[NEWARAB] Civilians in a besieged area south of Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's war-torn capital received their first aid convoy this week since the war began 20 months ago, local volunteers said.
A total of 28 trucks arrived in the Jebel Awliya area, just south of Khartoum, the state's emergency response room (ERR), part of a volunteer network coordinating frontline aid across Sudan, said Friday.
The convoy included 22 trucks carrying food from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), one truck from Doctors Without Borders and Care, and five trucks loaded with medicine from the UN children's agency, UNICEF.
The local group and UNICEF said the supplies would help meet the "urgent health and nutrition needs of an estimated 200,000 children and families".
Jebel Awliya is one of many areas across Sudan facing mass starvation after warring parties cut off access.
Since the war began in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, nothing has gone in or out without both parties' approval.
ERR volunteers endured months of negotiations, constant suspicion and threats of violence to secure even limited access.
"Access to the area has been essentially cut off due to the conflict dynamics," UNICEF's Sudan representative Sheldon Yett said, adding it took three months of talks to get the convoy through.
"The trucks were detained on more than one occasion, and drivers were understandably reluctant given the risks involved," he told AFP.
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[GEO.TV] Qatar's prime minister met a Hamas delegation in Doha on Saturday to discuss a "clear and comprehensive" ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza, a statement said.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held talks with a Hamas team led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, the foreign ministry statement said.
Palestinians search for casualties at the site of an Israeli airstrike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, December 27, 2024. — Reuters
It is unusual for Sheikh Mohammed, who is also Qatar's foreign minister, to be publicly involved in the mediation process that has appeared deadlocked for months.
"During the meeting, the latest developments in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations were reviewed, and ways to advance the process were discussed to ensure a clear and comprehensive agreement that brings an end to the ongoing war in the region," the statement said.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The American and British aggression warplanes have launched on Saturday new Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Security sources said that the aggression aircraft waged two airstrikes on the Baha's area in the Midi district, in Hajjah province, northwest of Yemen.
Earlier on Friday, The US and British aircraft conducted new airstrikes on the Yemeni capital.
The strikes on Friday focused on the Ma'een District in Sana'a, with no casualties reported.
On Thursday, the Zionist enemy launched a series of airstrikes on Sana'a International Airport and the Hizziz power station in Sana'a.
Additionally, airstrikes targeted the Ras Khatib power station, Hodeidah Port, and the Ras Isa oil terminal in Hodeidah Governorate.
The Zionist enemy's airstrikes on Sana'a International Airport led to the martyrdom of three and the injury of 30 others, while the airstrikes on Hodeidah province also resulted in the martyrdom of three and the injury of 10 others.
The US-British coalition continues its aggression on Yemen in support of the Israeli occupation, attempting to deter Yemen from supporting the Paleostinian people, who have been facing a Zionist genocidal war for over a year.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Armed Forces in Sana'a announced the downing of an American ''MQ-9'' aircraft while conducting hostile missions in the airspace of al-Bayda province .
The Yemeni Armed Forces said in a statement that this is the thirteenth plane of its type that the Yemeni Armed Forces have succeeded in shooting down during the Battle of the Promised Victory and the Holy Jihad in support 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 a rusty 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... The aircraft was shot down with a locally-made surface-to-air missile, according to the statement.
The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm their continuation in confronting all attempts by the enemies to undermine the illusory sovereignty of our country and that they are continuing their operations in support of Gaza, and that these operations will not stop until the aggression on Gaza stops and the siege is lifted, the statement stressed.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A civilian was killed and another was maimed Saturday as a result of Saudi army shelling on border areas of Saada province, northern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Security sources in Saada reported that the shelling targeted Munabbih and Baqim districts.
Yemen's border areas are subjected to continuous Saudi army attacks. The escalation of Saudi attacks without justification has resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and property destruction.
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[Regnum] Forces of the Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis), which rules northern Yemen, attacked the Nevatim air base in the Negev Desert in southern Israel with a Palestine-2 hypersonic missile. This was reported on Saturday, December 28, by representatives of the organization.
