Extent of damage revealed – Israel destroys Syria’s military capabilities
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / December 11, 2024
The Israeli occupation army announced the destruction of up to 80 percent of the military capabilities of the Syrian army in the last 48 hours.
The Israeli occupation army announced that it had attacked during the past 48 hours most of the strategic...
UN: it would take 7 years to evacuate dying Gaza children at current rate
Sharon Zhang
Truthout / December 11, 2024
Israel is trapping children suffering from cancer, head trauma, amputations, burns and starvation in Gaza.
Though there are thousands of children in Gaza currently in need of urgent medical care outside of the strip, Israel’s brutal blockade means that it would take over seven years...
The end of pluralism in the Middle East
Craig Murray
Consortium News / December 11, 2024
What this potentially amounts to is the end of pluralism in the Levant and its replacement by supremacism: An ethno-supremacist Greater Israel and a religio-supremacist Salafist Greater Syria.
A truly seismic change in the Middle East has occurred. At its heart is a devil’s...
Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds
Julian Borger
The Guardian / December 11, 2024
Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people.
A new study of children living through the war in Gaza has found that 96% of them feel that their death is imminent and almost half want...
Israeli warplanes pound Syria as troops reportedly advance deeper into the country
Abdulrahman Shaheen & Bassem Mroue
AP / December 10, 2024
DAMASCUS, Syria – Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian opposition war monitor said Tuesday, and the Israeli defense minister announced that his forces had destroyed Syria’s navy.
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Netanyahu describes corruption charges against him as ‘ocean of absurdity’ at trial
Peter Beaumont
The Guardian / December 10, 2024
Israeli prime minister criticises media and investigators and describes himself and his family as victims.
Jerusalem – A combative Benjamin Netanyahu has become the first Israeli prime minister to take the stand as the defendant in a criminal trial for corruption as he assailed...
What is the Golan Heights and what does it mean to Israel and Syria...
Reuters / December 10, 2024
Israel denied on Tuesday it had advanced into Syria beyond a buffer zone with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights since the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces.
After his flight on Sunday ended 54 years of Assad family rule, Israeli troops moved into a demilitarised zone inside Syria...
[VIDEO] Israel says it will impose ‘sterile defence zone’ in southern Syria
James Mackenzie & Suleiman al-Khalidi
Reuters / December 10, 2024
Israel says it will impose 'sterile defence zone' in southern Syria
Jerusalem/Damascus – Israel has ordered its forces to create a "sterile defence zone" in southern Syria that would be enforced without a permanent Israeli presence as it tightens its hold along the line...
Syria – The day the [mainstream] media decided militant jihadism was respectable
Jonathan Cook
jonathancook@substack.com / December 10, 2024
Suddenly, after years of misrepresenting Hamas, western politicians and media are desperate to clarify – if only in Syria – the difference between jihadists and Islamic nationalists.
Here is a very strange thing. For years, western media outlets and politicians have been recklessly indifferent to...
Israel establishes ‘sterile defence zone’ inside Syrian territory as it continues air strikes
MEE staff
Middle East Eye / December 10, 2024
Israel earlier denied its soldiers were pressing deeper into Syria, as its forces also bomb Syria's navy in Latakia.
Israel is planning a "sterile defence zone" in southern Syria as it continues attacking the country in the wake of President Bashar al-Assad's ouster.
Israeli...
