After the IOF bombed 395 mosques in the Gaza Strip, including all of them in northern #Gaza, a group of displaced people decided to perform their prayers in the courtyard of a school used for shelter.

🚨 Missile sirens ring in "Holit," "Yated," "Shlomit," and "Yevul," near the southern #Gaza Strip.

🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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In support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in backing their brave and honorable resistance, the Islamic Resistance carried out a number of operations against the sites and deployments of the "israeli" army at the Lebanese-Palestinian borders on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, as follows:

- Eastern Sector:

1- At 14:50, targeting of the "israeli" enemy soldiers' deployment near the Ruwaisat Al-Alam site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with Burkan missiles, achieving a direct hit.
2- At 15:15, targeting of a gathering of "israeli" enemy soldiers near the Al-Abad site with appropriate weapons, achieving direct hits.
3- At 17:20, targeting of the Manara settlement with appropriate weapons, leading to damage to one of the buildings, as a response to the "israeli" enemy's attacks on villages and civilian homes, with the Resistance affirming that any attack on our people and villages will be reciprocated.

Western Sector:

1- At 13:00, targeting of a gathering of "israeli" enemy soldiers near the Al-Rahib site with appropriate weapons.
2- At 15:00, targeting of a gathering of "israeli" enemy soldiers in Tel Shaar with missile weapons, achieving direct hits.

🟢 Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan provides an update at Hamas' press conference in Beirut today, January 17th, 2024. RNN has provided highlights below.

🟢 Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan at Hamas' press conference today, January 17th, 2024 (1/4):
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On the 103rd day, our Palestinian people and our family in the Gaza Strip continue their legendary steadfastness, patience, sacrifices, and firmness on their land, in the face of the the aggression, criminality, and schemes of the occupation.

This great nation, armed with all the meanings of glory, dignity, pride, and struggle, proves to both enemies and friends that it is a people that cannot be broken and does not know surrender in its lexicon, despite the aggression and the genocidal war practiced by the Nazi occupation, with all its brutality, criminality, and sadism, targeting all aspects of human life.

All expressions of pride, esteem, and praise fall short of of doing justice to this great people in the Gaza Strip of pride, in its heroism, patience, resilience, sacrifices, firmness, and struggle, defending a just cause, legitimate rights, and the dignity, honor, and sanctities of the nation, which this Nazi enemy and its supporting forces, want to liquidate, obscure, and erase the features of.

The occupiers will not succeed in achieving any of their aggressive goals and plans, God willing. Thanks to the steadfastness of our people and the heroism of our resistance, the clear victory will be achieved, by the grace and power of God.

The Nazi occupation continues in its war of systematic starvation and dehydration against more than two million Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip, where more than 800,000 Palestinians are experiencing a real famine, due to the occupation's prevention of the entry of aid, food supplies and provisions, fuel, gas, and supplies necessary for the continuation of normal life.

The displaced people in the governorates of the Gaza Strip are living a real tragedy, indescribable and inexpressible, amidst the absence of all the essentials of normal life, including food, water, medicine, and shelter. 400,000 of them have contracted infectious diseases as a result of displacement.

The number of injured has risen to about 61,000, who are deprived of traveling for treatment outside the Gaza Strip, amidst the occupation's crimes against hospitals and rendering them out of service.

More than 7,000 people are still missing under the rubble, 70% of whom are women and children. The medical teams and Civil Defense have not been able to recover them yet, due to the ongoing indiscriminate savage bombing, and because of the lack of fuel and necessary equipment.

This Nazi occupation has not left any heinous crime uncommitted against the Gaza Strip, during more than 100 full days of bombing, destruction, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. The fascist occupation army has carried out more than 2,000 massacres against unarmed Palestinians, civilians, children, and women, leaving more than 31,000 martyred or missing.

In the occupied West Bank, the occupation continues its brutal crimes, through daily raids into cities, villages, and towns, and through operations of arrest and assassination, as well as its settlement and Judaization policies, and arming the settlers there, giving them free rein to violate the land, blood, and sanctities.

🟢 Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan at Hamas' press conference today, January 17th, 2024 (2/4):
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The number of martyrs in the West Bank since October 7th has reached 350, in addition to about 4,000 injured. The number of prisoners has exceeded 5,000.

The continuation of the occupation's crimes and massacres of killing, starving, and thirsting against our people in Gaza, and preventing the entry of aid, despite the United Nations Security Council resolution, represents a historical stain of disgrace for all those who are negligent and complacent in criminalizing and stopping these acts and preventing the killing of innocent civilians through bombing, starvation, and thirst.

