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Britain on Sunday also announced that it would spend £405-million to upgrade the air defence system used to destroy drones in the Red Sea. </span>\r\n<h4><b>Stopping Houthi ship attacks will take time, says Biden adviser </b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US military action to deter Iranian-backed groups such as Yemen’s Houthi rebels would take time and the Biden administration “will have more to say about it soon”, Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While hinting at unspecified additional measures, Finer’s comments on ABC’s </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Week</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were broadly in line with President Joe Biden’s acknowledgement last week that Houthi missile and drone attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea </span><a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/us-presses-ahead-with-least-bad-option-in-confronting-houthis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were unlikely to stop immediately</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Deterrence is not a light switch,” Finer said on Sunday. “We are taking down these stockpiles so they will not be able to conduct so many attacks over time. That will take time to play out.” </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US air strikes </span><a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-20/us-says-air-strike-hits-houthi-anti-ship-missile-before-launch\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">destroyed</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a Houthi anti-ship missile on Saturday that was prepared for launch into the Gulf of Aden, the latest action against the Yemen-based militants that have targeted Red Sea commercial traffic for weeks. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US and the UK were exploring ways to step up their campaign against the Houthis without provoking a broader war, with a focus on pre-emptive strikes and targeting resupply shipments from Iran, according to people familiar with the discussions.</span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more:</b> <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-16/israel-iran-shadow-war-its-history-and-dangerous-new-phase\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Israel-Iran shadow war reaches a risky new phase: QuickTake</span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We totally reject the justification and the rationale that because there’s a conflict going on between Israel and Hamas in Gaza that entitles a group to take military actions against the entire global economy,” Finer said. </span>\r\n<h4><b>UAE warns US time is running out to avoid wider crisis</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United Arab Emirates urged the US to support an immediate ceasefire of Israel’s war in Gaza, warning that the risk of a regional conflagration was growing daily as the three-month conflict rages on.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We need a humanitarian ceasefire now, we can’t wait another 100 days,” the UAE ambassador to the United Nations, Lana Nusseibeh, said in an online interview from New York. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The risks are high, the war in Gaza is very clearly an open wound and it’s destabilising the region,” she said, adding that the US could play a critical role in easing the tensions.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The warning by one of Washington’s key allies in the region marks a new level of concern about the spiral of attacks involving Israel, Iran and its proxies and US forces as fighting drags on in Gaza amid widespread destruction and a soaring civilian death toll. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Iranian-backed militant group Hamas, designated as a terrorist organisation by the US and European Union, killed 1,200 people and abducted 240 others in its 7 October incursion into southern Israel. In retaliation, Israeli troops displaced most of Gaza’s two million population and killed more than 24,000, according to the Hamas-run health authorities. In mid-December, the World Bank estimated that Israeli bombardment had damaged or destroyed </span><a href=\"https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099721412142313834/pdf/IDU043992ccb0c283048bd0941e073dbfc46633b.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more than 60%</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Gaza’s infrastructure. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel’s far-right government has vowed to pursue its offensive and rejected a US-backed proposal by five Arab nations including the UAE for post-war Gaza reconstruction because it’s conditional on Israeli support for a Palestinian state.</span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more:</b> <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-19/israel-isn-t-buying-saudi-uae-qatar-egypt-and-jordan-s-postwar-gaza-plan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel rebuffs a post-war Gaza plan pitched by Arab nations </span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the start of the war in Gaza, there have been almost daily skirmishes on Israel’s border with Lebanon between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, the Iranian-supported Shiite militia. Regional tensions have increased dramatically since late last year with Israel mounting a series of assassinations of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian commanders and Iran openly going on the offensive in its proxy war with the Jewish state.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iran on Saturday accused Israel of a deadly rocket attack on a building in the Syrian capital Damascus serving as a residence for Iranian military advisers, killing at least five people. The strike followed an attack by Iran earlier in the week on what Tehran said was an Israeli spy base in Iraq.</span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more:</b> <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-20/iran-reports-death-of-four-military-advisers-in-syria-attack\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iran says Israeli rockets kill military advisers in Syria </span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US Central Command also said multiple ballistic missiles and rockets were launched on Saturday by Iran-backed militants in Western Iraq, targeting the al-Assad Airbase. While most of the missiles were intercepted, some impacted the base. A number of US personnel were being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries and at least one Iraqi service member was wounded, according to a post on X.</span><b> DM</b>\r\n<div><strong>Read more in Daily Maverick:</strong> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/middle-east-crisis-news-hub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/middle-east-crisis-news-hub/&source=gmail&ust=1705950407434000&usg=AOvVaw0xMgU00_4ezW9yd5wv0-h4\">Israel-Palestine War</a></div>",
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