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Ayatollah Khamenei: Gen. Soleimani’s most vital rote was revitalization of resistance front

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Ayatollah Khamenei

During this meeting on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the martyr’s assassination, Ayatollah Khamenei highlighted the significant role played by this noble martyr in revitalizing the resistance front within the region.

Ayatollah Khamenei said, “The most crucial contribution of this esteemed martyr was in reviving the spirit of resistance across the region.”

Additionally, he attributed the enduring three-month resistance in Gaza to the existence of this resistance front, underscoring General Soleimani’s dedicated efforts in its revival.

Ayatollah Khamenei also urged for the constant reinforcement of the resistance front.

The meeting, attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps and the IRGC Quds Force Commander, also featured a briefing by Zeinab Soleimani, the daughter of General Soleimani.

She outlined ongoing cultural and artistic initiatives aimed at imparting the spirit, character, and values of Martyr Soleimani to the younger generation.

US Muslims expand ‘Abandon Biden’ campaign over Gaza war

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Joe Biden Benjamin Netanyahu

The #AbandonBiden campaign was first launched by Muslim leaders from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.

Saturday’s plan to actively campaign against Biden in all 50 US states was announced in Chicago, Illinois at the end of a national convention organised by the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America.

The leaders say they intend to guarantee Biden’s loss in the upcoming 2024 election over his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, where Israeli attacks have killed more than 21,000 people, mostly children and women.

“The president betrayed us because he violated the value of dignity and life. What’s the point of voting for you when you deny 2.2 million [in Gaza] people water?” stated Hassan Abdel Salam, a spokesperson for the campaign.

Biden and other top US officials are facing pressure from Muslim and leftist groups, including the Congressional Progressive Caucus, who are demanding that Washington take a tougher stance on Israel.

Israel launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip following a cross-border attack by Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7.

More than 21,600 Palestinians, mostly children and women, have been killed in Israeli attacks since then.

UN: Nearly half of Gaza population at a risk of famine

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“To prevent famine, more, much more food [and] other basics must be allowed in safe access,” the agency posted on X.

Thomas White, the director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, also said on X “people are hungry and just desperate for food”, adding: “40% of the population at risk of famine.”

“More regular supplies needed. We require safe and sustainable humanitarian access everywhere, including to the North of Gaza,” he stressed.

Since a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, Israel has continued relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 21,000 Palestinians and injuring many more, according to local health authorities.

Israeli authorities claim the Hamas attack has killed around 1,200 Israelis.

The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recently sounded the alarm on the dire humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip, lamenting that four out of “five of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are” in the coastal territory.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently cautioned residents in Gaza City are facing starvation and selling their possessions for food.

“Hunger is present, and famine is looming in Gaza,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X last Saturday.

UN: Over 300 Palestinians killed in West Bank since 7 October

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Israeli Army

The figure includes 79 children, according to the UN agency.

Of the dead, 298 were killed by Israeli forces, eight by Israeli settlers and another either by troops or settlers.

This year marks the deadliest year for Palestinians in the occupied territory since OCHA began recording casualties in 2005.

Violence across the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem has flared since Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip began on October 7. More than 21,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, most of them civilians.

Nearly 4,800 Palestinians have been arrested since the war on Gaza began.

Since October 7, the UN has documented a “sharp rise in settler attacks”, including “shootings, burning of homes and vehicles, and uprooting of trees”.

The UN has urged Israel to “end unlawful killings” of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, warning that the human rights situation in the territory is rapidly deteriorating.

Giant Iranian online food ordering platform hacked

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Cyber attack

SnappFood has said in a statement that it is trying to identify and tackle the source of the online attack in cooperation with Iranian Cyber Police, whose duty is to monitor and deal with online offenses.

Hackers claim they have gained access the data of more than 20 million of SnappFood’s users.

The online food ordering platform says it will conduct a thorough review of the causes of the incident.

In the statement, SnappFood says the hackers had sold the stolen data before holding any negotiations with the food ordering platform.

SnappFood says it will try its utmost to prevent the release of its users’ data through negotiations with the hacker group.

SnappFood also says its users’ online payment information, including bank card passwords, has not been compromised and are secure.

Container ship struck by missile in Red Sea: Centcom

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“…The container ship Maersk Hangzhou reported that they were struck by a missile while transiting the Southern Red Sea,” the Central Command said on X, formerly Twitter.

The Singapore-flagged ship requested assistance, and the USS Gravely and USS Laboon have responded to the vessel, according to the post. While responding, the USS Gravely shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen toward the ships.

“The vessel is reportedly seaworthy and there are no reported injuries,” the post added.

This is the 23rd attack by the Houthis on international shipping since November 19, the US Central Command noted.

Later, the military announced US Navy helicopters sank three Houthi small boats after they attacked and attempted to board the container ship Maersk Hangzhou off the coast of Yemen.

