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❗️Press Statement issued by the Committee of Families of Political Detainees in the occupied West Bank:
○ "The Committee of Families of Political Detainees strongly condemns the inhumane practices to which detainees are subjected inside the prisons and interrogation centers of the Palestinian Authority (PA), particularly in Junaid and Jericho prisons, which have become human slaughterhouses where severe and shocking violations are committed against detainees."
○ "Documented testimonies from released detainees reveal horrific torture methods, including prolonged suspension and hanging for hours and even days, sleep deprivation while their hands and legs remain shackled, brutal beatings, spitting, and degrading insults targeting their mothers and sisters—an outrageous violation of all ethical and national values."
○ "These practices extend to severe psychological and physical abuse, including suspension by their genitalia, forced beard plucking, and coercion into making false confessions aimed at tarnishing their reputation and destroying their social and moral standing."
○ "Additionally, detainees are forced under threat and torture to sign falsified statements claiming they were not mistreated or tortured and that they were treated "well"—a blatant attempt to cover up crimes of torture that cannot be justified or ignored."
○ "We hold the PA security services fully responsible for these crimes and call on international and local human rights organizations, as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross, to put an end to these grave violations, visit detention facilities and interrogation centers to closely examine the detainees' conditions, hold perpetrators accountable, and take serious action to ensure the immediate release of all political detainees and an end to these severe abuses against them."
❗️Al-Akhbar correspondent in Lebanon:
"A US and European military and diplomatic delegation accompanied a delegation from the committee overseeing the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and a high-ranking Lebanese army delegation on a tour of the southern border, following a meeting at the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) headquarters to discuss the needs of the Lebanese army."
⭕️ BREAKING | Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has threatened to seize and annex more Palestinian land in the Gaza Strip if Hamas does not release the captives it is holding.
In a statement, he declared: “If Hamas continues to refuse to release the captives, I have instructed the IDF to capture additional areas, expel the population, and expand the so-called security zone around Gaza, ensuring a permanent Israeli takeover of Palestinian land.”
He further warned, “As long as Hamas resists, it will lose more and more territory, which will be annexed to Israel.”
Additionally, he stated that Israel would intensify its military and political pressure, including the forced displacement of Palestinians to southern Gaza and the implementation of US President Donald Trump’s 'voluntary migration' plan.
❗️Israeli occupation forces harass and obstruct Palestinian journalists covering the military's restrictions and treatment of civilians at the Qalandia checkpoint, north of Jerusalem.
The civilians were attempting to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray on the third Friday of Ramadan.
❗️The Israeli army reports that a soldier was critically injured after being shot during a military raid in the city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
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❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
"More than 200 children have been martyred since the Israeli occupation resumed its genocide."
❗️Israeli army statements:
○ "Over the past few hours, IDF troops began conducting ground activity in the area of 'Shabura' in Rafah.
As part of the activity, the troops dismantled a number of terrorist infrastructure.
Simultaneously, IDF troops are continuing ground activity in northern and central Gaza.
In recent months, Hamas terrorists exploited a site in northern Gaza—which previously served as the 'Turkish' hospital—as a command and control center, from which they directed and carried out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.
In response, IDF troops operated to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure at the site.
Furthermore, over the past few hours, the IAF has continued to target and dismantle terrorists and terrorist infrastructure throughout the Gaza Strip.
The IDF and ISA will continue to operate against terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip in order to protect the citizens of the State of Israel."
○ "A short while ago, the IDF struck a military site containing an underground terrorist infrastructure site in the Beqaa area in Lebanon, as well as a military site containing rocket launchers in southern Lebanon in which Hezbollah activity has been identified.
The IDF will continue to operate to remove any threat to the State of Israel and will operate to prevent any attempt by the Hezbollah terrorist organization to rebuild its forces."
❗️Israeli media: Beersheba Municipality announces opening of shelters.
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BREAKING | Israeli warplanes bomb the outskirts of the town of Taraya, west of Baalbek, east Lebanon.
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BREAKING | Israeli warplanes bomb Iqlim al-Tuffah, southern Lebanon.
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BREAKING | An Israeli raid targeted the eastern mountain range in the Bekaa Valley, east Lebanon.
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❗️Israeli forces abandoned Qalandia checkpoint when the sirens sounded in Jerusalem.
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❗️Israeli army statement:
"Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in a number of areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted by the IAF prior to crossing into Israeli territory.
Sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol."
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❗️Statement by Hamas:
"The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denies the claims published by the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth regarding the cutting of communications or the suspension of negotiations related to the prisoner exchange deal.
Hamas affirms that it remains actively engaged in the negotiations, following up with the mediators with full responsibility and seriousness. The movement continues to discuss the 'Witkoff' proposal and various ideas on the table, aiming to secure a prisoner exchange deal that ensures the release of captives, ends the war, and achieves a withdrawal."
❗️Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor of the US on X:
"Israel has every right to defend its people from Hamas terrorists.
The ceasefire would have been extended if Hamas released all remaining hostages. Instead, they chose war."
❗️Israeli occupation forces storm the town of Saeer, north of Hebron, occupied West Bank.
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A Palestinian documents the moment Israeli occupation aircraft carry out an airstrike near his home in southern Gaza.
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❗️Israel shells northeast of Al-Bureij Camp, central Gaza, with artillery.
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🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announces targeting a military site south of Tel Aviv with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile, marking the second attack on Israel in 24 hours.
"These operations, in addition to the ban on Israeli navigation, will continue until the aggression on Gaza stops and the siege is lifted," the YAF said.
❗️Local sources in Jenin, occupied West Bank, report that the Palestinian Authority's security forces arrested Yahya Lahlouh, a young Palestinian man.
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❗️Israel's Channel 12:
"Israel, at Washington's request, decided not to respond to the Yemeni missiles and to rely on the US attacks."
❗️Footage from Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, the moment sirens rang due to the Yemeni missile.
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❗️BREAKING | The US renews its bombing of Yemen, targeting Saada north of the capital Sanaa.
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BREAKING | Israeli airstrikes hit the town of Jbaa in southern Lebanon.
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❗️Israeli media: Channel 14 evacuated its staff and Channel 12 evacuated its studios due to the sound of air raid sirens.
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BREAKING | Sirens sound in Jerusalem due to a missile launched from Yemen.
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The battle between ‘Greater Israel’ and "Neo-Ottomanism" in Syria
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By Mohamad Hasan Sweidan
❗️Young Palestinian man, Bilal Ibrahim Ghaben, was shot to death by Israeli occupation forces in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
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