We hold the U.S. administration and its President Biden responsible for these crimes and the genocide, for supporting this occupation politically, diplomatically, and militarily. This administration is a partner in killing, displacing, and exterminating our people and will not be exempt from legal, ethical, and humanitarian accountability and trial.

In the face of the ongoing and daily worsening humanitarian catastrophe people in the Gaza Strip are experiencing, we must ask, as do the peoples of our nation and the free people of the world: How much longer will our Arab and Muslim brother countries wait before they seriously and urgently act to overcome all the pressures exerted by the occupation and the U.S. administration, and assert the will of these countries in aiding the afflicted in Gaza, healing their wounds, and standing and showing solidarity with them by all means in the face of this Nazi aggression?!

We call upon the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League to urgently and immediately break the siege on the Gaza Strip, and force the occupation to allow the entry of all official and popular delegations, along with medical and relief supplies, and emergency and civil defense equipment, to all areas of the Gaza Strip.

The Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, along with the Palestinian resistance, are still managing the Al-Aqsa Flood battle with all strength, wisdom, and capability. They are avenging the blood of our people and inflicting heavy losses on the soldiers and officers of the Nazi occupation army. Every day, they thwart the occupation's dreams of controlling the land of Gaza, fulfilling their declaration that it will be a graveyard for the invaders.

The great national cohesion among our people, in patience, solidarity, sacrifice, and struggle, reaffirms again the deep embrace and cradle [support] for the comprehensive resistance project as a strategic choice to forcibly take back our rights and liberate our land and sanctities.

Stopping the zionist aggression and deterring it from committing its savage crimes against our people in Gaza and the West Bank can only be achieved through escalating the resistance in all its forms. What is required today is for the entire national front to stand united in the face of the occupation and its Nazism, which does not discriminate across Palestinian geography.

We bless the heroic resistance operations across our proud West Bank, including the recent heroic operation in "Ra'anana". We strengthen the hands of resistance fighters in Jenin, Nablus, Areeha, Bethlehem, Al-Khalil, Tulkarem, and all cities, villages, and camps of the West Bank to escalate their revolution and operations.

We call on members of the Security Forces to join their brothers in the resistance, and to turn their weapons in hand towards the chests of the zionist enemy army and its settler gangs, who have violated homes and sanctities.

🟢 Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan at Hamas' press conference today, January 17th, 2024 (3/4):
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The talk of the occupation and the Americans, and their attempt to market what they call "the third phase," as if the massacres and targeting of civilians will stop, is nothing but an attempt to deceive and mislead public opinion.

The "third phase" means the continuation of murder and destruction under a new name. The crimes of genocide continue, the destruction escalates in buildings and residential areas, and the prevention or minimal provision of humanitarian aid and relief continues as part of the practice of slow killing, creating an unlivable reality that paves the way for the occupation's plan of forced displacement, which our people have thwarted by their steadfastness on their land.

The Nazi occupation government and its defeated army have reached a dead end with no end or horizon in sight. Internal disagreements are escalating among the poles of the Nazi enemy's government and within their society, increasing confusion, indecision, and distrust in their government and army, as well as a growing sense of discouragement and despair from achieving any of their declared goals, and the certainty that the goal of defeating Hamas, or breaking the steadfastness of our people, is nothing but a pipe dream.

It is clearer than ever that Netanyahu insists on continuing the war for his personal interests and political future only. Netanyahu and his defeated army do not give weight to the issue of prisoners, neglecting their pleas and calls, as well as the demands and calls of their families.

It is certain that every new day of continued aggression and brutal bombing on our people represents a real threat to the lives of their captives held by the resistance.

It has become clear to the world that what Netanyahu and his defeated army did not achieve in 100 days of war and aggression against our Palestinian people, they will not achieve, no matter how long this war lasts.

We renew our rejection and condemnation of the zionist aggression on brotherly Lebanon, and the blatant American-British aggression on brotherly Yemen, because of their support for our people and their endorsement of our struggle and legitimate rights. Here, we praise the stance of the brothers in Ansarallah and the Yemeni army for their courageous and bold steps in imposing a maritime siege on the criminal zionist entity.

We express our strong rejection and condemnation of the positions of the Federal Republic of Germany in supporting the Nazi occupation and its aggression against our people, by declaring its entry as a third party in the case brought by South Africa against the zionist occupation in the International Court of Justice, in support and endorsement of the zionist entity, and its intention to approve sending about 10,000 tank shells to this occupation, making it a direct partner in its crimes and aggression.

Germany's overt attempt to atone for its historical Nazi crimes does not come through supporting and endorsing the crimes of the new Nazis among the zionist war criminals.

