[SUDANTRIBUNE] Eight people, including women and children, were killed and 18 others injured in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, on Monday. The deaths occurred after a drone, reportedly launched by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), targeted a mosque housing a volunteer kitchen providing aid to displaced people.
El Fasher continues to endure daily artillery shelling and drone strikes as the RSF has been attacking the city since 10 May, resulting in numerous civilian deaths and the displacement of thousands.
Dr Ibrahim Al-Ghali, a doctor in El Fasher, told Sudan Tribune: “An RSF drone fired several shells at the ‘Takia’ of the Tijaniya Mosque, killing eight civilians and injuring 18 others.”
He explained that the targeted site provided daily meals to the remaining residents of the Tijaniya neighbourhood, making it a refuge for many women and children seeking food.
Several youth initiatives in El Fasher are providing food and aid to the remaining residents, as the RSF has imposed a siege on the city for over two months, preventing essential food and medicine from reaching the population.
Eyewitnesses informed Sudan Tribune that a large wave of displacement from the northern neighbourhoods of El Fasher and the Abu Shouk camp continues towards the town of “Tawella,” controlled by the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid Nur.
The displacement is ongoing as the RSF intensifies its artillery shelling on the Abu Shouk camp, which shelters more than 400,000 people.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudanese army announced on Tuesday that its forces regained control of the Doha neighbourhood and its surroundings west of Omdurman city in Khartoum state.
According to a statement issued by the office of the official spokesperson for the armed forces, “The army achieved significant successes in Omdurman by clearing the Doha neighbourhood and its surroundings.”
The army confirmed that its forces seized and destroyed several combat vehicles belonging to what it called the “terrorist militia of the Dagalo family,” in addition to killing several Rapid Support Forces (RSF) members who had controlled the area since the war began in mid-April last year.
The Doha neighbourhood represented a defence line for the RSF, protecting the Dar es Salaam areas and their general areas of control in parts of Umbada, Libya Market, and Kandahar Market west of Omdurman.
In March, the Sudanese army managed to regain control of the radio and television headquarters and the old Omdurman area.
Later, the army made progress by taking control of some parts of the Umbada suburb west of Omdurman, while the Salha suburb south of Omdurman remains in the hands of the RSF, reaching the locality of Jabal Aulia in the far southwest of Khartoum state.
Meanwhile, the Sudanese army bombed several RSF sites east of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, on Tuesday morning. The RSF also shelled several locations west of El Fasher with heavy artillery.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued targeting health facilities in North Darfur state, shelling two hospitals in El Fasher on Tuesday.
This is the ninth such attack since fighting broke out in El Fasher between the army, the RSF, and their allies on 10 May. These clashes saw the use of heavy weaponry, including airstrikes and artillery.
The governor of the Darfur region, Minni Minawi, confirmed in a tweet on platform X that the RSF destroyed a private hospital in El Fasher’s Grand Market. He stated this meant they had targeted all hospitals in the area with high-precision cannons reportedly brought from the Emirates.
In a second tweet, Minawi said that the RSF bombed Jabal Marra Hospital in El Fasher less than 40 minutes after the attack on the private hospital.
A doctor informed Sudan Tribune that the shelling of the Jabal Marra medical complex extensively damaged the building but left the medical equipment unharmed.
The RSF’s targeting of medical facilities in El Fasher is seen as an attempt to cripple the health sector. The indiscriminate shelling has already destroyed the dialysis centre, El Fasher South Hospital, the Saudi Hospital, and several private medical centres.
The military spokesperson for the Sudan Liberation Movement-Transitional Council, Ahmed Jaddo, told Sudan Tribune that the movement, in cooperation with the Sudan Liberation Forces Gathering faction headed by El Taher Hajar, ensured the safe arrival of approximately 500 people from El Fasher to the areas of Tawilla, Korma, and Kebkabiya.
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#1
For those interested an indispensable document to access is the following:
Sudan crisis: The ruthless mercenaries who run the country for gold, 19 July 2019.
[Al Jazeera] More than 470 people are in custody after attacks on Syrian shops and cars in central Turkey. Crowds of protesters set Syrian stores and property on fire after a Syrian man was accused of sexually abusing a seven-year old girl in Kayseri.
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[JPost] Earlier on Wednesday, Israel's emergency medical response service, Magen David Adom (MDA), reported that two people had been wounded as a result of a stabbing attack.
One person was killed in a terror attack that occurred at a shopping center in the city of Karmiel in Israel's North on Wednesday, Israeli media reported.
Eyewitnesses said that the terrorist stabbed one of the young men, severely wounding him. His friend, who was armed, had time to disarm the assailant and shoot him, but in the process, he was also stabbed, Walla reported.
The deputy director of the Karmiel municipality security department, who arrived with his team at the scene said, "It's a very difficult scene. People are very upset. We secured the area to allow for the treatment of the wounded and to calm the crowd, and we remain on site to assist in whatever is needed by the security forces."
Earlier on Wednesday, Israel's emergency medical response service, Magen David Adom (MDA), reported that two people had been wounded as a result of a stabbing attack.
MDA noted that one individual in his 20s was unconscious and in critical condition, adding that medics had performed CPR on him.
An additional individual in his 20s sustained serious wounds. Both were transferred to the the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
The attacker was from an Arab village near Karmiel
The Police reported that the terrorist had been killed, and the chief of the Israel Police Northern District noted that one of the wounded individuals shot at the terrorist and thwarted him. A suspect was later arrested for the attack, identified as Javad Rabia, 21 years old from Kfar Nahaf, near Karmiel.
[Al Jazeera] The Israeli military has arrested three men during their storming of the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya, local media reports.
Israeli forces have also arrested two men after storming the al-Matar neighbourhood near the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem, while a sixth man has been arrested in the city of el-Bireh near Ramallah.
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[Al Jazeera] Palestinian fighters in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood conducted a “complex and multi-stage attack” on Israeli forces on Tuesday, which involved an ambush and the use of “thermobaric rockets”, war monitors report.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) forces first targeted a unit of Israeli soldiers in a building in Shujayea with a powerful thermobaric rocket but then redirected their attack at an Israeli rapid reaction force that was deployed to the firefight.
Palestinian fighters used “an explosively formed penetrator, rocket-propelled grenades, and additional thermobaric rockets” against the reaction force, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) said in their latest Gaza field report.
The combined ambush and attack by Hamas and PIJ was one of at least 10 attacks on Tuesday against Israeli forces currently operating in Shujayea, and indicates that Hamas has “at least partially reconstituted” its forces since Israeli ground troops were last in the area in April, the US-based defence think tanks report.
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Use of thermobaric weapons is a war crime.
#FAFO
Israeli settlers destroying a water pump in the West bank - temps tomorrow at 101 degrees.
When will they ever learn? They probably won't.
[Al Jazeera] The Israeli military has arrested seven Palestinians in raids across the Hebron governorate in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli forces stormed the town of Yatta, south of the city of Hebron, and arrested six Palestinians, including a father and son. A seventh man was arrested in the town of Surif, northwest of Hebron, according to Wafa.
Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military had arrested six Palestinians in raids on the city of Qalqilya, the Qalandiya refugee camp, and the city of el-Bireh.
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[Al Jazeera] At least two people have been killed in an Israeli bombardment that hit a group of Palestinians in eastern Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.
They added that the northwest part of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza was also subjected to Israeli artillery shelling.
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[JPost] Sources said that the commander was responsible for a section of Hezbollah's operations along the border frontier
A senior field commander in the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli strike on Wednesday outside of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, two security sources told Reuters.
The target was the commander of the Aziz unit on the southern front in Hezbollah, Abu Ali Nasser. He is considered one of the most senior commanders in Hezbollah killed so far in the war.
The sources said that the commander was responsible for a section of Hezbollah's operations along the border frontier, where the group has been exchanging fire with the IDF since October in parallel with the Gaza War.
They said that he was of the same rank and importance to the group as Taleb Abdallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike in June and was the most senior Hezbollah field commander to be killed by the Israeli military in the last eight months of hostilities.
Will HEZBOLLAH FIRE ANOTHER LARGE BARRAGE OF ROCKETS?
Hezbollah fired its largest barrages of drones and rockets in retaliation for Abdallah's killing. There was no immediate comment from the group on the senior commander killed in Wednesday's strike.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
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Oh darn! Another civilian killed. Those evil juices. /sarcasm
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[Al Jazeera] Israeli fighter jets bombed several villages in southern Lebanon overnight, including Yaroun, Tayr Harfa and Aitaroun, the Israeli military said in a post on X.
The strikes targeted sites belonging to Hezbollah, the post added.
Since October 7, Israel has launched at least 6,142 attacks on Lebanon, about 83 percent of the total of 7,400 attacks launched from either side of the Israel-Lebanon border, by Israel, Hezbollah and others, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project.
At least 543 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, while at least 21 Israelis have been killed by strikes by Hezbollah and others, during that same period.
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[JPost] Sources said that the commander was responsible for a section of Hezbollah's operations along the border frontier
