Four people were injured in a car attack near a military post in the occupied West Bank on Friday, according to the IDF. The perpetrator was “neutralized”. Follow the latest news live.
An Israeli attack targeted the area around Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Thursday, the Syrian Defense Ministry and state media announced, in a context marked by the conflict between Israel and Hamas. “The Israeli enemy carried out airstrikes from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting targets in the southern region,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement, without reporting casualties. “Our air defense intercepts enemy targets near Damascus,” the official Syrian agency SANA wrote earlier. “An Israeli attack targeted the surrounding area of the capital Damascus,” state television added.
Israel rarely comments on attacks on Syria but has repeatedly said it will not allow its arch-enemy Iran, which supports President Bashar al-Assad's government, to expand its presence there.
5:17 p.m
The identity of the attacker is known
The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry said a Palestinian who the Israeli army said was suspected of carrying out a vehicle attack was killed by army fire in the occupied West Bank today.
“Recently, a vehicle ramming attack was carried out near a military post near Adorayim Junction. Israeli army soldiers operating in the area neutralized the terrorist,” said an army press release, which did not specify whether the attacker was alive or dead. The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry then announced the death and identity of suspected attacker Amro Abu Hussein, who was shot.
2:19 p.m
“NEVER SEEN”
In the images from TF1 News, which can be seen in the following article, the injured can be seen lying in blankets in the bombing in Gaza on the night of Thursday December 28th to Friday December 29th Arrive transported at Rafah Hospital. Most of the victims are children.
“The conditions in hospitals are unprecedented. There is almost no equipment or medicine, the professionals are exhausted,” complains Helena Ranchal, head of international operations at Médecins du Monde.
2:04 p.m
Car-ramming attack in the West Bank
Four people were injured on Friday in a car-ramming attack near an Israeli military post in the West Bank, whose perpetrator was “neutralized,” the Israeli army and emergency services said.
“Recently, a vehicle ramming attack was carried out near a military post near Adorayim Junction. IDF soldiers operating in the area neutralized the terrorist,” he said. In a press release, the army said without specifying whether the attacker was alive or dead. The Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said it was treating three slightly injured people at the scene and a fourth with “moderate” injuries have.
13:32
168 ISRAELI SOLDIERS DIED IN GAZA
The Israeli army released a new video on Friday showing soldiers firing shots and taking cover in a trench in an unspecified area of the Gaza Strip. We then see soldiers taking possession of a concrete building after checking that there is no enemy inside.
According to the army, 168 Israeli soldiers have died in the Gaza Strip since the military ground offensive began.
13:28
308 PEOPLE KILLED IN UN SHELTERS
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) also announced on Friday on
“There is no safe place in Gaza,” UNRWA added in its release.
12:35
NEW ASSESSMENT IN GAZA
The Palestinian Hamas Ministry of Health said on Friday that Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip had claimed 21,507 lives since the war began on October 7.
That figure includes 187 people killed in the past 24 hours, said the ministry, which also reported 55,915 injured since October 7.
10:48
AID DELIVERY TO GAZA COMPLICATED
The head of UN humanitarian operations, Martin Griffiths, sharply criticized the conditions under which aid is delivered to Gaza. “Convoys are under fire. Delays at border crossings,” he wrote on X.
He denounced the fact that humanitarian workers are “themselves displaced and killed,” recalling that “the traumatized” and “exhausted” population is being crowded into “an ever-shrinking piece of land.” “Three levels of inspection before trucks can return. Confusion and long queues. An increasingly long list of rejected products,” he also lamented.
Martin Griffiths warned of “an impossible situation for the people of Gaza and for those who come to their aid” and stressed: “The fighting must stop.”
10:21
Hezbollah positions are bombed by Israel
On Friday morning, the Israeli army again bombed positions of Hezbollah, a Shiite movement near Iran that supports Hamas in southern Lebanon near the border. The day before, she had reported numerous shots from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel.
10:17
No convoy in sight
Thomas White, director of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said on Friday that the Israeli army fired on one of its aid convoys in the Gaza Strip without reporting any casualties.
“Israeli soldiers fired on an aid convoy returning from the northern Gaza Strip, using a route designated by the Israeli army. Our international convoy leader and his team were not injured, but a vehicle was damaged,” he told X, adding: “Aid workers should never be targeted.”
A source at UNRWA told AFP that the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon. When questioned by AFP, the Israeli army said it was “verifying” this information.
09:21
21,100 PALESTINIANS KILLED IN GAZA
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), “at least 21,100 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war,” according to a message posted on his X account.
“In the deadliest year ever for Palestinians in the West Bank, 300 Palestinians, including 79 children, have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the war,” the UN program added.
08:57
IRAN EXECUTES FOUR PEOPLE FOR “COOPERATION” WITH ISRAEL
Iran executed four people convicted of collaborating with Tehran's arch-enemy Israel in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan on Friday, the Judicial Authority news agency said.
“Four members of a sabotage group with ties to the Zionist regime (Israel) were hanged this morning,” Mizan Online reported. The executed Vafa Hanareh, Aram Omari and Rahman Parhazo, as well as the woman Nasim Namazi, were found guilty of “war against God”, “corruption on earth” and “collaboration with the Zionist regime”.
According to the same source, the group was also accused of “carrying out extensive operations against the country's security under the direction of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.”
08:24
US Navy shoots down Houthi drone
Another front in this expanding conflict: Yemen, from where the Houthi rebels, allies of Tehran, are increasing their fire on the Red Sea to slow international maritime traffic in “support” of Gaza.
The US Navy said it shot down a Houthi-fired drone and an anti-ship missile in the Red Sea on Thursday evening. It is the “22nd. Attempted attacks of this kind by the Yemeni rebels since mid-October.
07:29
ISRAELI BEATS NEAR DAMASCUS
Late on Thursday evening, the Syrian Defense Ministry spoke of Israeli attacks near Damascus and in the south of the country. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the attacks particularly targeted the area around Damascus airport, 24 hours after flights resumed, suspended since an Israeli attack in late November.
Israel has stepped up its attacks in Syria in recent years, targeting Iranian-backed forces there. That country threatened Israel with “direct action” after the death of Revolutionary Guard General Razi Mousavi on Monday in a rocket attack in Syria that it blames on Israel.
07:25
HAMAS DELEGATION IN EGYPT
A Hamas delegation is expected in Cairo on Friday to discuss a three-stage Egyptian plan that includes renewable ceasefires, staggered releases of Palestinian hostages and prisoners and, ultimately, a ceasefire to end hostilities.
In Cairo, the Hamas delegation will convey to the Egyptians “the reaction of the Palestinian factions, which includes several observations on their plan,” an official from the Islamist movement told AFP, requesting anonymity. These observations relate in particular “to the modalities of the planned exchange and the number of Palestinian prisoners released, as well as to obtaining guarantees for a full Israeli military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip,” this official added.
“We are in contact at this moment (with the mediators, editor's note). I can't give any more details. We are working to bring them all back,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday at a meeting with families of Israel hostages in Tel Aviv.
06:59
ISRAELI BEATS ON GAZA
On Thursday night, Israeli forces stepped up their attacks in the Gaza Strip, particularly on Rafah in the south, where Palestinians rushed into piles of rubble in search of survivors.
South of Jerusalem, a Palestinian injured two Israelis in a knife attack before being shot, according to police and rescue workers. Hamas hailed a “heroic operation” carried out in “response” to the situation in Gaza.
06:49
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According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the attacks targeted a Syrian air defense position in the Sweida region in the south and around Damascus International Airport. The attack near the airport came 24 hours after flights resumed, which had been suspended since an Israeli attack in late November, just hours after reopening following similar attacks the previous month, said the London-based NGO, which reported on a has a large network of correspondents in Syria.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on its northern neighbor since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, mostly targeting Iranian-backed forces, including Lebanese Ayatollah fighters, as well as army positions. Syrians.
But since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, it has stepped up its attacks as tensions rise in the Middle East.
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