The Revolutionary Guard announces the destruction of 11 American fighter jets and helicopters on the ground during 15 days of fighting.Iranian Revolutionary Guard spokesman Hossein Mohebi announced in a statement to Tasnim News Agency that Iranian armed forces destroyed 11 American fighter jets and helicopters on the ground while they were inside American bases during 15 days of fighting.
The spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard added that 17 reconnaissance and operational drones were destroyed, noting that among them were 8 new drones that had not been used previously.
In detailing the equipment losses, the Revolutionary Guard confirmed the destruction of an American F-15 fighter jet, a P-8 aircraft, a C-17 military transport plane, and 8 aircraft designated for aerial refueling.
In a related context, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Baqer Zolghadr, said on Saturday that any column of smoke that appears in the region indicates that a US military, security or financial site has been targeted.
In response to the ongoing American aggression against southern Iran, the commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announced yesterday, Friday, the adoption of a fixed and declared equation on the battlefield against American forces, which is that “for every martyrdom of a dear citizen of Islamic Iran, the fate of one American element will be destruction.”
This comes as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Friday “the general public in countries where American soldiers are stationed to stay away from them,” after “many officers and soldiers of the aggressor American army left their bases for fear of Islamic fighters’ fire, and took up buildings in cities as places to commit their crimes.”
In a statement, the Revolutionary Guard urged people in those countries to "immediately move away, within a radius of 500 meters, from their places of concentration, in order to preserve their safety."
He called on them to report new locations of US occupation forces via the official public relations account of the Revolutionary Guard.
These warnings come in the context of renewed American aggression against Iran, with attacks concentrated on the southern regions, which prompted Iranian responses with operations targeting several American bases in the Gulf, Syria and Jordan.
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1-11-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D8%AE%D9%84Iranian Army: We have destroyed almost all US infrastructure in Erbil, IraqIranian military spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akrami Nia announced that almost all US infrastructure in the Iraqi city of Erbil has been destroyed.
Brigadier General Akrami Nia confirmed that the anti-revolutionary forces present in Erbil no longer have the ability to carry out operations against Iran.
Earlier today, Iranian Revolutionary Guard spokesman Hossein Mohebi announced that Iranian armed forces had destroyed 11 American fighter jets and helicopters on the ground while they were inside American bases during 15 days of fighting.
The spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard added that 17 reconnaissance and operational drones were destroyed, noting that among them were 8 new drones that had not been used previously.
In detailing the equipment losses, the Revolutionary Guard confirmed the destruction of an American F-15 fighter jet, a P-8 aircraft, a C-17 military transport plane, and 8 aircraft designated for aerial refueling.
This comes in the context of renewed American aggression against Iran, with attacks concentrated on the southern regions, which prompted Iranian responses with operations targeting several American bases in the Gulf, Syria and Jordan.
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B4-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A--%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7-%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84The election of Haniyeh as head of Hamas: Implications and prioritiesHamas has chosen Dr. Khalil al-Hayya as head of its political bureau, succeeding the late Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh. Al-Hayya won the confidence of the movement's Shura Council by a narrow margin over Khaled Meshaal, the movement's leader abroad.
The internal election system stipulates that a candidate must obtain 50% + 1 as a condition for winning the presidency, but none of the candidates obtained the required percentage in the first round, which necessitated a re-election.
The current election scenario brings to mind a similar scenario in the previous elections, which were repeated several times at the leadership level in the Gaza Strip, between Dr. Nizar Awadallah and Yahya Sinwar, with the latter winning by a small margin of votes over Awadallah.
<Elections amidst assassinations and warThe current elections are of particular importance, given the changes that have accompanied the Palestinian cause, the resistance, and Gaza in particular since the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle.
The movement is credited with its institutional cohesion and its ability to conduct internal elections in its three regions: Gaza, the West Bank, and abroad, despite the repeated assassinations that targeted the majority of its political, security, and military leaders.
The specter of assassination continues to haunt the leaders and cadres, including al-Hayya himself, who survived an assassination attempt in Qatar. This will remain a major challenge facing the movement and its political and organizational stability.
However, this reflects an Israeli failure to undermine the movement's institutions and create internal chaos and confusion. The selection of Haniyeh also reflects the movement's reaffirmation of the Gaza Strip's continued leading role, status, and ability to influence the directions, decisions, and policies it will adopt in the coming period.
