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The Palestinian Islamic Jihad has released new footage of Israeli captive Sasha Trupanov.
In the video, 29-year-old Russian-Israeli hostage Trupanov issued a plea to Aryeh Deri – a key ally of Netanyahu and Shas party leader – to help free him and the other captives held in Gaza.
This is the fourth video to emerge of Trupanov, with a previous one released on Wednesday.
Trupanov was captured with his girlfriend, Sapir Cohen, his mother and grandmother from the Nir Oz Kibbutz near the Gaza border in the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.
Cohen, and Trupanov's mother and grandmother were released during a hostage-prisoner exchange in November 2023.
Following the release of the video on Wednesday, Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson, called for the release of Trupanov and another Russian-Israeli hostage, Maxim Herkin.
“We reiterate our call for the immediate and unconditional release of all civilians held by Palestinian groups, with priority given to our compatriots,” she said.
At least seven Palestinians have been killed and others injured in an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering displaced people in the Mawasi 'safe zone,' near Khan Younis, Wafa news agency is reporting.
According to the report, the attack targeted a tent near the Osman Bin Affan Mosque in south Mawasi. The bodies of two people and several wounded were subsequently transferred to the Red Cross Field Hospital and the Nasser Medical Complex in the city.
Wafa also reported that one Palestinian was killed and another injured in an Israeli attack on a group of people the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) headquarters in the Khirbat al-Adas area north of Rafah.
Also north of Rafah, an 18-year-old woman was killed in an Israeli strike on the Abu al-Hussein family home.
In Gaza City, two people were wounded in an Israeli attack on a group of people in Gaza City's Tuffah neighbourhood.
Israeli war planes targeted the Mazzeh suburb of Damascus, in the second wave of attacks on the district in two days, Syria's state news agency Sana has reported.
“Israeli aggression targets Mazzeh area in Damascus,” the official Sana news agency's newsflash read.
The attack follows a deadly wave of strikes in and around the Syrian capital on Thursday which killed 23 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
Two Israeli air strikes have targeted the Hadath area in Beirut's southern suburb, one launched by a drone and the other by a warplane, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting.
Lebanon's National News Agency reported that the attacks targeted an area near schools.
A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese political prisoner Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years for the killing of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors said.
The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the 1982 murders, would be released on December 6 provided he leaves France, French anti-terror prosecutors said in a statement to AFP, adding that they would appeal.
"In (a) decision dated today, the court granted Georges Ibrahim Abdallah conditional release from December 6, subject to the condition that he leaves French territory and not appear there again," the prosecutors said.
Abdallah, a former fighter in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the murders of US military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov.
A senior Hamas official said on Friday that the group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza and urged US President-elect Donald Trump to pressure Israel to end the war.
"Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is respected" by Israel, Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim told AFP.
"We call on the US administration and Trump to pressure the Israeli government to end the aggression.
"Hamas informed the mediators that it is in favour of any proposal submitted to it that would lead to a definitive ceasefire and military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, allowing the return of displaced people, a serious deal for a prisoner exchange, the entry of humanitarian aid and reconstruction," Naim added.
The demands are the same ones Hamas has made in successive rounds of ceasefire negotiations since the start of the war.
In all the thoughtful - and less thoughtful - analysis and punditry following the US election, I haven’t seen anyone contemplate what it might actually have meant for the country, its people and their place in the world, if Kamala Harris’s forces of “joy” had somehow overcome Donald Trump’s forces of “darkness”.
Let’s stop, just for a minute, and consider the implications. Registering joy at a Harris win would have meant - what, exactly?
No matter the kind of mental, intellectual, emotional or political acrobatics involved, at least part of that joy would also have meant explicit support for the US participation in, and enabling of, the Israeli genocide still being perpetrated against Palestinians.
Would such a result not have also fully validated and presented, in a completely unadulterated fashion, the utter rot at the core of US policies and so many of its institutions?
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Gaza's health ministry said that 28 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 43,764 since 7 October, 2023.
Additionally, 103,490 people have been wounded since the start of the war.
Two Palestinians prisoners have died in Israeli custody, the Wafa news agency, quoting the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, reports.
Sameeh Eleiwi, 61, from the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, died on Wednesday after being transferred from the Ramla prison clinic to Israel’s Shamir Medical Center near Tel Aviv.
Anwar Esleem, 44, from Gaza, died on Thursday while being transferred from the Negev Prison to the Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheba.
Senior Iranian advisor Ali Larijani met with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Beirut on Friday, according to the Lebanese state-run National News Agency.
The death toll from Israel's strike on Baalbek, eastern Lebanon has risen to 15 civil defence members, Baalbek governor Bachir Khodr said on X.
Khodr adds that 10 bodies were identified, while the remaining five were recovered in pieces, requiring DNA testing.
"Mercy to the heroic martyrs and patience to their families," he said.
بلغ عدد شهداء #الدفاع_المدني ١٥ شهيداً،
— Bachir Khodr (@BachirKhodr) November 15, 2024
تم التعرف على جثامين ١٠ منهم، اما ال ٥ الباقين فقد تم انتشالهم أشلاء، على ان تجرى فحوصات ال DNA كي يتم التعرف على هوياتهم.
الرحمة للشهداء الأبطال والصبر لعائلاتهم
#بشير_خضر#بعلبك #الهرمل
Israeli strikes have hit Beirut's southern suburbs less than an hour after the Israeli military issued bombing notices for residents of two areas.
large piles of smoke are seen rising from the targeted buildings.
لحظة استهداف منطقة برج البراجنة بغارة إسرائيلية عنيفة pic.twitter.com/SUyFCADqxF
— Al Jadeed News (@ALJADEEDNEWS) November 15, 2024
An Israeli strike on the town of Arabsalim, south Lebanon, killed six people including five paramedics, Lebanon's National News Agency said.
The strike targeted an Islamic Health Authority centre in the town.
The Israeli army has issued new bombing notices for two buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs, commonly known as Dahiye.
The affected neighbourhoods are Burj al-Barajne and Ghobeiri.
#عاجل إلى جميع السكان المتواجدين في منطقة الضاحية الجنوبية وتحديدًا في المباني المحددة في الخرائط المرفقة والمباني المجاورة لها في المناطق التالية:
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) November 15, 2024
🔸برج البراجنة
🔸الغبيري
⭕️أنتم تتواجدون بالقرب من منشآت ومصالح تابعة لحزب الله حيث سيعمل ضدها جيش الدفاع على المدى الزمني القريب… pic.twitter.com/5MqqIm5CCc
Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer briefed US President-elect Donald Trump on a proposal for a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon during a visit to Mar-a-Lago in Florida last Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reports.
WSJ says Trump approved of the proposal and expressed hope that it would be implemented before he takes office on 20 January 2025.
