SG Talk

(21-02-2024, 12:51 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]U.S. Central Command forces conducted self-defense strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen yesterday, two U.S. officials told NBC. One strike was against a mobile missile launcher & other against an unmanned aerial system, sources said. They added the Houthis had shot at two U.S.-owned ships, which had not sustained any damage.

A House of Representatives delegation led by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., is visiting the Rafah border crossing into Gaza today to inspect the delivery of humanitarian aid to the enclave, according to the regional Egyptian governor's office. The UNICEF warned. As many  malnourished in the isolated and devastated northern part of the enclave, according to a study by the organization. More than 29,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began and  more than 69,000 have been injured & thousands more are missing and presumed dead, as Israeli military officials said at least 575 soldiers have been killed since war began.

(16-05-2025, 03:46 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]The U.S. has circulated an alternative draft resolution, which instead calls for a temporary pause in fighting as part of hostage negotiations and opposes any ground operation in Rafah. But
US 'troubled' by humanitarian situation in Gaza, Rubio tells BBC.

(16-05-2025, 03:46 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]The U.S. has circulated an alternative draft resolution, which instead calls for a temporary pause in fighting as part of hostage negotiations and opposes any ground operation in Rafah. But
US 'troubled' by humanitarian situation in Gaza, Rubio tells BBC.

(17-05-2025, 09:56 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]LIVE: Israel’s attacks on Gaza kill 150, wound 450 in a day. attacks are intensify, killing, over the latest 24-hour reporting period, Health official in besieged & bombarded territory on Gaza dominates an Arab League summit in Baghdad.
Enough attacks,’ Italian foreign minister tells Israel Antonio Tajani has called on Israel to stop its deadly attacks on Gaza, after Israel military’s announcement new offensive on besieged territory. “Enough attacks,” Italian foreign minister said during a trip to Sicily, in remarks relayed by his spokesman. We no longer want to see continue Palestinian folks suffering. Tajani said. Let’s come to ceasefire, let’s free hostages, let’s leave people who are victims of Hamas alone...

(01-12-2024, 09:44 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]
Prospect that the dour, stern Syrian leader would live forever was a source of dark humor for many of my Syrian friends when lived and worked in Aleppo in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hafez al-Assad died in June 2000. He wasn’t immortal after all.
His regime, however, lives on under the leadership of his son Bashar al-Assad. There were moments when the Bashar regime’s survival looked in doubt. When the so-called Arab Spring rolled across the region in 2011, toppling autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and mass protests broke out in Yemen, Bahrain and Syria, some began to write epitaphs for the Assad dynasty...

(12-04-2024, 09:23 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]For attacks orchestrated or attempted against U.S. & other targets abroad, Soleimani was personally sanctioned by UN & European Union. 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani
He's designated a terrorist by U.S A. in 2005. So U.S.A. military killed off Soleimani in a targeted drone strike on 3 Jan 2020 in Baghdad.

Iranian govt officials publicly mourned Soleimani's death 
& launched missiles against U.S. military bases in Iraq, wounding 110 U S. troops. 

To Iranian propaganda outlets then subsequently represented Soleimani as a national hero.

(19-05-2025, 11:08 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Israel retrieves 2,500 items belonging to executed spy Eli Cohen story, 60 years after his death...The cache includes Cohen’s handwritten letters, personal belongings, surveillance photos, forged passports, and official documents.

(20-05-2025, 03:18 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Hamas Fires Rockets Into Israel; IDF Intensifies Gaza Attacks Amid Dozens Of Palestinian Casualties. May 19, 2025. Hamas militants have launched fresh rockets at Israel from Gaza Strip, targeting town of Kissufim. Israeli military confirmed 2 rockets.

(22-05-2025, 10:21 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Gaza aid yet to reach civilians, UN says, pressure grows on Israel. No distributed in Gaza as lorries starting to cross the border after an 11-week blockade. Israeli officials said 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, carrying aid including flour, baby food, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical drugs.But UN said that despite trucks reaching Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom crossing, no aid has been distributed so far. Its spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said a team "waited several hours" for Israel to allow them to access the area but "unfortunately, they were not able to bring those supplies into our warehouse".https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2264nrn2o

(22-05-2025, 10:21 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Gaza aid yet to reach civilians, UN says, pressure grows on Israel. No distributed in Gaza as lorries starting to cross the border after an 11-week blockade. Israeli officials said 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, carrying aid including flour, baby food, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical drugs.But UN said that despite trucks reaching Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom crossing, no aid has been distributed so far. Its spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said a team "waited several hours" for Israel to allow them to access the area but "unfortunately, they were not able to bring those supplies into our warehouse".https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2264nrn2o

No aid has been distributed so far. Its UN spokesperson...

(23-05-2025, 09:01 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]No aid has been distributed so far. Its UN spokesperson...

(23-05-2025, 11:21 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]UN chief says Palestinians enduring ‘cruellest phase’ of Gaza conflict. António Guterres says entire population of Gaza is facing the risk of famine as Israel ramps up offensive.

(24-05-2025, 06:06 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Live page is now closed. M..UN chief Guterres says aid Israel allowed into Gaza amounts to a “teaspoon”, says Israel continues to delay aid distribution. More than 50 Palestinians were killed or remain missing after an Israeli air strike on a residential building in northern Gaza.

Gaza’s Health says 29 children and elderly people who died in recent days in Gaza have been registered as “starvation-related deaths”, and thousands more are at risk of starving.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,822 Palestinians and wounded 122,382, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.

(25-05-2025, 03:16 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza; four-year-old Palestinian boy starves to death.

(23-05-2025, 11:21 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]UN chief says Palestinians enduring ‘cruellest phase’ of Gaza conflict. António Guterres says entire population of Gaza is facing the risk of famine as Israel ramps up offensive.

(25-05-2025, 03:27 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Israel’s entire standing army, armoured brigades now in Gaza: Israeli military has deployed tens of thousands of troops toro Gaza Strip, representing its entire standing army, & continues its intensified ground invasion. Times of Israel newspaper said military has deployed all its armoured brigades of tanks & military vehicles to Gaza, the publication citing Israeli military includes Israel’s Golani, Paratroopers, Givati, Commando, Kfir, Nahal, 7th, 188th & 401st brigades, as well as reserve units, Israel added.

(25-05-2025, 03:37 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Peru open criminal investigation,Israelsoldier direct role in Gaza genocide
Peru formally opened a criminal investigation into an Israeli national accused of participating in genocide in Gaza, The Hind Rajab Foundation and human rights lawyer Julio Cesar Gonzalez, who filed complaint, individual investigated is a
combat engineering soldier who played direct role in destruction of civilian neighbourhoods in Gaza Strip. Gonzalez said in a post on X. “Peru has an int'l obligation to prosecute these crimes under universal jurisdiction”, after soldier flew into an airport into Peruvian capital Lima.

(26-05-2025, 08:30 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Israeli strike on Gaza school sheltering displaced Palestinians kills dozens, officials said

(16-05-2025, 03:49 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Top US diplomat Marco Rubio said US is "troubled" by humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Comments came as at least 114 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes on Thursday, Asked by BBC if SaoTrump remained fully behind support Israel's military action big scale attacks & bombing of hospitals, he, trump again called on Hamas to surrender & release hostages & said there no peace so long as group exists. That said, we're not immune or in any way insensitive to the suffering of people of Gaza, & know there's opportunities to provide aid for them," he said.

(27-05-2025, 09:53 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Several US Transportation Command planes were seen “active” on May 26, two were spotted near Israel & Iran, as per flight data shared by a handle on X. In a post on X, TheIntelFrog, describes as an open-source intelligence enthusiast, said the flights were usually used to transfer troops. These reported movements come two days after significant air-defence redeployments were reported across Israel. A CNN report, based on US intelligence, had said earlier “Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities”. Citing a senior US official, said the US is stepping up intelligence collection to be prepared to assist Israeli leaders decide to strike if Iran as U.S. top offical are negotiating to talk with Tehran on its nuclear programme.

