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Chief of Staff of the Israeli Occupation , Herzi Halevi, announced that starting Sunday night, the IOF will begin fighting in Syria. “Israeli occupation forces are fighting on four fronts: Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and starting tonight, Syria,” Halevi stated.
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Former President of Syria Bashar Al Assad is now a Moscow resident and ends much speculation to his whereabouts.
After at least 10 hours of media rumors, Sunday, a Kremlin source confirmed to TASS, the state-owned news agency that Al Assad has arrived in Russia with his family and has been granted political asylum.
The news confirmed on Sunday night is trending on the social media with photos and images of him and his family.
The source said that “President Assad of Syria has arrived in Moscow. Russia has granted them (him and his family) asylum on humanitarian grounds”.
The confirmation puts an end to the mystery of his whereabouts. News reports suggested earlier a plane took him early Sunday morning over Homs, took an eastern turn and disappeared off the radar screen.
It added fuel to the theory that it may have been shot by rebel groups who where taking over the country.
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CROSSFIREARABIA – Syria is about to enter a new political era without Baath Party rule which has been in power since 1963 and controlled by the Al Assad family since 1971.
After 61 years, this pan-nationalist party collapsed, Sunday when the capital Damascus fell out of the hands of the regime and into a motly opposition parties and Islamist groups, including the reformed Al-Nusra outfit, formerly affiliated to Al Qaeda and lead by Abu Mohammad Al Jolani who has renamed it yet again, as Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS)
Many observers say this is the completion of the Arab Spring Syrian revolution started in 2011 but took 13 years of bloodshed to arrive at this stage of political development.
Over this period the Baath regime saught to control the country with an iron-fist with the help of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah to beat the armed groups that slipped into Syria to attempt to “regime-change” the Baathist order.
Today, they stand successful with the regime finally collapsing, and its leader Bashar Al Assad hastily scurrying outside the country in a plane in the middle-of-the-night, Sunday, heading to what is thought to Moscow.
This is indeed an end of era for Syria and a beginning of a new dawn with a twist in Arab nationalist politics for change has both been unexpected and happened so quickly.
It all started on 30 November when the anti-regime groups took control of Aleppo in the north from the Syrian army and then proceeded to Idlib, Homs and clenched Hama city center moving very fast to the strategically important province of Homs which is a gateway to the Syrian capital of Damascus.
The opposition forces were not to be stopped capturing other towns and cities in the south of the country, including Suwayda and Qunitera and Deraa on the border with Jordan. Despite clashes with regime forces they established control and moved northward towards Damascus.
By Sunday 8 December, it was all over, the opposition groups entered Damascus and established control of the capital.
Today the situation remains fluid. Al Jolani, who quickly established firm control has called on the Baathist Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi Al Jalali, who is still in his home in Damascus, to continue in his official position during this transitional period.
Since their take over, the opposition groups stated they want things to continue as they are and government departments to function as smoothly as possible.
Meanwhile Arab countries, US, Russia, Iran and Israel are watching carefully the unfolding developments in Syria.
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US Senator Tom Cotton has introduced a Senate bill that seeks to eliminate the federal use of the term “West Bank” and instead implement the use of “Judea and Samaria”, claiming the terminology aligns with Israel’s historical and biblical claims to the territory.
“The Jewish people’s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria goes back thousands of years. The U.S. should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel,” Cotton said in a statement.
The move comes amid growing international criticism of Israel’s policies in the occupied territories. In July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of the West Bank illegal under international law, challenging the legitimacy of Israeli settlements, which now house nearly 700,000 Israeli settlers.
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Moroccans protested in Rabat in front of the parliament building, Friday, to condemn the Israeli genocide on the Gaza Strip ongoing now for 14 months.
The “Working Group for Palestine”, a non-governmental group, organized the protest to condemn the Israeli genocide in Gaza and in which dozens of participants carried pictures of Al-Aqsa and the Palestinian flag.
The protesters in front of the parliament building also condemned “Israel’s continued defiance of all international resolutions, including the International Criminal Court’s decision” regarding the arrest of the Israeli Prime Minister and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant,” according to Anadolu.
Israel continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on 21 November against Netanyahu and ex-Defense Minister Galant, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.
The protesters chanted slogans praising the Palestinian resistance, and others criticizing the continued Western support for Tel Aviv despite the genocide that has been ongoing for more than a year.
Among these slogans were “Long live the resistance… long live Palestine”, “We are all ready to sacrifice for steadfast Palestine”, “From Rabat to Gaza… resistance and pride”, and “Loyalty… to the blood of the martyrs”.
The participants raised banners reading “the Moroccan people demand the dissolution and cancellation of the seductive Israeli parliamentary group”, and “Normalization is a crime and treason”.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, leaving more than 150,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
Israel continues its massacres, ignoring the UN Security Council’s decision for their immediate end, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
