Bad news from the negotiations for the release of prisoners and abductees: Yedioth Ahronoth on the authority of an Israeli official he states that “the exchange agreement with Hamas will not take place in days but weeks”. According to the Israeli newspaper, Israel has backed away from the request to inspect Palestinians returning to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip.
A suspicious envelope was found at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a security check. After the envelope was found, security forces were called and the envelope was handed over to the police for further investigation.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will not travel to Poland for events marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, fearing he will be detained there under an arrest warrant issued by the ICC. There would be urgent calls from the Israeli media to establish the “Iron Swords” settlement on the Shebaa farms, as Hezbollah did by erecting two tents on “Israeli” lands before the war.
Tension remains high in domestic politics: Benny Gantz: “Netanyahu is not worthy of the leadership of Israel, since the state and society deserve another leadership.” Gantz is no stranger to these statements and he is not alone.
Jordan said that 48 Jordanian trucks entered Syria through the Nasib checkpoint, providing humanitarian aid to Syria.
The Minister of Transport of the Syrian transition government, Bahaa El-Din Al-Sharm, told the LBCI: “The new Syrian leadership will not attack Hezbollah members in Syria who have defected and abandoned their weapons, but we will refer anyone suspected of possessing weapons to the police and judiciary.”
The Pentagon spokesman said there are currently around 2,000 US troops in Syria, not 900 as previously reported. A high-level American delegation led by Barbara Leaf, Under Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, arrived in Syria and met with de facto leader Ahmed al-Shara, who is still considered a terrorist in the United States. They discussed the transitional government. In the early afternoon of December 20, the US Central Command reported that the ISIS leader was killed by a precise air strike that targeted him in the governorate of Deir ez-Zor in Syria.
German Foreign Minister Bärbock arrived in Ankara and recently stated that “Turkey must stop the attacks on Kobane”. Bärbock will meet Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. Before the visit, Berbock said: “The Kurds in northeast Syria must also be included in the reform process,” and added: “I will underline this very, very clearly in Turkey.”
According to Syrian sources, it is assumed that the Turkish armed forces will place part of their bases in the Idlib region, in the Golan region and this could lead to friction with Israel. Turkish President Erdogan plans to travel to Damascus within 15 days, visit the Umayyad Mosque and meet Jawlani/al Shara.
The International Monetary Fund said it was ready to help Syria rebuild together with the international community. We also learn that although HTS is still reported as a terrorist group, the new Syrian government has included 20 officials from the Assad administration on the Interpol wanted list. Meanwhile, Syria's largest oil refinery, in Baniyas, is shut down due to the cessation of crude oil supplies from Iran.
Iraq has announced the resumption of its diplomatic mission in Syria. And he sent back to Syria all 2,500 Syrian soldiers who sought refuge in Anbar.
Meanwhile, the Houthi war on Israel continues. The IDF Spokesperson in a statement said: “The Air Force recently intercepted a suspicious aerial target (presumably a Houthi UAV) in the Mediterranean Sea area, the target was intercepted before it even entered the country” .
The official spokesperson of the Yemeni armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree on December 20 at a press conference said: “The Yemeni armed forces, in collaboration with the Islamic resistance in Iraq, have targeted vital targets of the Israeli enemy in southern Israel with a series of drones, and they successfully achieved their objectives. The drone division carried out a quality military operation that targeted a military target belonging to Israel in Jaffa with a drone, and the operation achieved its objective.” And he concluded by stating: “The Yemeni military will meet any Israeli-American escalation against Yemen with similar escalation. The Yemeni military will not hesitate to target the Israeli enemy's vital installations, as well as the American enemy's military movements targeting Yemen. The continuation of the crimes committed against our brothers in Gaza will only lead to further attacks against the Israeli enemy.”
The attacks claimed together with the Iraqi Islamic resistance between December 19 and 20 are two attacks in Giada.
And now a look at the military situations opened by Israel updated at 4:00 pm on December 20th.
Syrian sources report that 30 Israeli soldiers, supported by bulldozers and armored vehicles, entered a military point west of the town of Al-Rafid in the southern Quneitra countryside.
Can Channelyes Associated Press: “The Israeli army has set up a site at an abandoned military base belonging to the former Assad regime in southern western Syria, located outside the separation zone.” An online video testifies to the presence of Israeli soldiers in a former Assad weapons depot.
Elders from villages in the buffer zone in the Syrian Golan in Quneitra governorate have published a statement calling for the Israeli army to retreat across the border lines. Channel 14: “The shooting in the buffer zone in Syria occurred as part of a demonstration led by local residents against the Israeli presence in the region.” According to the correspondent of Al-Mayadeen: “Protesters” in Daraa called on the international community to intervene to put an end to the new Israeli occupation of the country. Syrians demonstrate in the villages of the Yarmouk basin, rejecting the Israeli occupation and demanding that it be forced to withdraw from their lands.
Israeli bombings continue in Lebanon. Houses bombed on the outskirts of the city of Alma al-Shaab, in southern Lebanon, explosions in Yaroun where a massive operation by the Israeli military is reportedly underway, explosions also in Maroun. Bombings also recorded in Wadi Saluki and Israeli artillery in action in the valleys located between Qabrikha in Wadi Saluki and near the city of Ghandouriya.
Three Israeli drones recorded in the skies of the city of Al-Sama'iya, with an intense flight of several drones in the skies of the Tire region. A huge bombing operation carried out by the Israeli army in Kafr Kila. Drones also spotted south of Beirut, while artillery shelled the outskirts of the city of Halta. Israeli military aircraft in Nabatieh airspace and surrounding area at low altitude. According to Lebanese sources, the Israeli army kidnapped 3 Lebanese citizens on the Wadi Al-Hujair road on Thursday evening. They are Mahdi Shamout, Fouad Qataya and Ali Younis, and contact with them has been lost. The body of a Syrian woman killed by Israeli bombing has been found in a dairy farm in Khiam. Houses located between Blida and Aitaroun, in southern Lebanon, were bombed by Israel.
Correspondent of Al-Akhbar Smoke is reported from the town of Naqoura following Israeli artillery shelling which hit houses.
Palestinian sources report that Israeli planes have bombed a residential apartment in Nuseirat camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip. Schools for displaced people and a house were hit in the Al-Shaaf area, east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza. Second Israel Today: “Hamas has taken advantage of the year that has passed since the outbreak of the war and made Jabalia more difficult militarily than at the beginning of the war.” In the afternoon the attacks on Jabalia resumed, with an Israeli helicopter firing machine guns towards the Abu Qamar area in the Jabalia refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip. There is a major security incident involving at least six Israeli soldiers. Suicide bomber blows himself up after killing an Israeli sniper in Jabalia.
In the latest toll: 7 dead and several injured while the IDF bombed a residential apartment inside the “Jaffa” tower on Mabrouk Street in the Nuseirat camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip.
Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians were recorded in the city of Husan, west of Bethlehem. In a statement from the IDF: “Overnight (Thursday), the IDF, the ISA and the Israeli Border Police conducted counter-terrorism operations and confiscated weapons in several areas of Judea and Samaria.” “Security forces confiscated five weapons and large quantities of ammunition from As-Samu and Halhul. The forces also arrested four wanted suspects in Halhul, Dayr Ghazale and Silat ad-Dhahr.”
Finally: “Over the past week, the IDF has confiscated dozens of illegal vehicles across Judea and Samaria, as well as terrorist funds worth more than a million shekels and approximately ten weapons. The arrested suspects and weapons were transferred to the security forces for further investigation. No injuries were reported among the IDF.”
Antonio Albanese and Graziella Giangiulio
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