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The Cradle is an online news magazine covering West Asian geopolitics from within.

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Qassam Brigades:

Our forces targeted 3 'Merkava 4' tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells in the Jabalia Camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Video footage shows the bloodied shirt of a child hospitalized by the Israeli airstrike that targeted a vehicle near Nabatieh in Southern Lebanon.

Schoolchildren in the southern city of Saida mobilized in solidarity with the children injured by the strike in Nabatieh.
Under pressure from prisoners’ families, Israel to resume truce talks

A new video showing Hamas fighters holding captive soldiers on 7 October was released by prisoners’ families to pressure the Israeli government
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Pro-Palestine activists confronted and repeatedly interrupted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during Senate testimonies, calling him a war criminal.
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Israeli media:

Fire broke out between Kiryat Shmona and Beit Hillel after 5 rockets from Lebanon fell in the area.
Gaza Health Ministry:

○ We launched appeals for the necessity of delivering fuel to hospitals, but to no avail.

○ Health services will stop within two hours at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital due to fuel running out of fuel.

○ Dozens of patients are at risk of death within hours due to fuel running out.

○ We call on the United Nations and the international community to intervene to stop the war in Gaza before it is too late.
Israeli officials sweat looming ICJ order to stop Gaza blitz: Report

Concerns are growing in Tel Aviv that an unfavorable ruling by the World Court will markedly increase international pressure against the genocidal war in Gaza
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🇮🇶 Islamic Resistance in Iraq "launching Arqab cruise missiles towards vital targets in the port of Haifa in our occupied territories" today.
Top IRGC officials meet Resistance Axis leaders in Tehran

The meeting took place on the sidelines of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s funeral
Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi:

○ The American floating port in Gaza is a military base, and Washington exposed itself when it brought in armored vehicles and air defense systems.

○ The United States wants to turn the Gaza Strip into a prison with one gate across the sea, supervised by American military personnel.

○ The Israeli Minister of Defense’s announcement of the return of settlement activity in the West Bank is a dangerous escalation that comes in the context of perpetuating the occupation.
❗️Qassam Brigades:

○ Targeted Israeli forces penetrating the vicinity of Salah al-Din Gate, south of the city of Rafah, with mortar shells.

○ Targeted 3 Merkava 4 tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells in Jabalia Camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

○ Targeted Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the vicinity of Salah al-Din Gate, south of the city of Rafah, with mortar shells.

○ Blew up a tunnel entrance that had been booby-trapped by an Israeli infantry force, leaving its members dead and wounded in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
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Footage of Hossein Amir-Abdollahian's coffin in Rey city of Tehran.
The individual killed in the Israeli airstrike on a vehicle near Nabatieh in southern Lebanon was 30-year-old Muhammad Nasser Farran, who was a physics teacher at Hassan Kamel al-Sabbah Public High School in Nabatieh, as well as a member of the Lebanese resistance Hezbollah.

He had been a physics teacher at the school for seven years but his colleagues had no knowledge of his resistance activities.

Farran was assassinated while on his way to proctor an exam at the Hassan Kamel al-Sabbah.

Following his assassination, the principle of the High School Abbas Shmeisani, mourned the physics teacher by saying “he died on the path of his educational and national duty as a professor, educator, martyr, and active colleague, full of morals, generosity, refinement, and drive.”

He added, “today, we sacrifice the martyred professor for the sake of preserving and protecting this nation in the face of Israeli barbarism and brutality.”
Hezbollah hits back after Israeli strike injures children in south Lebanon

The Israeli airstrike also killed a Hezbollah fighter, who was also a schoolteacher, while he was on his way to proctor exams
An Israeli soldier posted an image of himself posing in front of the Al Aqsa University library pretending to read while setting it on fire.
Hezbollah:

After observing and monitoring a Merkava tank in the Shtula forest attacking our people and our villages, our fighters targeted it with a guided missile, destroying it and killing and injuring its crew.
Israel green lights autopsy of Gazan doctor tortured to death in detention

Former prisoners and Israeli officials have given multiple accounts of the inhumane conditions inside Israeli detention centers, where Palestinians are often shackled 24 hours a day and made to endure severe torture
The Battle of Jabalia: A Palestinian lesson in war of attrition

Israel seeks fast, hard wars, while its opponents seek slow-boiling, irregular wars of attrition. Now, with the resurgence of resistance ops in Jabalia and Gaza areas, Israel has lost both the field and the war.

By Khalil Harb
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Hezbollah daily brief 23/05/2024:

- Eastern sector
:

1- At 11:50, the 91st Division headquarters at the Illit base was targeted with dozens of Katyusha rockets.

2- At 12:30, surveillance equipment at the Metulla site was targeted.

3- At 14:30, the headquarters of the Sahel Battalion of the 769th Brigade at the Beit Hillel base was targeted with dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets.

4- At 16:55, the Al-Marj site was targeted with artillery shells.

5- At 20:30, the headquarters of the 769th Brigade in Kiryat Shmona was targeted with drones.

6- At 19:20, the Zibdeen barracks in Lebanon's Shebaa were targeted with missiles.

7- At 22:20, Israeli soldiers in the Metulla settlement were targeted with appropriate weapons.

-Western sector:

1- At 14:30, surveillance equipment at the Rahib site was targeted.

2- At 16:55, Merkava tank in the Shtoula Forest was targeted with guided missiles, casualties confirmed.

3- At 21:15, three military buildings in the Evin Menachem settlement were targeted.