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There were no reports of casualties TEL AVIV, December 3. /TASS/. The Israel Occupation Forces said it detected a rocket fired from Syria and shelled the source of fire with artillery. “Earlier today, a rocket was fired from Syria at northern Israel. The projectile was not intercepted in accordance with the protocol. IOF artillery shelled the source of fire,” the IOF said in a statement. “Separately, terrorists fired an anti-tank guided missile overnight, which landed in an open area near the northern community of Yiftah. There were no reports of casualties,” the statement said. The IOF said it shelled some…

The IOF will only prevail in urban warfare against Hamas if it protects civilians in Gaza, Lloyd Austin says Israel’s victory over Hamas will become a “strategic defeat” if the country doesn’t prevent civilian casualties during its military operation in Gaza, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said. Washington “will continue to press Israel to protect civilians and to ensure the robust flow of humanitarian aid” into Gaza, Austin vowed on Saturday, in a speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum at Simi Valley, California. “The center of gravity is the civilian population and if you drive them into the arms of the enemy,…

The Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza has told Al Jazeera that more than 700 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during the last 24 hours. He added that over 1.5 million people have also been displaced in the Gaza Strip. Source: AlJazeera

Evacuated people expected to arrive in Türkiye on Sunday, says Foreign Ministry spokesman Some 142 Turkish citizens and their family members crossed from Gaza to Egypt on late Saturday, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry. “The evacuation of our citizens from Gaza resumed as of yesterday (Saturday). Last night, 142 of our citizens and their family members crossed from Gaza to Egypt,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said in a statement. The statement said that the evacuated people are expected to arrive in Türkiye on Sunday. Source: Anadolu Agency

At least 13 innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally massacred tonight and many others were injured in a barrage of Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple homes in Nusseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. According to local sources, Israeli warplanes bombed the residences of the Assar and Zaqout families in the refugeee camp, leaving a minimum of 13 civilian casualties. The toll is expected to rise as rescue efforts continue to extract survivors from the debris. The victims were rushed to Al-Awda Hospital in the central province of Gaza, while many others remain trapped under the rubble. In…

Turkish doctors and medical students held a silent march in solidarity with Palestinian doctors in the Gaza Strip. The doctors and medical students wore white coats with red hand prints and held signs that said, “Doctors stand with Palestine”, as they marched through Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday. On 20 November, the WHO said it had recorded 335 attacks on healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territories since October 7, including 164 attacks in the Gaza Strip and 171 in the West Bank. Source: AlJazeera

The UN has shared data from the Gaza Electricity Distribution Company (GEDCO) confirming the besieged territory has had no electricity since October 11. The data shows that Israeli electricity supply to Gaza ceased on October 8 and that the Gaza power plant stopped supplying power on October 11. Even before its electricity was cut off, Gaza only averaged 13.3 hours of electricity per day from January to September 2023, the data shows. “For the past decade, the Gaza Strip has suffered from a chronic electricity deficit, which undermined already fragile living conditions,” the UN update said. Source: AlJazeera

The Israeli army raids in the occupied West Bank are continuing. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the Israeli army stormed the house of Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri in al-Sawana neighbourhood, occupied East Jerusalem. Sheikh Sabri is the head of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem and the former religious leader of Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories. He is the founder and president of the Association of Scholars and Preachers in Palestine, president of the Supreme Fatwa Council in Palestine and president of the Supreme Islamic Authority in Jerusalem. Source: AlJazeera

The sides discussed the work of the IAEA mission at the plant and the upcoming next rotation of the agency’s experts, scheduled for December 5, 2023 TASS, December 2. TASS/. Alexey Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear power operator, and Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have discussed ensuring the issue of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) during a meeting in Dubai on the sidelines of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), Rosatom said on its Telegram channel. “In the center of attention were issues…

It is reported that over 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas have been delivered in the four years since the route was put into operation BEIJING, December 3. /TASS/. Russia’s gas supplies to China through the Power of Siberia pipeline has exceeded 20 billion cubic meters since the beginning of 2023, which is a record high, the Chinese pipeline company China Oil & Gas Pipeline Network Corp. (also known as PipeChina) reported. “The pipeline has transported more than 20 billion cubic meters of natural gas so far this year, a record high,” China Daily said citing the company. It…