"We attacked the Israeli enemy's Nevatim air force base in the Negev region in the south of the occupied Palestinian territories. In our operation, we used a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile. The missile successfully hit its target," the movement's spokesman said, as broadcast by the Houthi-controlled Al Masirah TV channel.
As reported by Regnum news agency, the Houthis attacked Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv with a hypersonic ballistic missile on December 27. According to them, the missile strike achieved its target, and the work of the Israeli airport was suspended.
Earlier on December 27, the SABA news agency, citing the Houthi Ministry of Health, reported that at least six people were killed and another 40 were injured as a result of Israeli military strikes on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
The Israeli Air Force attacked Sanaa during a speech by Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. According to Al Mayadeen TV channel, the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was at the airport in the Yemeni capital at that moment.
[IsraelTimes] Latest Houthi attack sends large numbers of Israelis running for shelter in the middle of night again; IDF says missile intercepted before entering Israeli airspace
Air defenses intercepted a missile fired from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... that triggered sirens in the Jerusalem, southern West Bank and Dead Sea areas early Saturday morning, the military said, in the sixth such overnight attack on the center of the country in less than two weeks.
The missile was intercepted outside Israeli airspace and the sirens were activated according to protocol for fear of falling debris, the military added, without specifying whether it was an Israeli or American system that intercepted the missile.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said there were no reports of injuries in the latest attack from Yemen, apart from one person suffering from acute anxiety.
Sirens blared in dozens of towns and cities in the Jerusalem area, the southern West Bank and parts of the Negev amid the incident, including Jerusalem, Latrun, Arad and the Dead Sea area, sending large numbers of people dashing for bomb shelters and protected rooms.
The Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen later took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have targeted the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel. The Iran-backed group claimed that the "missile successfully hit its target."
[GEO.TV] Security forces successfully thwarted an attempted infiltration and retaliated decisively against a cross-border attack by snuffies in the Kurram and North Wazoo regions, security sources told Geo News on Saturday.
According to security sources, a group of 20 to 25 khawarij,
…khawarij (Kharijites ) are heretics, often used to describe Wahhabis and hence Al Qaeda and ISIS-linked jihadis…
in coordination with the Afghan Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... , launched an unprovoked attack on Pak posts using heavy weaponry this morning.
In a swift and effective response, Pak forces not only neutralised the infiltration attempt but also delivered a strong counterattack.
Reports claim that over 15 holy warriors, including Afghan Taliban members, were killed, with many others injured. The operation forced the Afghan Taliban to abandon six posts along the border, incurring heavy losses on their side.
Initial reports suggest significant damage on the Afghan side, with further casualties likely. Despite the intensity of the exchange, Pakistain's security forces reported no fatalities and only three injuries.
The development comes against the backdrop of increased terrorist attacks inside Pakistain since the interim Afghan Taliban-led administration came to the helm in Kabul.
Terrorist attacks have been rampant in the provinces of KP and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... — which abut Afghanistan — targeting especially the law enforcers and security forces.
Islamabad has time again urged Kabul to not allow its territory to be used by terrorist groups to carry out attacks against Pakistain.
"We desire good ties with them (Kabul) but TTP should be stopped from killing our innocent people [....] This is our red line," Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a cabinet address on Friday.
The diplomatic effort is coupled with ongoing kinetic action against hard boyz by security forces who eliminated 13 hard boyz in three KP operations earlier this week.
A day before that, forces had bumped off 13 hard boyz during an intelligence-based operation in South Waziristan.
The third quarter of 2024 (July-September) witnessed a sharp uptick in fatalities in terrorist violence and counter-terrorism campaigns with a 90% surge in violence, according to a report issued by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS).
A total of 722 people were killed, including civilians, security personnel, and outlaws, while 615 others were maimed in as many as 328 incidents recorded during the period under review.
Nearly 97% of these fatalities occurred in KP and Balochistan — marking the highest percentage in a decade, and over 92% of these incidents of terror attacks and security forces' operations were recorded in the same provinces.
In 2024 alone, the military has reported 383 soldiers and 925 snuffies killed in various festivities.
It sounds like the protests are very tiny, indeed, a good sign.
[IsraelTimes] Hostage’s father urges Trump to pressure PM to sign agreement: ‘Netanyahu is trying to deceive you’; opposition figures lead rally against ‘toxic’ government.
