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Wednesday 27 December 2023

‘Explosions’ alert after Houthi drones, missiles hit Red Sea ships

This handout satellite picture released by Maxar Technologies on November 28, 2023, shows the recently seized Isreali-linked Galaxy Leader ship (C), that was captured by Huthi fighters on November 19, next to a support vessel in the southern Red Sea near Hodeida, Yemen. (File/AFP)

Al-Mukallah - At least two commercial ships are believed to have been hit by drones and missiles launched by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Tuesday as the militia’s leaders pledged to confront a US-led international naval task force in the Red Sea.

The UK’s Maritime Trade Operations authority received information from a ship on Tuesday afternoon saying an explosion had been heard and missiles spotted 60 nautical miles from Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida.

An alert was also issued three hours earlier by UKMTO saying that a vessel had reported two explosions 15 minutes after seeing drones roughly 50 nautical miles west of Hodeidah.

The Houthis have not yet claimed responsibility for the attacks as of late Tuesday.

The Yemen militia has launched ballistic missiles and drones against commercial and naval ships in the Red Sea in a bid to force Israel to end its assault on Gaza.

Houthi threats to hit Israeli-linked vessels have forced some major shipping firms, including Maersk and MSC, to reroute ships away from the key trade route.

The US is leading a global task force coalition to protect the crucial maritime link from Houthi strikes.

At the same time, the Houthis have repeated their threat to strike US-led forces or any other group if Yemen is attacked or if action is taken to stop the militia targeting ships bound for Israel.

Mohammed Al-Ateifi, Houthi defense minister, claimed his fighters are in “full combat readiness” to deal with any military response from the US or other countries, and vowed to continue missile and drone attacks in the Red Sea in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

“The ranges of our strategic deterrent weapons exceed what the enemies expect, and there are no red lines in front of us. All options are available,” the Houthi military leader told a meeting of commanders in Sanaa on Monday.

Meanwhile, Somali pirates captured a vessel carrying 43 Yemeni fishermen 30 miles off the Somali coastline area of Hafun on Sunday, according to Yemeni fishermen in the Red Sea Khokha region in Yemen.

Pirates sailed the seized boat to Somalia, where they freed 34 of the captives and sailed away with the remaining nine, heading to international waters.

“Those fishermen have a license from the Somali authorities to fish in Somali water,” said a relative of one of the abducted fishermen, who asked to remain anonymous.

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Houthis carry out drone attack on military sites in Israeli port of Eilat

The Yemeni Air Force conducted an operation utilizing several drones against military targets in Umm al-Rashrash and other areas of occupied Palestine, a spokesman for the group Yahya Saria said.

The port of Hodeidah, held by Houthi rebels, is Yemen's principal port on the Red Sea [File: Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters]

Houthis from the Yemeni rebel group Ansar Allah have carried out a drone attack on military sites in the Israeli southernmost city of Eilat, said Yahya Saria, a spokesman for the group.

"The Yemeni Air Force conducted an operation utilizing several drones against military targets in Umm al-Rashrash (the Arab name for Eilat - TASS) and other areas of occupied Palestine," Saria said on Al Masirah television.

Speaking on Tuesday, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group conducted drone attacks on Eilat and “other areas in occupied Palestine”. Sarea said the group also launched missiles at an MSC United vessel in the Red Sea after it rejected three warning calls.

MSC Mediterranean confirmed that MSC United VIII, which was en route from King Abdullah port in Saudi Arabia to Karachi, Pakistan, came under attack on Tuesday but that the crew was safe. The shipping company says it is conducting an assessment and reported the incident to the US-led naval coalition in the Red Sea.

The statement comes several hours after a British maritime group said it received reports of an incident involving a vessel off the coast of Yemen, saying that drones were sighted and an explosion was heard.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) on Tuesday said the incident took place about 60 nautical miles (111km) outside of Yemen’s Hodeidah port.

"A commercial shipping vessel came under attack by two suicide drones,” Al Jazeera correspondent Resul Serdar reported from Djibouti, located in east Africa across the sea from Yemen.

“It [UKMTO] says the drones didn’t cause any damage on the ship. The ship is now safe, continuing its voyage, and they are in constant communication with the naval coalition formed by the United States.”

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Tuesday 26 December 2023

Palestinian death toll in Gaza nears 21,000 as Israel escalates Khan Younis attacks

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 241 people were killed in the past 24 hours and 382 injured. The Palestinian death toll has surged to 20,915 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said Tuesday.

The Israeli military says the air force hit 100 targets in the south of the Gaza Strip in 24 hours

Spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said 54,918 others have been injured in the relentless Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip.

“At least 241 people were killed and 382 others injured in Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours,” al-Qudra said in a statement.

Israeli air and ground attacks on Gaza since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, have left the enclave in ruins, with half of its housing damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million residents displaced within the densely populated territory amid acute shortages of food and clean water.

Around 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.

“My entire family is gone. All five of my brothers are gone. They didn’t leave me any brothers. … All of them!” a wailing woman said on Monday at the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Palestinians lined up to touch the shrouded bodies of those killed in Israeli strikes on the camp in a funeral on Monday, commemorating dozens of people who were killed, many of them women and children. An Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza said the figure has now reached more than 100.

The Government Media Office in Gaza said seven families were wiped out in the Israeli attack on a residential square in the camp.

“The Israeli army doesn’t spare civilians,” Zeyad Awad, a resident of Maghazi, told Al Jazeera.

“My child said to me, ‘Help me! What’s happening? I can’t breathe,’” he added.

The night before Christmas in Gaza was marked by some of the most intense bombardments in the current round of fighting between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas with Israeli strikes levelling buildings and leaving families trapped beneath piles of rubble.

“This is a three-story building that was targeted, and another house here and another house here. According to the family, he told me that five of his family members are still under the rubble,” Al Jazeera correspondent Hind Khoudary reported from Maghazi, adding that one of those trapped is a baby.

“He also told me that there has been no ambulances or civil defence since yesterday and he can’t do anything about it. He’s trying to dig with his own bare hands,” she added.

Israeli strikes also killed scores of people in areas such as Khan Younis, Bureij and Nuseirat. About 500 people have been injured by Israeli strikes over the past day.

Reporting from Rafah in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum said the death toll in the Maghazi strike had risen to 106.

In Christmas remarks on Monday, Pope Francis said children being killed in wars, including those in Gaza, are “little Jesuses of today” and Israel’s assault has reaped an “appalling harvest” of innocent civilians. More than 20,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in relentless Israeli bombardment of Gaza since October 7.

In the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, where the Bible says Jesus Christ was born, the normally jubilant Christmas celebrations have turned solemn, and Israeli forces have carried out raids.

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US ‘cannibalizing Europe’ – Putin aide

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The US insistence on sanctioning Russia has caused a downturn in the EU economy, according to President Vladimir Putin's top economic adviser, Maksim Oreshkin.

In an interview with Expert magazine published on Tuesday, Oreshkin said the sanctions imposed since February last year have caused the EU to lose both its energy security and a key export market.

Oreshkin pointed to the key factors underlying the EU's economic prosperity, outlined by the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. They include easy availability of energy resources from Russia, the use of cheap production in China, and access to the Russian and Chinese markets.

“The gradual loss of these factors is leading the EU economy towards long-term stagnation,” Oreshkin argued, “because European manufacturers now have neither the export market nor the advantages in technology that they had five to ten years ago.”

Oreshkin accused the US of “cannibalizing its European partners, killing European chemicals, automotive and other industries.” This comes amid a broader degradation of the West and its economic model, he said.

“The economies of the Global North – the US, Japan, the EU – are slowly losing their status, their significance. This gradual decay of the countries of the Global North and the growth of countries in the East and South is what will further shape the landscape of the global economy,” he predicted. Oreshkin noted that China has already become the leading global economic power, while Russia is now the largest economy in Europe, “on course to replace Japan as the world’s fourth largest.”

According to the presidential aide, the world’s key economic players will be focusing their development strategies on growing markets in Asia and Africa in the coming years. Russia’s development will take the same direction, he predicted, especially in the energy sphere.

“The stronger the economic growth [in Asia and Africa], the higher will their level of energy consumption be, and the better the energy markets will feel… For Russia, the key task is to remain the most efficient producers of what we make, which includes energy. We must have lower costs, more efficient production, and then the changes that will occur in the energy markets will affect us to a lesser extent.”

About 30 countries want to establish partner ties with BRICS — Lavrov

About 30 countries want to establish partnership ties with BRICS, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"In addition to the countries that have already joined our union, as of today, about 30 countries would like to establish partner ties with BRICS," he said at a session of United Russia’s commission on international cooperation and support for compatriots abroad.

According to Lavrov, the aspiration of many countries to become closer with the alliance is "natural given that BRICS is operating on a genuinely democratic and mutually respectful basis." "We will continue to work on BRICS bolstering its positions as one of the pillars of a multipolar world," the top Russian diplomat noted.

Mantan Gubernur Papua Lukas Enembe meninggal dunia

Arsip foto - Terdakwa kasus dugaan suap dan penerimaan gratifikasi Lukas Enembe menyapa pendukunggnya usai menjalani sidang putusan di Pengadilan Tipikor, Jakarta, Kamis (19/10/2023). Majelis Hakim menjatuhkan hukuman kepada Mantan Gubernur Papua tersebut selama delapan tahun penjara dan denda Rp500 juta subsider empat bulan serta hukuman tambahan tidak dipilih dalam jabatan publik selama lima tahun setelah menjalani hukuman. ANTARA FOTO/ Fakhri Hermansyah/tom.

Mantan Gubernur Papua dua periode sekaligus terpidana kasus korupsi Lukas Enembe meninggal dunia saat menjalani perawatan di RSPAD Gatot Soebroto, Jakarta, hari Selasa, 26/12/2023.

Kepala RSPAD Gatot Soebroto Letnan Jenderal TNI dr. Albertus Budi Sulistya membenarkan kabar wafatnya Lukas Enembe pada hari ini pukul 10.45 WIB.

"Benar, (meninggal dunia) pukul 10.45 WIB," kata Kepala RSPAD.

Informasi dari tim hukum Lukas Enembe, termasuk dari kuasa hukum almarhum, Antonius Eko Nugroho, jenazah Lukas Enembe rencananya dibawa ke Jayapura pada Rabu malam, 27/12/2023. Hingga kini belum ada informasi dari keluarga mengenai lokasi dan waktu pemakaman.

Lukas Enembe selama beberapa bulan terakhir menjalani sidang di Jakarta untuk kasus korupsi yang menjerat dirinya.

Dalam rentang waktu itu, kondisi kesehatannya sempat beberapa kali menurun dan beberapa kali pula dia dirawat di RSPAD Gatot Soebroto Jakarta.

Mengenai kasusnya, Pengadilan Tinggi DKI Jakarta memperberat vonis mantan Gubernur Papua Lukas Enembe menjadi pidana penjara selama 10 tahun, denda sebesar Rp1 miliar subsider pidana kurungan empat bulan, serta membayar uang pengganti sebesar Rp47,8 miliar.

Lukas Enembe, pada persidangan tingkat pertama, divonis 8 tahun penjara dan denda Rp500 juta subsider empat bulan penjara.

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene reports Christmas Day swatting at her home

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images file

Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was the target of a swatting attempt at her Georgia residence on Christmas morning, the congresswoman and local police said, marking the latest instance of someone calling in a fake emergency to draw armed officers or SWAT teams to her home.

The Rome Police Department quickly verified that the call was a hoax and did not send officers to the house, department spokesperson Kelly Madden said.

“My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this,” Greene added in her post. “I appreciate them so much and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior Jesus Christ!”

Swatting is a prank call made to authorities with the express purpose of luring them to a location – usually a home – where they are led to believe a horrific crime has been committed or is in progress. This results in a forceful response from local police or SWAT teams, who have no way of knowing the call is a hoax.

Republican Rep. Brandon Williams said in a post on X he was also swatted on Christmas Day.

“Our home was swatted this afternoon,” the New York Republican said. “Thanks to the Deputies and Troopers who contacted me before arriving. They left with homemade cookies and spiced nuts! Merry Christmas everyone!”

A man in New York called the Georgia suicide hotline just before 11 a.m. Monday, claiming that he had shot his girlfriend at Greene’s home and was going to kill himself next, Madden said. The call was quickly transferred to police when suicide hotline responders recognized the Georgia congresswoman’s address

The department said it contacted Greene’s private security detail to confirm she was safe and that there was no emergency at her residence. The call was then determined to be a swatting attempt, so the police response was canceled en route, Madden explained.

I was just swatted.

This is like the 8th time.

On Christmas with my family here.

My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this.

I appreciate them so much and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior Jesus Christ!
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 25, 2023

“We determined before our personnel could get to her location that there was no emergency and there was no reason to respond,” she said. “Her security detail had it all under control, and there actually was nothing going on.”

The congresswoman, who represents the cities of Rome, Dalton and Calhoun in northwest Georgia, spent her first term stripped of committee assignments by the former House Democratic majority over racist comments, her embrace of conspiracy theories and her past endorsement of violence against Democratic officials. She has since gained more influence under the House’s current Republican leadership and continues to be a firebrand for the far-right.

Greene’s statement that she has been the target of roughly eight swatting attempts is accurate, Madden said. Past calls claimed that dead bodies had been found in the bath tub and in other areas of her home, which is located about 70 miles (113 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta. Police also responded last year to false reports of shootings outside her residence.

The department said it sent officers to the house in response to those prior incidents but has since formed a close working relationship with Greene’s security detail, which allows officers to better assess the threat level. The criminal investigations division is working to identify Monday’s caller and build a case, Madden said.

Another New York man was sentenced to three months in prison in August for making threatening phone calls to Greene’s Washington, D.C., office.

Republican Rep. Brandon Williams said in a post on X that he was also targeted by a swatting attempt on Christmas Day. The Cayuga County Sheriff’s office said it received a false report of a shooting at the congressman’s home in central New York and sent officers to confirm that there was no present danger. Sheriff Brian Schenck did not immediately respond to phone messages seeking further details.

“Our home was swatted this afternoon,” Williams wrote. “Thanks to the Deputies and Troopers who contacted me before arriving. They left with homemade cookies and spiced nuts! Merry Christmas everyone!”

Authorities are investigating a Christmas Day swatting call at Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s residence in Rome, Georgia.

Greene took to social media Monday morning, posting on X, “I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here.”

On Monday, 911 dispatch informed officers that a call came through the suicide prevention hotline from a man possibly calling from Rome, New York, claiming he’d shot his girlfriend at Greene’s Georgia address, Rome, Georgia, police information specialist Kelly Madden told CNN on the phone. The caller also had threatened to kill himself.

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Wednesday 27 December 2023

‘Explosions’ alert after Houthi drones, missiles hit Red Sea ships

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Houthis carry out drone attack on military sites in Israeli port of Eilat

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Tuesday 26 December 2023

Palestinian death toll in Gaza nears 21,000 as Israel escalates Khan Younis attacks

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