<The continuity of the paths of Haniyeh and SinwarThe selection of Khalil al-Hayya, in its strategic dimension, reinforces the continuity of the paths drawn by the two former leaders of the movement, Haniyeh and Sinwar, which were linked to close relations with Iran and the axis of resistance on the one hand, and maintained special relations with Qatar and Turkey, and succeeded in building relations with influential countries, such as Egypt, Algeria, Russia and China, on the other hand.
These approaches have also garnered the trust of various actors and entities, and Khalil al-Hayya's election will strengthen the balance in foreign relations. Conversely, al-Hayya's defeat would have meant, for some parties, a departure from the principle of balance.
On the national level, Haniyeh was one of the most prominent leaders who supported the paths adopted by Haniyeh and Sinwar, which led to an unprecedented revival in joint national action, especially in the Gaza Strip.
The movement presented a unique model of national relations, reflected in joint national action at various stages, most notably the 2018 Return Marches, the joint political stance on elections, reconciliation and the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the unified and coordinated military resistance through the formation of the Joint Operations Room, which included 12 military wings of resistance factions.
These factions participated in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle, defended Gaza during the war of extermination, and presented an exceptional model of resistance, sacrifice, and steadfastness.
<The snake and the Gazan symbolismThe election of Khalil al-Hayya is not without symbolism that is difficult to ignore. He is from Gaza, which has been and continues to be subjected to genocide, and has become the center of the universe and events, and a standard for morals and values.
This man represents a microcosm of Gaza within the movement's leadership ranks; his family was wiped out, and the survivors were displaced within Gaza, moving from tent to tent in displacement camps, enduring hunger, thirst, heat, and cold alongside the rest of the population. Under the current circumstances, it is difficult for the people of Gaza to comprehend any other option.
In the public consciousness, Khalil al-Hayya is seen as an extension of the "flood" and its ongoing trajectory and repercussions, which remain unresolved. He also leads the negotiations in all their details, and his election signifies their continuation, given the anticipation of Gaza's citizens regarding their outcome and the hopes that these negotiations will protect them from plans of annihilation and displacement, alleviate their suffering, and rescue the humanitarian situation.
It is also believed that al-Hayya will seek to develop and revitalize the work in various arenas in support of Gaza, in light of what he perceives as its feeling of being let down by its surroundings.
The people of Gaza feel that the vast majority have abandoned them, leaving them in the clutches of a brutal enemy, including their brothers in the occupied West Bank, their families from the Palestinians inside Israel, and a quarter of them in exile and the diaspora.
On the other hand, they believe that the greatest hope was in countries friendly to or supportive of the Palestinian people, such as Turkey, Qatar and Algeria, while the people of Gaza look with all respect and appreciation to Yemen, which threw all its military, popular and geopolitical cards, especially Bab al-Mandab, for the sake of Gaza, and paid a heavy price in lives, money and property.
They also appreciate the positions of the resistance in Lebanon and Iran, while they had hoped that Gaza would be included in the latter's negotiations with the United States.
Al-Hayya will take into account all the positions expressed by the people of Gaza from the depths of their suffering, in light of his realization that the first priority is to save and support Gaza, after it has done all it can and more, and that national action requires the efforts of all components and arenas, and that everyone should stand to help Gaza, as it is still picking up its wounds, so that they may atone for part of their shortcomings and betrayal.
<Cairo negotiations and the urgent challengeThe urgent challenge facing Khalil al-Hayya is the course of the Gaza negotiations in Cairo, in light of the recent understandings with the mediators regarding various items, including the issue of weapons and the proposed formulas regarding the restriction, collection and storage of heavy weapons in Gaza.
This file still needs agreement with the Peace Council, and then the approval of the Israeli government, which requires Trump to personally play his role, as head of the council, and impose the agreement on Netanyahu, in light of the latter’s fear of the agreement’s impact on his electoral prospects.
This is the role that mediating countries should play, especially Türkiye, whose president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has close ties with Trump.
There is no doubt that the Gaza Strip, its suffering, and its fate will be Khalil al-Hayya's primary focus in the coming period. The greatest challenge is halting the genocide and the plan to displace Palestinians in Gaza, addressing their humanitarian needs, strengthening support for them, and alleviating their suffering through a comprehensive national and humanitarian mobilization.