Israeli Occupation commits acts of grave desecration, destroying 1,100 graves in Gaza
For the ninety-second consecutive day, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue their destruction in the devastated Gaza Strip. The IOF dug up and destroyed 1,100 graves in the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City yesterday, Friday, according to a statement from the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas.
The statement added that the forces stole approximately 150 bodies from the newly buried martyrs, in addition to taking them to an unknown location.
The IOF stole organs from about 80 bodies, mutilating them before handing them over to the Red Cross and re-burying them in the city of Rafah, the statement read.
Hamas called on all countries, governments, human rights institutions, and international bodies concerned to fulfill their humanitarian and ethical responsibilities and to take urgent and serious action to condemn and expose these escalating crimes against the sanctity of graves and the bodies of martyrs.
Hamas stated, “We are facing the repeated heinous crimes of the Zionist occupation in desecrating graves and stealing the bodies of our martyrs in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘initial response’ to killing of top leader from allied Hamas
Hezbollah Fires Rockets at Israel in ‘Initial Response’ to Arouri’s Assassination
The Israeli army spokesman confirmed that they had monitored the launching of about 40 rocket shells from southern Lebanon towards the Mount Meron area in Israel.
The Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah said in a statement on Saturday, that it fired 62 missiles at the Israeli Meron Air Surveillance Base as part of the “initial response” to the assassination of “the great leader Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri”.
Al-Arouri, the Deputy Chief of Hamas’ Political Bureau, was assassinated by an Israeli drone in a southern suburb of Beirut on January 2.
“Meron Base is the sole center for administration, surveillance, and air control in the northern part of” Israel, Hezbollah said in the statement, adding that it caused direct casualties.
Israeli army’s strike kills 13 people in southern Gaza — TV
DUBAI, January 6. /TASS/. A strike by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) killed 13 people in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera reported.
According to the channel, IDF aircraft are also carrying out strikes on the neighboring city of Rafah, which is located on the border with Egypt.
The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian enclave reported that the death toll as a result of Israel's military operation in Gaza reached 22,600, and almost 58,000 people were injured.
The situation in the Middle East sharply escalated following an incursion of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip into Israel on October 7. Hamas cast the attack as a response to Israeli actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel has declared a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and started a military operation there. Israel also strikes parts of Lebanon and Syria in retaliation for bombardments originating from these countries. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank
Israeli officer” killed in north Gaza battles
Published: 2024-01-03 09:22
Last Updated: 2024-01-03 09:22
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) announced Wednesday morning the death of an officer within its ranks during the ongoing battles in the northern Gaza Strip.
The IOF stated that Major Meiron Mosheh Gersh (21 years old), a fighter in the Yahalom unit of the Combat Engineering Corps, was killed in north Gaza battles.
Thus, the number of IOF casualties has risen to 509 since the launch of the”Operation Aqsa Typhoon” on October 7.
Assassination of Arouri exposes occupation's brutality, says Hamas leader
Updated: 2024-01-03 09:34
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Hamas political bureau, responded to the assassination of his deputy, Saleh Al-Arouri, in Beirut on Tuesday evening.
Haniyeh stated that the cowardly assassination of Al-Arouri, along with Qassam Commanders Samir, Azzam Al-Aqra’, Mahmoud Zaki Shaheen, Muhammad Al-Rayes, Muhammad Bashasha, and Ahmed Hammoud, was carried out by the Israeli Occupation in Beirut.
Haniyeh added that the killing of Al-Arouri and his comrades is an outright act of terrorism for which the Zionist occupation is accountable.
Key points from Haniyeh’s statement:
- The killing of Arouri exposes the brutality of the occupation inflicted on our people globally.
- The bloodshed of Arouri and his comrades merges with the blood of our people in the struggle for Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.
- The consequences of this terrorist act lie at the door of the Nazi-Zionist occupation.
- Israeli Occupation will not triumph in undermining the determination for resilience and resistance within our people.
