President Biden “outraged and deeply saddened” by the death of an American woman shot by an Israeli solider….
Israel and Hezbollah shooting at each other….
Over a half million children have gotten polio medicine in Gaza….
Iran’s new President makes trip to Iraq, the place the US IS still helping militarily….
The IDF says its crippled Hamas’s fighting ability and would need another year to hurt it more….
There ARE STILL hostages and POW’s…..
Almost a year from the first Oct. 7th Hamas raid in Israel….
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Israeli forces in northern Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon exchanged fire along the border throughout Wednesday night and day, with the Israeli military reporting in multiple statements that about 90 projectiles were launched into Israel following Israeli Air Force strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. An Israeli reservist soldier was severely injured by anti-tank missile fire in the area of Dan in northern Israel, the Israeli military said. No other injuries were reported.
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The United Arab Emirates evacuated 97 critically wounded and sick Gazans, including cancer patients, for “vital medical treatment,” the U.A.E. said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that it had also evacuated nearly 300 of their relatives and children. The group flew to Abu Dhabi from the Ramon airport in Israel, the second such flight that the U.A.E. has coordinated to provide advanced medical care to Palestinians since the war in Gaza began, it said. “With today’s flight, the number of evacuees has reached more than 1,917 patients and family members,” the statement said, noting that the humanitarian effort was coordinated in cooperation with the World Health Organization.
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Nearly 530,000 children in Gaza have received the first of two doses of a polio vaccine as of Wednesday, the United Nations agency for Palestinians said on social media on Wednesday. Local health authorities said in a statement on Wednesday that the newly vaccinated group made up more than 80 percent of those whom authorities are hoping to inoculate. Health experts say that 90 percent of children under 10 must receive both doses of the vaccine to avert the spread of polio, which is highly contagious and can cause paralysis and death in the unvaccinated. Traces of poliovirus were found in wastewater in Gaza this summer. In August, a nearly 1-year-old boy was confirmed to be the first polio case in the enclave in 25 years.
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The United States imposed new sanctions on Wednesday on three people, five companies and two vessels that it said were involved in smuggling oil and gas to generate revenue for Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon. Hezbollah “continues to launch rockets into Israel and fuel regional instability, choosing to prioritize funding violence,” Bradley T. Smith of the Treasury Department said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that “Treasury will continue to disrupt the oil smuggling and other financing networks” that support Hezbollah’s “war machine.”
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An Israeli helicopter crashed in southern Gaza while on a mission to evacuate a wounded soldier, the military said, killing two soldiers and injuring seven others. The Israeli military said that enemy fire did not appear to have been to blame and that the cause of the crash was being investigated.
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Israel’s military said a driver tried to ram into soldiers near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday. The driver was “neutralized” by soldiers and an armed civilian, the military said in a statement Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, said its paramedics had responded to the scene and treated a man who was in critical condition.
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Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, arrived in Iraq on Wednesday for his first trip abroad since taking office in July. The visit is a demonstration of the value the Iranians place on the strategic alliance with their neighbor as tensions have flared anew with Israel. A few hours before Mr. Pezeshkian’s plane landed, a rocket attack on U.S. troops based at Baghdad airport served as a reminder of the volatility across the region. Read more about the visit here…..
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Witnesses say Eygi, 26, was fatally shot in the head last week by Israeli soldiers who opened fire while she was participating in a protest of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. In the statement, Biden described Eygi as “an activist whose idealism led her to travel to the West Bank to peacefully protest the expansion of settlements……
Sep 11, 2024 – ISW Press
The IDF Southern Command’s fire control commander said that Hamas no longer functions as a conventional military organization but added that the IDF requires another year to fully destroy Hamas’ military and governance capabilities.