Four small boats originating from “Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen” attacked the Maersk Hangzhou with small arms and attempted to board the merchant vessel, according to a statement from CENTCOM on Sunday, which added that a security team on board had returned fire.

CENTCOM added that helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and Gravely responded to the Maersk Hangzhou’s distress call, the second in less than 24 hours, and were fired on by the Houthi boats.

“The US Navy helicopters returned fire in self-defense, sinking three of the four small boats, and killing the crews. The fourth boat fled the area,” the statement said, adding that there was “no damage to US personnel or equipment”.

Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7 after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out a surprise retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity.

The relentless Israeli military campaign against Gaza has killed at least 21,600 people, most of them women and children. Another 56,000 individuals have been wounded.

Reports revealed that Israeli shipping companies have already decided to reroute their vessels in fear of attacks by Yemeni forces.

Yemeni forces have also launched missile and drone attacks on targets in the Israeli-occupied territories after the regime’s aggression on Gaza.

Last week, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the establishment of a multinational operation to secure the Red Sea amid the surge in Houthis’ attacks on cargo ships, saying that the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the Seychelles, and Spain would take part in the mission. The Houthis, for their part, vowed to attack any ships that join the US-led maritime coalition.

Several killed, over 100 inured in Ukraine attack on Russia’s Belgorod: Governor

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The shelling also left a total of 108 people injured, the governor wrote on Telegram. The material damage sustained by the city in the strike is still being assessed, Gladkov said, adding that additional public servants from nearby towns had been engaged to speed up this process.

The strike damaged more than 100 vehicles, most of which were “totally destroyed” or burnt, according to Gladkov. A large number of commercial facilities, including shops, stores and malls, were damaged as well, he added. Some gas and water supply systems in the city were also hit, according to the governor.

In a post on Sunday morning, Gladkov wrote that 30 apartment blocks and several houses were damaged.

The regional authorities decided to cancel all public gatherings and festivities in all territories bordering Ukraine, as well as in the city of Belgorod itself, which is located some 40km away from the border, Gladkov said. The governor also informed President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin about the incident and its aftermath.

The Russian Defense Ministry has announced that the attack on the city involved the use of cluster munitions. Such weapons comprise dozens of small submunitions that can be scattered over a large area by an initial detonation, which can then also explode, causing a large number of smaller secondary blasts. More than 110 nations banned them under a UN convention in 2008 due to their grave danger to civilians.

According to the ministry, the Ukrainian military equipped the missiles of its Olkha multiple rocket launcher with cluster bomb warheads before firing them at Belgorod. Russian air defense forces managed to intercept most of the projectiles but some still struck the city. Had all of them reached their target, the consequences would have been “immeasurably more severe”, the ministry added.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday the US, UK, and its allies in the EU bear responsibility for a massive Ukrainian strike on the Russian border city of Belgorod.

“Britain is behind the terrorist act,” Zakharova said in an audio statement, adding that London and Washington “have been inciting the Kiev regime” to commit acts of terrorism amid the failed summer counteroffensive.

“Amid the lack of even the smallest chances to improve the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ miserable situation on the ground, [Washington and London] resorted to the tactics of terrorist attacks against civilians,” Zakharova stated, without providing evidence of the US and UK playing a role in the strike on Saturday.

She added that Russia would raise the issue of Ukraine’s actions at a UN Security Council meeting.

Gaza-Egypt border zone should be under Israeli control: Netanyahu

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IFP Media Wire
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Benjamin Netanyahu

As Israel entered the 13th week of its war in Gaza on Saturday, Netanyahu held a news conference where he renewed his promise to eliminate Hamas and bring home all Israelis held captive in Gaza.

“The Philadelphi Corridor – or to put it more correctly, the southern stoppage point [of Gaza] – must be in our hands. It must be shut. It is clear that any other arrangement would not ensure the demilitarisation that we seek,” he said.

Israel has announced it intends to destroy Hamas in Gaza and demilitarise the territory to prevent any repeat of the October 7 cross-border killing and kidnapping spree by the armed group.

“The war is at its height. We are fighting on all of the fronts. Achieving victory will require time. As the [Israeli army] chief of staff has said, the war will continue for many more months,” Netanyahu continued.

He also added a rare threat to attack Iran directly over the near-daily exchanges of fire across the Israel-Lebanon border.

“If [the Iran-backed Lebanese armed group] Hezbollah expands the warfare, it will suffer blows that it has not dreamed of – and so too Iran,” Netanyahu stated without elaborating.

The war has triggered fears of a regional conflagration amid rising tensions with other Iranian-aligned groups in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

Israel’s relentless bombing and ground offensive on Gaza since October 7 has killed at least 21,672 people, most of them women and children, with thousands of others buried under the rubble.

