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Rising Tensions
Israeli forces have once again attacked Palestinian worshipers at Al-Aqsa mosque in the occupied West Bank. Regime forces stormed the holy site early on Friday, the latest in a series of attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinians at Al-Aqsa this week. The first one took place early on Wednesday, leaving hundreds of Palestinians injured and arrested. Al-Aqsa mosque is the third-holiest site in the Islamic world. The Israeli aggression against the mosque has drawn widespread condemnation. The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, says the aggression will not go unanswered. It says the movement, along with the Palestinian people, will continue to defend Al-Aqsa.
Israeli Aggression
Israel has carried out airstrikes in the besieged Gaza Strip and Lebanon. It claims that the strikes targeted positions belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, in both territories. Loud blasts rocked different areas of the Gaza Strip on Friday at midnight. No casualties were reported. Palestinians fired salvos of rockets in response. Hamas has reacted, saying Israel is fully responsible for the consequences of its aggression against Gaza. The Israeli military also launched air raids in the south of Lebanon. They hit areas near the city of Tyre, with the Israeli regime saying it struck Hamas positions. Tel Aviv says its attacks on both Gaza and Lebanon were in response to earlier rockets fired from those regions. Two casualties were caused by the Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
US Afghanistan Withdrawal
The White House has released a redacted report on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, admitting to a massive intelligence failure in the process. The report said the US intelligence services failed to understand the strength of the Taliban and the weakness of the Afghan government's forces. It, however, blamed the failure on a deal struck between former US President Donald Trump's administration and the Taliban. The report claimed the deal put President Joe Biden's administration in an impossible position because it had a date for the withdrawal but no plan for executing it. Thirteen US troops and 170 Afghans were killed during the US pull-out from Afghanistan in August 2021.
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