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Israeli settlers have sneaked into a medical center in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) and fatally shot a young Palestinian man hospitalized there for gunshot wounds sustained during clashes in the occupied Palestinian territories some weeks ago.

On Thursday morning, a group of 21 settlers made their way into the al-Ahli Hospital in al-Khalil under the disguise of the relatives of a pregnant woman, and went inside the room where injured Azzam Shalaldeh was resting, the Arabic-language Palestine al-Yawm news agency reported.

The assailants then took out pistols with silencers on and fired shots at Azzam, who died on the spot.

His cousin, who was in the room at the time of the incident, also sustained injuries.

The attackers took away Azzam’s body to an unknown location. He had been receiving medical treatment for critical injuries sustained during clashes in the town of Sa’ir some 20 days earlier.

Tensions in the occupied territories have dramatically escalated since the Israeli regime’s imposition of restrictions in August on the entry of Palestinian worshipers to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds.

Palestinians are angry at increasing violence by Israeli settlers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and their attacks on Palestinian properties, saying that the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of the compound.

Last month, senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called the recent spate of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds, an Intifada against the Tel Aviv regime.

Over 80 Palestinians have been killed in the recent escalation of violence since the start of October.

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Over one million Syrians have returned home since the start of the Russian air campaign against terrorist groups in their country.

More than one million Syrians have returned home since Russian airstrikes began on September 30, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov said Wednesday.

“Since the beginning of Russian operations, according to UN structures, more than one million people have returned to their homes in Syria,” Meshkov said at a press conference in Moscow.

On September 30, Russia launched an air campaign in Syria at the request of President Bashar Assad targeting terrorist positions with precision airstrikes. The operations has been coordinated with the Syrian army.

Since the beginning of the air campaign, the Russian Air Force has carried out more than 1,800 sorties, destroying more than 2,000 terrorist positions. Several hundreds of terrorists were killed, dozens of command centers and ammunition depots were destroyed.

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The ISIS terrorist group has released a video threatening to carry out attacks in Russia “very soon.”

The five-minute clip, published by ISIL’s Al-Hayat Media Center, contains graphic images of previous attacks, accompanied by a chant in Russian.

The group vows to “take back Caucasus and stop it from being ruled by dark forces,” as well as to seize the Kremlin, and impose Sharia in Tatarstan.

In October, ISIS called on Muslims worldwide to launch attack against Russian and US citizens, who, according to the terrorist group, are waging a “crusaders’ war” against Muslims.

On September 30, Russia launched an air campaign in Syria at the request of President Bashar Assad targeting terrorist positions with pinpoint airstrikes.

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A top Afghan cleric warned of attempts by Saudi Arabia and Qatar at spreading Wahhabism in Afghanistan, stressing that both Shiite and Sunni groups are in defiant of emergence of the ideology in his country.

“At present, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are attempting to attract Afghanistan’s Sunni society and convert them to Wahhabism, and are directly donating part of their oil incomes to promotion of such cult in Afghanistan,” Hojatoleslam Ali Tavassoli, member of the executive commission of the Afghan Shiite clerics council said.

The fact that certain extremist clerics within the Sunni society benefit from Saudi Arabia’s financial supports justifies Riyadh’s attempts to push for the spread of Wahhabism, he concluded.

However, Tavassoli added, the Afghan society, including the “Sunni brothers” in the country, will not allow extremist groups with affiliations with Wahhabism to emerge in Afghanistan.

While Wahhabism has adherents in its birthplace Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, Muslims detest it, because it considers Shiites and followers of other non-Sunni sects to be infidels.

Some blame Saudi Arabia’s promotion of Wahhabism abroad for giving theological fuel to terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an accusation Saudi officials reject.

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The Syrian troops and Hezbollah forces rolled into the Kuweires airport at the end of their daylong last phase of massive operations.

Heavy clashes were underway around the Kuweires airport since early this morning and the Syrian army was defusing ISIL’s minefield before they could reach their friends in the base.

There are unconfirmed reports from the battlefield about witnessing Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani leading the battle.

Sources from both sides of the war said General Soleimani was the top field commander and has been leading the CentCom of the Syrian army-NDF-Hezbollah at least for the last two days.

FNA is unable to confirm or reject these reports independently.

The Syrian army, the National Defense Forces (NDF) and Hezbollah combatants, backed up by Russian warplanes, launched the last round of their over one-month-long joint operations against the ISIL terrorists’ positions in Eastern Aleppo near the Kuweires airbase this morning, and won full control over the strategic Aleppo-Raqqa Highway.

The attack started from multiple directions and ended up in cleaning up several villages from ISIL. Hundreds of the ISIL militants were killed or wounded in this morning operations.

In the next stage, Syrian and Russian Air Forces massively targeted the last strongholds of the ISIL militants around the Kuweires airbase.

In addition to the Syrian and Russian airstrikes, the artillery and mortar units of the army also shelled the ISIL strongholds to weaken their defense lines as much as possible to lay the ground for the combatants of Hezbollah, the army soldiers and the National Defense Forces to launch the final phase of their joint operations to lift the nearly 2.5-year-long siege on Kuweires airbase.

Intelligence sources said hundreds of ISIL militants were fleeing the Kuweires region to safer areas to save their lives after suffering heavy casualties in the joint massive attack of the Syrian Army and Hezbollah with the Russian air backup.

After cleaning the region, the pro-government troops had to defuse a minefield planted by the ISIL before they could reach the gates of airbase.

The ISIL Takfiri terrorists have besieged the Kuweires airbase for over 2.5 years now, but the base itself is under the Syrian army’s control.

Hundreds of Syrian forces are under a tight siege at the airbase as a result of the occupation of vast areas surrounding the airport by the terrorists.

The Syrian army’s helicopters supply foodstuff and other needs to the Syrian troops defending the airport.

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