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NDTV
4 days ago
- Politics
- NDTV
Hamas-Linked Mujahideen Leaders, Who Killed Bibas Children, Neutralised
New Delhi: Asaad Abu Sharia, leader of the Mujahideen Brigades, a small Hamas-allied group in Gaza, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza, the Israeli military confirmed. Another senior operative of the group, Mahmoud Kaheel, was also killed in a separate strike in the city. The Mujahideen Brigades confirmed the deaths of Abu Sharia and Kaheel. Palestinian media reported that over 30 people died in the strike in the Sabra neighbourhood that targeted Abu Sharia. The strike that killed Kaheel also killed his wife, children, and other family members. The Mujahideen Brigades operate primarily in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank as the armed wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement. This faction emerged in the early 1970s with the goal of resisting Israeli occupation and achieving Palestinian independence through armed struggle. The group carries out a range of military operations including rocket fire, ambushes, and guerrilla tactics. They have claimed responsibility for attacks on Israeli targets and regularly cooperate with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Their arsenal includes small arms, rocket-propelled grenades, locally manufactured mortars, and short-range rockets. According to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Abu Sharia was directly involved in the October 7, 2023, attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz, where he participated in the abductions and murders of civilians. The IDFadded that Abu Sharia orchestrated various attacks from Gaza and directed assaults on Israel from the West Bank. On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants stormed southern Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Among those kidnapped were Shiri Bibas, Yarden Bibas, and their two sons, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, a nine-month-old baby at the time. Ariel and Kfir, along with their mother Shiri, were killed in captivity. Their bodies were returned in February and their identities confirmed through forensic evidence. The IDF reported that the Mujahideen Brigades were responsible not only for the Bibas family's abduction and murder but also for the killings of Gadi Haggai, Judith Weinstein, and Thai hostage Nattapong Pinta. The bodies of Haggai and Weinstein, a US citizen couple aged 72 and 70, were recovered from Gaza on Wednesday night. Pinta's body was returned on Saturday. Since the October attack, Israel has launched a sustained military offensive in Gaza, which has killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians and injured 125,000 others. The operation is ongoing, with Israel imposing a blockade that has restricted aid deliveries for over 12 weeks. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US-backed aid organization, briefly suspended its aid distribution on June 6 citing threats allegedly from Hamas but resumed operations the next day, reopening two aid points. The United Nations reported that, between May 28 and June 3, 44 out of 75 planned aid movements coordinated with Israeli authorities across Gaza were denied, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. The Israeli military has ordered the forcible evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians in northern Gaza.
Saba Yemen
5 days ago
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Al-Ahrar Al-Filastiniyya says Zionist enemy using art to starve innocent people to death, bomb homes, shelters
Gaza – Saba: Al-Ahrar Al-Filastiniyya Movement said on Saturday that the Zionist enemy is deliberately using its art to starve innocent people to death and bomb homes and shelters, with their residents inside, in full view of the Arab and Islamic world. The movement added in a statement, "In response to this, we do not see any Arab or Islamic condemnation or action. We are united with them by one Eid. How can the Arab and Islamic nations live while the Palestinian people are being slaughtered in cold blood with the weapons of hunger and genocide? How can they enjoy a holiday?" The movement pointed out that the Nazi Zionist enemy once again committed a horrific, bloody massacre during the blessed Eid al-Adha, targeting the home of the Abu Sharia family in Gaza, leaving more than 15 martyrs and many more wounded, some of whom remain under the rubble to this day. It condemned in the strongest terms the criminal Zionist enemy's perpetration of these massacres and slaughters against innocent civilians, children, and women, holding the US administration fully responsible for these crimes, as well as the Zionist Nazis for their unlimited support in terms of equipment, supplies, and international cover. The movement emphasized that the Nazi Zionist enemy and its fascist leaders are persistently targeting innocent Palestinian children and women, every time the resistance fighters make them taste the horrors of hell, open its gates upon them, and pelt them with the stones of David, destroying their pride, shattering their chariots, and humiliating their embattled army and leaders. The movement condemned the suspicious international silence regarding the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, which only whets the appetite of the Zionist enemy to continue its aggression and commit more war crimes, with the green light in its hand. The movement called on "international and UN organizations, and the unjust world that applies double standards, to assume their responsibilities, pressure the Zionist enemy to stop the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, and work seriously to halt the crimes of genocide against the people of the Gaza Strip." Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Saba Yemen
