Earlier on Sunday, footage from both Ashkelon and Sderot cities also showed army tanks in the streets as they reportedly moved towards the border with Gaza.

On Saturday, Hamas launched its biggest attack on Israel in decades, firing thousands of rockets and sending fighters who infiltrated Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip. The group said its attack was in response to Israeli violations in the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem and increased settler violence.

At least 700 Israelis, including 73 Israeli soldiers, have been killed and over 2,300 others wounded in the attack, according to the Israeli Health Ministry.

Israel retaliated, with the Israeli army initiating Operation Swords of Iron against Hamas with a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 430 Palestinians and wounding at least 2,300 others.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to use all of Israel’s strength to destroy Hamas’ capabilities and “take revenge for this black day.”

People's Defense Units (PYD) co-chairperson Muslim Salih told reports with Rojava media that Turkey has opened dozens of military bases and built residential communities in North Eastern Syria.

Turkey is currently working on a map for the Turkmen and wants to create a state for them in northern and eastern Syria, so it has opened several training bases to arm people in these areas, Salih noted.

The Syrian government cannot and will not work to remove Turkish troops from its territory because it is influenced by the policies of countries such as Russia and Iran, which have interests with Turkey and do not want for Ankara to withdraw its forces from Syria, PYD co-chairperson explained.

Therefore, the issue is complex and can only be achieved through internal unity and continuous struggle, Muslim warned.

Muslim also noted that the Syrian president's statement that Turkey's withdrawal is a condition for any meeting with Erdogan is unrealistic and he believes that Damascus does not have the strength to oblige the Turkish army to withdraw alone.

Since 2015 Turkey has begun expelling Kurds in north eastern Syria who are natives to the area and has replaced them with Turkmens and Arabs.

All countries in the world want to end the dominance of the US dollar, Yahya al-Ishaq, president of the Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce said in a statement.

The Iranian government plans to do all trade with Iraq in Iraqi dinars. "If trade is in the national currencies of the two countries, trade relations will develop further," al-Ishaq said.

The arrival of millions of tourists to both countries will help spend the money that comes to the treasuries of Baghdad and Tehran, al-Ishaq added.

The head of the Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce believes that the move will save the two countries from US pressure and increase the level of trade, which currently stands over $10 billion. 

Green Left Party (GLP) lawmaker Omer Faruk Gargaroglu said that in the first six months of this year twenty-six political prisoners have died in Turkish prisons, 11 of whom were previously known to have serious illnesses.

Government officials have said that a number of the prisoners have committed suicide, but that is a not possible, since it is difficult for prisoners to commit suicide, the lawmaker added.

He stressed that some of the prisoners died in mysterious circumstances, while there are surveillance cameras inside the prisons.

More than 70 people have been killed and injured in the past six months in Rojava due to the continuous bombings of the Turkish army.

According to KurdSat reporter in Rojava, in the past six months, the Turkish army has bombed areas of Rojava over 30 times, killing 44 people and wounding 27 others.

According to the reports, the Turkish army bombed Aleppo 13 times, al-Hasakah four times, Raqqa once and Qamishli six times.

It also bombed Kobanê four times, Manbij four times and the cities of Derik and Ain Issa.

Two people were injured in Iranian forces' direct fire near Dzawar village of Nawsood city, Hangaw Human Rights Organization reported.

Another mountain couriers named Mukhtar Kuik, aged 45 who is from Marivan was ambushed by border forces and was seriously injured when he fell from the heights of Nawsood mountains, according to the report. 

according to the belongings of several couriers were also seized by the Iranian border guards. 

Salih Moslem, the co-chairman of the Kurdistan Democratic Union Party (PYD), said that Turkey will continue its plan of erasure and destruction and conspiracy against the Rojava after the elections. Referring to the Turkish presidential elections where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won.

Turkey has not stopped its attacks and targets everyone, Muslim added. Regarding the Astana meeting scheduled for November 21, Muslim said Russia needs Turkey now.

Especially because of the sanctions imposed on Moscow as a result of the war in Ukraine, it is no longer an international issue, and he does not expect Russia to do anything, because there are many treaties between them.

He stressed that the autonomous administration of Rojava recently announced a roadmap to resolve the Syrian problems. Turkey does not want a solution for Syria, nor does it want the Kurds to participate in it, the PYD co-leader noted.

According to a report by the Iranian Human Rights Organization, 307 people have been executed in Iran and Rojhelat in the first five months of this year, a threefold increase compared to last year.

Iran's Human Rights Organization (IHO) has released a report on death penalty in Iran. In the first five months of 2023, 307 people have been executed in Iran and Rojhelat.

In May, 142 people were executed, four a day, the highest number in a month since 2015. Of the 142 executed, 37 percent were Kurdish and Baluch prisoners. Of the number 31 were Baluchs, 22 Kurds, nine Turks and six Afghanis. According to the report, 59 percent of those executed this year, or 180, were charged with drug abuse.

174 people were executed in the same period last year, an increase of 76 percent in the first five months of 2023. The Iranian government has been accused of imposing the death penalty on many charges, the report added.  

It has expanded the range of charges that carries the death penalty, such as charges of insulting religious sanctities and expressing opinions on social networks, as well as the death penalty for sexual intercourse.

Iranian Human Rights Watch warned of the growing use of the death penalty and called on the international community to take serious and practical steps to stop executions in Iran.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International says the increase in the number of executions in Iran and East Kurdistan is shameful, tripling compared to the same period last year.

People's Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Parvin Buldan and Medhat Sancar in a televised interview said, they failed to win enough votes in last month's parliamentary and presidential elections, and would leave their positions after the party’s congress that is to be held soon.

Therefore, taking into account the recent developments and changes, it has been decided to hold the congress in the coming months, the chairpersons announced. Because their goals were not achieved in the elections and as co-chairmen, their party is ready to hold them accountable for the election results, they added.

They said they have decided to resign as co-chairmen of the HDP and not run for any post in the next congress. They said they visited Demirtas, Figen Yüksekdağ and Gültan Kışanak and discussed all possibilities, developments and shortcomings.

Although, the party allied with Turkish opposition, they said that they did not relied on other parties during the election campaign.

Demirtas responded to Erdogan and his supporters' demands for the death penalty from Edirne prison, saying they could not hang not only him but also his jacket.

Former HDP co-chairman Salahaddin Demirtas sent a tweet to Erdogan and his supporters. The old king continues his slander, threats and insults from the balcony of his expensive palace, drunk on a false victory, a group of cajolers hungry for lies standing in front of him shouting together and demanding his execution.

This demand was not made in old France, but in Ankara in 2023, but let them know that you cannot hang me, you cannot even hang my jacket, he said.

I am is the descendant of the great Kurdish commander Saladin, the liberator of Jerusalem, and I promise to treat you all fairly one day, Demirtas tweeted.

On the night of May 28, Erdogan delivered a victory speech in front of tens of thousands of supporters in front of the presidential palace in Ankara, saying Demirtas would never be released under his rule.

The meeting in the Egyptian capital took place ahead of the Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia on May 19, following a rapid rapprochement with regional governments since February.

It also took place days after regional top diplomats met in Jordan to discuss a roadmap to return Syria to the Arab fold as the conflict continues to deescalate.

Syria’s membership in the Arab League was suspended 12 years ago early in the uprising-turned-conflict, which has killed nearly a half million people since March 2011 and displaced half of the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.

The body usually attempts to make decisions by consensus, but decisions otherwise could pass with a simple majority vote.

“Since the beginning of this year in Iraq… through the first week of April, we have seen a record of a 68-percent reduction in attacks when compared to the same period last year,” said US Major General Matthew McFarlane, commander of the anti-jihadist coalition.

“In Syria… we recorded a 55-percent decrease during the same time,” McFarlane told an online news conference.

The attacks attributed to ISIS fighters this year have been “relatively small, from one to a few individuals,” he said, adding the group “has failed to organize or coordinate anything more than that over the past year.”

The United Nations estimated in a report published in February that ISIS still has “5,000 to 7,000 members and supporters” across Iraq and neighboring Syria, “roughly half of whom are fighters.”

In Iraq, ISIS cells operate in rural mountain areas, “leveraging the porous Iraqi-Syrian border and retaining manoeuvrability to evade attacks” while trying to “rebuild and recover,” the UN report said.

People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has scheduled its fourth congress for November 2023, in its Kurdish strong hold Amed in Northern Kurdistan, under the slogan, "We have a solution, No to war and exploitation.”

The HDP's bank accounts have been temporarily closed and its budget has been cut, with the party’s fate hanging in the balance at the Turkish Consitutional Court.

HDP Co-leader, Mithat Sancar declared that they have asked the constitutional court to delay its ruling on party”s future till they have held their congress. Sancar said, "It is the most appropriate for the law to leave the matter until after the election, we will make such a request from the Constitutional Court."

Stating that he would not make negative statements about the members of the Constitutional Court, Sancar said, "The court's own administration determines the course of the case. I never want to use negative words about the members of the court.”

"It would be naive to talk about a case that will only be decided in the courtroom," added Sancar, as recently intervention in the Turkish judiciary has been very visible.

The HDP is the only leftist Turkish party that have broken the 10% electoral threshold but the Turkish government keeps on cracking down on the party as it has thrown thousands of its members behind bars, usually accusing them of having ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

Commenting on the Ankara, Damascus, and Rojava relations and talks with Syrian tribes, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-leader Salih Muslim noted in an interview that only Syrians can address the problems of Syria.

"There cannot be a free Syria without solving the problems, they have told everyone that they will do whatever is necessary for coexistence, not at the behest of Turkey, Syria, the United States or Russia," Muslim said.  

"PYD and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria are in their own hands and we will not act according to anyone's orders," he said.

The PYD leader explained that Damascus must begin talks to resolve the disputes. "For this to happen, the Syrian peoples, including Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians and all nations, must participate in political decision-making," the PYD leader said.

Since the last few months Turkey has threatened to launch a ground invasion on Rojava to create a "Safe-Zone" stretching across the northern Syria-Turkish border, a move that might lead to the disintegration of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, one of the most democratic women-led places in the world. 

Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin told reporters at a news conference that Turkey supports the political process that began in late December [2022] with a meeting of Turkish and Syrian defense ministers in Moscow.

"There is still a possibility of a ground operation in Syria at any time, depending on the level of threats," Kalin added.

Last year, Turkey launched an air operation in Rojava and threatened to launch a ground attack; the air strikes claimed tens of lives and displaced hundreds. Warnings and protests from the United States and Western countries stopped Turkey from launching a ground invasion at the time.

Turkey plans to create a "Safe Zone" in Rojava that would threaten the existence of the Rojava administration, one of the most democratic, women-led places in the world.

Iranian Judiciary hanged two Kurds in the Bandar Abbas and Karaj prisons on “drug trafficking charges.”

Hengaw Human Rights Organization reported that 32-year-old Khaleq Khizrzadeh, from Piranshahr in Iranian Kurdistan, was sentenced to death in Bandar Abbas Central Prison, and Rashid Lawandpour, from Urmia, hanged in Rajai Prison in Karaj.

According to the Human Rights Watchdog, Khaleq Khazzadeh was arrested two years ago and Rashid Lavandpour several years ago on charges of drug trafficking and was sentenced to death by the Iranian Judiciary.

Today, Piaman Aarab from Urumia was sentenced to death also on “drug trafficking charges,” according to the authorities, bringing the total of executed Kurds to 7 in less than ten days, according to Hengaw. 

Iran remains one of the few countries where its courts issue the death penalty. Sometimes the convicts are executed at the spot where the crime was committed.