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BREAKING | Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee on X:
"In the last 24 hours, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have launched a precise and limited ground operation in the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, aiming to expand the security zone and create a buffer area between the north and south of the Strip. During the operation, forces took control and expanded their renewed presence along the Netzarim axis.
Meanwhile, it has been decided that the Golani Brigade will be stationed in the southern sector and remain prepared to operate inside Gaza.
The IDF will continue to act against terrorist organizations in Gaza to defend the citizens of the State of Israel."
❗️A photo of the vehicle that was targeted by Israel in Rafah, southern Gaza.
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❗️Israel's Channel 14:
"Israeli forces have partially entered the Netzarim Corridor but do not yet fully control it."
❗️Lebanese National News Agency:
"A citizen was injured by Israeli occupation forces' bullets in Tal Nahas, Marjayoun District, south of Lebanon."
❗️Medical sources to Al Jazeera:
"451 martyrs in ongoing Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Tuesday."
❗️The local residents of the eastern Lebanese village of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali return to their homes, after the Lebanese army completed conducting an inspection on all of the houses.
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❗️Israel's Channel 12:
"Netanyahu holds a security meeting on prisoner swap negotiations and the impact of military operations in Gaza."
❗️Footage of Israeli occupation forces deployed in Al-Ain Camp, west of Nablus, occupied West Bank.
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❗️Israel targeted a vehicle in Al-Shuhada Street, north of Rafah, Gaza, killing 5 Palestinian in an initial death toll.
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On Monday, the Israeli embassy in Egypt hosted an Iftar event attended by a diverse group of distinguished Egyptian guests, including business leaders and noted intellectuals.
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The Israeli military seals off the entrances of the Tulkarem camp in the occupied West Bank using earth mounds.
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Israeli strike on Gaza City kills dozens after new evacuation orders
Gaza’s northern, central, and southern regions have come under heavy attack on the second day of Tel Aviv’s renewed bombing campaign
Thousands of demonstrators move in the direction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Jerusalem to protest the dismissal of the Shin Bet chief and to demand the release of the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.
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⭕️ In the most significant move since Israel's occupation of the area following the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Israeli forces conducted a large-scale incursion into Syria's Quneitra province. On Tuesday evening, a substantial Israeli military convoy, comprising approximately 50 vehicles—including armored and reconnaissance units—entered the village of Al-Adnaniyah in the Quneitra countryside. This operation marked the largest Israeli incursion into the region to date.
The following day, Israeli occupation forces advanced into the buffer zone between the towns of al-Asha and al-Rafid, deploying over 30 military vehicles, including tanks, bulldozers, and armored personnel carriers. Local sources reported that the incursion extended to the Al-Jamous Company area, accompanied by intense Israeli reconnaissance flights. During this operation, Israeli forces reportedly razed former Syrian regime military sites, notably the Abu Darwish Company near Al-Nasiriya in the Quneitra countryside.
"This incursion isn't random; Israel aims to displace residents by creating a hostile military environment, which is part of a systematic policy of demographic cleansing," said Saeed al-Mohammad, a citizen and activist from Quneitra to The New Arab.
(The New Arab)
❗️Israeli warplanes bombed Al-Mahata Mosque in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, a short while ago.
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❗️Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPS):
○ "12 Palestinian journalists have received expulsion orders from Al-Aqsa Mosque for varying periods, reaching up to six months, during and prior to the month of Ramadan."
○ "Israel continues to arrest Palestinian journalists, restrict their work, and subject them to threats, intimidation, expulsion, and detention."
○ "These ongoing policies pose a serious threat to press freedom and hinder journalists' ability to fulfill their professional duty of conveying the truth to the world."
Government corruption worsens humanitarian crisis in war-torn Sudan
The military-led administration in Port Sudan has been diverting aid meant for displaced civilians to be sold on the market
❗️Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:
○ "Gaza residents, this is a final warning. The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza and the second Sinwar will completely destroy it."
○ "The Air Force strikes against Hamas terrorists was just the first step. It will become much more difficult and you will pay the full price."
○ "The evacuation of the population from combat zones will soon begin again."
○ "Israel will operate with strength you have not yet seen."
○ "Take the US President's advice. Return the hostages and remove Hamas, and other options will open for you, including leaving for other places in the world to those who want to."
○ "The alternative is absolute destruction."
❗️Al Mayadeen correspondent:
"6 martyrs and 3 injuries as a result of the [Israeli] bombing of a vehicle in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip."
❗️Statement by Hamas:
"We offer our deepest condolences and sincere sympathy to our brothers in the Islamic Jihad Movement and its military wing, the Quds Brigades, for the martyrdom of the mujahid leader Naji Abu Seif (Abu Hamza), the military spokesman for the Quds Brigades, who was martyred as a result of a treacherous Zionist bombing, after an honorable career of Jihad full of giving and sacrifice.
We mourn the martyred leader Abu Hamza to our steadfast Palestinian people, our Arab and Islamic nation, and the free people of the world. We recall his heroic stances and his firm voice, which echoed the victories of the resistance in confronting the brutality of the occupation, and bore witness to its steadfastness in the face of its brutal aggression."
BREAKING | Local sources in Gaza report that Israeli occupation tanks advanced and closed the checkpoint area in Salah al-Din Street.
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❗️Statement by Hamas:
"The Zionist enemy continues its brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip, targeting innocent civilians and humanitarian workers, in a dangerous escalation of the genocide it is committing against our people, amidst a suspicious international silence. The latest of these heinous crimes was the targeting of a facility in Deir al-Balah used by foreign workers in UN institutions, resulting in the martyrdom of an international employee and the injury of five others.
This crime not only constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law but also comes within the occupation's systematic policy of targeting civilians and those working in humanitarian and relief fields, aiming to terrorize them and deter them from performing their humanitarian duty towards our people, thereby deepening the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past months, the occupation has killed hundreds of UNRWA employees and workers in international humanitarian and relief institutions, as part of its criminal war through which it seeks to tighten the siege and suffocate the Gaza Strip, depriving our people of the most basic necessities of life, in a blatant challenge to international laws and norms.
We demand the international community, the United Nations, and its institutions to take a clear and decisive stance on this heinous crime, condemn the fascist behavior of the terrorist Netanyahu government, and earnestly work to hold it accountable for its crimes against humanity. We also emphasize the necessity of urgent action by all means to aid our people in the Gaza Strip and to break the unjust siege imposed on it."
❗️German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived this afternoon at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport for an official visit to Lebanon, where she is scheduled to meet with several Lebanese officials.
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❗️French President Emmanuel Macron:
○ “The resumption of Israeli strikes represents a dramatic setback for the people of Gaza, the hostages, their families and the entire region."
○ “No military approach will bring the security that Israelis and Palestinians so desperately need."
○ “With the King of Jordan in Paris today, we call for a cessation of hostilities, the release of the hostages and the resumption of good faith negotiations."
❗️Israel's Channel 14:
"Two planes full of Palestinians from Gaza will depart from Ramon Airport for Romania and Italy."
❗️The moment Israel launched an airstrike on Al-Tuffah neighborhood, Gaza.
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❗️Casualties and injuries reported in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, Gaza City.
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❗️A child was killed in Israel's bombardment of a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
(Palestine Today)
❗️Israel launches an airstrike on a home in Al-Nuseirat Camp, central Gaza.
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❗️Thousands of people protested in Amman, Jordan, yesterday at night, denouncing Israel's crimes and massacres in the Gaza Strip.
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