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US immigration officers instructed to halt arrests of non-criminal immigrants: report

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been instructed to stop arresting immigrants who do not have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, according to agency sources. Under the reported directive, federal immigration agents may arrest immigrants with criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, while those with final deportation orders but no criminal convictions or charges would not be arrested, The Daily Wire reported. The reported change would also end so-called “collateral arrests,” under which officers may detain others without legal status encountered while pursuing a criminal target, according to sources. Read: US judge blocks Trump limits on how long foreign students, journalists can stay The reported directive comes amid increased scrutiny of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies and ICE operations. Several ICE officers expressed frustration about the reported change, with one...
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Fighting rages in northern Gaza after UN stops short of ceasefire call

Israel battled Hamas fighters on Saturday in pursuit of its elusive interim goal of full control of northern Gaza after the UN Security Council appealed for more aid for the Palestinian enclave but stopped short of demanding a ceasefire. Thick smoke hung over the northern town of Jabalia - which is also home to Gaza's largest refugee camp - and residents reported persistent aerial bombardment and shelling from Israeli tanks, which they said had moved further into the town. Hamas' armed wing Al Qassam Brigades said it had destroyed five Israeli tanks in the area, killing and injuring their crews, after reusing two undetonated missiles launched earlier by Israel. Reuters could not independently verify the report. Israel's chief military spokesperson said on Friday that its forces had achieved almost complete operational control of northern Gaza and were preparing to expand the ground offensive to other areas in the Strip, with a focus on the south. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said on Saturday they had fired decoy shots in the area of Issa in Gaza City that lured dozens of fighters from a building that served as a Hamas headquarters in the north of the enclave. "During the joint operational activity, IDF ground and intelligence troops directed an IAF fighter jet to strike the building, eliminating the terrorists," it said. The army also released a video it said showed Hamas tunnels in the Issa area. Reuters could not independently verify the location or the date. Israel accuses the Palestinian group of placing tunnels and other military infrastructure among civilians to use them as human shields, something Hamas denies. Beit Lahia, Gaza. Totally destroyed by IDF. pic.twitter.com/glTQEdRDla — Clash Report (@clashreport) December 23, 2023 Later on Saturday, residents and Palestinian media reported that Israeli tanks shelled the town of Juhr ad-Deek in central Gaza. There was no immediate word on casualties. At least 201 Palestinians have been killed over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 20,258 during the 11-week conflict, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday, with thousands more bodies believed trapped under rubble. Almost all of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced. Israel says 140 of its soldiers have been killed since it launched its ground incursion on Oct. 20, in response to an Oct. 7 rampage into Israel by Gaza’s ruling Hamas fighters, who killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostages back into the enclave. Hamas said on Saturday it had lost contact with a group it said was responsible for five of the Israeli hostages due to Israeli bombardment. More than 100 hostages in total are still believed to be in Gaza. Health officials and Hamas media said an Israeli air strike on a house in Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed three people including a journalist of Hamas' Aqsa TV channel and two relatives. Sheikh Zayed area in northern Gaza has been totally destroyed by IDF. pic.twitter.com/ZmIZ55qnVa — Clash Report (@clashreport) December 23, 2023 The reporter's death brings to at least 69 the number of journalists killed in the conflict, according to a tally by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The Israeli military has expressed regret for civilian deaths and blames Iran-backed Hamas for operating in densely populated areas, arguing that Israel will never be safe until the group is eliminated. Hamas' Aqsa radio later said Israeli planes had bombed and destroyed the headquarters of Aqsa TV and radio station in Gaza City. An IDF spokesperson declined to comment on Palestinian reports that Israeli forces had begun a ground offensive near Kerem Shalom, east of the Rafah Crossing into Egypt. 'Where should we go?' Israel has long urged residents to leave northern areas of Gaza but its forces have also been bombarding targets in central and southern parts of the tiny coastal enclave. "Where should we go to? There is no place safe," Ziad, a medic and father of six, told Reuters by phone. "They ask people to head to (the central Gaza city of) Deir Al-Balah, where they bomb day and night." At least four people, including a girl, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, medics said on Saturday. Separately, Palestinian mourners attended the burial of a family of four killed in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza. "These people are supposed to be safe in their homes and protected by the law, but... international law has collapsed... If Israel were in the Palestinians' position, the world would not stand still and would act," said Ramzy Aidy, a Gaza resident with a doctorate in law. Massive crater formed after IDF strike highly likely with U.S. supplied 2,000-pound bomb very close to the entrance gate of Bureij Refugee Camp in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/RNOyRVO1Hk — Clash Report (@clashreport) December 23, 2023 The conflict has spread beyond Gaza, including into the Red Sea where Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi forces have been attacking vessels with missiles and drones in retaliation for Israel's assault on the enclave, whose Hamas rulers are backed by Iran. An Israel-affiliated merchant vessel in the Arabian Sea off India's west coast was struck by an unmanned aerial vehicle, causing a fire, British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Saturday. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the Mediterranean Sea could be closed if the United States and its allies continued to commit "crimes" in Gaza, Iranian media reported on Saturday, without explaining how that would happen. The presidents of Iran and Egypt discussed the latest Gaza developments and the prospect of restoring bilateral diplomatic ties in what Iranian state television said was their first phone call. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said Tehran would offer all necessary help "to stop the genocide by the Zionist regime". After days of wrangling to avert a threatened US veto, the UN Security Council on Friday passed a resolution urging steps to allow "safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access" to Gaza and "conditions for a sustainable cessation" of fighting. Palestinian UN envoy Riyad H. Mansour talks to Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia as members of the United Nations Security Council meet to vote on a proposal to demand that Israel and Hamas allow aid access to the Gaza Strip - via land, sea and air routes - and set up UN monitoring of the humanitarian assistance delivered, at the UN headquarters in New York, US, December 22, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS The resolution was toned down from earlier drafts that called for an immediate end to 11 weeks of war and diluting Israeli control over aid deliveries, clearing the way for the vote in which the United States, Israel's main ally, abstained. The United States and Israel, which has vowed to eradicate Hamas, oppose a ceasefire, contending it would allow the group to regroup and rearm. US President Joe Biden’s administration, however, has grown increasingly critical of the mounting casualty toll and humanitarian crisis that has worsened as Israel presses on with its ground and air offensive. Opinion polls in Israel show continued strong public support for the IDF military operation in Gaza but also to increased doubts about the chances of the remaining hostages held by Hamas - believed to number more than 100 - returning home. Sirens warning of possible missile attacks from Gaza rang out across southern Israel on Saturday for the first time in around two days.

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