[AFRICANEWS] Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have declared the capture of a new town and military base in Gezira state, marking a significant advancement for the paramilitary group.
In a recent announcement on social media platform X, the RSF claimed to have "liberated the second infantry division" of the Sudanese armed forces in al-Hasaheisa town. This comes just two days after the RSF seized the state's capital, Wad Madani, following intense clashes with the rival Sudanese regular army.
The Preliminary Committee of Sudan Doctors’ Union reported a staggering toll of 300 people killed and tens of others wounded during the fierce military confrontations in Wad Madani city.
The United Nations agency International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates that around 300,000 people have fled Wad Madani since the clashes began last week, highlighting the humanitarian impact of the conflict.
The strategic control of Gezira state, situated to the south of Khartoum, positions the RSF to make further advances toward army-controlled states in the east, central, and southeast, according to analysts.
The situation continues to unfold as the RSF extends its influence, raising concerns about the escalating tensions in the region.
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[ColonelCassad] Ship groups of the US Navy and NATO countries off the coast of Yemen and in the Persian Gulf region.
Yesterday the United States announced the start of an operation to protect shipping in the Red Sea. There is no talk of a ground invasion of Yemen yet.
Why would we bother to actually invade Yemen?
The Houthis, meanwhile, continue to strike commercial ships in the Red Sea and say they are not deterred by US threats. Moreover, according to the Houthi leader, a direct war with the United States and Israel is what the Houthis have dreamed of from the very beginning.
No doubt. Saddam Hussein did, too, as did Al Qaeda, and now look at how many of them unexpectedly found themselves in Hell instead of Paradise. And while they talk of decentralized operations, they’ll never again have what they did before 9/11.
For now, major shipping companies have stopped voyages through the Red Sea and Suez Canal due to security concerns. Israel is suffering huge losses because of this. Russian ships calmly pass through the strait, the Houthis do not touch them. Just like the Chinese.
So let's wish the Houthis more well-aimed volleys.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in London placed Magomed-Husein Dovtaev, a native of Chechnya, under arrest, finding him guilty of attempting to collect information for a subsequent attack on employees of the Iranian opposition
...often that means Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), who used to be communists. Who does it mean this time?
television channel Iran International. Dovtaev told the court that he was framed. "Bitch set me up"
According to investigators, 31-year-old native of Chechnya Magomed-Khusein Dovtaev filmed with a phone camera the facade of the building in which the Iranian opposition TV channel Iran International rented premises in order to then transfer the video to third parties. The investigation believes that this video could subsequently be used to bypass the building’s security system and carry out an attack on the channel’s employees, planned by Iranian intelligence services.
In Iran, the Iran International TV channel has been declared an extremist organization, TASS reported tonight.
A native of Chechnya was detained after he attracted the attention of security. In court, Dovtaev said that he was filming a beautiful view and “admiring the architecture,” he said that he was framed. A native of Chechnya explained that on December 11 he arrived in the UK from Austria, from the airport he went to a business park in west London, where the Iran International studio was then located, and that he was asked about this by a certain acquaintance, whose real name is unknown to Dovtaev.
The Central Criminal Court in London found Magomed-Khusein Dovtaev guilty of attempting to collect information that could be useful to terrorists. A native of Chechnya has been placed under arrest and will be sentenced on December 22. After the arrest of a native of Chechnya, Iran International TV channel decided to move the studio from the UK to the USA for security reasons.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on December 11 it became known that a court in Germany decided to extradite a 21-year-old native of Chechnya, who, according to investigators, beat to death a gay pride parade participant in the city of Munster. The lawyer stated that his client himself is homosexual and that he has received threats from other people from Chechnya.
[JPost] This hints that the IRGC is likely coordinating the attacks and "corralling" Iran's proxies which would normally argue over public leadership.
No doubt.
Iraqi militias launched a drone attack on Eilat, but the drone never made it and was intercepted by Jordan in its airspace.
