December, 2023

• 19 December

  Europe’s Emerging War Fatigue

  

  How to Shore Up Falling Support for Ukraine It has now been almost 700 days since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Although most European leaders remain firm in their staunch support for Kyiv, it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to maintain that same level of support among their publics. Cost-of-living …

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• 19 December

  A Palestinian Revival

  

  How to Build a New Political Order After Israel’s Assault on Gaza After ten weeks of waging a brutal war in Gaza, Israeli leaders continue to insist that their military campaign will press ahead until Hamas has been eliminated. They have yet to articulate what that would mean in practice …

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• 19 December

  IDF Dismantles Hamas Terror Infrastructure, Uncovers Giant Tunnel

  Latest Developments The Israeli military continued to target Hamas infrastructure in Gaza on December 18, seizing five million shekels in cash and targeting terror tunnels, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. “During IDF operational activity in Jabalya, IDF troops located 5,000,000 NIS worth of funds designated for terrorist activity inside …

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• 19 December

  Operation Iron Swords (Updated to 1 p.m., December 18, 2023)

  

  The combat arena: The IDF integrated ground maneuver in the Gaza Strip continues, focusing on Jabalia and Shejaiya in the northern Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Palestinians reported intense exchanges of fire and dozens of deaths in the combat zones. IDF forces uncovered the …

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• 19 December

  ISIS resurgence | Armed clashes erupt between ISIS and NDF leaving six members on both sides dead and injured in Al-Sukhnah desert

  

  Homs province: A member of ISIS and two members of the National Defence Forces were killed and three others sustained various injuries during armed clashes with machineguns between members of the National Defence Forces and ISIS members in Al-Sukhnah desert.

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• 19 December

  What’s UN Resolution 377A, can it help in efforts to stop Israel-Gaza war?

  

  The resolution empowers member states to make collective recommendations, but it is legally nonbinding. The US veto on Friday against a proposed UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza has triggered conversation and a call to action to use a rare United Nations resolution in …

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• 19 December

  L’armée israélienne a élaboré un plan d’invasion du Sud-Liban

  

  L’armée israélienne a élaboré des plans pour envahir le Sud-Liban, ce qui risque d’aggraver encore le conflit au Moyen-Orient, selon le Times. La publication note que les Forces de défense israéliennes (FDI) «veulent repousser les formations armées de l’organisation chiite Hezbollah jusqu’au fleuve Litani». Il s’agit d’une frontière d’une «importance …

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• 19 December

  From Gaza to Jenin, we must resist Israel’s cultural genocide

  

  As Israel manipulates the truth and silences Palestinian voices to justify its violence, art and culture are powerful tools of resistance, writes Zoe Lafferty. The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) invasion in Jenin Refugee Camp had been ongoing for 30hrs when they entered The Freedom Theatre just past 9am. Ransacking the …

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• 19 December

  Ethnic cleansing of Gaza: The unambiguous goal of Israel’s genocidal assault

  Israel won’t succeed in its goals to ethnically cleanse Gaza due to the heroic steadfastness of Palestinians, says Mustafa Barghouti, but the price is their blood, unless all people of conscience use all possible channels to force Israel to stop. After Israel resumed its all-out assault on Gaza, the bombardment …

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• 19 December

  Germany: Serbia vote fraud ‘unacceptable’ for a candidate to join the EU

  

  A team of international observers on Monday (18 December) slammed Serbian elections over a string of “irregularities”, including “vote buying” and “ballot box stuffing”, after the opposition accused the ruling party of committing voter fraud. The accusations aired by the monitors, which included representatives from the Organization for Security and …

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