Thousands of people attended pro-hostage deal rallies and anti-government protests across the country Saturday night, the fourth night of Hanukkah, days after Israel and Hamas once again accused each other of derailing negotiations for a deal to release the captives held by Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in Gaza.
The families of several hostages delivered remarks at a press conference in Tel Aviv before the rallies kicked off.
Yehuda Cohen, the father of hostage Nimrod Cohen, claimed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was trying to “deceive” US President-elect Donald Trump into believing that he was truly interested in reaching a deal with Hamas.
“Dear President Trump, Netanyahu is trying to deceive you. Ending the war and returning all the hostages is in the interest of the State of Israel,” Cohen said. “You might be the last person who is able put pressure on Netanyahu. Do not compromise on a partial deal that will become a death sentence for the remaining hostages and will not bring about an end to the war.”
“The talk from Netanyahu and the defense minister about continuing the war and maintaining military control of Gaza serves the extremists in government and is contrary to Israeli interests,” he added.
Saturday night also saw the Prime Minister’s Office deny a report by Channel 12 that Israel and Hamas could agree to a “limited” hostage deal as a gesture of goodwill ahead of the start of Trump’s second term in office. The report claimed both sides are interested in reaching a smaller deal in time for Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
In a short statement, the PMO called the report “a complete lie.” A senior Arab diplomat also denied the report to The Times of Israel.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum’s rally in Tel Aviv Saturday night was kicked off by former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, who was released last November and whose husband Oded remains in captivity. Lifshitz lit the Hanukkah candles at the start of the rally with her son Yizhar.
The Forum has assailed Netanyahu for apparently aiming to reach a deal that would initially release only so-called humanitarian cases — female, elderly or sickly hostages.
“After 14 months, they’re all humanitarian,” the Forum said Thursday in an announcement of its weekend rallies and warning that the hostages may not survive the coming winter.
Utter nonsense and selfish besides. It should be fairly easy to prioritize those weakest and least likely to survive, and those most likely to be tormented, And so, it seems, PM Netanyahu’s team has done.
A block away from the Hostages Square rally, anti-government activists and some hostages’ families and their supporters protested in front of the Begin Road entrance to IDF Headquarters.
That protest was bolstered by demonstrators from an earlier nearby event against the return of the government’s judicial overhaul. So it's not about the hostages...
The anti-overhaul protest, organized by the Free in our Homeland movement, started with a march from Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to the junction, also known by activists as Democracy Square. At the protest, Yair Golan, leader of the Democrats party, vowed to topple the government and replace it with “loyalists of Zionism and democracy.”
Golan, a former general who leads a merger of the left-wing Labor and Meretz parties, praised the audience for showing up week after week to protest against “this horrible government.”
Protesters also gathered in other cities across Israel, including Haifa, Herzliya, Rehovot, and Jerusalem.
On Saturday morning, police arrested five people who had protested for a hostage deal outside Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem, according to the Detainee Support Group, a team of lawyers who volunteer on behalf of detained anti-government protesters.
Channel 12 reported that the protesters were detained on their way back from the two-dozen-strong, 20-minute demonstration. According to the report, police followed the group and accused them of violating noise laws. The protesters were interrogated and later released.
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Many are dead. There are a few alive, but they have been so horrendously abused that the terrorists are likely considering whether the terrorists can afford to release them.
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^IDF been looking in every nook & cranny in Gaza for 14 months. No. They're dead: bodies hidden in Gazan cemeteries - standard Hamas trick.
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One decent Hamasnik sits, coughing
And shivering, not boffing or offing
His infidel charge.
"You would now be at large,
But I cannot be witnessed to soften."
[GEO.TV] According to Al Jazeera, six Palestinians have been killed and several wounded in Israeli raids on Beit Hanoon in the besieged north of the Gaza Strip.
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[GEO.TV] The Israeli military said it intercepted two projectiles fired from northern Gaza toward Israel on Saturday, as the army continued its sweeping offensive in the north of the Palestinian territory.
"Following the sirens that sounded at 16:14 (14:14 GMT) in the areas of Jerusalem, Negev, and HaShfela, two projectiles that crossed into Israeli territory from northern Gaza were intercepted by the IAF (air force), the military said in a statement.
[IsraelTimes] No injuries in attack, the second time this weekend that the capital was targeted, following an overnight missile from Yemen
Israeli air defenses on Saturday intercepted two rockets fired from 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 a rusty 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... ’s Beit Hanoun toward the Jerusalem area, an increasingly rare occurrence after nearly 15 months of war.
The Israel Defense Forces said both rockets were successfully intercepted, with no injuries or damage reported. Amid the attack, sirens sounded in Beit Shemesh and numerous surrounding towns, as well as in several communities near Gaza.
Long-range rocket fire from Gaza has become increasingly rare as the war has progressed, with Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... ’s launching capabilities severely hindered by the IDF’s ground offensive. Hamas last carried out a long-range rocket attack on Tel Aviv in August. The terror group has not fired at the Jerusalem area in over a year.
After the rockets were fired, the IDF issued evacuation warnings to civilians in the Beit Hanoun area.
The IDF’s Gaza Division and the Nahal Brigade began a new operation against Hamas in Beit Hanoun on Friday. Hamas has previously fired rockets from areas where the IDF advances in order to prevent the military from capturing them.
The IDF said the operation was initiated "following intelligence information about the presence of forces of Evil and terror infrastructure in the area, and as part of the effort to ensure the security of the residents of the border communities."
Before troops entered Beit Hanoun, Israeli fighter jets and artillery forces carried out numerous strikes in the area, targeting groups of Hamas operatives and sites used by the terror group, according to the military.
The IDF said it is enabling civilians who have not yet evacuated the area to do so.
The army has operated in Beit Hanoun several times since the beginning of the war, though it has not managed to reach every last rocket in Hamas’s possession.
The rocket fire from Beit Hanoun marked the second time on Saturday that the Jerusalem area was targeted. Overnight, a ballistic missile fired from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... triggered sirens in the capital as well as the southern West Bank and Dead Sea areas.
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces detained more than 240 Paleostinians including dozens of medical staff and the director of a north 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 a rusty 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... hospital they raided on Friday, according to the Health Ministry in the enclave and Israel's military.
The Health Ministry said it was concerned about the well-being of Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, as some staff freed by the Israeli military late on Friday said he was beaten up by soldiers.
The Israeli military said the hospital was being used as a command centre for Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... military operations and those arrested were suspected turbans. It said Abu Safiya was taken for questioning as he was suspected of being a Hamas operative.
On Friday, Hamas dismissed as lies Israel's assertion that its fighters had operated from the hospital throughout the 15-month-old Gaza war, saying no fighters were in the hospital. The group had not yet commented on the 240 arrests.
Compare and contrast with this report on the story from Israel:
[IsraelTimes] Military says facility was a ‘key stronghold’ for Hamas, detains hospital’s director, Oct. 7 terrorists; also says it evacuated hundreds of patients to other hospitals
The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had completed an operation against Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... at northern 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 a rusty 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... ’s Kamal Adwan Hospital and the surrounding area.
Some 240 suspected terror operatives were detained, including the medical center’s director and 15 bandidosfaceless myrmidons who participated in the October 7, 2023, onslaught on southern Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces, which last operated against Hamas at Kamal Adwan in October, said the operation was launched because the hospital had "once again become a key stronghold for terrorist organizations and continues to be used as a hideout for terrorist operatives."
The army said the hospital was still used by Hamas "despite repeated calls to refrain from allowing [terror operatives] to exploit hospitals for military activities."
The operation was led by the IDF’s 162nd Division. At the start of the raid, the IDF said troops of the 401st Armored Brigade surrounded the hospital, detained several terror operatives, and killed additional button men.
Members of the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit then carried out "precise activities" inside the hospital, during which they located and captured weapons, including grenades, handguns, ammunition, and other military equipment, according to the IDF.
Over 240 members of Hamas, Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... and others suspected of being members of terror groups were detained amid the operation, the military said.
The IDF said some of the terror operatives "tried to impersonate patients and medical staff, and some tried to escape in ambulances."
