🔻Al-Quds Brigades: We targeted two Zionist military vehicles with RPG shells in the Al-Tuffah axis, east of Gaza City.

🔻 Soon.. Al-Quds Brigades will show scenes from the specific operation it carried out by targeting the enemy’s command and control position in the land of Abu Oreiban, south of the Al-Zaytoun axis.

🔺An israeli airstrike targeted the town of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon.

#Watch.. Scenes from the specific operation carried out by the Al-Quds Brigades on a command and control position belonging to the Zionists south of the Al-Zaytoun axis - Ard Abu Oreiban-
#Al-Aqsa Flood

🔻Al-Qassam Mujahideen were able to target 3 Zionist soldiers with an anti-personnel missile, leaving them dead and wounded in the Al-Qarara area, north of the city of Khan Yunis.

🔺Two martyrs reported due to the Israeli shelling of the Bader family's house east of Abdul Rahman Mosque in Khan Yunis camp.

Governor of the Israeli Central Bank: The costs of war and loss of income are expected to reach more than 58 billion dollars 🔥🔥🔥

#Watch.. Al-Qassam Brigades destroyed Zionist crowds with mortar shells west of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip

🔻Al-Qassam Mujahideen were able to detonate a booby-trapped tunnel in a Zionist foot force in the Al-Qarara area, north of the city of Khan Yunis, leaving its members dead and wounded.

🔻Al-Qassam Mujahideen were able to blow up a house that had been booby-trapped in advance after a number of occupation soldiers barricaded themselves in it with explosive devices, leaving them dead and wounded in the Al-Qarara area, north of the city of Khan Yunis.🔥🔥🔥

🔻Al-Qassam Brigades target a Zionist Merkva tank with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell in the Al-Qarara area, north of Gaza City.🔥🔥🔥

🔻#Watch.. Al-Qassam Brigades seize a Zionist drone that was on an Zionist intelligence mission in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip

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New York Times | The U.S. and Israel: An Embrace Shows Signs of Strain After Oct. 7:

No other episode in the past half-century has tested the ties between the United States and Israel in such an intense and consequential way. The complicated diplomacy between Washington and Jerusalem since October 7th has played out across both governments, in direct interactions between the leaders and intense back and forth between military and intelligence agencies.

The resolve of that dramatic presidential trip to Israel has given way to frustrating phone calls, sharp public comments and exhausting marathon meetings. The relationship has grown increasingly fraught as Mr. Biden has involved himself more intensely in the conflict than almost any other issue in three years in office. The president and his team have intervened time and again to steer Israel away from what they consider the excesses of its retaliation only to have the Israelis defy them at critical moments.

Mr. Biden has seen growing internal resistance to his backing of Israel, including multiple dissent cables from State Department diplomats. In November, more than 500 political appointees and staff members representing some 40 government agencies sent a letter to Mr. Biden protesting his support of Israel’s war in Gaza. Congressional Democrats have been pressing him to curb Israel’s assault, and the United States has found itself at odds with other countries at the United Nations.

The friction appears to be coming to a head as the new year arrives. The Biden team recognizes that its challenge is not just Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, since Israelis across the board support the military operation that according to the Gaza Health Ministry has killed more than 20,000 people. But there is no serious discussion inside the administration of a meaningful change in policy, like cutting off the arms supply to Israel. Instead, Mr. Biden remains determined to navigate the crisis within the crisis by using the credibility he earned through steadfast support of Israel to shape its next chapter, although it is unclear how much leverage that gives him.

During a tense conversation a week ago, Mr. Biden pressed Mr. Netanyahu to scale back the war to a surgical operation relying more on special forces raids targeting Hamas leaders and tunnels than wide-scale bombing. The Israeli leader then sent his right-hand adviser, Ron Dermer, to Washington for what ended up being a nearly four-hour meeting at the White House the day after Christmas, where he assured Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, that Israel would soon shift to the targeted phase that Mr. Biden has been urging.

The first signs of such a shift could be seen in the coming weeks as Israeli forces wrap up operations in northern Gaza and begin withdrawing many troops from that area, Mr. Dermer told them. But he did not give a firm timetable, and the Americans pressed him to begin the transition sooner rather than later. Mr. Blinken plans to head back to Israel in early January, when Israeli officials hope to give him a decision on next steps

At the same time, Mr. Biden’s team has been quietly working to negotiate a new hostage deal. William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, met with his Israeli counterpart and Qatar’s prime minister in Warsaw earlier in December to advance a proposal for a seven-day halt to the fighting in exchange for the release of another 35 to 40 people seized on Oct. 7, including civilian women, badly wounded men and other men over 60 years old.

And there are even quieter efforts underway to negotiate through intermediaries an arrangement with Hezbollah to pull back from the area near Lebanon’s border with Israel, preventing the eruption of a wider war in the region and allowing tens of thousands of Israelis who have fled their homes to return.

AJ | 15 Nov 2023 - Lawyers for Gaza victims file case at International Criminal Court:

A group of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza have filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that Israel’s actions amount to the crime of genocide.

Gilles Devers, a veteran French lawyer and the victims’ representative before the ICC, submitted the complaint to the prosecutor as part of a four-person delegation in the Dutch city of The Hague on Monday.

The civil society initiative could result in arrest warrants being issued against top Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“It is clear for me that there are all the criteria for the crime of genocide,” Devers told Al Jazeera, adding that cases such as ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda set the precedent against which the complaint had been submitted.

“So this is not my opinion, it’s the reality of law.”

Israel has made no attempt to hide the hallmarks of genocide, the group has argued, by cutting food and electricity to Gaza, attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure and using dehumanising talk that likens people to “animals”.

The group also collected the witness accounts of Palestinian victims whom they legally represent in court.

With mounting allegations of serious war crimes being committed in Gaza, Devers said governments that did not wish to be found complicit should refrain from backing Israel.

“Governments must choose which camp they are on, if they support human rights or genocide. They cannot give speeches about international law and human rights and then accept Israel’s attack without doing nothing,” he said.

Israel does not recognise the ICC, but Devers said that did not render the court ineffective.

In 2021, the ICC ruled that it has jurisdiction over grave crimes committed in occupied Palestinian territories, including potential war crimes committed by any party on the ground.

The initiative led by Devers is one in a number of lawsuits presented to the ICC in the past weeks.

🔻Sirens ring in “Kiryat Shmona” at the Lebanese-Palestinian borders.

🔻Al-Quds Brigades: We targeted a Zionist tank and a D9 military bulldozer with “tandom” and “RPG” shells in the Al-Taqadim axes, Al-Tuffah and Al-Daraj neighborhoods, east of Gaza City.

⚡️ 🇮🇱 Yedioth Ahronoth:

"Nova Concert victims sue Israel"

42 victims of the Oct. 7 Nova concert have filed a civil lawsuit against the IDF, police, and Israel's internal security service.

Lawsuit alleges negligence and a failure to act on warnings of a potential security threat.

Several victims have already decided to publicly comment that the Israeli army fired at them out of control. A police investigation also confirmed that many of the October 7 victims were killed by the IDF.

🔻The Al-Qassam Brigades detonated a minefield with special Zionist force after entering the “Hebron” military site east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. Our Mujahideen confirmed that 15 soldiers were killed in the operation, and Zionist ambulances and helicopters were seen rushing to transport the dead and wounded.🔥🔥

🔻Hezbollah - 2 - the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance, at 17:55 pm on Monday 1/1/2024, targeted a position of Israeli enemy soldiers in the vicinity of the Yaara barracks with appropriate weapons and directly hit it. ‏🔥