On the 106th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, Israeli bombing and fierce clashes continued between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces in various areas of the Gaza Strip, and Israel committed 14 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 165 martyrs and 280 wounded during the past 24 hours, and in the West Bank it continued. The occupation forces raided several areas there, and settlers continued their attacks on Palestinian citizens for the second day in a row.
In the axes supporting the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, the Ain al-Assad base, which houses American forces in Iraq, was bombed with dozens of missiles, while the Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it had targeted many Israeli sites. As for Yemen, an American bombing targeted a Houthi anti-ship missile in the Gulf of Aden.
In several European countries, massive demonstrations took place in solidarity with Gaza, calling for an end to the Israeli aggression against the Strip, which has continued since the seventh of last October.
Battles on several axes
In the northern axis of the Gaza Strip, the Al-Qassam Brigades said that they repelled incursion attempts by the occupation forces and targeted their vehicles in the Al-Jaabari camp. Jabalia also witnessed Israeli bombardment focused on the Tal al-Zaatar area and the Tal al-Salatin area in Beit Lahia, where martyrs and wounded were recorded.
In Gaza City, confrontations took place during which the Al-Quds Brigades were able to snipe soldiers. The Brigades also announced that a number of military vehicles had been caught in what it called a carefully engineered ambush with high-explosive devices east of Gaza, which resulted in soldiers being killed and wounded.
In the central region, fierce confrontations took place, whether in the Nuseirat camp, where the Al-Quds Brigades destroyed a Merkava tank, or the Bureij camp, where the Al-Qassam Brigades said they bombed Israeli army positions with heavy-caliber shells. A scene was also repeated in Al-Maghazi camp, which witnessed intense clashes.
To the south, Khan Yunis was subjected to Israeli bombing, resulting in martyrs. The city of Rafah was also subjected to a raid that targeted a car, resulting in four martyrs. Khan Yunis is also the center of gravity in the southern region, where strong confrontations took place, as the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades announced the bombing of sites where Israeli forces were stationed.
On Saturday, Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets on the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, bearing pictures of Israelis detained in the Gaza Strip, and called on the Palestinians to inform the Israeli army if they recognized any of them.
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced that sixteen soldiers were injured in the Gaza battles, and it also announced that it had discovered and destroyed a number of rocket launchers equipped with long-range missiles in the northern Gaza Strip.
In addition to destroying a missile manufacturing facility belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement. The Israeli army also announced that its soldiers found dozens of war machines and explosive materials used in manufacturing missiles and that they were destroyed.
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A new number of martyrs
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that 165 Palestinians were martyred and 280 others were injured by Israeli fire during the past 24 hours, and the death toll in the Strip since the start of the war rose by about 24,927 martyrs and 62,388 wounded.
Hunger threatens hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported on its page on the X website that 800,000 Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from a scarcity of basic materials, as Israel continues its siege of the Strip and prevents the arrival of aid.
Settler violence
In the occupied West Bank, settlers attacked Palestinian farmers near the village of Ramoun, wounding some of them. They also continued their attacks on Palestinian shepherds and farmers in Masafer Yatta, threatening them with displacement.
At dawn on Saturday, Israeli forces stormed Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the West Bank.
The Palestinian News Agency “Wafa” reported the outbreak of “violent confrontations with the occupation forces, who stormed several neighborhoods in the camp, led by a military bulldozer that carried out acts of sabotage on the internal roads. The occupation soldiers also raided several homes and tampered with their contents.”
Later, Israeli forces sent military reinforcements to the camp, amid continuing violent clashes.
The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the Al-Dhahr area in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the West Bank. The occupation forces set up military barriers. They began searching citizens’ vehicles and phones, and assaulted a young man before stopping him.
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5 Revolutionary Guard advisors were killed in Syria
5 Iranian Revolutionary Guard advisers were killed in an air strike on the Mezzeh suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Saturday.
The five advisors were killed as a result of what the official Syrian news agency described as an Israeli air aggression targeting a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus.
Iranian media revealed that the intelligence commander of the Syrian Quds Force and his deputy were killed during the attack.
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi accused Israel of being behind the attack and stressed that it would not go unanswered.
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Attacking an American base in Iraq
Iraqi media reported that forty missiles were fired at the Ain al-Asad base, which houses American forces, in the Iraqi Anbar Governorate.
A security source in the tribal mobilization in Anbar Governorate, west of Baghdad, confirmed that the Ain al-Assad base was targeted with missiles launched from the Al-Baghdadi area, close to the Ain al-Assad base. The source added that the international coalition forces responded by bombing the area from which the missiles were launched with about eighteen missiles, without knowing the extent of the losses between the two sides.
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South Lebanon axis
Naim Qassem, Deputy Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, said that if the party waits for Israel to finish what it wants in Gaza, the next turn will be for the party in Lebanon. Naeem Qassem added that the party’s work in southern Lebanon is a defensive action to support Gaza and Lebanon.
