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❗️The Israeli military announced that it carried out airstrikes on artillery systems near Khan Arnabeh, in southern Syria.
The military said that the artillery systems "posed a threat" to Israel.
"The presence of weapons in southern Syria endangers the State of Israel. The military will not tolerate any threats in the region and will take necessary action to neutralize them," the occupation army emphasized.
Israel reveals 'Silver Plow': Operation to 'prevent Hezbollah cross-border incursions'
Yedioth Ahronoth released a report on Monday detailing how Israel planned and carried out the destruction of at least 120 kilometers of Lebanese territory.
The operation, aimed at preventing supposed cross-border infiltrations, has left a trail of devastation, with no vegetation remaining in its wake.
UPDATE | Six government officials have been killed in Israel's latest strikes:
○ Issam Al-Dalis, Head of Government Work Follow-up
○ Yasser Harb, member of the Hamas Political Bureau
○ M. Muhammad al-Jamasi, member of the Political Bureau of Hamas
○ Ahmed al-Hatta, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice
○ Major General: Mahmoud Abu Watfa, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior
○ Martyr Commander Major General: Bahjat Abu Sultan, Director General of the Internal Security Service.
BREAKING | Unconfirmed reports by Palestinian sources say that military spokesman for the PIJ's Quds Brigades Abu Hamza (Naji Abu Seif) was assassinated by Israel during its renewed aggression on the Gaza Strip, alongside his family.
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❗️Hamas announces that five senior members of its political bureau were killed yesterday evening in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza
"The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) mourn to our great people in Palestine and abroad, to our Arab and Islamic nation, and to the free people of the world, a group of great martyred leaders, among the symbols of national work in the Gaza Strip, who ascended to Allah as martyrs at dawn today following a savage and treacherous zionist airstrike that deliberately and directly targeted them and their families:
○ The great martyr leader: Issam al-Daalis, Chairman of the Government Work Follow-Up Committee.
○ The great martyr leader: Yasser Harb, member of the Political Bureau of Hamas.
○ The martyr leader and advisor: Ahmad Al-Hatta, Deputy Minister of Justice.
○ The martyr leader Major General: Mahmoud Abu Wutfa, Deputy Minister of Interior.
○ The martyr leader Major General: Bahjat Abu Sultan, Director General of the Internal Security Service."
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy acknowledges that Israel is breaching international law by blocking aid to Gaza for the past 15 days.
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❗️Civil Defense in Gaza reports deaths and injuries as a result of the [Israeli] occupation targeting citizens in front of Al-Rantisi Hospital, west of Gaza City.
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⭕️ Hamas leader Abdel Rahman Shadid has called on Palestinians in the West Bank to mobilize in support of Gaza and against the "war of extermination" being waged.
In a statement on Tuesday, Shadid emphasized that supporting Gaza, particularly during this critical time, is a duty for every capable Palestinian. He urged people to join marches, organize solidarity protests, and intensify confrontations at all levels.
Shadid also called on resistance factions in the West Bank to escalate their operations in response to the ongoing war and the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation and its settlers against the Palestinian people.
He asserted that the Palestinian people and their resistance will thwart all of the occupation's malicious schemes against Gaza, stressing that what the occupation failed to achieve through negotiations, it will not accomplish through war.
UPDATE | Medical sources tell Al Jazeera:
"419 martyrs and 528 wounded in Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip."
❗️Iranian Foreign Ministry:
○ "Iran strongly condemns renewed Israeli attacks on Gaza."
○ "Iran affirms the direct responsibility of the US government for the crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip."
❗️Israeli occupation forces arrest at least 40 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including former prisoners.
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❗️Member of the Israeli Knesset and Otzma Yehudit party leader Itamar Ben Gvir:
"We welcome the return of the State of Israel, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to intense fighting.
As we have said in recent months, when we withdrew: Israel must return to fighting in Gaza. This is the right, moral, ethical, and most justified step in order to destroy the Hamas terrorist organization and bring back our captives – Hamas' existence must not be tolerated, and it is imperative to dismantle it."
❗️Civil Defense in Gaza:
"The occupation carried out more than 100 raids on the Gaza Strip, targeting homes and shelters."
BREAKING | At least 412 Palestinians murdered in Israeli airstrikes throughout the Gaza Strip in less than 12 hours, with more than 500 wounded.
(Gaza Ministry of Health)
⭕️ Al-Shifa Hospital Director in Gaza, Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, says hospitals are working with primitive capabilities, and every minute a wounded person dies due to a lack of resources amid Israel's resumption of its genocidal war on the strip.
