Bombings continue in Gaza and Ukraine. The Christmas holidays do not stop the trail of blood caused by the two wars.
Israel kills Iranian general, bombing of Gaza continues
Monday in a Israeli bombing of Damascus, the capital of Syria, was killed Sayyed Razi Mousavi, one of the top generals of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's most powerful military force. The news was released by Iranian state media and was confirmed by some international media.
"Iran reserves the right to take necessary measures and to respond in due time and place" to the killing of the Mousavi leader by Israel, declared the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani. “The Zionist regime has committed a new cowardly and aggressive terrorist act. This hateful act is a new, clear sign of the terrorist nature of the Zionist regime,” added Kanani, quoted by the Mehr agency. “Since its creation, the Israeli regime has committed all kinds of crimes, repeatedly and continuously violating international rules”; concluded the spokesperson of the Tehran Foreign Ministry.
Meanwhile, there was heavy Israeli shelling overnight Gaza Strip. This was reported by the broadcaster al-Jazeera, according to which there were incursions in the refugee camp of al-Maghazi and near Bureij and Nuseirat, in the center of the enclave, and in Rafah and Khan Younis, in the south. The Palestinian media also report heavy clashes with Israeli forces in the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarem, West Bank, in the city of Tammun and in the Aida camp in Bethlehem.
It has risen to at least The death toll is 106 dead of the Israeli air raid that hit the Maghazi refugee camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip. The American news agency Associated Press reports this on its website, citing records from the nearby Al-Aqsa hospital. A previous toll provided by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry spoke of at least 70 deaths. It's about one of the bloodiest Israeli raids since the beginning of the military operation following the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement against the Jewish state on 7 October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have started a "verification" into the air attack conducted on the Maghazi refugee camp, Israel Military Radio reported yesterday. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported "heartbreaking" testimonies collected by its teams in the hospital in the Strip where the victims of the bombing are located.
Ukraine destroys Russian ship in Black Sea
The Ukrainian Air Force said it had destroyed a ship of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea suspected of transporting Iranian drones Shahed, used by Moscow in the conflict against Kiev. “The large landing ship Novocherkassk” was “destroyed” by our pilots,” the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Telegram.
Kiev's army did not specify the location of the attack, but Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk released a video showing an explosion at the Russian naval base of Feodosia in occupied Crimea. Shortly before, Moscow had said that Ukrainian forces had launched an attack near Feodosia.
According to the Russian governor of Crimea, Serghiei Aksyonov, quoted by the Russian state agencies Tass and Interfax, at least one person died and two others were injured in the attack carried out by Ukrainian forces against the port of Feodosia.
