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The military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades EQB declared on Tuesday at 14:50 and 15:25 that its operatives in the Gaza Strip have targeted a nearby Israeli military base “Re’m” with 12 homemade projectiles as a response to Israeli continued crimes against our people in the Gaza Strip.
The Brigades announced in a military statement that the Israeli crimes will not pass without punishment and the Israeli enemy will pay the cost.
Yemen’s army early on Friday retook control of the coastal town of Shuqra in the southern Abyan province, to where Al-Qaida militants sheltered after the fall of their last strongholds the capital Zinjibar and the strategic city of Jaar few days ago, military sources said.
The forces launched fierce battles against the remaining militants in Shuqra amid widespread operations targeting them in Abyan and nearby provinces of Shabwa and Hadramout.
Bombings and shootings targeting Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Baghdad and police across Iraq killed at least 53 people on Wednesday in apparently coordinated attacks during a major religious festival.
The attacks are the deadliest to hit Iraq since 50 people were killed in Baghdad on March 20.
The Armed forces and the popular committees cleansed Tuesday completely the towns of Zinjibar and Jaar, Khanfar palace and Rahowah area in Abyan province, an official source in the defense ministry said.
The road Aden-Abyan has been opened for citizens, the source said.
Syrian army forces killed at least 35 people in intense shelling of central Homs Sunday, activists said, as opposition forces appeared to escalate operations in other rebel hubs and around the capital Damascus.
The renewed assault on Homs and other rebel areas came as the newly elected head of the exiled opposition Syrian National Council called for decisive action from the international community to “stop the killing machine in a decisive decision under [United Nations] Chapter 7.”
Kurdish activist Abdelbasset Sayda, who was named head of the SNC in Istanbul Sunday, also called on all members of the Damascus regime to defect.