🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- Ansar Allah claims that an American warship fired on their forces while conducting a “reconnaissance operation” near a merchant vessel belonging to Gabon in the Red Sea.

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Throughout the night, Israel carried out a wave of extensive airstrikes against high-value Hezbollah targets; The IDF has sealed off all roads near Lebanon, and the Israeli military is preparing for a significant Hezbollah response - N12 News

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Jewish settlers in Jericho, guarded by IDF troops, set fire to a Christmas tree. Christian and Muslim Palestinians fought them back with rocks and fire extinguishers.

“Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife. And he knew her not till she brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.“

Matthew 1:23-25

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🇷🇸 - Anti-Vučić protesters suppressed in Serbia.

🇷🇺⚡️- Jailed Russian liberal opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been missing for multiple weeks, has allegedly been moved to a penal colony in the Arctic, according to his allies.

🇸🇾⚡️- Explosions in southern Damascus.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- Green Village Base / Conico under drone attack from Islamic Resistance in Iraq.

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Israeli airstrikes against Damascus earlier allegedly targeted a senior IRGC Commander.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- A senior IRGC commander was allegedly killed by Israeli airstrikes in Damascus earlier.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- Commander of the IRGC in Syria, Seyed Razi Mousavi, confirmed dead after Israeli airstrikes in Damascus.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Mousavi was the top IRGC advisor in Syria, and a close friend of the former Qassem Soleimani before his assassination in 2020.

This assassination will undoubtedly lead to a large Iranian response, which can be expected within the week.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- The IDF is preparing a “massive retaliation” from Iran after the assassination of Mousavi, including rocket fire “from Lebanon and Syria,” per Barak Ravid.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 - Members of the "Free Russia Legion" (a group of Russian dissidents fighting in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces) attempted and failed to penetrate the Russian border two days ago.

The militants blurred any footage showing they had been armed with American weaponry, presumably to avoid repercussions from Kiev or Washington.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Reports of American airstrikes against Hilla, the headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an Iranian back militia operating in Iraq.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- US CENTCOM confirms airstrikes against Kataib Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian militia in Iraq.

🎄 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Israel hits Bethlehem in Christmas raids on occupied West Bank

🔶️ Regions in and near Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah and Bethlehem – which Christians believe is the birthplace of Jesus Christ – were also raided overnight by Israeli forces, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut reported.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/25/israel-intensifies-occupied-west-bank-raids-on-christmas-day

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Three US personnel, stationed at Erbil airbase in northern Iraq, have been injured by Iranian-backed attacks.

🇮🇱🇾🇪⚡️- UKMTO reporting a piracy incident 50 nautical miles off the coast of Hudaydah, controlled by Ansar Allah.