The military operation has also displaced almost the entire 2.3 million population of the besieged territory.

About 1,140 people were killed by Hamas in Israel in the October 7 attacks.

OIC welcomes South Africa’s move to take Israel to ICJ over Gaza war

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Gaza War

The OIC in a statement on Saturday called on the ICJ to respond swiftly and take urgent measures to put an end to the genocide committed by Israel in the besieged Palestinian territory, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported.

“The OIC stressed that Israel, the occupying power, is committing genocide by its indiscriminate targeting of [the] civilian population, killing and injuring tens of thousands of Palestinians, forcibly displacing them, preventing them from obtaining basic needs and humanitarian aid and destroying buildings, and health, educational and religious institutions,” the statement read.

South Africa filed a lawsuit on Friday that says Israel’s actions are “genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group.”

The application said Israeli attacks breach the UN’s Genocide Convention, urging the ICJ to “order Israel to cease killing and causing serious mental and bodily harm to Palestinian people in Gaza.”

It further added that “Israel has engaged in, is engaging in and risks further engaging in genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza”.

“We want to see an end to the conflict through peaceful means,” Lindiwe Zulu, South Africa’s minister of social development, told Al Jazeera about why Pretoria has filed the lawsuit.

“We believe that this is the right time – for us both as the African National Congress and our government – to step up to the next level in finding a solution,” she added.

Moreover, the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement praised South Africa’s action and described it as “a significant step to punish the leaders of the Zionist entity and present-day criminals, who have committed the most heinous murders in modern history”.

Hamas called upon the entire world to adopt a similar measure against the Israeli regime both at national and international courts of law.

“The regime threatens international peace and security, and must not be allowed to escape punishment for the brutal crimes it has perpetrated against children and defenseless civilians in Gaza,” it added.

South Africa has been one of the outspoken critics of Israeli’s ongoing onslaught against Palestinians and has led some initiatives to hold Israel accountable for its actions in Gaza.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has compared Israel’s policies in Gaza and the occupied West Bank with his country’s past apartheid system, which saw the minority white population rule the majority black nation using a system based on segregation as its base. The white-minority rule ended in 1994.

The country’s lawmakers last month voted in favor of closing down the Israeli embassy in Pretoria and suspending all diplomatic relations until the onslaught stops.

Since the start of the aggression, Israel has killed more than 21,600 Palestinians, mostly women and children. It has also imposed a complete siege on the territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.

Pakistan electoral body rejects ex-premier Imran Khan’s nomination for 2024 vote

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Imran Khan

The 71-year-old former cricket star, who is serving a three-year prison sentence for corruption, was barred from politics for five years by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). But he still filed nomination papers on Friday.

Election officials disallowed Khan’s candidacy because of his conviction and what they said was his disqualification under the Constitution, according to documents. They also rejected the candidacies of former members of his cabinet.

The ECP released a list of rejected nominees from Lahore on Saturday, which also contained Khan’s name. It said the former prime minister could not become a nominee because he is not a registered voter of the constituency and due to him being “convicted by the court of law”.

The cricketer-turned-politician’s nomination bid was also rejected in his hometown of Mianwali in Punjab province, according to his media team.

Khan has not been seen publicly since his incarceration in August in the corruption case in which he was accused of unlawfully selling state gifts while in office.

Last week, the Supreme Court granted him bail in a case alleging he leaked state secrets, but he is continuing to fight a barrage of legal cases that have dogged him since being removed from office last year.

Khan, who is widely seen as the country’s most popular leader, has alleged that Pakistan’s powerful military is colluding with traditional parties to destroy his political party and prevent him from running for office again.

The military has historically played a major role in the country’s politics and has directly ruled for decades since independence in 1947 from British rule.

The 71-year-old leader has also alleged that the Pakistani military and the United States government conspired to topple his administration after he visited Moscow just before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Washington and Pakistan’s military have denied the accusations.

However, the US-based news site The Intercept published in August what it claims to be the details of a secret diplomatic cable that suggested the US administration wanted to remove Khan from power.

The ECP had previously ruled that Khan’s PTI party cannot contest general elections using its cricket bat logo, but the High Court in the northwestern city of Peshawar earlier this week handed his team a legal victory by suspending the order.

In addition to the 71-year-old Khan, the election commission has also rejected nomination papers submitted by other senior members of his party, including vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

The commission, however, has accepted a nomination bid from former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from two constituencies, weeks after a court overturned two corruption convictions.

But Sharif, who also has been facing legal challenges for years and returned home in October to end a four-year self-imposed exile in the United Kingdom, still needs to remove a life ban on holding public office, a hearing for which will be held in January.

The PTI has accused the Pakistani authorities of rejecting 90 percent of nominations from its party candidates while allowing nomination papers from other parties, including Sharif’s Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).

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