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⭕️ The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA OPT) reported that Israeli bomb threats and evacuation orders have affected an area nearly the size of Manhattan over the past week—roughly 15% of Gaza’s population, displacing more than 120,000 Palestinians.
Israel renewed its bombing campaign of Gaza on 18 March, unilaterally putting an end to a US-brokered ceasefire deal authorities in Tel Aviv had repeatedly violated.
Between Monday and Tuesday, the Israeli onslaught killed at least 62 Palestinians, including seven children.
BREAKING | Israel announces that it will bomb the neighborhoods of Al-Zaytoun, Al-Gharbi, Tal al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajleen, Tawsat al-Nufud, and Al-Rimal in Gaza, issuing evacuation orders.
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US airstrikes hit Yemen cancer hospital again as bombing campaign escalates
The Yemeni army continues to respond to Washington’s non-stop attacks against the country by targeting US warships in the Red Sea
The resistance's rocket launches coincided with Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in the Knesset.
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❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
– "39 martyrs (including 1 martyr who was recovered) and 124 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals during the past 24 hours."
– "There are still a number of victims 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 830 martyrs 1,787 injuries."
– "The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 50,183 martyrs and 113,828 wounded since 7 October 2023."
❗️The Israeli army said that of the two rockets launched from central Gaza, only one was intercepted by the Air Force, while the other fell in the Zimra area.
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🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces announced that it targeted US warships in the Red Sea, including the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier, with its missile, UAV, and naval forces.
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❗️Statement by Hamas:
"The decision to return to war was premeditated by Netanyahu, aimed at sabotaging the agreement and submitting to Ben Gvir's blackmail.
Netanyahu bears full responsibility for derailing the agreement. The international community and mediators must pressure him to halt the aggression and return to the negotiation track.
The resistance is doing everything in its power to keep the Israeli captives alive, but the random Zionist bombings are putting their lives in danger.
Netanyahu is lying to the families of the captives when he claims that the military option can bring them back alive.
Every time the occupation has tried to retrieve its captives by force, it has brought them back in coffins."
❗️Israeli army announces that 19 year old Sergeant Yosef Chaim Zvi Serlin spontaneously collapsed and died after training in the Upper Galilee.
The army has launched an investigation to find out what happened.
❗️Gaza Municipality spokesman to Al Jazeera:
- “Gaza City is suffering from the accumulation of more than 175,000 tons of waste.”
- “The [Israeli] occupation continues to prevent us from transporting the waste to the main landfill east of Gaza City.”
- “We are forced to collect waste in random and unsanitary landfills between the city's neighborhoods.”
BREAKING | Palestinian Red Crescent:
"The [Israeli] occupation forces brutally assaulted an ambulance crew in Al-Fawwar refugee camp in Hebron, destroyed the vehicle, and expelled them from the area."
⭕️ Hundreds of Palestinians in north Gaza’s Beit Lahia and Jabalia gathered to protest Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and demand an end to the genocide.
During the demonstrations, chants directed against Hamas were documented, calling on the movement to concede power to an international committee. This prompted the Fatah movement to release a statement urging Hamas to answer the call of those protesting, “disengage from its regional and external ties,” and “stop using the Palestinian people and cause for unrelated goals.”
Israeli and anti-Hamas media quickly jumped at the opportunity to exploit the protests to push the narrative that Hamas is to blame for the Palestinian people’s suffering in Gaza—despite Israel having dropped over 100,000 tons of explosives on the territory, according to the Government Media Office—and argue that Israel's 'military pressure' on the strip is yielding results.
❗️Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri:
– "We have done what is necessary to build a capability dozens of times greater than 'Operation True Promise 2.'
– Our rate of growth is far faster than the enemy's pace in addressing its weaknesses.
– The enemy will undoubtedly remain behind in the balance of power."
❗️Thousands protest in front of the Israeli Knesset in occupied Jerusalem, demanding the government complete the prisoner exchange agreement with the Palestinian resistance.
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⭕️ Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a cache of precision-guided missiles stored in one of its many underground missile facilities, known as "missile cities," in a demonstration of its growing military capabilities.
The IRGC’s Aerospace Force showcased a range of ballistic and cruise missiles, including the “Kheibarshekan,” “Haj Qasem,” “Emad,” “Sejjil,” “Qadr-H,” and the “Paveh” cruise missile.
