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Family of slain WCK aid worker denies Israel’s ‘false accusations’
After five of its staff were killed in Gaza, the World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity says it is “urgently seeking more details” after Israel’s military said it targeted one WCK worker who it alleged was part of the Hamas attack that sparked the war.
The family of the man – identified by relatives as Ahed Azmi Qdeih – rejected the allegations as “false accusations” and said he was just an aid worker, not a member of Hamas. Israel named him as Hazmi Kadih.
The latest deadly strike on aid workers highlighted the dangerous work of delivering humanitarian relief in Gaza, where the war has displaced most of the 2.3 million population and caused widespread hunger.
Not even mentioned on CNN, they're busy with Syria atm
Syrian rebels take control of most of Aleppo city
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/middleeast/syrian-rebels-control-aleppo-city-intl/index.html
Syrian opposition forces have taken control of much of the country’s second largest city Aleppo after a lightning advance that killed dozens of government soldiers in a major challenge to President Bashar al-Assad.
A rebel alliance launched a surprise attack this week, sweeping eastward through villages outside the city and reigniting a conflict that had been largely static for years. It is the first time Syrian rebels have set foot in Aleppo since government forces regained control during the civil war in 2016.
By Saturday morning, rebel fighters had taken control of large swathes of the city, according to footage geolocated by CNN.
Another long standing civil that's heating up now because Russia is pulling back its forces and Hezbollah is licking its wounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war
Rebels lay out their goals
The rebels are part of a newly formed coalition called the “Military Operations Command,” which includes a broad spectrum of opposition fighters including Islamist factions and moderate groups once backed by the US.
The coalition was announced Wednesday ahead of the attack on Aleppo and said it was responding to escalating attacks from the Syrian government and Iranian militias. But the timing is also critical, with Syria’s key backer Russia focusing on Ukraine and its other major ally, Iran, on the back foot from Israeli attacks on it and its proxy network.
The offensive is the first major flare-up in years between the Syrian opposition and the regime of President Assad, who has ruled the war-torn country since 2000.
Syria’s civil war began during the 2011 Arab Spring as the regime suppressed a pro-democracy uprising against Assad. The country plunged into a full-scale civil war as a rebel force was formed, known as the Free Syrian Army, to combat government troops.
Since the 2020 ceasefire agreement, the conflict has remained largely dormant, with low-level clashes between the rebels and Assad’s regime.
More than 300,000 civilians have been killed in more than a decade of war, according to the United Nations, and millions of people have been displaced across the region.
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