We call on the Federal Republic of Germany and all countries that support and endorse this occupation, to abandon this erroneous policy, to stop all forms of support and endorsement of zionist aggression and criminality, and to adopt the option of rejecting and criminalizing the genocide war that the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are subjected to; and to take urgent measures within the European Union system to stop the aggression, provide relief to our people, and enable them to exercise their legitimate rights.

🟢 Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan at Hamas' press conference today, January 17th, 2024 (4/4):
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The American administration's pursuit and insistence on marketing its policy aligned with the zionist agenda, regarding the post-zionist war era, and most recently the statement by Jake Sullivan, the U.S. National Security Advisor, amidst the ongoing zionist aggression, and the extent of murder, massacres, and destruction in the Gaza Strip, is a political and moral bankruptcy. It is evidence of real complicity and partnership in a losing war against our people, and a desperate attempt to integrate a criminal entity, murderer of children and women, into the body of our nation and region.

The American administration should save its time and effort in attempts that have been proven futile through history. Our Palestinian people are the masters of their decision on their land, capable of managing all their affairs, defending themselves, their land, rights, and sanctities.

Peace, security, and stability in the region can only be achieved through an immediate and complete cessation of aggression against our people, ending the occupation of our land and sanctities, holding its new Nazi leaders accountable for their crimes in international courts, and enabling our people to establish their independent, fully sovereign state, with Al-Quds as its capital.

Regarding the talk about America and Western countries' efforts to form a Palestinian government, we reiterate that forming a Palestinian government and managing the Palestinian situation is a Palestinian national affair. We manage it with our brothers and counterparts from the Palestinian forces and factions, and America or others have no business in it.

We welcome the announcement by the President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars of his intention to enter Gaza at the head of a delegation of scholars from the nation to break the siege and show solidarity with our people in Gaza.

🚨🇮🇶 A letter from the Secretary-General of Kataeb Hezbollah in Iraq, Ahmed Al-Hamidawi, to Ansarallah Commander Abdulmalik Badr El-Din Al-Houthi in Yemen:
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To the esteemed leader, Sayyed Abdulmalik Bader El-Din Al-Houthi (May God support him),
And the brothers of Ansarallah (May God honor them),
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the noblest of Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad and his pure and virtuous family and his chosen companions, and upon the martyrs and fighters.

Hereafter,
Allah the Almighty said in His Noble Book: "And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows."

We received with pride and honor the news of your inclusion on the list of those who terrify the enemies of Allah, His messengers, and His saints, the killers of children and women, the thieves of the people's sustenance, and those with dead, hardened hearts, "So why, when Our punishment came to them, did they not humble themselves? But their hearts became hardened, and Satan made attractive to them that which they were doing."

It is clear to us that your placement on the "terrorist list" is the natural price for the honorable positions you have taken towards the issues of the [Arab and Islamic] nation and the oppressed in all corners of the world, and especially the cause of Al-Quds and Palestine, which is one of the most important causes of our time.

We renew our pledge and promise that we are with you and from you until Allah wills. We say it, and let the world hear: Any aggression against you from any state or entity, big or small, we will treat as a direct attack on us, and we will not be deterred by challenges, whatever their nature or size, and from whichever side they come.

Peace be upon you and upon Ansarallah, and upon the patient and great Yemeni people, supporters of the prince of the believers, and the master of the monotheists, Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon him).

"Peace, a word from a Merciful Lord."

The Islamic Resistance
Kataeb Hezbollah
Secretary-General, Abu Hussein Al-Hamidawi

5 Rajab 1445 Hijri
Corresponding to January 17, 2024.

🚨 Intense armed clashes continue for the second day between the Palestinian resistance and IOF in the vicinity of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern #Gaza Strip, as the resistance repels the IOF's advance.

🚨 The American-British aggression on Yemen has renewed, with bombing being reported in Sa’da, Dhamar, Taizz, and Hodeidah governorates.

🚨 19 martyrs ascended as a result of an IOF bombing of a home in Rafah, southern #Gaza Strip, most of them women and children.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade:
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Approved for publication.

With Allah's help, strength, and success, our fighters in the Engineering Unit were able to directly detonate the Al-Mahmoud 7 explosive in an occupation bulldozer, causing a direct hit in the axis of the center of the camp, the Abu Bakr Siddiq Mosque neighborhood, and we confirm that those inside it were killed and wounded.

Our jihad continues, and our weapons are drawn in all arenas.

Indeed, it is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.

Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade
Al-Aqsa Flood
Wednesday, 17/01/2024

Armed clashes break out between resistance fighters and zionist forces invading the city of #Qalqilya, and the sounds of explosions are heard.