Intelligence obtained in part from Israel points to mass executions of protesters and medical teams. Wounded demonstrators were abducted from hospitals while others were shot at hospital gates. A special department has been established in the US to identify and locate those involved.
A senior Kurdish official in Iraq has appealed to the international community for help for the Kurdish minority in Syria, implicitly including Israel, saying the Kurds who once defended humanity now need protection themselves.
While the official figure released by regime authorities stands at 3,117 dead, internal data suggest that more than 30,000 people may have been killed in just two days.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has yet to reach the area of responsibility of US Central Command, while the USS George H.W. Bush has also departed Virginia, with online assessments suggesting it is heading for the region.
Israeli intelligence helped prove that the Iranian regime executed protesters, despite assurances President Donald Trump said he had received. Trump has said that one of the reasons he delayed a strike on Iran was a commitment to halt the execution of more than 800 detainees who had taken part in protests.
Sources told Sky News Arabic Arab states and other countries are pressing the Trump administration not to exclude the Palestinian Authority from managing the Gaza Strip. The sources added that Israel has set “impossible conditions” for reopening the Rafah crossing, including the establishment of an Israeli inspection point.
With Palestinian official saying Rafah crossing poised for reopening amid Gaza power shift, Israeli diplomatic source says remote surveillance measures have been taken to ensure reopening, once official, would not compromise Israeli security.
President signs Board of Peace charter at Davos with world leaders, tells Hamas to return final deceased hostage, and says that "Iran wants to talk – and we will talk."
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammad Pakpour, warns Washington and Israel against ‘miscalculation’ as Tehran says its forces are on the highest level of alert.
After being abandoned by the US in Syria, Kurdish forces are hoping for Israeli assistance that is unlikely to materialize. The Trump administration has chosen the government in Damascus over its former allies and now views Ahmed al-Sharaa as a partner in the fight against Islamic State, but in doing so it has already opened a Pandora’s box. The concern is that dozens of terrorists who escaped from prison will return to terrorism.
