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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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❗️Medical sources to Al Jazeera:
"51 martyrs in Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today."
❗️Israeli bulldozers demolish warehouses in the village of Mansoura, south of Jenin, occupied West Bank.
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❗️An Israeli drone is currently hovering over the skies of Beirut, Lebanon.
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❗️Palestinian Journalists Syndicate:
"The occupation is committing a new massacre against journalists, and the targeting of colleagues Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat, is a crime added to the record of Israeli terrorism."
❗️Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:
"Israel is fighting Hamas and will defeat Hamas. Let me be clear - Israel is not fighting the civilians in Gaza and is doing everything that international law requires to mitigate harm to civilians.
But when Hamas fights in civilian dress, from civilian homes, and from behind civilians, it puts civilians in danger and they pay a horrible price. That is why we are urging Gazans to evacuate combat zones.
I reiterate - we will not stop until our hostages are released and Hamas is no longer in control of the Gaza Strip and is no longer a threat to Israel and Israelis."
Mohammed Mansour's devastated father gives his final goodbye to his son, killed when an Israeli airstrike targeted their family home in Khan Yunis.
According to the government media office in Gaza 207 Palestinian journalists since the start of the Israeli aggression on the strip.
Lebanese delegation to visit Syria for ‘border security’ talks
The upcoming visit follows heavy clashes on the border recently between Lebanese tribesmen and the Syrian army
❗️BREAKING | Sources to Al-Araby al-Jadeed: Ceasefire negotiations in Gaza have reached a dead end after the Israeli delegation left Cairo and rejected the Egyptian proposal.
– Israel rejected all proposals despite Hamas’s positive response to a humanitarian ceasefire proposal.
– Israel is coordinating with regional parties to exert maximum pressure on Hamas ahead of any new negotiations.
– Hamas refused to evacuate top political and military leaders from Gaza in the absence of a clear plan to end the war.
– Backed by the US, Israel is working to derail the Egyptian plan for Gaza’s reconstruction.
❗️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?"
Gaza ceasefire talks 'collapse' after Israel rejects all proposals: Report
At least 730 people have been killed in under one week as a result of Israel’s renewed war on Gaza
❗️Palestinian woman, Lama Mamdouh Khalil Abu Jazzar, was shot to death by Israeli bullets near Rafah, southern Gaza.
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❗️The Government Media Office in Gaza:
"The number of martyr journalists has risen to (208 journalists) since the start of the genocide war on the Gaza Strip, following the announcement of the martyrdom of one of our fellow journalists:
🎙 Martyr Journalist / Hossam Shabat Reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher – North Gaza
The Government Media Office strongly condemns the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the 'Israeli' occupation and calls on the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and all journalistic bodies in all countries around the world to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip.
We hold the 'Israeli' occupation, the American administration, and the countries participating in this genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for committing this brutal, heinous crime.
We call on the international community, international organizations, and organizations related to journalism and media around the world to condemn the occupation's crimes, deter it, and pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, and to bring the occupation criminals to justice. We also call on them to exert serious and effective pressure to stop the genocide, protect journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip, and halt the crime of killing and assassinating them."
BREAKING | Renowned Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat has just been killed by Israeli occupation forces in an airstrike on Jabalia in northern Gaza.
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❗️Hamas announced on Sunday that Ismail Barhoum, a member of its political bureau in Gaza, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike that targeted part of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.
In a statement, Hamas condemned Barhoum’s assassination as a “cowardly Zionist act” and denounced the bombing of a hospital ward as a grave crime that adds to Israel’s continued violations of international laws.
The group stressed that such actions would not weaken Palestinian resistance or their struggle for liberation.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed that the airstrike struck the surgical building of Nasser Hospital, which was sheltering numerous patients and wounded individuals.
❗️Press Statement Issued by the Gaza Government Media Office:
○ "The number of martyred journalists has risen to 207 since the start of the genocide against the Gaza Strip, following the announcement of the martyrdom of journalist Mohammed Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today TV."
○ "We strongly condemn the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation. We call on the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and all journalistic bodies worldwide to denounce these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in Gaza."
○ "We hold the Israeli occupation, the US administration, and the countries complicit in the genocide—including the United Kingdom, Germany, and France—fully responsible for committing this heinous and brutal crime."
○ "We call on the international community, international organizations, and media-related institutions worldwide to condemn the crimes of the occupation, to work toward holding it accountable in international courts, and to bring its criminals to justice. We also urge them to take serious and effective action to stop the genocide, protect journalists and media professionals in Gaza, and end the ongoing assassinations and killings against them."
❗️ Al Manar correspondent:
"Israeli occupation artillery targets the outskirts of the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon."
❗️Protesters take to the streets and demonstrate in front of the US embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, denouncing the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.
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