Among those detained was the director of Kamal Adwan, Hussam Abu Safiya, who the IDF said is suspected of being a Hamas operative.
The Hamas-run health ministry also said Abu Safiya was detained, but a statement posted to his Instagram account said, "All that is being circulated about Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya being arrested is false news," adding, "thank God he is fine, but the communications and network are very bad."
At least 15 of those arrested at the hospital and the surrounding area participated in the October 7 onslaught, according to the military. Several members of Hamas’s engineering and anti-tank forces were also arrested in the operation.
The suspects were questioned by field interrogators from the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 and the Shin Bet security agency. The IDF said many admitted to interrogators that they had participated in "terror activity" in the hospital area.
During the operation, the military said operatives launched RPGs and anti-tank projectiles at troops from an area near the hospital, and attempted other attacks.
There were no injuries among the Israeli forces, and the operatives behind the attacks were killed, the IDF said. It added that a dronezap eliminated a cell of button men whose members tried to flee the area.
Before launching the operation, the IDF said it enabled the evacuation of 350 patients, caregivers, and medical personnel to other hospitals, in an effort coordinated by the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).
In the weeks prior to the operation, "tens of thousands of liters of fuel, food, and medical supplies for the essential functioning of the hospital" were delivered to Kamal Adwan.
During the raid itself, the IDF said another 95 patients, caregivers, and medical personnel were evacuated from Kamal Adwan to the nearby Indonesian Hospital, where 5,000 liters of fuel, two generators, and medical equipment were delivered "to maintain and operate essential systems in the hospital."
Hundreds of Paleostinian civilians also left the hospital area "via defined evacuation routes," the military added.
The IDF denied that Israeli troops had set fire to the hospital as claimed by Hamas.
IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani pushed back on Hamas’s account. "While IDF troops were not in the hospital, a small fire broke out in an empty building inside the hospital that is under control," he said, adding that a preliminary investigation had found "no connection" between military activity and the fire.
"Running with unsubstantiated reports on the cause of this fire shows nothing but questionable journalistic integrity," said Shoshani.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry had accused Israeli troops of setting fires in several parts of Kamal Adwan, including the lab and surgery department, and said that 25 patients and 60 health workers remained in the hospital.
The ministry also said Israeli troops had entered the hospital, taken staff and patients outside and forced them to strip in winter weather.
Unverified video circulating on social media purported to show patients and staff being marched outside in front of IDF tanks.
The IDF last operated at the Kamal Adwan facility in late October, detaining dozens of terror operatives and locating and destroying weapons and terror infrastructure.
At the time, the military released footage from the interrogation of a detained individual, who identified himself as a driver and paramedic for Kamal Adwan Hospital and al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City.
He alleged in the footage that Hamas was using ambulances at the hospital to move operatives around.
"Hamas military operatives are present. They are in the courtyards, at the gates of the buildings, in the offices," he said when asked about the terror group’s operations around Kamal Adwan.
"They operate ambulances to transport their maimed military operatives and to transport them for their missions," he went on. "This is instead of using the ambulances for the benefit of civilians."
"We, the public in the northern Gaza Strip, are sick of this situation," he said when asked if he had anything more to add. "We have had enough; they [Hamas] are stationed in the hospitals, stationed in the schools."
Hamas has fought from within hospitals throughout the war and even periodically hid some of the Israeli hostages kidnapped on October 7 inside them. International law generally prohibits targeting hospitals during wartime, but hospitals can lose this protection if used for military purposes.
Since October, Israel has intensified its land and air offensive in northern Gaza, stating its goal is to prevent Hamas from regrouping in the area.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... official, Osama Hamdan, stressed that Kamal Adwan Hospital has been exposed to a massacre since 75 days, confirming that there are no fighters inside the medical center.
In a TV interview, Hamdan added that the Israeli plots to end all manifestations of civilian steadfastness in northern 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 a rusty 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... On the 449th day of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the Paleostinian resistance has struck back against the Israeli occupation forces, even as the latter continue their brutal attacks on hospitals and civilians in the besieged territory. Hamdan noted that Hamas had proposed a deal which stipulates a complete ceasefire, gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and a full prisoner swap.
