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❗️Al-Akhbar correspondent:
"One martyr and the two wounded in Kfar Kila, southern Lebanon, after citizens had come to collect scrap metal from the demolished houses."
❗️According to Lebanese journalist Hasan Illaik on X, during their recent meeting, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) reportedly told Lebanese President Joseph Aoun that aid money is contingent on three key conditions:
1) Compliance with international resolutions,
2) Implementation of major reforms, and
3) Ensuring funds do not reach Hezbollah.
MbS reportedly stated, "After these steps are taken, we can discuss how to provide assistance to Lebanon."
❗️Al-Manar correspondent, Ali Shoeib:
"Two civilians were injured while collecting scrap metal near the buffer zone in the town of Kfar Kila, southern Lebanon, after Israeli occupation forces opened fire and dropped a sound grenade from an aircraft."
Columbia University cracks down on pro-Palestine student activists
A secretive committee is threatening students with possible expulsion for offenses including 'distributing posters on campus, placing stickers on walls, or posting calls on Instagram for student walkouts'
More footage of the burning of Palestinian homes in Jenin Camp by invading Israeli forces.
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Israeli occupation forces set a Palestinian-owned home in the Jenin camp ablaze as their assault on the refugee camp enters its 45th day.
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❗️Communications and internet outage reported in Beit Ana.
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❗️The village of Beit Ana, in the Jableh countryside in Latakia, Syria, is currently being stormed by HTS-led security forces.
Clashes broke out between local armed groups and security forces, accompanied by artillery shelling and shooting.
This incursion comes after the security forces claimed that former regime remnants attacked one of its patrol in the village.
⭕️ Israel has leveraged a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian communications to develop an artificial intelligence tool similar to ChatGPT, which it aims to use to enhance its spying capabilities, as revealed by an investigation by the Guardian.
The investigation, conducted jointly with Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, uncovered that the Israeli military’s Unit 8200 trained the AI model to understand spoken Arabic by using large volumes of Palestinian phone conversations and text messages obtained through its extensive surveillance of the occupied territories.
“We tried to create the largest dataset possible [and] collect all the data the state of Israel has ever had in Arabic,” said former official Chaked Roger Joseph Sayedoff at a military AI conference in Tel Aviv last year, adding that the model required “psychotic amounts” of data.
In recent years, Unit 8200 has developed several AI-powered tools. Systems like The Gospel and Lavender were quickly integrated into operations during Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, playing a significant role in assisting its bombardment of the area by helping identify potential targets (both people and structures).
❗️Israeli quadcopter drones and vehicles shoot at the homes of Palestinians near Al-Qadisiyah School, west of Rafah, southern Gaza.
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❗️Lebanese Minister of Information Paul Morcos:
"President Aoun noted that there will be a second visit to Saudi Arabia after Eid al-Fitr with the participation of a number of ministers to sign agreements between the two countries."
⭕️ A senior US official says that Trump's Gaza Plan might also apply to the occupied West Bank, with potential US backing for annexation and permanent Israeli sovereignty. US talks include ideas to turn certain areas into a joint American-Israeli initiative, alongside encouraging Palestinian migration to Egypt and Jordan.
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❗️Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared:
○ "Israel is holding the bodies of approximately 1,500 Palestinians, including 665 documented cases, in refrigerators and 'cemeteries of numbers,' some since the 1960s and 1970s."
○ "The occupation must be held internationally accountable for its crimes related to withholding bodies and enforced disappearances."
○ "US President Donald Trump and the international community should not approach the issue of withheld bodies with double standards."
○ "If the US president, who threatened the people of Gaza over the retention of a few bodies, is to be consistent, he should apply the same standards to Israel, which has been holding hundreds of bodies for decades."
○ "Israel continues to forcibly conceal the fate of hundreds of Palestinians after detaining them from within Gaza."
❗️Ministry of Health in Gaza:
○ "6 martyrs and 7 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals during the past 24 hours."
○ "There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them."
○ "The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 48,446 martyrs and 111,852 injuries since 7 October 2023."
⭕️ Since the beginning of Ramadan, Israel has been preventing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque. They also imposed restrictions on Jerusalemites and Palestinians with Israeli citizenship coming from the '48 territories.
The Israeli police said in a statement that they would deploy "about 3,000 police officers, border guards, and additional forces throughout the city of Jerusalem." It added, "The police will operate with reinforced forces, especially at the checkpoints surrounding Jerusalem, the eastern part of the city, and the alleys of the Old City."
The police indicated that they would "reinforce security forces and increase police activity at traffic junctions to optimally respond to any scenario, prevent any attempts by hostile parties to exploit Ramadan to incite terrorism, disturb public order, or any form of violence."
Israeli spy agencies develop ‘Chat GPT-like’ AI tool to target Palestinians: Report
The AI tool uses massive amounts of data and can identify what ‘every person in the West Bank is doing’
⭕️ "Syria must be completely subordinate to us, just like Jordan. We wake the King of Jordan up at night to carry out our orders."
— Boaz Bismuth
Israeli Knesset Member and Chairman of the Israeli National Security Committee
A Palestinian youth reportedly suffered fractures to his face after being severely beaten by Israeli occupation soldiers at the entrance to Al-Arroub camp, north of Al-Khalil Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
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On his first day as Israeli Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir met with leaders of communities near Gaza's border, assuring them of the military's commitment to "eliminating" Hamas and securing the release of the prisoners held in Gaza.
"During the meeting, the Chief of Staff addressed the local leaders, expressed gratitude for their crucial cooperation, and reiterated the military's dedication to ensuring the security of the region, rebuilding trust, eliminating Hamas, and bringing the hostages home," the military stated.
A video documents the moment Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinians in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.
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US plans 'inspection mechanism' at sea to clamp down on Iranian oil exports
The initiative comes as part of Trump’s campaign of sanctions on Iran and aims to stifle funding for the Iranian nuclear program
❗️At least one person was killed and others wounded in the Israeli airstrike on a group of Palestinians near the Al-Tawfiq Mosque in Shujaiya, east of Gaza City.
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❗️Israeli army radio:
The Israeli Air Force just launched a raid on the Shujaiya neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip.
⭕️ Israel and US conduct joint aerial drill
The Israeli military and US Air Force recently concluded a joint aerial exercise, featuring Israeli F-35i and F-15i fighters alongside a US B-52 strategic bomber, in what is being interpreted as a show of force against Iran. The drill, part of CENTCOM’s Bomber Task Force Mission, focused on enhancing "operational coordination" amid speculation that Israel is preparing for a strike on the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites.
Moscow in talks to maintain 'reduced military presence' inside Syria
Russia was previously an enemy of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the extremist group that now rules Syria
❗️Syrians in Suwayda protest against the transitional Syrian government in Al-Karama Square.
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❗️Syrians in Suwayda take down the flag adopted by the new authority in Syria, on top of the municipality building, and erected a Druze flag instead, while expelling Mustafa Bakour, the new HTS governor of Suwayda.
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⭕️ On this day in 2017, resistance icon, activist, and intellectual Bassel al-Araj was killed during a confrontation with Israeli forces in Al-Bireh, on the outskirts of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Araj was a fearless intellectual who criticized corruption, occupation, and collusion, reviving the spirit of Palestinian resistance. He left his career as a pharmacist to dedicate his life to the cause, equipping Palestinians with the historical and theoretical knowledge necessary for resistance.
His family accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) of complicity in his assassination, and he came to be known as a victim of the security coordination between the PA and Israel.
Since his killing, he has remained one of Palestine’s most influential and recognizable figures.
Trump’s latest threats ‘complicate’ Gaza ceasefire: Hamas
The US president took to social media for a ‘last warning’ to Hamas, threatening the resistance movement with ‘hell to pay’