GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and Palestinian militants unleashed salvos of fire for a fifth day on Saturday, with the Islamic Jihad militant group launching dozens more rockets and the Israeli military pounding targets inside the Gaza Strip.
12 May 2023; MEMO: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in the Gaza Strip announced, on Thursday, that it had fired barrages of rockets into Israel in response to the assassinations of its leaders, Anadolu news agency reported.
"The joint operations room of the Palestinian resistance factions, the Al-Quds Brigades and the Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, have bombed the [Israeli] cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon…. in response to the assassinations and the [Israeli] aggression" the Al-Quds Brigades, the movement's armed wing, said in a brief statement.
13 May 2023; MEMO: Israeli occupation fighters have carried out six airstrikes across the besieged Gaza Strip since early Saturday morning as ceasefire talks stall.
Following a security assessment on Friday evening, Israeli security officials recommended the end of the Israeli offensive on Gaza.
The security assessment came after 13 hours of calm, without rocket fire from Gaza nor airstrikes and artillery shelling by Israel.
13 May 2023; MEMO: On Friday, a Palestinian government official in Gaza warned that the only power plant would stop working within 72 hours, as fuel quantities are running out, given the continued closure of the Karam Abu Salem crossing (south)
This came during a press conference held by the head of the government media office (run by Hamas), Salama Maarouf, at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.
12 May 2023; MEMO: The national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, will order nearly 600 aircraft in the next decade, according to the Airline's Board and Executive Committee Chairman, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Speaking at an event to unveil Turkish Airlines' renewed in-flight dining menus on Thursday, Ahmet Bolat disclosed that approximately 400 new orders will be for narrow-body aircraft and 200 for wide-body planes.
13 May 2023; MEMO: The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said Friday that Palestinian factions targeted an Israeli military gathering with "heavy-calibre shells", Anadolu News Agency reports.
"The Palestinian Resistance declares its responsibility for targeting gatherings of enemy vehicles and soldiers with heavy calibre shells, and confirms direct hits," the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement.
There were no further details regarding the location or timing of the attacks.
13 May 2023; MEMO: Bahrain's educational institutions have been ordered by King Salman Al Khalifa not to implement any changes to the curriculum that are "not compatible with Bahrain's national values designed to protect religion and its core pillars."
According to Alarabiya News, the announcement came on Tuesday following issues raised by critics regarding the inclusion of Israel and changes to the maps of the contested Israeli-Palestinian territories.
13 May 2023; MEMO: Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah announced on Friday that Hezbollah "will not hesitate to provide assistance" to the Palestinian resistance, indicating that it maintains continuous communications with the leadership of the Palestinian resistance.
"We are in constant contact with the leadership of the resistance in Gaza, and we will not hesitate to assist at any time that responsibility requires it," he added.
JERUSALEM, May 12 (NNN-MA’AN) – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said last night that, Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip will “continue as long as necessary,” amid the worst spate of violence between Israel and the Palestinians in months.
Netanyahu made the remarks, after a security assessment in the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv with Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, Shin Bet intelligence agency’s director, Ronen Bar, army chief, Herzi Halevi, and other top security officials.
TEHRAN, May 12 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran and Iraq have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), on cooperation in implementing oil industry projects, the Shana News Agency, affiliated to the Iranian Oil Ministry, reported yesterday.
The deal was signed by Iranian Oil Minister, Javad Owji, and his Iraqi counterpart, Hayan Abdel-Ghani, at the end of a meeting, attended by the two ministers, as well as, Iraq’s Prime Minister, Shia’ al-Sudani, in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad on Wednesday night, the report said.
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