''However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese... Netanyahu's government rejected the proposal.''
The Paleostinian resistance continued on Friday attacking the Zionist occupation forces in Gaza. A Qassam fighter managed to blow himself up with an boom belt in a Zionist force of 5 soldiers, killing and wounding them. As soon as the rescue forces arrived at the scene, al-Qassam Brigades fighters sniped two of them and showered them with a number of Zionist-made hand grenades in the Tel al-Zaatar area, east of the Jabalia camp, north of the Strip. al-Quds Brigades fighters, for their part, targeted the Israeli occupation forces in Jabalia camp with artillery shells.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The corpse count from the Zionist aggression on 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 a rusty 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 has risen to 45,484, with 108,090 injured, since October 7, 2023.
The Paleostinian Health Ministry explained on Saturday that the Israeli occupation committed two massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, which left 48 deaders and 52 maimed during the past 24 hours.
The ministry added ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach the victims who are under the rubble and on the roads.
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[Rudaw] At least 27 people, including suspected members of the Islamic State (ISIS), were arrested in a security operation by Kurdish security forces (Asayish) in the northern Raqqa province, the force said on Saturday.
“As part of the ongoing efforts to enhance security and stability in our areas, our security forces carried out a large-scale security campaign east of Raqqa … resulting in the arrest of 27 people, some of whom belonged to these [ISIS] cells and other criminals in the area,” the Asayish said in a statement.
The arrests come as ISIS cells attempt to exploit the security vacuum created in *kparts of the country after the downfall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, particularly in desert areas which the former regime used to loosely control.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF releases footage from a tunnel belonging to Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force which was recently discovered and demolished in southern Lebanon.
The military says the 100-meter-long underground passage was used by Hezbollah to store numerous weapons, surveillance equipment, and other military gear.
The tunnel also led to a Hezbollah command center, where the IDF says it found rocket launchers used in previous attacks on Israel, alongside numerous explosive devices.
After the tunnel was cleared of threats and investigated, combat engineers demolished it.
The IDF is still deployed to southern Lebanon, and it has until late January to withdraw under the ceasefire deal.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces flood major mixed city, patrolling and checking IDs, days after gunfire at protest by members of Alawite minority; Christians say new regime protecting churches
Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by members of the Alawite minority erupted in gunfire and stirred fears that the country’s fragile peace could break down.
A tense calm prevailed after checkpoints were set up throughout the country’s third-largest city, which has a mixed population of Sunni and Shia Moslems, Alawites and Christians.
The security forces are controlled by the former Death Eater group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , which led the charge that unseated former president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... . On the road from Damascus, security teams at the checkpoints waved cars through perfunctorily, but in Homs, they checked IDs and opened the trunk of each car to look for weapons.
Armed men blocked the road leading to the square formerly named for Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad, where one foot was all that remained of a statue of him that once stood in the center of the traffic roundabout. The square has been renamed Freedom Square, although some call it "the donkey’s square," referring to Assad.
Protests erupted there Wednesday among Alawites — the minority sect to which the Assad family belongs — after a video circulated showing an Alawite shrine in Aleppo being vandalized. Government officials later issued a statement saying that the video was old.
Wednesday’s protests began peacefully, said Alaa Amran, the newly installed police chief of Homs, but then "some suspicious parties... related to the former regime opened fire on both security forces and demonstrators, and there were some injuries."
Security forces flooded the area and imposed a curfew to restore order, he said.
Mohammad Ali Hajj Younes, an electrician who has a shop next to the square, said the people who instigated the violence are "the same shabiha who used to come into my shop and rob me, and I couldn’t say anything," using a term referring to pro-Assad militia members.
The protests were part of a larger flare-up of violence Wednesday. Pro-Assad Death Eaters attacked members of the new security forces near the coastal town of Tartous, killing 14 and wounding 10, according to the Interior Ministry in the transitional government.
In response, security forces launched raids "pursuing the remnants of Assad’s militias," state media reported. The state-run SANA news agency reported late Thursday that festivities broke out in the village of Balqasa in a rural part of Homs province.
