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The Cradle is an online news magazine covering West Asian geopolitics from within.
US intel report determines Iran 'not building nuclear weapon'
Tehran says it is 'carefully preparing' its response to a letter from Donald Trump that reportedly gave the Islamic Republic a two-month deadline for reaching a new nuclear deal
❗️Israeli occupation forces open fire on areas east of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.
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Israeli jets pummel Gaza from north to south killing dozens
Nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed in one week by Israel’s renewed war against the Gaza Strip
❗️Local sources in the occupied West Bank report that Israeli bulldozers demolished agricultural homes and destroyed 6 dunums of citizens' land in Tulkarem.
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INFOGRAPHIC | GDP per capita in West Asia (2025), according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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⭕️Prominent Palestinian resistance leader and freed prisoner Jabr Ali Abdullah Ammar has died after succumbing to wounds sustained in a recent Israeli airstrike on Gaza.
The Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees, has mourned Ammar in an official statement, hailing him as a national figure who dedicated his life to jihad, resistance, and the establishment of Islamic resistance ideology.
Ammar, known as "Abu Ali," spent over 14 years in Israeli prisons after his arrest in 1969 and was released in a prisoner exchange deal in 1985.
While imprisoned, he co-founded the Islamic movement inside Israeli jails and became a symbol of resilience and leadership. After his release and decades of exile across Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, and Sudan, Ammar eventually returned to Gaza, where he continued his role in guiding resistance fighters.
The brigades affirmed that Israeli crimes and cowardly assassinations will not break the will of the Palestinian people, vowing to carry on the legacy of their fallen leaders until victory and liberation are achieved.
Multiple casualties following new Israeli attacks on Syria
The Israeli army said it opened fire and called in an airstrike on ‘terrorists’ in the town of Koya, west of Deraa
❗️Israeli media reports a car-ramming attack near Ma'ale Adumim settlement, east of occupied Jerusalem.
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❗️Medical sources to Al Jazeera:
"31 martyrs in Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today."
❗️Israeli Airstrike Kills 7 in Syrian Village After Failed Incursion
At least seven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Koya village in western Deraa, Syria. The attack followed a failed military operation this morning, when Israeli forces attempted to infiltrate through the Yarmouk Basin valley but were repelled by local youths after violent clashes.
Following the retreat, Israeli forces shelled the village, killing several young men. A Deraa 24 correspondent reports ongoing clashes in the valley, with a military helicopter hovering overhead and reconnaissance flights intensifying as residents flee to neighboring villages.
Residents are urgently appealing for medical assistance through Daraa 24, requesting emergency teams to provide first aid to the wounded before they can be transported to hospitals. Heavy Israeli military vehicles have also been spotted mobilizing near the area.
❗️Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has arrived at Qoleiat Air Base in Akkar, leading a ministerial delegation.
Salam has pledged to reopen the airbase, which was previously used for military purposes, as a civilian airport. This move aims to provide an alternative to Lebanon’s sole international airport in Beirut’s suburbs.
Israel has repeatedly threatened to target Beirut’s airport, citing unfounded and disproven allegations that it serves as a transfer point for arms to Hezbollah.
Yemen targets Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport with two ballistic missiles
The Yemeni army has launched six ballistic missile attacks on Israel since Tel Aviv renewed the war against Gaza
BREAKING | Israel carries out airstrikes on Deraa countryside in south Syria. Deaths and injuries reported.
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"I operated on him, I was able to save him, he would have lived a normal life, but now he's dead."
Gaza Ministry of Health shared a video of American Doctor Feroze Sidhwa, who gives a testimony about Israel's bombardment of Nasser Hospital, Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
⭕️ Israeli President Isaac Herzog expressed concern that Israel has shifted its focus away from its captives in Gaza, while speaking at the Defense Ministry Rehabilitation Department’s first international conference.
“I am quite shocked how suddenly the issue of the hostages is no longer at the top of the priority list and at the top of the news — how can this be?” he says. “We must, throughout this entire time, not lose eye contact, as a nation and of course as a governing system, with everything related to bringing the hostages home, down to the last one.”
