August 25, 2024

Daily News Brief

*) Hezbollah launches retaliatory strikes against Israel Hezbollah has announced it launched attacks on Israel with a large number of drones in response to the assassination of the group's top commander in Beirut last month. The Lebanon-based group said it targeted an identified "special military target” as well as Israel's Iron Dome platforms and other sites. Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that 200 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel. *) Israeli military claims 100 fighter jets raid Hezbollah positions An Israeli army spokesman has claimed about 100 Israeli fighter jets raided Hezbollah positions, destroying rocket launchers. Earlier, the Israeli army said in a statement that Hezbollah is "preparing to fire missiles and rockets toward Israeli territory”. The Israeli army gave an ultimatum to residents in southern Lebanon to "leave immediately." *) Israel leaves mere 9.5 percent of Gaza for civilians The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza has said that Israeli forces have turned the designated "safe humanitarian zones" within Gaza into heaps of rubble and ashes. The Israeli attacks have left only 9.5 percent of the Palestinian territory as so-called “safe zones” for displaced civilians. Initially, these zones covered 230 square kilometres or 63 percent of Gaza's total area but as the Israeli military offensives continued, the size of these areas shrank dramatically. *) France arrests founder and CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app has been arrested at an airport outside Paris. Durov was travelling aboard his private jet. His arrest was triggered by a “lack of moderators on Telegram”, which according to French authorities allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app. *) TRT World’s ‘Holy Redemption’ exposes Israeli settler violence Istanbul’s iconic Atlas Cinema was packed for the launch of TRT World’s investigative documentary “Holy Redemption”. The documentary exposes how illegal Jewish settlers are systematically driving out Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank. In addition, a panel of experts discussed various aspects of the Palestinian struggle ahead of the premiere of the investigation carried out by TRT World journalists at great risk in December last year. The Director General of TRT, Mehmet Zahid Sobaci, said the documentary also sheds light on one of the most disturbing methods of occupation in the world.