(28-05-2025, 11:32 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Last Aircraft Destroyed ': Israel strikes Yemen's Sanaa airport after intercepting Houthi missile. TOI World Desk Updated: May 28, 2025.

(29-05-2025, 10:43 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]
Israeli ministers say 22 new Jewish settlements have been approved in the occupied West Bank - a biggest expansion in decades. Several already exist as outposts, built without govt authorisation, but will now be made legal under Israeli law. Others are completely new, according to Defence Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. TheSettlements - are widely seen as illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this - one of the most contentious issues between Israel & Palestinians. Katz said move to "prevents establishment of a Palestinian state would endanger Israel", while Palestinian presidency called it a "dangerous escalation".

The Israeli anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now called it "most extensive move of its kind" in more than 30 years & warned it would "dramatically reshape West Bank & entrench the occupation even further". Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied of West Bank & East Jerusalem - land Palestinians wanted, along with Gaza, for their hoped-for future state - in the 1967 Middle East war. Successive Israeli govts have allowed settlements to grow. expansion risen sharply since PM Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in late 2022 as head of a right-wing, pro-settler coalition, as well as start of Gaza war, triggered by Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on Israel. On Israel Katz and Bezalel Smotrich - an ultranationalist leader and settler who has control over planning in the West Bank - officially confirmed a decision that is believed to have been taken by the government two weeks ago.A statement said ministers had approved 22 new settlements, the "renewal of settlement in northern Samaria [northern West Bank], it reinforcement of eastern axis of State of Israel". It highlighted what ministers described as "historic return" to Homesh and Sa-Nur, two settlements deep in northern West Bank which were evacuated at the same time as Israel withdrew its troops & settlers from Gaza in 2005.

A group of settlers established a Jewish religious school and an unauthorised outpost at Homesh, 2-years ago reports say among 9 made legal under Israeli law. Another settlement will reportedly be built not far to the south on Mount Ebal, near Nablus. Katz decision was "strategic move to prevents establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel, and serves as a buffer against our enemies." "This is a Zionist, security, and national response - and a clear decision on the future of the country," he added. Smotrich called it a "once-in-a-generation decision" and declared: "Next step sovereignty!" A spokesperson Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas says who governs parts of West Bank not under full Israeli control - called "dangerous escalation" accused Israel continuing to drag region into a "cycle of violence and instability". "This extremist Israeli govt is trying by all means to prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian state," Nabil Abu Rudeineh told Reuters news agency. Lior Amihai, director of Peace Now, said:

"The Israeli govt no longer pretends otherwise: the annexation of occupied territories & expansion of settlements is its central goal." This kill blow a no renewed efforts to revive momentum on two-state solution to the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict - the internationally approved formula for peace that would see the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel - with a French-Saudi summit planned at the UN's headquarters in New York next month. Last year, UN's top court issued advisory opinion "Israel's continued presence in Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful".

(30-05-2025, 03:27 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Hamas official says it will reject new US Gaza ceasefire plan backed by Israel. A senior Hamas official has told BBC the Palestinian armed group will reject the latest US proposal for a new Gaza ceasefire & hostage release deal. White House on Thursday US envoy Steve Witkoff's plan was waiting for a formal response from Hamas. Israeli media as saying it would see Hamas hand over 10 living hostages & bodies of 18 dead hostages in two phases in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire & release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Hamas official said proposal did not satisfy core demands, including an end to the war, would respond in due course.

Israeli no commented. PM Netanyahu reportedly told hostages' families on Thursday that he accepted Witkoff's plan. Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza and resumed its military offensive against Hamas on 18 March following collapse of a 2-month ceasefire brokered by US, Qatar and Egypt. it wanted to put pressure on Hamas to release the 58 hostages it is still holding, at least 20 of whom are believed to be alive.