Israeli army” declares state of high alert along Lebanese border
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) declared Wednesday morning a “state of high alert” along the border with Lebanon, following the assassination of the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Saleh Al-Arouri, by a drone strike in the southern suburb (Dahieh) of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
In a statement, the IOF announced the reinforcement of the Iron Dome air defense system along the border with Lebanon, north of the occupied Palestinian territories.
The decision regarding the situation on the border with Lebanon came after a meeting that included the Prime Minister of the Israeli occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu; the Minister of Defense, Yoav Galant; and War Cabinet member and Minister, Benny Gantz.
Hezbollah had pledged to retaliate for the assassination of Al-Arouri, while officials in Tel Aviv are reportedly anticipating a significant retaliatory response to the assassination
Fighting between Hamas and Israel rages on, Palestinian death toll passes 22,000
JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Israel said on Tuesday its troops had killed dozens of militants in the north of the Gaza Strip in the past day, while its aircraft and tanks stepped up strikes in the south of the Palestinian enclave.
Residents said heavy fighting was also raging in central areas, citing shelling by Israeli tanks of parts of the Al-Bureij refugee camp. Some 207 Palestinians were killed and 338 were wounded in the past 24 hours, the Gaza health ministry said, bringing the total recorded Palestinian death toll to more than 22,000 in nearly three months of warfare in the Hamas-ruled enclave.
The latest fighting took place after Israel announced plans to pull back some troops, signalling a new phase in the war against Hamas amid global concern over the plight of Gaza residents.
Israeli bombardments have reduced much of the territory to rubble and engulfed its 2.3 million residents in a humanitarian disaster in which many have been left destitute and threatened by famine due to a lack of food supplies. Israeli officials say the offensive has many months to run.
In its daily briefing, the Israeli military said that in the past day its forces had targeted militants in Gaza City in the north of the enclave and in unspecified locations along the Mediterranean coast.
"In Jabaliya area, troops killed dozens of terrorists, among them those who attempted to plant explosive devices, others who operated drones and those who were armed identified driving toward the forces," the military said.
Troops also seized weapons and dismantled rocket launchers in Khan Younis in the south and in a United Nations school in Al-Bureij, Israel's military said.
JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Israel said on Tuesday its troops had killed dozens of militants in the north of the Gaza Strip in the past day, while its aircraft and tanks stepped up strikes in the south of the Palestinian enclave.
Residents said heavy fighting was also raging in central areas, citing shelling by Israeli tanks of parts of the Al-Bureij refugee camp. Some 207 Palestinians were killed and 338 were wounded in the past 24 hours, the Gaza health ministry said, bringing the total recorded Palestinian death toll to more than 22,000 in nearly three months of warfare in the Hamas-ruled enclave.
The latest fighting took place after Israel announced plans to pull back some troops, signalling a new phase in the war against Hamas amid global concern over the plight of Gaza residents.
Israeli bombardments have reduced much of the territory to rubble and engulfed its 2.3 million residents in a humanitarian disaster in which many have been left destitute and threatened by famine due to a lack of food supplies. Israeli officials say the offensive has many months to run.
In its daily briefing, the Israeli military said that in the past day its forces had targeted militants in Gaza City in the north of the enclave and in unspecified locations along the Mediterranean coast.
"In Jabaliya area, troops killed dozens of terrorists, among them those who attempted to plant explosive devices, others who operated drones and those who were armed identified driving toward the forces," the military said.
Troops also seized weapons and dismantled rocket launchers in Khan Younis in the south and in a United Nations school in Al-Bureij, Israel's military said.
BOMBARDMENTS
Gaza residents said Israeli war planes and tanks stepped up bombardments of the eastern and northern areas of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge after being forced from their homes elsewhere in the densely-populated territory.
In another sign of the war spreading beyond Gaza's borders, Israeli soldiers mounting a raid in the occupied West Bank killed four armed militants who had fired at them from a house in the Palestinian village of Azzun, the military said.
An Israeli official said the situation on the border with Lebanon, where Israeli forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters have exchanged artillery fire almost daily, would not be allowed to continue.
"This coming six-month period is a critical moment," the official said.
At a house in the centre of Khan Younis, medical teams retrieved the bodies of two women killed in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday morning, health officials said.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad said in separate statements they had fired mortar bombs and anti-tank rockets against Israeli forces in Khan Younis and were stopping them advancing to the western area. Tanks have been stationed east, north and at the centre.
Gaza residents said Israeli war planes and tanks stepped up bombardments of the eastern and northern areas of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge after being forced from their homes elsewhere in the densely-populated territory.
In another sign of the war spreading beyond Gaza's borders, Israeli soldiers mounting a raid in the occupied West Bank killed four armed militants who had fired at them from a house in the Palestinian village of Azzun, the military said.
An Israeli official said the situation on the border with Lebanon, where Israeli forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters have exchanged artillery fire almost daily, would not be allowed to continue.
"This coming six-month period is a critical moment," the official said.
At a house in the centre of Khan Younis, medical teams retrieved the bodies of two women killed in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday morning, health officials said.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad said in separate statements they had fired mortar bombs and anti-tank rockets against Israeli forces in Khan Younis and were stopping them advancing to the western area. Tanks have been stationed east, north and at the centre.
Hamas' armed wing on Monday claimed to have killed 15 Israeli soldiers after triggering an explosive minefield east of the Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City.
Hamas also showed its continued ability to target Israel after more than 12 weeks of the war, firing rockets at Tel Aviv.
The Gaza war was triggered by a surprise Hamas attack on Israeli towns on Oct. 7 that Israel says killed 1,200 people.
Palestinian health authorities in Gaza say Israel's retaliatory offensive has so far killed at least 22,185 people, making it the bloodiest episode in the wider, decades-long Israel-Palestinian conflict.
NEW PHASE
Israel has promised to wipe out Hamas but it is unclear what it plans to do with the enclave should it succeed in subduing it, and where that leaves the prospect of an independent Palestinian state.
It has signalled a new phase in its offensive, with the Israeli official saying on Monday the military would reduce its forces inside Gaza this month and shift to a months-long phase of more localised "mopping up" operations.
The troop reduction would allow some reservists to return to civilian life, shore up Israel's war-battered economy, and free up units in case of a wider conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah, the official said.
A U.S. official said the decision appeared to indicate the start of a shift to lower-intensity operations in the north of Gaza. Washington has been urging Israel to reduce the intensity of its military operation.
But Avi Dichter, a member of Israel's security cabinet, said on Kan Radio: "Without Hamas' terrorist infrastructure being destroyed and its governance capabilities toppled, the war will not end."
Another prime concern for Israel is the return or rescue of hostages held by Hamas. The militants seized 240 hostages on Oct. 7 and Israel believes 129 are still held after some were released during a brief truce and others killed during air strikes and rescue or escape attempts.
Qatar and Egypt are seeking to negotiate a new truce and hostages deal.
Residents of Sheikh Radwan district in Gaza City, which the Israeli offensive first focused on, said tanks had withdrawn after what they described as the most intense 10 days of warfare since the conflict began.
"The tanks were very near. We could see them outside the houses. We couldn't get out to fill water," said Nasser, a father of seven living in Sheikh Radwan.
Tanks also pulled out of Gaza City's al-Mina district and parts of Tel al-Hawa district, while retaining some positions in the suburb controlling the enclave's main coastal road, residents sai
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sraeli Defense Forces released footage of K9 units clearing houses in Gaza and uncovering Hamas weapons stashes on Monday.
The IDF detailed two instances in which it says IDF K9s "neutralized" a Hamas terrorist lying in ambush for Israeli troops. Israel says it regularly uses dogs with the Oketz Unit to scope out buildings before a larger raid by Israeli forces.
