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❗️Statement by Hamas:
"The brutal assault carried out by the fascist occupation army on the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, the Saudi neighborhood, and the Baraksat area in Rafah — along with its siege of over 50,000 unarmed civilians under aerial and artillery bombardment — in addition to the ongoing shelling targeting the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis and the barbaric targeting of medical and ambulance crews, constitutes clear war crimes. It is part of a systematic policy of genocide aimed at our people in the Gaza Strip, in blatant violation of all international charters, norms, and laws — foremost among them international humanitarian law.
We warn against the fascist occupation army committing further crimes and massacres against innocent civilians, amid heartbreaking reports of martyrs and wounded who cannot be reached or rescued due to the intense siege and relentless shelling of the area.
We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), call on Arab countries, the United Nations, and all living forces around the world to take immediate and serious action to stop this horrific crime and put an end to the genocide being committed by the Zionist occupation against our Palestinian people around the clock."
❗️Israel Hayom - Yoav Limor:
"While Israel faces seven external fronts, the most threatening front currently is the home front.
The statements and hints issued by government ministers, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that they will not comply with the Supreme Court's decision not to dismiss Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar until the case is clarified, represent a serious crossing of red lines.
Although several ministers were quick to clarify that a civil war will not break out in Israel, their actions and words have already sparked such a war. A blatant and deliberate attack on the rule of law is tantamount to a declaration of war, even if live ammunition is not fired."
❗️On the 62nd day of its invasion, Israel sends additional reinforcements to Jenin, occupied West Bank.
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⭕️ According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), this morning, Israeli tanks bombarded the road between Kuwayah and Maariyah villages in western Deraa’s Yarmouk Basin, while five Israeli military vehicles advanced into Abu Tinah village in southern Quneitra, setting up a checkpoint, blocking roads, inspecting homes, and questioning civilians.
These moves come amid escalating tensions in southern Syria, with no official explanation from Israeli authorities. A day earlier, Israeli forces reportedly infiltrated Om Al-Ezam village in central Quneitra, arbitrarily arresting four young men from one family after storming several civilian homes, leaving residents in a state of fear and uncertainty as the detainees’ fate remains unknown.
🇾🇪 BREAKING | Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announces the targeting of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile, "leading to the suspension of air traffic at the airport for more than half an hour."
The YAF also announced targeting the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea with missiles and drones, resulting in an hours-long clash.
Gaza rescue teams besieged by Israeli forces as ‘catastrophe’ unfolds
Dozens of Palestinian civilians have reportedly been executed by Israeli forces in the southernmost city of Rafah
❗️Rafah Municipality:
"The [Israeli] occupation has forced thousands of families to relocate from the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in the western part of the city under heavy bombardment.
Our crews remain trapped with residents inside the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, where they were performing their duties serving the residents."
⭕️ Israel’s security cabinet has approved the formation of a new body under the Defense Ministry to oversee the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza to third countries, under the pretext of “safe and controlled passage.”
The cabinet also approved a proposal to grant independence to 13 illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
⭕️ Hamas politburo member and deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council Saleh al-Bardawil was killed along with his wife in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis in south Gaza on 23 March, 2025.
His body was brought to the Nasser Medical Complex.
Hamas said in a statement that he was killed while observing night prayers in his tent in Al-Mawasi.
❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
"41 martyrs (including 2 martyrs who were recovered) and 61 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals, during the past 24 hours.
A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
The death toll and injuries since March 18, 2025 has reached (673 martyrs, 1,233 injuries)."
❗️Press Release Issued by Gaza's Government Media Office:
Gaza Strip on the Brink of a Humanitarian Catastrophe Amid Ongoing Genocide and International Silence
"Amid the ongoing genocidal war and aggression carried out by the brutal Israeli occupation army against the Gaza Strip, more than 2.4 million Palestinians are facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. The Israeli occupation continues its policy of genocide and daily killings of unarmed civilians, targeting people, infrastructure, and nature without any deterrence from the international community.
The occupation's insistence on closing the crossings to and from Gaza and preventing the entry of humanitarian aid is exacerbating the already dire crisis. Our Palestinian people are suffering from a systematic starvation policy, as the occupation forces block food and medical supply trucks, leading to rising levels of hunger and malnutrition, especially among over one million children and the elderly.
Furthermore, the occupation persists in its policy of depriving people of water by destroying wells and restricting access to drinking water. This has resulted in a severe water crisis that threatens the lives of Palestinians, as clean water sources become unavailable and diseases spread due to contamination and the collapse of basic health services.
In a blatant display of the occupation’s systematic destruction of civilian life, it continues to prevent the entry of cooking gas and fuel into Gaza, causing bakeries and essential facilities to shut down. The transportation sector has also been paralyzed, making movement within the Strip nearly impossible and increasing the suffering of patients and the wounded who urgently need to reach hospitals and medical centers.