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Palestinian civilians flee Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza as Israel resumes its aggression on the strip.
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Palestinians in Gaza 'dying every minute' as Israel intensifies bloodshed
Hundreds of women and children have been killed since Tel Aviv resumed its genocidal war on Gaza hours ago
❗️Israel's Channel 13:
"After the resumption of fighting in Gaza, the 'Otzma Yehudit' party, led by Ben Gvir, has reached an agreement with the Likud party to return to the government. This comes two months after the party’s leader, Ben Gvir, announced his withdrawal from the government in protest against the approval of the prisoner deal.
According to the agreement, 'Otzma Yehudit' ministers will return to their previous positions that they held before their resignation."
❗️BREAKING | Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades in Gaza:
"With deep pride and honor, the Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees in Palestine, mourn the loss of Commander Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Batran ("Abu Yusuf"), Commander of the Artillery Unit and member of the Military Council in the Central Brigade.
He was martyred at dawn on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in a cowardly and treacherous assassination operation carried out by the Nazi Zionist enemy, targeting his family's home in Al-Bureij refugee camp, after a life filled with jihad, resistance, and immense sacrifices. He joins his son, daughter, and brothers who were martyred during the genocide in a previous assassination attempt."
❗️Director of the Ministry of Health in Gaza to Al-Arabiya TV:
"174 children, 89 women, and 32 elderly people have been killed in Israeli bombing since last night."
UPDATE | Government Media Office in Gaza: "Approximately 420 martyrs have arrived at hospitals, most of them women and children."
○ "The [Israeli] occupation bombed approximately 50 sites in its recent raids on the Gaza Strip."
○ "The occupation continues its war of extermination and collective punishment against our people in the Gaza Strip."
○ "The occupation aims to destroy structures that were partially restored during the truce period."
❗️Hamas:
"We call on the sons of our Arab and Islamic nation and the free people of the world to take to the streets and raise their voices loudly in rejection of the resumption of the Zionist war of extermination against our people in the Gaza Strip."
Syrian security forces violate ceasefire with Lebanon
Syrian military forces are occupying the Lebanese side of the town of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali and are burning and looting homes, displacing hundreds
❗️Al-Shifa Hospital Director in Gaza, Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya to Al Jazeera:
"We hear the voices of victims under the rubble, but we cannot save them."
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ejects families of Israeli detainees held in Gaza from a Knesset meeting following a verbal altercation, ordering Knesset guards to remove them.
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❗️Six Palestinians were murdered in an Israeli airstrike on a car in Al-Sultan, Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.
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❗️Israeli Channel 12 reports that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is currently assessing the situation in Gaza with senior security officials in the Kirya base.
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❗️Hamas:
"The US administration's admission that it was informed in advance of the Zionist aggression confirms its direct complicity in the war of extermination against our people.
This admission once again reveals America's blatant complicity and bias towards the occupation, and exposes the falsity of its claims about its commitment to calm.
With its unlimited political and military support for the occupation, Washington bears full responsibility for the massacres and killing of women and children in Gaza.
The international community is called upon to take urgent action to hold the occupation and its supporters accountable for these crimes against humanity.
Our Palestinian people will not back down from their legitimate struggle until the occupation ends and their full and undiminished rights are achieved."
❗️Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on X:
"As we promised and explained, the Israeli military returned last night to an intense assault on Gaza with the goal of destroying Hamas, bringing back all the captives, and eliminating the threat posed by the Gaza Strip to Israeli citizens. By doing so, we aim to restore security to the residents of the Gaza border area and all citizens of Israel in the long term.
This is a gradual operation that we have planned and prepared over the past weeks since the new Chief of Staff took office. With God's help, it will look entirely different from what has been done so far. We will all need to renew our commitment with strength, faith, and determination—until victory, with God's help.
I send my blessings and prayers first and foremost to the soldiers of the Israeli military, the Chief of Staff, the Minister of Defense, and the Prime Minister.
For this moment, we remained in the government despite our opposition to the deal, and we are more determined than ever to complete the mission and destroy Hamas.
Whoever did to us what Hamas did on Simchat Torah—will be annihilated. Period.
Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the beginning of our redemption. Protect it with Your loving grace, spread over it Your shelter of peace, send Your light and truth to its leaders and advisors, and guide them with good counsel from You. Strengthen the hands of the defenders of our holy land, grant them salvation, and crown them with victory. May You bring peace to the land and eternal joy to its inhabitants."
❗️Civil Defense Spokesperson in Gaza:
○ "The victims of the massacre included more than 130 children, in addition to a large number of women."
○ "The number of critically injured in hospitals is very high."