ISIS Kills 9 Members of Liwaa al-Quds in Less than 72 hours in Syrian Desert

ISIS terrorists (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
ISIS terrorists (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
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ISIS Kills 9 Members of Liwaa al-Quds in Less than 72 hours in Syrian Desert

ISIS terrorists (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
ISIS terrorists (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that two soldiers of Liwaa al-Quds were killed, and three others injured in clashes with ISIS terrorists in Palmyra’s countryside, bringing the death toll to nine in less than 72 hours.

The injured were transferred to Homs Military Hospital for treatment.

The Observatory documented, on April 4, the death of five Syrian brigade members in a surprise attack launched by ISIS terrorists in the al-Shaara in Jabal al-Amor, in the Palmyra desert in the eastern countryside Homs.

The following day, another two Syrian members of the Liwaa al-Quds were killed during violent clashes with ISIS in the eastern countryside of Homs.

The death toll in the military operations in the Syrian desert, according to the Observatory, reached 119 since the beginning of 2023, including 11 ISIS terrorists and 108 regime forces and loyal militias.

The deaths included 24 pro-Iranian militias of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, who were killed in 59 ISIS terrorist attacks in the west of the Euphrates, Deir Ezzor desert, Raqqa, Homs, As-Suwayda, Hama, and Aleppo.

According to the Observatory, the operations were distributed as follows: 22 in the Homs desert, resulting in the deaths of 40 soldiers, including 13 from Iran-affiliated militias and ISIS terrorists, and 81 civilians, including a woman.

There were also seven operations in the Raqqa desert, killing 12 soldiers, three ISIS fighters, and one civilian, and 21 operations in the Deir Ezzor desert, killing 44 soldiers, including 11 from pro-Iranian militias, five ISIS terrorists, and one civilian.

Furthermore, eight operations were conducted in the Hama desert, killing 26 civilians and 12 soldiers, and two ISIS members, while three civilians were died in an operation in the Aleppo desert.



Israeli Forces to Demolish More than 100 Homes in Israeli-Occupied West Bank, Local Governor Says

Palestinians carry their belongings as they cross a damaged street after being ordered to leave their homes during an Israeli operation in the Tulkarem camp for refugees in the northwest of the occupied West Bank on May 2, 2025. (AFP)
Palestinians carry their belongings as they cross a damaged street after being ordered to leave their homes during an Israeli operation in the Tulkarem camp for refugees in the northwest of the occupied West Bank on May 2, 2025. (AFP)
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Israeli Forces to Demolish More than 100 Homes in Israeli-Occupied West Bank, Local Governor Says

Palestinians carry their belongings as they cross a damaged street after being ordered to leave their homes during an Israeli operation in the Tulkarem camp for refugees in the northwest of the occupied West Bank on May 2, 2025. (AFP)
Palestinians carry their belongings as they cross a damaged street after being ordered to leave their homes during an Israeli operation in the Tulkarem camp for refugees in the northwest of the occupied West Bank on May 2, 2025. (AFP)

Israeli forces were preparing on Friday to carry out home demolitions across two northern urban refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the governor of one of the camps and Israeli military documents shared with The Associated Press by the United Nations.

Abdallah Kamil, the governor of Tulkarem, wrote on Facebook on Thursday that the military was preparing to demolish 116 homes across Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, two main targets of Israel´s raid into the northern West Bank.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

Two demolition orders indicated that the buildings would be demolished in 24 hours, according to military documents shared by a UN official on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The news sent residents of the now evacuated Nur Shams and Tulkarem camps scrambling back to collect belongings before the destruction of their homes.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said there were reports of Israeli forces arresting and firing warning shots at Palestinians as they did so.

The Israeli military has been carrying out an operation in the West Bank over the past several months that displaced, at its height, approximately 40,000 Palestinians. It had emptied and largely destroyed several urban refugee camps in the northern West Bank, like Tulkarem and Nur Shams, that housed the descendants of Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in previous wars. That’s the largest displacement in the West Bank since Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Mideast war.

Israel has said that troops will stay in some camps for a year.