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⭕️ The United Arab Emirates has pledged a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment plan in the United States following a meeting between senior UAE officials and President Donald Trump this week, the White House announced on Friday.
According to a White House statement, the initiative will "significantly expand the UAE's current investments in the US economy," focusing on sectors such as AI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy, and manufacturing.
However, the White House did not specify how the total investment would reach $1.4 trillion, noting that some of the agreements included in the framework had been previously announced.
❗️The moment Israeli warplanes bombed a house in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
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❗️Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif:
“23 martyrs and wounded in Israeli raids on central and southern Gaza Strip since dawn on Tuesday.”
Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker 'lynched' by Israeli settlers in West Bank pogrom
Israeli troops abducted Hamdan Ballal from an ambulance while he was receiving treatment for injuries sustained in the settler attack
BREAKING | Quds Brigades in Gaza announces that its rocket force renewed its bombing of Sderot and the settlements around Gaza with a rocket barrage "in response to the Zionist enemy's crimes against our Palestinian people."
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West Bank refugee camps 'reduced to ruins and dust': MSF
Over 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes in refugee camps by Israeli forces since the start of 'Operation Iron Wall' in January
❗️Israeli army spokesperson:
"Following the alerts that were activated a short time ago in several areas ... one missile launched from Yemen was intercepted.
The missile was intercepted before it crossed into the country's territory, the alerts were activated according to policy."
Which US puppet will lead Lebanon's financial reconstruction?
Financial colonization: The selection of Lebanon’s next central bank governor is not about stabilizing an economy – it is about deciding which western capitals will control the next phase of Lebanon’s debt cycle, who will bear the painful costs, and placing foreign eyes on all Lebanese transactions.
By Anis Raiss
BREAKING | Quds Brigades in Gaza announces that it bombed Sderot, Netiv HaAsara, Zikim, and the settlements around Gaza with a rocket barrage.
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⭕️ The Israeli military claims it is investigating the circumstances that led to its detonation of the Turkish Friendship Hospital in central Gaza on 21 March (Haaretz).
A commander, Brig. Gen. Yehuda Wach, allegedly ordered the detonation without approval—required for "sensitive" sites.
The explosion flattened Gaza’s sole cancer hospital and an adjacent medical school.
The Israeli military has systematically destroyed Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure, targeting hospitals and rendering them inoperable while blocking essential aid from entering the strip.
The hospital’s third floor was first hit by an Israeli airstrike back in October 2023.
Haaretz reported in December that Wach’s troops relaxed engagement rules on the Netzarim corridor, openely firing on Palestinians, even children and elderly.
⭕️ Three Operations by the Quds Brigades – Jenin (Today):
Silat al-Yamun Unit:
Fighters detonated a powerful pre-planted Sijjil-type explosive device targeting an Israeli military vehicle during the raid on Silat al-Harithiya.
Silat al-Harithiya Unit (Entry Point):
Fighters detonated several pre-planted high-explosive ground bombs against military vehicles at the entrance of Silat al-Harithiya.
Silat al-Harithiya Unit (Al-Ghufr Axis):
Fighters detonated a powerful pre-prepared explosive device targeting an Israeli military vehicle on the Al-Ghufr axis at the outskirts of Silat al-Harithiya.
❗️Israeli army statement:
"The IDF and the ISA Struck Over 100 Pickup Trucks Used for Terrorist Purposes Throughout the Gaza Strip
Hamas terrorists used white pickup trucks in the murderous massacre on October 7, to infiltrate Israeli territory, murder, and abduct Israeli civilians. These pickup trucks were used for terrorist purposes and for transferring weapons.
So far, the IDF has struck 100 of these pickup trucks used for terrorist purposes throughout the Gaza Strip.
The IDF will continue to operate against terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip in order to eliminate any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens."
BREAKING | "Hamas did not ask us to say this ... this video clip is not intended for psychological warfare."
In a video released by Hamas's Qassam Brigades, Israeli captive soldiers in Gaza desperately call for an end to the war and call on the Israeli government to stop silencing the voices of those speaking out.
❗️Israel's Channel 12 reports that extremist National Security Minister Ben Gvir attacked the head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, and tried to strangle him.
The head of the Mossad and Israeli army Chief of Staff had to intervene to stop the fighting from continuing.
Ben Gvir's office denied that a fight happened.
❗️Turkish police fired tear gas on a protester wearing a whirling dervish costume and a gas mask, while he was spinning in front of a police barricade at the Imamoglu gathering in Sarachane, Istanbul.
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❗️Israeli artillery shells the northern part of Al-Nuseirat Camp in the central Gaza Strip.
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❗️Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza:
“The fate of the 9 ambulance crew members in Rafah remains unknown.”
BREAKING | An Israeli drone targeted a car in Qaaqaaiyet al-Jisr, Nabatieh District, south Lebanon.
Deaths and injuries reported.
UN to 'reduce footprint' in Gaza citing Israeli attacks on staff
UN efforts are vital for Palestinians in Gaza as Israel has maintained a total blockade on food and aid for the fourth consecutive week
WATCH | US and Israel unleash chaos in West Asia
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BREAKING | The Israeli military issues new evacuation orders threatening to bomb Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.
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BREAKING | Sirens sound in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and dozens of cities following a missile launch from Yemen.
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Lebanon in ‘intense talks’ with Washington, Paris to prevent new Israeli strikes on Beirut
Israel launched a massive wave of deadly attacks on south and east Lebanon over the weekend, while threatening to attack the capital
❗️Sirens sounded in Sderot in the Gaza envelope, a short while ago.
The Israeli military said in intercepted two rockets launched from Gaza.
This is the third rocket launch from Gaza since the occupation army resumed its offensive on the strip.
Al Jazeera's Hossam Shabat killed by Israel in latest targeted assassination
Israel has killed 208 journalists in Gaza since the start of the genocide in October 2023
❗️Medical sources told Al Jazeera:
"57 martyrs in the Israeli occupation raids on Gaza since dawn today, 30 of them in the southern part of the strip."
Funeral processions have begun for the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his vehicle northern Gaza earlier today.
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Nine journalists, over 1,000 protesters arrested in Turkiye as anti-govt unrest escalates
Nationwide demonstrations in support of jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu reached their fifth night on Sunday
❗️At least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building south of Khan Yunis, earlier today.
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❗️One of the last posts late journalist Hossam Shabat wrote on his Instagram account before he was murdered by Israel:
"O people of the Emirates,
O people of Saudi Arabia,
O people of Jordan,
O people of Egypt,
Where are you?"