5 days ago
- Saba Yemen
Gaza Civil Defense: Crews recovered 7 martyrs, wounded in al-Sabra area
Gaza – Saba: The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday that its crews recovered 7 martyrs and wounded in al-Sabra area, south of Gaza City. The Civil Defense said in a brief statement: "Our crews recovered 7 martyrs and wounded from a home belonging to Abu Sharia family, which was targeted by Israeli enemy forces in the Sabra area, south of Gaza City." It indicated that the search is still ongoing for missing persons under the rubble. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
Jordan Times
26-01-2025
- Health
- Jordan Times
Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says war toll at 47,306
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories — The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday the death toll from the war with Israel had reached 47,306, with numbers rising in spite of a ceasefire as new bodies are found under the rubble. The ministry said hospitals in the Gaza Strip had received 23 bodies in the past 72 hours -- 14 "recovered from under the rubble", five who "succumbed to their injuries" from earlier in the war, and four new fatalities. It did not specify how the new fatalities occurred. The ministry said the war had also left 111,483 people wounded. Some Gazans have died from wounds inflicted before the ceasefire, with the health system in the Palestinian territory largely destroyed by more than 15 months of fighting and bombardment. The ministry again reiterated its appeal for Gazans to submit information about dead or missing people to help update its records. A vast crowd of Gazans massed near an Israeli military barrier preventing them from heading to their homes in the north on Sunday amid a row between Hamas and Israel over the terms of their ceasefire deal. Aerial footage from AFPTV showed the crowd fanning out for hundreds of metres from a junction on a coastal road in the Nuseirat area and spilling onto a nearby beach. Dotted among the crowd were water tankers, ambulances, donkey carts, TV crews and their vehicles, and dozens of tents in which displaced Gazans sat and waited for permission to continue their journey. AFP journalists at the scene said the mass of people stretched for three kilometres along Al Rashid Road, with Gaza police preventing civilians from getting close to the Israelis, whose jets and drones flew overhead. Dozens of displaced people camped in the garden of a bombed-out villa, some of them milling around in its empty swimming pool. Whole families sat on the side of the road waiting for news, their belongings bundled up in blankets or crammed into overstuffed backpacks. Saeed Abu Sharia, 49, said he arrived on Saturday night and slept outside while his wife, mother and children stayed in his car for warmth. "I burned the tent last night because it was a symbol of misery and humiliation," he said. Fifty of his relatives were killed in the 15-month war, said Abu Sharia, whose home was also destroyed. Belongings piled high A few kilometres inland, hundreds of Palestinian families were waiting next to their cars in a long traffic jam on Salah Al Din Street, with everything they owned piled in great mounds atop their vehicles and strapped down tight. "Tens of thousands of displaced people are waiting near the Netzarim Corridor to return to the northern Gaza Strip," Gaza civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, with Israel refusing to allow them through in a dispute over a hostage release. Ismail Al Thawabtah, director general of the government media office in Hamas-run Gaza, also said there were tens of thousands waiting at the junction. He put the total number of Gazans wanting to return to the north at "between 615,000 and 650,000", with two-thirds of them likely to use the coastal road. The Netzarim Corridor is a seven-kilometre strip of land militarised by Israel that bisects the Gaza Strip from the Israeli border to the Mediterranean Sea. The corridor cuts off the north from the rest of the territory. Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating the terms of the ceasefire, which began a week ago. As part of the deal, Israel was due to let displaced Gazans cross the corridor and return to their homes, with Hamas officials saying this would happen on Saturday. Israel, however, accused Hamas of reneging on the deal by not releasing hostage Arbel Yehud on Saturday. Yehud was one the 251 hostages seized during the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the war. As a civilian woman, Yehud "was supposed to be released" as part of the second hostage-prisoner swap under the truce deal, a statement from the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "Israel will not allow the passage of Gazans to the northern part of the Gaza Strip until the release of civilian Arbel Yehud... is arranged," it added. Two Hamas sources told AFP on Saturday that Yehud was "alive and in good health", with one source saying she would be "released as part of the third swap set for next Saturday", on February 1. Hamas on Sunday said Israel blocking returns to the north amounted to a truce violation, adding it has provided "all the necessary guarantees" for Yehud's release. On the other side of the corridor in north Gaza was Bashar Naser, a 28-year-old from Jabalia, who had been waiting for his relatives since early morning. "We want to welcome them and celebrate... this is a great joy."