An X (formerly Twitter) account associated with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella term for multiple pro-iran militias, announced that they had launched a drone attack on Eilat in Israel.
The Jordanian Defence Ministry announced that it had shot down the drone after it had crossed into Jordanian airspace, according to Maariv.
The document, signed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), says that this attack is a continuation of their resistance to the occupation as well as to support the people of Gaza in response to "the massacres committed by the usurping entity against Palestinian civilians".
The IRI is not a fixed group according to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, "but rather a generic name used to denote unity among Iran-backed armed groups and deemphasize their individual identities during attacks spurred by the Gaza crisis."
The Institute recorded a series of attacks against American bases in Iraq launched by the IRI since October 17, with all of them being attributed to this "generic, no-logo brand" militia, this is part of Iran's "facade strategy" to avoid accountability for attacks on Americans.
IRGC LIKELY BEHIND ATTACKS FROM IRAQ
They suggest this hints that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is likely coordinating the attacks and "corralling" Iran's proxies which would normally argue over public leadership.
The Institute highlights three main militias likely operating under the IRI umbrella, Kataib Hezbollah (who kidnapped Israeli Elizabeth Tsurkov earlier this year), Asaib Ahl al-Haq, and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada. Indeed the original account that tweeted about the drone attack is affiliated with Asaib Ahl al-Haq.
This escalation is likely part of Iran's attempts to use proxy groups around the Middle East to put pressure on the US and Israel, as has been the case with increased Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.
Further complicating the situation groups such as Asaib Ahl al-Haq also hold 17 seats in the Iraqi parliament as part of the Fatah Alliance (unrelated to the Palestinian party of the same name).
[IsraelTimes] Israeli reports indicate some 30 rockets were fired at Israel in recent salvos, by far the largest barrage to target Israel in at least several days.
There is no comment from the military on the rocket launches, which largely punctured the idea that the military’s offensive had put a major constraint on Gazook terrorists’ ability to fire into Israel.
That’s certainly one perspective. Another is that the bad guys mostly can’t pull this kind of thing off anymore, which suggests that the IDF’s offensive has mostly limited the ability of the jihadis to do so.
Despite the size of the volley, no injuries or significant damage is reported, though there are indications of fragments and shrapnel falling in populated areas.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... ’s al-Qassam Brigades armed wing takes credit for the hail of rockets fired at Israel, saying it targeted Tel Aviv.
In the north, Lebanese terror group Hezbollah takes responsibility for what it calls three direct hits in northern Israel, after anti-tank missiles were fired at civilians, injuring two.
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largely punctured the idea that the military’s offensive had put a major constraint on Gazook terrorists’ ability to fire into Israel.
I guess, to the author the difference between 7000 and 30 is nor significant. Wonder if his employers will adopt that attitude toward his next paycheck.
[GEO.TV] Earlier today, the Israeli military ordered the immediate evacuation of an area covering some 20 per cent of central and southern Khan Younis City, which was home to more than 111,000 people before Israel’s invasion and now includes 32 shelters housing more than 141,000 people displaced from northern Gaza by the war.
According to Al Jazeera, Israel’s notification of the forced relocation was announced online on Wednesday, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), with Palestinians instructed to move to the already overcrowded neighbourhoods in Rafah, further south.
“The scope of displacement resulting from the order to evacuate is unclear,” the UNOCHA said in its latest Gaza situation report.
UNOCHA also notes that the UN Human Rights Office received reports that Israeli forces had killed at least 11 Palestinian men and injured an unconfirmed number of women and children in a residential building in Gaza City in “what may amount to a war crime”.
“Three related families were sheltering inside this building during the incidents. Initial witness reports circulating through media allege that the men were separated from women and children and were then shot and killed,” according to the UNOCHA.
[GEO.TV] A report by the Wall Street Journal citing Egyptian officials says Hamas has rejected an Israeli offer to stop fighting for one week in exchange for dozens of captives, saying the group will not discuss any releases until a ceasefire first takes hold.
Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, told intelligence officials in Cairo during a visit on Wednesday that he was in the Egyptian capital to obtain a cease-fire and more humanitarian aid for Gaza, according to the officials.
In an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said that the group’s “priority” was for the war to stop.
“Our vision is very clear: We want to stop the aggression,” he said. “What is going on in the ground is a big catastrophe,” added Hamad, referencing the “mass destruction and mass killing” caused by the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
The member of Hamas’s political bureau said “some people” are looking for brief pauses in fighting of a few days or weeks but added that the group would not agree to that.
“Israel will take the card of the hostages and after that they will start a new round of mass killing and massacres against our people,” he said. “We will not play this game.”
[GEO.TV] Israel's attacks have persisted throughout the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, especially in the vicinity of hospitals and in the southern part of the besieged enclave, where ground operations are stepping up, Al Jazeera reported. because that's where Hamas is
According to the latest casualty figures as of December 21, 08:00am local time in Gaza (06:00 GMT), 20,301 Paleostinians have been martyred in Gaza and the West Bank, including at least 8,072 children.
Additionally, at least 55,951 Paleostinians have been injured, Al Jazeera reported.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... 1,139 people have been killed in Israel since October 7 while 8,730 have been injured, according to Al Jazeera citing the Israeli army.
Israeli officials revised the corpse count from 1,405 to "around 1,200".
[IsraelTimes] IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says that since the end of the temporary ceasefire in the Gazoo Strip on December 1, the military has killed more than 2,000 Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... operatives in strikes and during ground combat.
This brings the military’s estimates of Hamas fighters killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war to around 8,000. Another 1,000 Hamas bad boyz were potted in Israel on October 7, during the terror group’s onslaught.
"We have increased the number of troops fighting in east Khan Younis, and we are fighting there with determination, with five infantry brigades, and combat engineers, with an emphasis on the underground fighting," Hagari says in an evening presser.
On the north, Hagari says, "Hezbollah has turned southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... into a combat zone and continues to endanger the future of the entire state of Lebanon for Hamas and Iran."
"We will continue to work to distance Hezbollah from the border," he adds.
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[GEO.TV] Israeli military has ordered immediate evacuation of an area covering some 20% of central and southern Khan Younis city on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported.
The evacuation orders were sent to the UNRWA, particularly to the majority of evacuees inside the organisation's evacuation sites that have been designated as shelters for displaced Palestinians.
It is a vast area, given that the massive number of people in the northern part and Gaza City have been displaced to the central part of Gaza and Khan Younis.
Before Israel’s offensive, the area was home to more than 111,000 people and now includes 32 shelters housing more than 141,000 people displaced from northern Gaza by the war.
[GEO.TV] Fighting in the Gaza Strip escalated on Thursday with some of the most intense Israeli bombardment of the war and Hamas demonstrated its ability to rocket Tel Aviv, even as the enemies held their most serious talks for weeks on a new truce.
Israeli bombing was at its most intense over the northern part of the Gaza Strip where orange flashes of explosions and black smoke could be seen as morning broke from across the fence in Israel. Planes roared overhead and the booms of air strikes thundered every few seconds, punctuated by rattling gunfire.
In Israel's commercial capital Tel Aviv, sirens wailed and rockets exploded overhead, intercepted by Israeli defences.
Israel's Magen David Alom ambulance service said there were several impact points but no initial word on casualties.
The armed wing of Hamas said it had fired the salvo in response to Israeli killing of civilians. But with the group's leader in Cairo for truce talks, the attack seemed clearly timed to send a diplomatic message that 10 weeks of war that has laid waste to much of Gaza had failed to destroy the group's strike capability.
[GEO.TV] There are no longer any functional hospitals in the north of the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the World Health Organization said Thursday, describing "unbearable" scenes of largely abandoned patients begging for food and water.