On the ground, Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it targeted a gathering of occupation soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Dhahira site and caused injuries. They also attacked two other gatherings of soldiers in the vicinity of Hunin Castle and Zarit Barracks. For his part, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the outskirts of the town of Al-Adisa in southern Lebanon were subjected to two Israeli raids. He said that Israeli artillery also bombed the surroundings of the towns of Yaroun, Aitaroun, and the Marjayoun Plain.
The Civil Defense in southern Lebanon said that two people were martyred in an Israeli raid that targeted a car in the town of Al-Bazouriya in the Tire region in southern Lebanon.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent indicated that a drone bombed a car as it passed through the town of Al-Bazouriyah, which led to the car being completely burned. Ambulance teams transported the victims to the hospital.
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An American raid on a Houthi missile
In Yemen, the US Central Command said that it launched an air strike on Saturday dawn on a Houthi anti-ship missile that was prepared for launch and targeting the Gulf of Aden, adding that the missile represented a threat to commercial ships and US Navy ships in the region, and that it destroyed it in self-defense.
In a related context, Reuters reported from regional and Iranian sources that commanders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are in Yemen to help direct and supervise Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. The sources said that Iran has intensified its arms supplies to the Houthis in the wake of the war in Gaza, and that it It provided them with advanced drones, anti-ship cruise missiles, precision ballistic missiles, and medium-range missiles.
The Israeli-American debate regarding the two-state solution
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would not give up full Israeli security control over all the lands west of Jordan, according to him.
Netanyahu had said that Israel would maintain its security control over the Gaza Strip, after eliminating the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), stressing that security control is to ensure that Gaza does not pose any future security threat to Israel.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office denied what CNN reported about Netanyahu’s commitment to the Palestinian state, during his call with US President Joe Biden, stressing that Netanyahu repeated to Biden his firm position regarding the Palestinian state.
Biden had confirmed that Netanyahu did not oppose the issue, pointing out that the two-state solution was not impossible with Netanyahu in power. The US President’s statements came after his first call with the Israeli Prime Minister in about a month, during which they discussed the issue of the two-state solution.
The Associated Press quoted American officials as saying that Biden’s frustration with Netanyahu during their recent call had become more apparent.
In this context, the Palestinian presidency, in a statement, called on the United States to recognize the State of Palestine and not just talk about a two-state solution, stressing that the Palestinian people will not give up their legitimate rights, Jerusalem and its sanctities, and the establishment of their independent Palestinian state, no matter how long it takes.
The statement published by the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) said that the occupation government still refuses to acknowledge the fact that peace will not be achieved without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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Scenario of the day after the war
The New York Times quoted Israeli military commanders as saying that retrieving the hostages is possible through diplomatic, not military, means. Israeli military leaders added to the newspaper that recovering the hostages and destroying Hamas have now become incompatible goals, and that the long battle aimed at destroying Hamas will likely cost the lives of the hostages. Israeli leaders stressed that the diplomatic path to recovering the hostages would be the fastest method. They said the strategic impasse exacerbated the military’s frustration over the indecision of the political leadership. The Israeli military expressed to the newspaper their fear that the length of the military campaign, without a post-war plan, would lead to the erosion of allied support.
On the other hand, the New York Times said that it had seen documents indicating that Israel had imposed its control in Gaza on a smaller portion than it had envisioned in the battle plans since the beginning of the war. The documents indicated that Israeli plans included controlling the cities of Gaza, Khan Yunis, and Rafah by late December.
Demonstrations to demand a prisoner exchange deal
Israelis gathered in downtown Tel Aviv to protest the policy of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in managing the war on Gaza.
The protesters raised banners demanding the dismissal of the Israeli government, immediate elections, and the formation of a new government seeking what they described as unifying the Israeli ranks. This comes as the families of the prisoners continue to demonstrate in front of Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea as an attempt to pressure him to conclude a deal to release their detained children in the Gaza Strip.
Mass demonstrations in several European cities in solidarity with Gaza
Several European countries witnessed massive demonstrations in solidarity with the Gaza Strip and calling for an end to the Israeli aggression against the Strip that has been ongoing since the seventh of last October, which claimed the lives of more than 24,000 martyrs and more than 62,000 wounded, most of whom were children and women.
The Palestinian journalist residing in Berlin, Majed Al-Zeer, said that the demonstrations that took place today in the German capital, Berlin, have been continuing for 105 consecutive days in victory for the Palestinian right, and 19 other demonstrations were also launched throughout Germany, as well as in most European countries, in denunciation of the European policy towards the aggression against the Gaza Strip. Gaza.
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Guterres: Denying the Palestinians’ right to build their state is unacceptable
During the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Uganda, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed the necessity of recognizing the right of the Palestinians to build their state, in light of a stream of statements by Israeli officials and ministers who expressed their categorical rejection of the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Guterres said in his speech at the summit on Saturday that “refusing to accept a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, and denying the right of the Palestinian people to establish a state, is unacceptable.”