The unrest left many people fearful that the relatively peaceful conditions that have prevailed since Assad’s fall could break down into sectarian fighting, as the country begins to recover following nearly 14 years of civil war.
Those who instigated the violence "are supported by parties that may be external that want strife for Syria to return it to square one, the square of sectarianism," Amran said.
Ahmad al-Bayyaa, an Alawite in the al-Zahra neighborhood of Homs, said he and his wife and three daughters fled to the coastal town of Baniyas when Death Eater forces first arrived, but came back a day later, after hearing from neighbors that the fighters had not harmed civilians.
"We had been given the idea that there would be slaughter and killing based on our identity, and nothing like that happened," he said. "We came back, and nobody asked to see my ID from the coast to Homs."
Before Assad’s fall, al-Bayyaa said, he spent 10 years in hiding to avoid a call-up for reserve army service and was afraid to cross a checkpoint in his own neighborhood. After the former Syrian army collapsed in the face of the HTS-led advance, residents of the neighborhood set up a fruit and vegetable stand on an abandoned tank in a gesture of mockery.
In the predominantly Christian Homs suburb of Fayrouzeh, a group of teenage girls took each other’s pictures next to a giant cutout of Santa Claus with a Christmas tree in the town square.
Residents of the area said their initial fears that the country’s new rulers would target religious minorities were quickly laid to rest. HTS was once aligned with al-Qaeda, but its leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, has cut ties with the group and since coming to power has preached religious coexistence.
"We had a very beautiful holiday even though there was some anxiety before it," said Fayrouzeh resident Sarab Kashi. "The guys from HTS volunteered and stood as guards on the door of the churches."
The city’s Sunni majority, meanwhile, welcomed the new administration. Many of the young men now guarding its streets were originally from Homs and were evacuated to opposition-held Idlib when Assad’s forces solidified control of their areas years ago.
"These guys were young boys when they took them in the green buses, and they were crying," said Wardeh Mohammed, gesturing at a group of young men manning a checkpoint in front of a grocery store on one of the city’s main streets. "Thank God, they have come back as young men, as fighters who made us proud."
The country’s new rulers have scrambled to impose order after the initial anarchic days after Assad’s fall.
The former police and security forces — widely known for corruption — were disbanded, and members of the police force in what was formerly a regional government headed by HTS in the opposition-held northwest were deployed to other areas.
Amran, the police chief, said recruitment efforts are underway to build up the forces, but he acknowledged that the current numbers are "not sufficient to control security 100%." The new security forces have also struggled to stem the proliferation of weapons in the hands of civilians or non-state groups, he said.
Al-Sharaa has said that the country’s patchwork of former rebel groups will come together in one unified national army, but it remained unclear exactly how that would happen or whether the groups can avoid infighting.
In Homs, it was clear that several different armed factions patrolled the streets, in a sometimes uneasy coordination. An HTS official hastened to explain that a handful of gunnies wearing patches with an insignia sometimes associated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... were not members of his group.
Many feared another flare-up of violence.
"From what happened yesterday, it’s clear that some people want to take the country backwards" to the worst days of the country’s civil war, al-Bayya said, "and no one wants to go back 14 years."
[IsraelTimes] A suicide bomber killed the head of police intelligence in Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Lengeh on Saturday, Iranian state media reports.
The unidentified bomber was also killed and another police officer was injured in the attack outside a police headquarters in the Gulf port city, the media reports say.
The attack came days ahead of the anniversary of two suicide bombings on Jan. 3 in which nearly 100 people were killed at a memorial in southeastern Iran for top commander Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in Iraq in 2020 by a US drone. Islamic State claimed those two suicide bombings.
[IsraelTimes] Wife, daughter of Duraid al-Assad, ex-president’s cousin and son of ‘Butcher of Hama’ Rifaat, said to have been smuggled into Lebanon and sought to reach Egypt with fake documents
Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... ’s cousins were arrested Friday at the Beirut airport, where they attempted to fly out with allegedly forged passports, Lebanese judicial and security officials said. Assad’s uncle departed the day before.
Rasha Khazem and her daughter, Shams, were smuggled illegally into Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... and were trying to fly to Egypt when they were arrested, according to five Lebanese officials familiar with the case. They were being detained by Lebanese General Security.