We are facing a compounded humanitarian catastrophe, whose severity continues to escalate under this suffocating blockade, while the disgraceful silence of the international and Arab communities emboldens the occupation to persist in its criminal policies without accountability.
Accordingly, we stress that the international community must, now more than ever, uphold its legal and moral responsibilities and take immediate action to stop these crimes, which the Israeli occupation is committing with impunity. We also demand the urgent opening of the crossings to allow humanitarian aid to enter and save the lives of innocent people who are facing slow death in Gaza.
We hold the Israeli occupation and the US administration fully responsible for these ongoing crimes against civilians and call on all countries to exert pressure on the occupation to halt these atrocities, open the crossings, and immediately allow the entry of aid before it is too late."
❗️Lebanese citizen Hassan al-Zein was killed in an Israeli drone strike on a car in Aita al-Shaab, south Lebanon, this morning.
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❗️US airstrikes target the airport and Al-Manzar area in the Hodeidah Governorate in Yemen.
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A Palestinian youth documents the moment an Israeli airstrike targets a residential block in Gaza City.
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❗️Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and War Minister Israel Katz have directed the military to launch a second round of airstrikes against "Hezbollah" in Lebanon.
A statement from Katz's office said that the attacks were in retaliation for today’s rockets that were fired from Lebanon.
Israel approves oversight body for Trump's Gaza plan, grants independence to 13 West Bank settlements
Israel is accelerating plans both to ethnically cleanse Gaza and to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank in preparation for annexation
❗️Israeli army spokesperson:
"The IDF attacked earlier today (Sunday) and eliminated a terrorist from the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Aita al-Shaab area in southern Lebanon."
⭕️ Demonstrations outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office
Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to protest the dismissal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Attorney General Baharav Miara, and to demand a return to the prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance.
❗️Palestine Today correspondent:
"[Israeli] occupation aircraft targeted a tent for displaced people near Hamad City, northwest of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip."
⭕️ OCHA’s new rapid survey reveals 849 Israeli movement obstacles across the West Bank — including 288 road gates, many of which are often closed.
In the occupied West Bank, hundreds of Israeli military checkpoints and roadblocks severely restrict Palestinian movement, cutting off communities and often paralyzing daily life.
❗️Jenin Camp Media Committee:
○ "The occupation's aggression is entering its third month, and the PA's security forces are coordinating with it to evacuate homes in Jenin."
○ "The occupation threatens to demolish dozens of homes in the hills of Al-Ghabz, Al-Jabariyat, and the neighborhoods of Al-Hawashin and Al-Aloub."
○ "The occupation is working within a plan to destroy entire residential areas in the western region of Jenin camp."
❗️Statement by Hamas:
"The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, strongly condemns the racist statements made by the extremist terrorist Bezalel Smotrich, in which he called for the expansion and normalization of settlements in the occupied West Bank — a desperate attempt to impose facts on the ground and entrench the colonial occupation of our Palestinian land.
These statements once again affirm that all forms of settlement are part of a racist settler-colonial project aimed at displacing our people, stealing their land and sacred sites, and enforcing a heinous system of apartheid, in blatant violation of all international and humanitarian laws and conventions.
We affirm that our Palestinian people and their resistance in the occupied West Bank will thwart all attempts by the occupation to entrench its settlements and will continue to confront these aggressive schemes, no matter the cost.
We call upon the Arab and Islamic nations, as well as the free people of the world, to shoulder their responsibilities in confronting this settlement expansion and to break the international silence surrounding the daily crimes committed by the occupation against our people, our land, and our holy sites."
❗️❗️BREAKING | Over 50,000 lives are in imminent danger west of Rafah, south Gaza, as Israeli forces besiege the area, according to the Civil Defense. Rescue teams, including Civil Defense units who attempted to assist the Red Crescent, are also trapped. Urgent calls have been made for international intervention.
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Israel continues deadly attacks on south Lebanon under pretext of 'protecting civilians'
At least eight people have been killed since Israel launched a massive wave of airstrikes on Lebanon over the weekend
BREAKING | Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha on X:
"There is information that the israeli forces executed at least 50 people in Rafah as they besieged families who found themselves surrounded by tanks.
The Palestinian Red Crescent crew was besieged after they responded to rescue calls. Connection is lost with the team."
❗️Medical sources in Gaza report that at least 40 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on tents and homes since last night.
Their bodies arrived at Nasser Medical Complex and the European Hospital in Khan Yunis—18 at Nasser Hospital and 22 at the European Hospital.
❗️Lebanese Ministry of Health:
"7 martyrs and 40 wounded in the [Israeli] occupation's aggression on Saturday in various areas in the South and the Bekaa."
❗️Sources to Al Jadeed:
"Israel is trying to expand its aggression against Lebanon and may fabricate a breach to justify a military escalation."
❗️An Israeli airstrike near Deir al-Zahrani in southern Lebanon.
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BREAKING | Israel carries out airstrike on the town of Nabi Chit in eastern Lebanon.
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