❗️Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by a military bulldozer, head towards a besieged house in Deir Ghazaleh, occupied West Bank.
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❗️A young Palestinian man was shot by Israeli occupation forces after they stormed the town of Deir Ghazaleh, east of Jenin, occupied West Bank.
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❗️The Governor of Deraa, Syria:
○ "Repeated violations and incursions by the Israeli occupation army into Syrian territory prompted a group of locals to clash with a military force attempting to infiltrate the town of Kuwaya."
❗️Red Cross spokesperson in Gaza:
○ "One of our facilities was hit by artillery shelling yesterday."
○ "The humanitarian crisis has worsened with the resumption of war and the closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing."
○ "We warn of a deepening crisis due to the targeting of humanitarian and medical teams."
○ "The aid that entered during the ceasefire was insufficient."
○ "We are facing a shortage of resources necessary for our humanitarian work."
○ "We call for pressure to be exerted to allow more aid into Gaza."
"Please pray for mercy upon me."
The final words of the freed Palestinian prisoner Baraa Maskawi, who was killed in an hours-long clash with Israeli occupation forces in Qalqiliya, Jenin, occupied West Bank.
Baraa was released last December after 22 months in Israeli prison. He was pursued and besieged in a store, and was targeted with an "Energa" missile.
A day earlier, his father and two uncles were abducted by Israel in an attempt to pressure him into surrendering. Instead, Baraa chose to resist until his final moments.
❗️Israeli War Minister Israel Katz approves operational plans for the Gaza Division and the Southern Command to continue the war on the Gaza Strip.
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❗️Footage captures one of Israel's violent raids on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
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❗️Israel is intensively targeting the town of Abasan al-Kabira in southern Gaza.
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❗️The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza to Al Jazeera:
○ "There is a severe shortage in all hospitals across the Strip, and we are unable to provide any services."
○ "We do not have enough blood supplies to treat the wounded."
○ "Medical teams in the Strip are completely exhausted."
❗️At least two people killed in an Israeli drone attack targeting a civilian vehicle north of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
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⭕️ The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced today that over 124,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced by Israel’s renewed genocidal campaign.
Last week, Israel unilaterally ended the ceasefire reached in January, resuming heavy bombardments that claimed 400 Palestinian lives in a single day. On Sunday, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported that the official death toll from Israel’s attacks since the war began in October 2023 has now surpassed 50,000.
Since 18 March, at least 792 Palestinians have been killed, though the true number is likely higher, as the health ministry states many bodies remain unrecovered.
⭕️ Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is suffering from a serious eye injury and four broken ribs due to beatings in Israeli prisons, his lawyer Ghaid Qassem has revealed to local media.
After being held in the Sde Teiman torture camp, he was transferred to Ofer Prison, where he spent 25 days in solitary confinement and endured multiple interrogations—one lasting as long as 13 days.
Qassem says he is physically, mentally, and psychologically exhausted, and is being aggressively pressured to confess to acts he did not commit.
Despite this, his sole concern from within captivity has been the condition of Gaza’s wounded, nurses, and medical staff—and whether his 15-year-old son, killed by Israel in October 2024, had been properly buried.
He was unjustly detained at gunpoint by Israeli forces on 28 December 2024, and has been classified by Israeli authorities as an unlawful combatant, but has not yet received any court trials.
❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
○ "62 martyrs and 296 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 18 March 2025 has reached 792 martyrs and 1,663 injuries."
○ "The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 50,144 martyrs and 113,704 wounded since 7 October 2023."
❗️RT correspondent Saed Swerki:
"Sounds of violent explosions resulting from raids and artillery shelling by the occupation army on Gaza and the northern Gaza Strip."
🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced that it targeted Ben Gurion Airport in Israel with two ballistic missiles, one "Zulfiqar" missile and one hypersonic "Palestine 2" missile.
It also announced that its naval, missile, and UAV forces targeted several warships in the Red Sea, including the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier, using ballistic and cruse missiles and drones.
YAF says that the targeting of the ships is the second in 24 hours, and that it lasted for several hours. It also adds that it was able to successfully thwart an air attack against Yemen.