"During a joint operation with 460th Brigade in the Jabalia area, a dog named Patrick scanned the location before the forces entered the building. During the scan, Patrick detected a terrorist prepared to ambush the forces at the entrance and neutralized him, thus preventing an escalation," the IDF wrote.
"In another operation in the Rimal area, during a scan by a dog named Toy, a corridor was found connecting the building where the soldiers were located to another building where a terrorist was lying in ambush. Toy neutralized the terrorist, thus saving the force from operating in a dangerous building," the IDF added
hat’s really at stake in the US moves to target TikTok?
Who owns the narrative? If United States lawmakers are to be believed, it is currently at risk of being hijacked by China, disseminated on de facto spyware by impressionable youth swiping short-form videos in their bedrooms.
Official tutting at TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is nothing new. The prospect of a ban has been looming for a while. In March, US senators introduced the Restrict Act, a bipartisan bid to give the president powers to boot it out of US cyberspace on national security grounds.
The recent modifications imply that WhatsApp data saved on Google Drive will soon be included in the 15GB storage limit, giving users the choice to either manage within the limit or opt for a Google One subscription.
Israeli officer” injured in clashes with Palestinian fighters in Azzun
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) army stated that one of its officers was moderately injured during clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters in the village of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, following an overnight raid on the village by the 8211th Reserves Battalion of the IOF.
The IOF also kidnapped a number of Palestinian youth whose fate remains
unknown following the siege of a residential building in Azzun.
Pictures revealed traces of heavy bloodshed after the withdrawal of the IOF from
the area, according to Palestinian media sources.
Palestinian media reported that five Palestinians were martyred on Tuesday
Morning, by the IOF’s gunfire in Saffa west of Azzun, after which the IOF withdrew from the are after several hours.
4,910 Palestinians were approximately arrested in the West Bank since
the beginning of “Operation Aqsa Typhoon” on October 7 of last year, according to data
from the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS).
At least 4,119 Palestinian school students have been killed and 7,536 others injured in the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza, the Palestinian Education Ministry said on Tuesday.
In addition to the students' casualties in Gaza, the Israeli army also killed 37 school students and injured 282 others in the occupied West Bank since the start of the war on Oct. 7, the ministry said in a statement cited by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The statement noted that 221 teachers and educational staff were also killed, and 703 others injured in Gaza by the Israeli army.
It also said that 343 schools across Gaza were damaged in the Israeli bombing in addition to 38 schools damaged in the West Bank.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7, killing at least 21,978 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 57,697 others, according to local health authorities.
Gaza death toll rises to 21,978
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, stated Monday the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed 13 massacres, resulting in 156 martyrs and 246 injuries during the past 24 hours, which raised the total death toll of the aggression against Gaza to 21,978 martyrs and 57,697 injured.
326 healthcare workers have been martyred, and 104 ambulances were destroyed and taken out of service, in addition to the IOF deliberately targeting 150 health facilities, rendering 30 hospitals out of service. 99 healthcare workers are currently arrested and subjected to inhumane conditions, Al-Qudra added.
He warned that 1.9 million displaced Palestinians are exposed to famine and epidemics, and urgently requested sending medical teams and field hospitals to meet the overwhelming need of the medical sector in the Strip.
Al-Qudra called on international institutions to exert efforts to protect the health system and its staff
As the ground operation against terrorists in Gaza goes on, hostilities are reported in northern Israel
Early on Monday, the 80th day of the Gaza war, Israeli fighter jets struck a number of Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon, including military compounds, terrorist infrastructure, and operational infrastructure.
The fighting in Gaza — sparked by the October 7 atrocities carried out by the Palestinian terrorists of Hamas and other Gazans — carried on apace.
Two launches were identified from Lebanese territory towards Israel.
In response, IDF forces targeted the source of the launches and two launching positions, along with other locations in Lebanese territory. Additionally, an air-to-ground missile was fired at an Israeli Air Force aircraft from Lebanese territory, but it failed to hit the aircraft, which successfully completed its mission. The events mark a recent escalation in tensions along the Lebanese-Israeli border
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