Khazem is married to Duraid al-Assad, whose father, Rifaat al-Assad, is the younger brother and former vice president of the late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father and predecessor.
Rifaat al-Assad, 87, had flown out of Lebanon on Thursday using his real passport, and was not stopped, the Lebanese officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Two Lebanese security officials had told Rooters on Friday that Rifaat al-Assad had fled to Dubai.
Swiss federal prosecutors had in March indicted Rifaat al-Assad on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly ordering murder and torture more than four decades ago, when he had led the artillery unit that shelled the city of Hama and killed thousands, earning him the nickname the "Butcher of Hama."
Tens of thousands of Syrians are believed to have entered Lebanon illegally on the night of December 8, when the Assads’ 50-year regime was toppled as bully boy forces entered Damascus.
Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah reportedly helped smuggle some Assad allies out of Lebanon and put them up in high-end Beirut hotels. The report, from a Lebanese newspaper opposed to Hezbollah, sparked uproar among politicians in Lebanon, which Syria had occupied for some three decades until 2005.
The Lebanese security and judicial officials said that more than 20 members of the former Syrian Army’s notorious 4th Division, military intelligence officers and others affiliated with Assad’s security forces were arrested earlier in Lebanon. Some of them were arrested when they attempted to sell their weapons.
Lebanon’s public prosecution office also received an Interpol notice requesting the arrest of Jamil al-Hassan, the former director of Syrian intelligence under Assad. Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati previously told Rooters that Lebanon would cooperate with the Interpol request to arrest al-Hassan.
[NEWARAB] Syrian forces loyal to the country's new administration intensified their combing operations in the country's coastal region on Saturday, as a deadline for officers and soldiers from the former Assad regime to hand in their weapons passed.
Syria's al-Watan newspaper, which is now close to the Syrian authorities, reported security sources as saying, ''The deadline given to remnants of the regime to surrender their weapons ended on Saturday. Anyone who keeps their weapon after today is breaking the law.''
The sources added that the new Syrian authorities' military operations administration had begun ''a wide-ranging security operation against remnants of the ousted throughout Syrian territory''.
Operations however seem to be concentrated on the Syrian coast, a stronghold of the former regime.
A Syrian security source told al-Jazeera that the military operations administration had set up checkpoints surrounding the Russian Hemeimim military base
..also spelt Khmeimim and Hmeimim
in Tartous province. Russia was a key backer of the deposed Assad regime.
An al-Jazeera correspondent said that the purpose of the checkpoints was to search cars entering and leaving the base, after reports that officers of the former regime had fled to the Russian base.
Russia has withdrawn some of its troops in northern Syria but says that the fate of the Hemeimim air and naval bases is still ''under discussion''.
The Syrian official SANA news agency reported that some regime officers were tossed into the calaboose near the coastal city of Latakia.
''Some remants of Assad's militias and a group of suspects were arrested in the Satmarkhu area near Latakia,'' it said, adding that weapons and ammunition were seized and the operation was still in progress.
Troops from the Interior Ministry were also deployed heavily in the coastal town of Banias on Saturday, in order to capture elements associated with the Assad regime.
[NEWARAB] At least 112,414 individuals who were forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime are most likely dead, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR).
The rights group says that despite the thousands of detainees being released following the fall of the regime, many are still missing and were probably killed by the regime.
The group said that of the 136,614 individuals it recorded as detained or forcibly disappeared in its database, only 24,000 have been released.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Fadel Abdul Ghany, chairman of the SNHR, said the individuals unaccounted for "were most likely killed".
He says that the people are still classified as ''forcibly disappeared'' since their bodies have not been returned to their families, and their fates are unknown.
SNHR says that an overwhelming majority of forcibly disappeared people either died from torture or brutal detention or were executed.
The group said that thousands of the disappeared were registered as dead from 2018 onwards without returning their bodies or properly informing their families of the details of their deaths.
Many of the victims were killed and buried in mass graves, some of which were uncovered following Assad's fall, without their families being informed.
''Only a few mass graves have been uncovered, and there are rumours of many more,'' Abdul Ghany said.
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