Israel At War fay 93

 Israel at War day 93 January 7

Israel Radio: Former Head of Israeli Military Intelligence, Amos Yadlin, says that the IDF know precisely where Hamas head, Yahya Sinwar, is located in Gaza but is inhibited from eliminating him because he has surrounded himself with many of the remaining living Israeli hostages who are serving as human shields.

-Israel and Egypt are negotiating the future of a corridor between Egypt and Gaza that Israel says has been used by Hamas to smuggle weapons and people through underground tunnels WSJ

- 1 Israeli Border Police officer killed and 3 injured overnight by a roadside bomb and six terrorists were killed in an airstrike during an overnight raid in the terror city of Jenin.

- Retired Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak, 87, will be Israel’s appointee to the 15-judge panel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague that will hear South Africa’s case against Israel accusing it of genocide in Gaza, the Foreign Ministry tells The Times of Israel.

- Israel’s talk of expanding war to Lebanon alarms U.S. officials. Biden has dispatched his top aides to the Middle East with a critical objective: Prevent a full-blown war from erupting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. officials are concerned that Benjamin Netanyahu may see an expanded fight in Lebanon as key to his political survival amid domestic criticism of his government’s failure to prevent Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Officials fear that a full-scale conflict between Israel and Lebanon would surpass the bloodshed of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war on account of Hezbollah’s substantially larger arsenal of long-range and precision weaponry. “The number of casualties in Lebanon could be anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 and entail a massive evacuation of all of northern Israel,” (Washington post)