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18 December 2024 - Israel Special Weapons News
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- Dec. 17: 'Axis of Resistance' operations against Israeli occupation Press TV 18 Dec 2024
- Gaza ceasefire talks underway with resolved contentious issues: Hamas official IRNA 18 Dec 2024 -- A Hamas official has announced that ceasefire talks in Gaza are underway, noting that most contentious issues have been resolved.
- Hamas has recruited 4,000 new fighters: Israeli regime commanders IRNA 18 Dec 2024 -- The Israeli regime's military commanders have said that the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has recruited nearly 4,000 new fighters despite the regime's devastating campaign of attacks against Gaza, where Hamas is based.
- Hamas says hostage deal possible if Israel sets no new conditions People's Daily 18 Dec 2024 -- Hamas said on Tuesday that reaching an agreement for a ceasefire and prisoner exchanges is possible if Israel stops setting new conditions.
- Occupied Palestinian Territory: Security Council hears of ongoing violence, 'relentless' Israeli settlement expansion UN News 18 Dec 2024 -- The United Nations continues to voice major concern over hostilities and Israeli settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the Security Council heard on Wednesday.
- Winter rains and aid obstacles worsen ordeal for one million Gazans UN News 18 Dec 2024 -- Nearly one million Gazans risk spending winter without adequate shelter as UN agencies struggle to provide cold weather assistance, amid ongoing Israeli bombardment, repeated evacuation orders and restrictions on aid deliveries, they warned on Wednesday.
- Noting More than 45,000 Palestinians Have Been Killed in Gaza, Assistant Secretary-General Tells Security Council 'Ceasefire Is Long Overdue' UN Security Council 18 Dec 2024 -- The collective punishment of the Palestinian people and the relentless bombardment of Gaza by Israeli forces is horrific and unjustifiable, a high-level United Nations official told the Security Council today, which also heard from the brother of an Israeli hostage held by Hamas, who implored the 15-member organ not to let his brother's life to be "used as a bargaining chip".
- Israel must stop demolition of Palestinian homes in occupied West Bank: OCHA Press TV 18 Dec 2024 -- Israel is accelerating steps to consolidate the annexation of the occupied West Bank, including East al-Quds; replacing Palestinian communities with settlers in violation of international law.
- UN relief chief: Gaza 'apocalyptic'; almost impossible to deliver aid amid Israeli siege Press TV 18 Dec 2024 -- The United Nations has raised the alarm about the "apocalyptic" situation in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli regime's 14-month genocide and tightened siege in the Palestinian territory.
- World has 'embarrassingly failed to stop Israel amid incessant US support': FM Press TV 18 Dec 2024 -- Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has deplored the international community's abject failure to stop the Israeli regime's violations amid untrammeled support provided for Tel Aviv by the United States, its biggest ally.
- Iran FM calls for Israel's immediate withdrawal from occupied lands IRNA 18 Dec 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called for an immediate withdrawal of the Israeli regime from the occupied territories in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
- "Lebanon's security cannot be assessed separate from the region's stability" Presidency of The Republic of Turkey 18 Dec 2024 -- Holding a joint press conference with Prime Minister Mikati of Lebanon, President Erdoğan said: "Lebanon's security cannot be assessed separate from the region's stability. And our region cannot find peace unless a ceasefire and permanent peace is established in Gaza."
- The UK calls on Israel to stop illegal settlement expansion on Palestinian land: UK statement at the UN Security Council UK FCDO 18 Dec 2024 -- Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
- New details emerge on Israel's actions in Syrian buffer zone, change in US position VOA 18 Dec 2024 -- New details have emerged of Israel's occupation of a Golan Heights buffer zone since Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad fell from power this month. Assad's fall also coincided with a change in U.S. language on Israeli activity in the zone from several weeks prior, VOA has learned.
- Israeli troops won't withdraw from Syria's Jabal al-Shaykh: Netanyahu IRNA 18 Dec 2024 -- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Israeli troops will not withdraw from a "buffer zone" in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
- UN condemns Israel for violating 1974 Syria truce deal after seizing 'buffer zone' Press TV 18 Dec 2024 -- The United Nations has denounced Israel for violating a 50-year-old ceasefire agreement with Syria after Israeli troops captured a buffer zone, as the occupying regime continues its efforts to claim more Syrian territory following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
- Netanyahu says Israeli troops will remain in Syrian territory until 'another arrangement' Press TV 18 Dec 2024 -- The Israeli prime minister says the regime's troops will remain stationed at a so-called "buffer zone" inside the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, seized following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, until another arrangement is found that will "ensure the usurping regime's security."
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