maersk will divert all of its Red Sea routes via South Africa. Danish shipping company Maersk, one of the world's leading container shipping companies, has announced that it will convert all of its Red Sea routes via South Africa in the “near future”. Maersk – part of AP Moller-Maersk, Denmark's main industrial group – had announced three days ago that these routes had been suspended indefinitely due to the attack on one of its ships last weekend.

Spain celebrates Israel's decision to return its ambassador to Madrid. The government welcomed the decision of the Israeli executive authority to return its ambassador to Spain, Rodica Radian Gordon, at the beginning of next week, thus returning the situation between the two countries to “normal.” The Minister of Regional Policy and Democratic Memory, Angel Víctor Torres, spoke in these terms in an interview with RNE, when asked about this matter after Israel decided to withdraw its ambassador in November due to its discomfort with Spain's position in the conflict.