World Health Organization: Attacks on Gaza Hospitals Must Stop

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, called on Monday for an end to attacks on hospitals in Gaza. This request came after Israel's attack on Al-Wafa Hospital in Gaza City and a raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital. Tedros stated on social media platform X on Monday, January 1: "Gaza's hospitals have once again become battlegrounds, and the health system is under serious threat. We reiterate: stop attacks on hospitals. The people of Gaza need access to medical care. Humanitarian workers need access to provide health assistance. Ceasefire!" The Israeli army claimed that the target of the attack on Al-Wafa Hospital was Hamas militants. The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 7 people were killed in this attack. Additionally, Israeli forces detained over 240 Palestinians on Friday, including dozens of staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital and its director, Hossam Abu Safiya. The Israeli army stated that this hospital was being used as a command center for Hamas military operations, and Abu Safiya was being interrogated as a Hamas member. The last hospital in northern Gaza has also ceased operations. Tedros also called for the immediate release of Abu Safiya and referred to similar attacks on Al-Ahli Hospital. He announced that the WHO and its partners have sent medical supplies, food, and water to the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza and transferred 10 critically ill patients to Al-Shifa Hospital, but during this transfer, 4 patients were detained. The WHO Director-General emphasized: "We call on Israel to respect the health needs and rights of the people of Gaza." Israeli special forces conducted operations against a missile factory of the IRGC two months before the fall of Assad, confirmed. Israeli media released footage of special forces operations destroying the missile production facility of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the "Misyaf Complex" on the outskirts of Damascus two months before the fall of Bashar Assad's regime. Western media outlets like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported shortly after this operation on the evening of September 9 to the morning of September 10, attributing it to Israel, but footage that apparently confirmed this operation and the entry of special forces into the "Center for Scientific Studies and Research" known as "SARS" was broadcast on the evening of Sunday, January 1, by Kan Israel. These videos showed the special forces unit known as "Shaldag" in helicopters preparing to land in Syria, followed by images of their entry into the "Scientific Research Center," which was a major hub for the Syrian army's security and military industries, along with operations to explode parts of this location and then the exit of the special forces. According to the military reporter of Kan, dozens of commandos involved in the operation entered a secret section identified by the Israeli military intelligence as a special location for the IRGC to produce precision-guided missiles. Missiles bearing the name of Qassem Soleimani, the slain commander of the IRGC Quds Force, were found at the site. Israel had monitored the "SARS" research center for years and, by gathering information about it, had reached the "certainty" that the IRGC had transferred components of a missile project to this location to improve targeting and was smuggling the produced missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The report added that the Israeli army initially prepared a ground offensive operation to counter this Iranian plan but suspended the ground attack twice due to "high risks associated with the timing conditions," and then planned an alternative program for an air operation and the transfer of commandos by helicopter to the site. Israel, concerned about the transfer of produced missiles in the "Misyaf Complex" to Hezbollah, conducted the commandos' attack on this location. Since the beginning of the Hamas extremist group's attack on Israeli territory last October, Hezbollah has entered the battlefield to support this other Iranian proxy, firing rockets daily at Israel, causing tens of thousands of residents in northern Israel to evacuate and nearly turning the area into a depopulated zone. Based on a security cabinet directive, the Israeli army intensified its response to Hezbollah starting in September (this year), initially conducting operations to explode pagers and radios, followed by bombings of hideouts of Hassan Nasrallah and other Hezbollah leaders and commanders. The Mossad operation in Tehran; details of the killing of Ismail Haniyeh and its consequences. According to Kan, the commandos' operation in the "Misyaf Complex" was carried out days before the pager explosion operation and the subsequent killing of Hassan Nasrallah, to prevent Hezbollah from having more missiles for retaliation against this operation. The report indicated that Israel had informed the Biden administration of its operations in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported at that time that 27 people were killed at this location. Syrian state media referred to the death of 18 individuals in that operation. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the Israeli army bombarded surrounding roads to ensure the safe exit of Israeli commandos after the operation to prevent Syrian reinforcements from reaching the site. The Misyaf-Wadi al-Ayoun highway was damaged in the bombings, and the "Hayr Abbas" forests were set ablaze. The New York Times and Axios reported at that time that commandos also took documents and equipment from the site back to Israel. The Iranian embassy in Damascus denied reports of the abduction of two Iranian citizens in that operation, stating that no Iranians were harmed in this Israeli attack. Over the past two decades, Israel has conducted extensive attacks in Syria to prevent the "military entrenchment" of Iran and its allies in the country. Bashar Assad, an ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran, fled to Russia on December 9 following the advance of the "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham" forces from Idlib towards Damascus, leading to the collapse of his regime. The New York Times: Israeli strikes against Hezbollah are the result of two decades of intelligence work. Yedioth Ahronoth reported on January 1 that the Israeli military intelligence forces had been in direct WhatsApp communication with senior Syrian officials in recent years, sending warning messages about the need for Syria to refrain from military and arms cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran in the country to individuals like the Syrian Minister of Defense to relay to Bashar Assad. Meanwhile, The New York Times reported on Sunday, January 1, regarding the strikes that Israel has recently inflicted on Hezbollah's military capabilities, leadership, and senior commanders, stating that this was the result of two decades of research and continuous monitoring by Israel, infiltrating the structure of this group and extensive intelligence work to prepare for a war that everyone expected. The report added that shortly before the pager explosion operation, Hezbollah had provided some pagers to Iran for examination and had received "confidence" in their use. According to The New York Times, Israel was tracking, among other things, the meetings of Fawad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, with "his four mistresses." Fawad Shukr, known as "Haj Mohsen," was killed three months before Hassan Nasrallah. According to this report, based on numerous current and former security officials from Israel, the U.S., and Europe, Hassan Nasrallah did not believe that Israel would eliminate him as well and rejected his aides' recommendations to move to a safer hideout, arguing that Israel had no interest in an all-out war. The recruitment of thousands of foreign workers in Israel instead of Palestinian workers. Israel has recruited thousands of workers from India, China, and other East Asian and Eastern European countries to compensate for the labor shortage following the ban on Palestinian workers. This action has particularly taken place in the construction and elder care sectors, with plans for the entry of tens of thousands of new workers continuing. According to Agence France-Presse, while the Israeli government recently brought in 16,000 workers from India, it intends to increase this number soon. Israeli ministers of transportation, economy, and agriculture have traveled in recent months to India, Thailand, China, and some Eastern European republics to bring tens of thousands of workers to Israel to replace the banned Palestinian workers. The absence of Palestinian workers, who previously played a significant role in the Israeli economy, has not only harmed the economy of Palestinian areas but has also halted many construction projects in Israel. The Israeli government emphasizes that it needs more workers for the revival of the economy. The high income from work in Israel and the close relations of this country with some of these countries have been the main factors attracting foreign workers. Meanwhile, concerns about security and potential attacks from illegal workers have hindered the widespread return of Palestinian workers. According to Israeli media, the Netanyahu government has primarily brought in workers from non-Muslim countries and also from non-Muslim sectors in India. Until the Hamas attack on Israel, which led to the ongoing war, thousands of workers from Gaza used to go to work in southern Israeli cities daily, while about 150,000 workers from the West Bank worked in central Israeli cities. Severe government repression and the risk of "going underground" for protests. What doctors and eyewitnesses recount about the injured in protests. The revelation of the limitations of relations between China and Iran amid protests. 1 Provincial official: 400 people were killed in Mashhad; journalist from Ham-Mihan: Tehran smells of death. 2 Accounts from three eyewitnesses of the massacre and the situation in several cities of Isfahan province: "Like war-torn areas." 3 The last representative of Mossad in Tehran passed away amid the Iran crisis. 4 Trump announced an agreement to hold a meeting about Greenland in Davos. 5 The escape of ISIS prisoners from prison coincided with the exit of Kurdish militants from Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor.