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❗️Israeli aggression on southern Lebanon continues
Israeli warplanes launch more than 20 air raids, targeting valleys and forested areas on the outskirts of Zebqin, Beit Yahoun, Al-Aishiyeh, Al-Rayhan, Ansar, and Al-Bissariya.
❗️Al Manar correspondent in south Lebanon:
"Zionist warplanes launched an air strike targeting the town of Beit Yahoun."
❗️A Syrian government soldier executes a child at point blank range.
Mass killings across the country's coastal cities in western Syria have been ongoing.
🇾🇪 Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi announces a four-day grace period for mediation efforts, warning that if Israel continues blocking aid to Gaza, naval operations resume, emphasizing, "We meet the siege with a siege" and that the starvation of Palestinians cannot be ignored.
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Israel: Kill the king to preserve the kingdom?
Netanyahu’s rule has deepened Israel’s internal fractures and global isolation, testing the patience of its closest allies. As Tel Aviv’s dependence on the US grows, the question looms: will the Americans dethrone the king to save their kingdom?
By Mohamad Hasan Sweidan
❗️Qatari Foreign Ministry:
"We condemn in the strongest terms the crimes committed by outlaw groups and their targeting of security forces in the sisterly Syrian Arab Republic, and we affirm our solidarity and support for the Syrian government and all measures it takes to consolidate civil peace and maintain security and stability in the country."
❗️Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led (HTS) Syrian military forces ambushed by cells affiliated with the former Syrian military (SAA) on the coast in the west of the country.
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❗️Footage of helicopter attacks carried out by Syrian military forces on the coast.
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❗️Fighters of the Sultan Suleiman Shah Division of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) force film themselves after carrying out a mass execution of Syrians.
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❗️More circulating footage of executions carried out by HTS-led Syrian forces and government-linked fighters in coastal areas west of the country.
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Israeli troops raid West Bank Mosques on first Friday of Ramadan
Israeli police also placed heavy restrictions on Palestinians seeking to enter occupied East Jerusalem for Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site
❗️Syrian journalist Hala Mansour announces in a social media post that her aunt was killed by HTS-led forces in the city of Baniyas along with her husband and children.
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WATCH | Circulating video shows HTS-led forces indiscriminately throwing bombs on Syrian coastal areas from a helicopter.
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UK lifts sanctions on Syria's de facto govt as civilian massacres continue
Syrian authorities are carrying out widespread sectarian killings and executions during a crackdown on an uprising launched by cells linked to the country’s former military
❗️A young Palestinian man was injured by Israeli bullets in the town of Nilin, west of Ramallah, occupied West Bank.
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❗️ Al Manar correspondent in south Lebanon:
"Two [Israeli] airstrikes on Wadi al-Zagharin."
❗️Coastal Shield Forces:
○ "The resistance factions carried out a tight ambush targeting a force of the terrorist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's gangs at the Tartous junction, killing and wounding them."
○ "The operation comes within the framework of the continued painful strikes against terrorists, in response to their crimes against our people."
HTS-affiliated media announces that Syrian security forces have entered Jableh, Latakia, after heavy clashes with "Assad regime remnants."
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Iran reaffirms 'no nuclear talks' with US under maximum pressure sanctions
The Iranian foreign minister responded to President Trump's claim that he sent a letter asking the Supreme Leader to begin negotiations over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program
❗️More pictures of mass killings carried out by Syrian security forces in Tartous, western Syria.
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❗️Syrian authorities in Latakia report a general power outage in most parts of the governorate "due to sabotage resulting from terrorist operations carried out by remnants of the former regime."
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Hundreds of Israeli settlers pour into south Lebanon under army protection
The Lebanese army condemned the settler incursion into south Lebanon as a ‘blatant violation’ of the ceasefire agreement
❗️Iranian Foreign Ministry:
"We are monitoring developments in Syria and are following with concern reports of violence and insecurity in various regions."
❗️Reports of helicopter raids against civilians on the Syrian coast.
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❗️A video shows the massive destruction caused by the Israeli military to Palestinian homes and infrastructure in the Jenin camp, occupied West Bank, as the army's aggression continues for the 46th day.
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HTS-led forces are committing massacres against unarmed civilians in the Syrian coastal cities and the countrysides of Damascus, Homs, and Hama. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documents over 100 civilian deaths so far as clashes between new government forces and ex-SAA cells persist.
Meanwhile, Arab and western media are silent, justifying these atrocities by framing the targeting of innocents as operations against "Assad regime remnants."
Photos document the targeted killings of farmers working in agricultural fields in the Syrian coastal areas.
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❗️SOHR reports the killing of at least 69 individuals from the Alawite community in the Syrian coastal areas, stressing that the actual death toll may be higher, as SOHR has yet to verify additional casualties.
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❗️UN Human Rights Office:
○ "Israel has killed 58 Palestinians, including 10 children and 3 women, in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement came into effect.”
○ "Targeting Palestinian civilians who are not participating in hostilities is a war crime.”
○ "Israel’s denial of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip amounts to collective punishment.”
○ "Using starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime.
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Circulating video shows HTS-led forces executing an unarmed civilian in Latakia.