Turkish ship carrying aid for Gaza arrived in Israel Sunday

A Turkish cargo ship carrying  humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza

Turkey's state-run Anadolu (news) agency said the vessel, Lady Leyla, arrived at the Israeli port in Ashdod on Sunday, 35 hours after leaving the Turkish port city of Mersin.
The Panama-flagged ship was carrying 11,000 tonnes of supplies including food packages, flour, rice, sugar and toys, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
'The ship is docking these very moments,' a spokesman for the Ashdod Port, Yigal Ben Zikry, said earlier on Sunday.
Its contents were to be unloaded, inspected and sent on to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, hit by three wars with Israel since 2008 and under an Israeli blockade.
The aid delivery marks a return to normalized relations between Turkey and Israel, which were ruptured in 2010.
Aid for the 1.9 million Palestinians in the poverty stricken enclave is part of a reconciliation deal signed between Turkey and Israel last week.
Months of negotiations between the two sides led to the agreement, which included compensation for the victims of the Israeli raid.
Tel Aviv will contribute $20 million (18 million euros) to a victim's fund for those killed in the so-called Mavi Marmara affair - the name of the ship that Israeli forces raided.
In return, Ankara will drop criminal charges against the Israeli soldiers involved in the raid.
Israel rejected Turkey's main demand - easy access to the Gaza strip - but Israel has agreed to allow aid shipments to Hamas-run Gaza, as long as they first pass through the Ashdod port for inspection.
Turkey will also be allowed to build a hospital, power plant and water desalinization plant in Gaza.
Sunday's delivery comes before the start of one of Islam's major holidays - Eid al-Fitr.

Iran has stopped its financial assistance for Arab mercenaries

By Iran Reporter

Sunday, 24 May 2015

Iran has stopped its financial assistance for the Islamic Jihad, Al-Quds newspaper reported on Tuesday. The severing of ties has led the group's Secretary General, to leave Tehran, where he had been trying to sort out the problems with the government, and head for Beirut.

The government in Tehran has taken this step, said Gaza-based Islamic Jihad official Jamil Abdul-Nabi, because of the movement's refusal to adopt a clear position in support of Iran's involvement in Yemen. Despite its pro-Assad position, Islamic Jihad has asserted repeatedly that it is taking a neutral position regarding the Yemeni issue. Attempts by Hezbollah to mediate between Islamic Jihad and Tehran have failed, sources told the Palestinian newspaper.

According to Al-Quds, the Palestinian movement has been looking for new sponsors, without success. It is facing a severe financial crisis and has closed the head office of its main satellite TV channel, Palestine Today, and cut the number of employees in its office in Gaza. It has also dismissed dozens of employees in other locations and has not paid full salaries for the others for about four months.

The newspaper claimed that internal divisions within the movement are also responsible for the Iranian decision to end the funding. One of its senior officials in Gaza, Hisham Salem, has established a new group called "Al-Saberoon", which is in full ideological and political agreement with Iran. Its members, apparently, get paid full salaries every month. Al-Quds said that it could not get any of the Islamic Jihad leaders to comment on this.

U.S. Special Operations forces killed a senior ISIS commander during a raid intended to capture him in eastern Syria overnight Friday to Saturday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said.
The ISIS commander, Abu Sayyaf, fought capture and was killed in the raid in Omar oil wells in the state of Dayr –alzoor in Syria.

The Iranian opposition group who is led by Maryam Rajavi and has a political branch in Paris in the name of NCRI (National council of resistance) has named the ruling mullahs in Iran as the god father of ISIS. They think that ISIS in Iraq and Syria follow their path by imitating what Iranian Ayatollahs have done to their own people during the past decades