The UN health agency said it had led missions to two badly damaged hospitals, al-Shifa and al-Ahli, in the north of the Paleostinian territory on Wednesday.
"Our staff are running out of words to describe the beyond catastrophic situation facing remaining patients and health workers," said Richard Peeperkorn, the WHO representative for the occupied Paleostinian territory.
His comment came amid increasingly frantic diplomatic efforts to secure a pause in the war that Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... says has already claimed 20,000 lives in Gaza, 70 percent of them women and kiddies.
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Given how many medical treatment centers:
had HAMAS located or very near them.
Hamas tunneled under them.
Had basements storing weapons.
Had missile launch sites in or next to them.
and the Care Centers Mgt., The UN, and the Palestinian Gov. all knew?
Some questions here should be:
Where was and what was the so called, United Nations doing while HAMAS and other genocidal terrorists were setting all this up?
How many UN Nation members helped, or funded, these genocidal terrorists in their attacks?
Why haven't these supportive nations been officially admonished by the US SOS, Obama-Biden Admin, Congress, UN, WHO, etc. and all support and funding cut off?
[GEO.TV] The entire 2.3 million population of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... is facing crisis levels of hunger and the risk of famine is increasing each day, a UN-backed body said in a report published on Thursday.
The proportion of households in Gaza affected by high levels of acute food insecurity is the largest ever recorded globally, according to a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
"There is a risk of famine and it is increasing each day that the current situation of intense hostilities and restricted humanitarian access persists or worsens," the IPC for Gaza said.
Distribution of aid within Gaza has been hampered by military operations, inspections of aid demanded by Israel, communications blackouts and shortages of fuel.
[IsraelTimes] President Isaac Herzog doubles down on the Israeli position that the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... is failing to keep up with the amount of aid Israel is inspecting and is the reason why so little has entered the Strip even after Israel opened up its Kerem Shalom Crossing to ease the bottleneck.
"Unfortunately, due to the utter failure of the UN in its work with other partners in the region, they have been unable to bring in more than 125 trucks [of aid] a day," Herzog says in a meeting with visiting French Senate President Gérard Larcher.
"Today it is possible to provide three times the amount of humanitarian aid to Gazoo if the UN — instead of complaining all day — would do its job," Herzog says.
Israel has said that it has been inspecting hundreds of trucks per day at its Kerem Shalom and Nitzana Crossings and then many of the trucks subsequently remain outside Gaza.
The UN and Egypt have argued that Israel’s military campaign has made it too dangerous to regularly deliver aid inside and through Gaza.
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Distribution of aid within Gaza has been hampered by military operations, inspections of aid demanded by Israel, communications blackouts and shortages of fuel
As the IDF is seeking out the HAMAS.
Which are deliberately hiding in, and attacking from within, civilian population & refugee centers to avoid meeting with GOD and answering for their WAR CRIMES.
[GEO.TV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday the war in Gaza will not stop until Israel achieves all of its goals, reported BBC.
"The choice I propose to Hamas is very simple: surrender or die," he says. Pretty straightforward terms.
"They do not have – and will not have – any other choice. And after we eliminate Hamas, I will use all my power to ensure that Gaza never again threatens Israel – neither Hamastan nor Fatahstan."
The IDF's elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and the 401st Armored Brigade have demolished the major Hamas tunnel network hidden under Gaza City’s Palestine Square, where the terror group's top officials hid on October 7. pic.twitter.com/USy0jwzhn8
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[GEO.TV] A report by the Wall Street Journal citing Egyptian officials says Hamas has rejected an Israeli offer to stop fighting for one week in exchange for dozens of captives, saying the group will not discuss any releases until a ceasefire first takes hold.
[GEO.TV] Israel's attacks have persisted throughout the 
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
[GEO.TV] Israeli military has ordered immediate evacuation of an area covering some 20% of central and southern 
[GEO.TV] Fighting in the 
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[GEO.TV] Israeli Prime Minister 
