📢 🇸🇾 Director of Media at the Aleppo Governorate:

The Syrian state’s decision to preserve the unity of Syrian territory is irreversible. Restricting weapons to the hands of the state is a demand of the entire Syrian people.

There are forces within the SDF that reject the idea of a unified Syria. We are witnessing displacement in the city of Aleppo due to indiscriminate SDF attacks targeting civilians.

Source: Al Jazeera

📎 Levant24

🇨🇾🇬🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Against the backdrop of tensions with Turkey: Netanyahu with the leaders of Cyprus, Christodoulides, and Greece, Mitsotakis – Israel's new regional alliance," - Israel Hayom.

🇮🇱 🇬🇷 🇨🇾 In move to deter Turkey, Israel explores creation of rapid-response force with Greece, Cyprus

🇹🇷 The initiative is part of a broader effort to deter Turkey’s military and strategic activities in the eastern Mediterranean.

Senior officials from Israel, Greece, and Cyprus are discussing the possibility of establishing a rapid-response force composed of units from the armed forces of the three countries, three people familiar with the matter told The Jerusalem Post.

It is intended to strengthen strategic military cooperation among the three countries amid rising regional tensions. The force would not be a permanent standing unit but one that could be deployed quickly in times of crisis on land, at sea, or in the air.

🇸🇾 Ankara is seeking to turn Syria into a Turkish satellite state, including the deployment of air-defense systems aimed at aircraft and missiles in Syrian territory.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-880714

🇮🇱 🇬🇷 🇨🇾 The planned "Xenophon" Rapid Response Force is about to shift the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

📎 Alexandros Itimoudis

🇨🇾🇬🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Today we [Greece-Cyprus-Israel] agreed to deepen our defense cooperation as the [Turkish] threats we face are real," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🏹 🇸🇾 Footage show Syrian Government Forces indiscriminately launching MLRS artillery strikes on the Kurdish neighbourhoods in Aleppo

📎 ScharoMaroof

📢 🇸🇾 Arab tribes call for general mobilization against the SDF.

📎 Cagatay Cebe

🇹🇷 🇸🇾 🇮🇱 Kurdish-led SDF cooperating with Israel in Syria, Turkish FM Hakan Fidan claims

Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are running operations "in coordination with Israel," Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday.

"The SDF is running some of its operations in coordination with Israel, (and this) is actually a major obstacle to ongoing negotiations with Damascus," he said.

The visit by Turkey's foreign and defense ministers and its intelligence chief comes amid efforts by Syrian, Kurdish and US officials to show some progress with the deal. But Ankara accuses the SDF of stalling ahead of a year-end deadline.

Turkey views the US-backed SDF, which controls swathes of northeastern Syria, as a terrorist organization and has warned of military action if the group does not honor the agreement.

Last week Fidan said Ankara hoped to avoid resorting to military action against the SDF but that its patience was running out.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-880986

📢 🇸🇾 Tribes of the Al‑Bakkara tribe and other Bedouins tribes from the Aleppo countryside have declared general mobilization to fight the Kurds in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods of Aleppo.

📌 Calls for jihad have been made from the pulpits of some mosques in popular neighborhoods across the Aleppo countryside.

📎 Syria Justice Archive

🇸🇾 Sham FM correspondent: The SDF is withdrawing its forces from joint checkpoints with the Internal Security Forces near the Shihan roundabout in the city.

📝 Woofers: "Asayish in Aleppo are likely withdrawing to fortified positions within Ashrafiyeh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods. Probably due to the STG bringing up armor."

📎 Woofers

In Kyiv, on December 21 a shootout occurred on Khreshchatyk Street opposite the Central Universal Store. Despite the curfew, several dozen immigrants engaged in a fight involving firearms. Gunshots were heard multiple times. According to local residents, the police were called several times, but the patrol crews that arrived did not stay long and disappeared for unknown reasons.

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence.

📎 Christiaan Triebert

Today Joel Davis has another shot at bail.

Normally I’d be fairly certain a Magistrate would grant his bail but there’s obviously a layer of politics in Joel’s case which makes the whole thing difficult to predict.

Magistrates are appointed by the state and few of them are satisfied with remaining Magistrates.

To climb the legal ladder and become a more prestigious standard of Judge they often rule in favour of the state wherever politics is concerned, which is why the Magistrates level of court is generally an eye-rolling experience.

In my opinion the state has proved its point and has nothing to gain from keeping Joel in prison. They followed and publicly arrested a guy then held him in custody over a social media post. While in custody his first son was born and now it’s Christmas time.

The crime Joel has been accused of isn’t violent and has had no impact on the broader community. There’s been no notable damages and the politician Joel named in his post is probably sitting at home laughing at him.

Holding Joel any longer would be unnecessarily cruel, especially considering he’s probably going to be limited by various bail conditions.

Today the Magistrate hearing Joel’s bail application will be making a choice between unbiased justice and cruelty; between being an actual judge or just another system stooge.