❗️Quds Brigades announces that it targeted settlements in the Gaza envelope with a rocket barrage in response to the "Zionist enemy's crimes against our Palestinian people."
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❗️Jenin Municipality (occupied West Bank):
"The Israeli court rejected our petition to prevent the demolition of 93 homes in Jenin Camp. This is in addition to the 300 buildings already demolished by the Israeli occupation army in the camp. The demolition of the homes could take place at any moment."
❗️Israeli media: Four rocket launches from the Gaza Strip have been monitored over the past three days.
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❗️Israel's Channel 14, citing an Israeli official:
"There is nothing new in the negotiations, and Hamas has not yet shown willingness to discuss the Egyptian or American proposal."
⭕️ The Israeli Knesset approved the 2025 Budget Bill on Tuesday in its second and third readings, with 66 votes in favor and 52 against. The total expenditure budget is set at 755.9 billion Shekels, including a regular budget of 547.4 billion Shekels, and a development budget of 208.5 billion Shekels.
The Ministry of Defense received the largest allocation at 109.8 billion Shekels.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich defended the budget, calling it a “war budget” necessary for Israel’s military and economic resilience.
BREAKING | Sirens sound in the Gaza envelope settlements of Shuva and Alumim.
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Unshaken: In the face of brutal US and UK airstrikes near his workplace in Yemen’s Saada Province, a Yemeni shopkeeper remains composed and unmoved—even as his young child clings to him in fear.
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⭕️ Palestine pulled off a dramatic 2–1 comeback victory over Iraq in their 2026 World Cup qualifier in Jordan on Tuesday night, keeping their qualification hopes alive.
Trailing after Aymen Hussein’s first-half header, Palestine struck back late with Wessam Abou Ali equalizing in the 88th minute before Ameed Mahajneh nodded in the winner deep into stoppage time.
The win, Palestine’s first at this advanced stage of the Asian qualifiers, was especially meaningful for Abou Ali, who called representing Palestine “a gift,” after switching allegiance from Denmark.
The result leaves Palestine fifth in Group B, just ahead of Kuwait.
❗️Sources to Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank:
- “About 21,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced as the occupation continues its operations in the city and camp of Jenin for the 65th day.”
- “More than 4,000 families have been forcibly displaced from the Tulkarem and Nour Shams camps as the occupation continues its operations for the 59th day.”
BREAKING | At least 5 people killed in an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the Najjar family in Jabalia al-Balad, north Gaza.
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❗️Statement from the Dignitaries and Mukhtars of Gaza's Central Governorate:
– "Tomorrow, Wednesday, marches will take place in the Central Governorate, calling on the free world to increase pressure on the Zionist enemy to stop the bloodshed and open the crossings to allow the entry of necessary aid.
– We affirm the legitimacy of these popular demands and fully support them, as they are legitimate rights.
The Central Governorate has always been an inexhaustible revolutionary reservoir of revolutionaries, resistance fighters, and mujahideen. It will never accept the exploitation of our people's rightful demands by parties affiliated with the fifth column or infiltrators.
– The Central Governorate, with its people, mukhtars, and dignitaries, declares openly and unequivocally that it stands with the legitimate and rightful Palestinian resistance."
How Syria's HTS is quietly dismantling the Palestinian cause
Under Ahmad al-Sharaa's direction, Syria’s new Islamist leaders are systematically sidelining Palestinian factions, favoring the US-backed PA, dismantling Iran-linked groups, and reshaping refugee dynamics in alignment with a broader US-backed strategy to neutralize the Palestinian resistance.
⭕️ Earlier today, Hamas issued a statement condemning Israel's airstrike on the village of Koya in Syria's southern Deraa countryside, which killed at least seven civilians.
The movement described the attack as a “fascist escalation” and a war crime that adds to Israel’s bloody record and reveals its broader aggression beyond Gaza and the West Bank.
It praised the resilience of residents in southern Syria for resisting Israeli incursions and called on Arab and Islamic nations to take strong action against Israel’s growing colonial ambitions in the region.
❗️Israeli media reports that Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs and head of the negotiating team, Ron Dermer, will meet with Trump's envoy to the region, Steve Witkoff, this evening.
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BREAKING | Israeli court upholds 6-month detention order for Kamal Adwan Hospital Director Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, who is being isolated and tortured under interrogation following his arrest at gunpoint and classification as an 'unlawful combatant.'
(Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights)