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Two Jew settlers have been killed in an alleged car-ramming and stabbing attack in the northern part of occupied Palestine, and the purported Palestinian suspect has been shot and wounded.

zionist medics claimed that a man, aged around 68, had been run over, and a woman, aged around 20, had been stabbed.

Both died of their injuries at the ‍scene, while a further two ‍allegedly sustained mild injuries in the attack.

In a statement, Israeli police claimed that preliminary investigation indicated that the attack “began in the city of Beit Shean, where a pedestrian was run over. Later, a young woman was stabbed near Road 71”.

The alleged attacker, a Palestinian from ‍the occupied West ‌Bank, was reportedly shot and wounded in Afula.

Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz has ordered the occupation forces to launch an operation in the village of Qabatiya in the West Bank, after it emerged that the attacker came from there.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said in a statement that the Afula operation reflected a state of “accumulated public anger” and was the result of the “daily crimes committed by the Zionist occupiers.”

Warning the Israeli occupation regime, the movement said the continuation of aggressive policies would have dangerous consequences, stressing that the regime’s crimes would never bring it security.

Hamas also called on the Palestinian people to strengthen their unity in the face of the occupation and urged the international community to shoulder its responsibilities and break its silence over the crimes of the Israeli regime.

The development came just a day after an Israeli settler rammed his vehicle into a Palestinian man who was praying on the side of a road in the occupied West Bank.

The latest development comes as violence has soared in the occupied West Bank since the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza began in October 2023.

At least 1,102 Palestinians have since been killed in the West Bank, and nearly 11,000 others have been injured in attacks by the military and Israeli settlers in the occupied territory.

Around 21,000 people have also been abducted by the occupying regime’s forces.

For months, rights organizations have been warning that Palestinians in the West Bank face a growing threat of ethnic cleansing amid the continuing violence.

In July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s prolonged occupation of historic Palestine was unlawful and called for the removal of all settlements currently in the West Bank and East al-Quds.

PressTV report

zion¿st warplanes launched fresh airstrikes across eastern and southern Lebanon on Friday, extending a pattern of ceasefire violations that has continued for months.

zion¿st fighter jets launched multiple raids on areas in the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon, triggering powerful explosions and sending thick plumes of smoke into the air, according to Al-Manar.

Targets included the Zghrin mountains on the outskirts of Hermel, where footage showed dense smoke rising after the strikes. Israeli aircraft were also seen flying at very low altitude over Baalbek and northern Bekaa.

Additional air raids struck the Besliyeh area on the outskirts of Jbaa in Jezzine district, as well as areas near the town of Kfarmelki in southern Lebanon, Al-Manar reported.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) similarly confirmed a “series of airstrikes” by Israeli aircraft on mountainous regions in the Nabatiyeh and Jezzine districts in the south, and in Hermel district in eastern Lebanon.

The Israeli military acknowledged the attacks, claiming they targeted Hezbollah positions.

In a statement, it claimed strikes hit weapons depots and a training complex. Military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said the raids targeted what he described as “a training compound belonging to the Radwan Force unit and several weapons warehouses,” a claim Lebanese sources did not independently verify.

Despite the ceasefire reached in November 2024 after more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli forces have continued to carry out near-daily attacks inside Lebanese territory.

Israeli troops also remain deployed at five locations along the border despite provisions in the truce requiring a full withdrawal.

According to an AFP tally based on Lebanese health ministry figures, more than 340 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since the ceasefire took effect.

Friday’s strikes came just one day after similar Israeli attacks near the Syrian border and in southern Lebanon killed three people.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has documented the scale of Israeli violations since the truce began, reporting more than 7,500 airspace violations and nearly 2,500 land breaches.

Tensions have steadily escalated in southern Lebanon as Israel continues air raids while insisting it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.

Lebanese officials and observers argue the strikes undermine the ceasefire and worsen instability.

Between October 2023 and November 2024, Israeli attacks killed more than 3,961 people in Lebanon, including 736 women, 222 health and rescue workers, and 248 children, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

Under the ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces were expected to withdraw from southern Lebanon by January, but the pullout has remained incomplete.

Meanwhile, diplomatic pressure has intensified on Beirut. On December 18, French, Saudi and US officials met in Paris with the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces to discuss a roadmap for disarming Hezbollah.

The resistance group has repeatedly said it will not disarm as long as Israeli forces occupy parts of southern Lebanon and continue to launch attacks, warning that ongoing violations risk collapsing the already fragile truce.

Al Masirah report

One person was assassinated in the z¿onist drone strike that targeted a vehicle between the southern Lebanese towns of Safad al-Battikh and Majdal Salem.

zionist colony drones targeted a residential building in the outskirts of the southern Lebanese town of Blida.

Medical group says women, children held under ‘extremely poor humanitarian conditions’

A Sudanese medical group on Thursday accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of holding 73 women and 29 children in the city of Muglad in West Kordofan state.

The Sudan Doctors Network said RSF forces rounded up the women and girls in the city of Babanusa and transferred them to Muglad city on accusations of having relatives serving in the Sudanese army.

The detainees are held under “extremely poor humanitarian conditions,” lacking basic health care, food and psychological support, the statement said.

The group said detaining women and children constitutes “a grave violation of international humanitarian law and treaties that prohibit targeting civilians or using them as leverage in armed conflicts.”

It held the RSF leadership fully responsible for the safety of the detainees and called for their immediate and unconditional release, safe reunion with their families, and urgent access for humanitarian and medical organizations to provide care.

The group also urged the UN and international and regional organizations to press RSF leaders to halt the violations and ensure protection for civilians, particularly women and children.

The rebel group captured Babanusa on Dec. 2 after intense fighting with the Sudanese army.

The three Kordofan states—North, West, and South—have seen weeks of fierce fighting between the army and the RSF, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee.

Of Sudan’s 18 states, the RSF controls all five states of the Darfur region in the west, except for some northern parts of North Darfur that remain under army control. The army, in turn, holds most areas of the remaining 13 states in the south, north, east, and center, including the capital Khartoum.

The conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF, which began in April 2023, has since killed thousands of people and displaced millions of others.

AA report