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According to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, the proposal involves the release of 5 Israeli captives from Gaza in exchange for a 50-day truce.
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❗️Military spokesman for Hamas's Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida:
– "Half of the living enemy captives are located in areas that the occupation army has ordered evacuated in recent days.
– We have decided not to relocate these captives from those areas, keeping them under tight but extremely dangerous security measures for their lives.
– If the enemy is concerned about the lives of these captives, it must begin negotiations immediately for their evacuation or release. Consider this a final warning.
– The Netanyahu government bears full responsibility for the captives’ lives. If it truly cared about them, it would have honored the agreement it signed in January—and most of them might have been home by now."
❗️Military spokesman for Hamas's Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida:
– "Half of the living enemy captives are located in areas that the occupation army has requested to evacuate in recent days."
– "We have decided not to move these captives from these areas, and to keep them under strict security measures that are, however, extremely dangerous to their lives."
– "If the enemy cares about the lives of these captives, it must immediately negotiate for their evacuation or release. The warning has been issued."
– "The Netanyahu government bears full responsibility for the captives’ lives. If it truly cared about them, it would have abided by the agreement it signed in January—and most of them might have been home by now."
Palestinian families in Gaza struggle to find drinkable water as Israel's destruction of water infrastructure and blockade have left over 90% without clean water - systematically eliminating the conditions for life in the strip.
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❗️Protests seen in Morocco over Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
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Israeli occupation forces commit a massacre bombing three Palestinian children as they were carrying water on a bicycle in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
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❗️Israeli army announces that it has assassinated Palestinian journalist Mohammad Saleh al-Bardawil on Tuesday, claiming that he was a Hamas leader who took part in producing the videos distributed by Hamas.
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⭕️ Israel has approved guided tours for settlers in occupied southern Syrian territory during the Jewish Passover holiday, which begins on 12 April. As part of this plan, the army will open the border fence at two specific locations under its control.
This move facilitates tours organized by two "educational" institutions, Midreshet HaGolan and Midreshet Keshet Yonatan, into Wadi al-Ruqqad, a valley on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights that features a tributary of the Yarmouk River.
An invitation posted on the Hebrew website Kipa, states that the two institutions, "in cooperation with the Northern Command of the army and the 210th Division, invite the public to participate for the first time in tours to Wadi al-Ruqqad, located outside the Israeli-Syrian border... Until a few months ago, only a few Israelis were permitted to visit the valley." The tours, according to the announcement, "will be held during the Pesach (Passover) holiday, twice daily, a morning tour and an afternoon tour."
❗️Medical Director of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza to Al Jazeera:
– "There is no room in the hospital to accommodate new wounded."
– "We do not have the capacity to provide medical care for the wounded."
– "There is no safe place in all of Gaza City."
❗️Turkiye does not want a confrontation with Israel in Syria, according to Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
Fidan also said that if the new administration in Damascus wants to have "certain understandings" with Israel, then that is their own business.
(Reuters)
'Hundreds of millions blown for minimal success': Washington hits snag against Yemen
Yemen’s Ansarallah has managed to reinforce its military sites and has retained the ability to target both US warships and the depths of Israel
⭕️ According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, over the past 24 hours, more than 86 Palestinians were killed and over 280 injured as Israel carried out some of its heaviest and most relentless bombing across the Gaza Strip in one of the war’s most brutal nights.
Palestinian journalist Khalil Abu Elias posted on Facebook:
"A few hours and Gaza will be erased.
You will only find us in paradise.
Farewell to the most unjust 'Arabs' history has ever known."
A Palestinian girl in Gaza wrote:
"Our news will no longer bother you from now on.
It’s just a matter of days, and everyone will be gone.
May God not forgive anyone who stayed silent about our oppression."
One Palestinian sheikh said: "I just buried my daughter without her head."
Israel expands north Gaza ground assault as massacres intensify
The Israeli army recently reoccupied the Netzarim axis, and is working to create a new corridor splitting Gaza into three parts
❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
– "86 martyrs and 287 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 1,249 martyrs and 3,022 injuries."
– "The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 50,609 martyrs and 115,063 wounded since 7 October 2023."
❗️At least 24 Palestinians were killed as a result of the Israeli occupation's bombing of the Al-Aqqad family home in the Al-Manara neighborhood in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
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❗️According to multiple Israeli media reports, Egypt has presented a new ceasefire proposal in an attempt to bridge the gap between Israel and the Palestinian resistance.
Israeli sources say the political leadership believes that additional 'military pressure' could change Hamas's position on the various proposals.
'Endless loop of blood': Israel kills 1,250 Palestinians in under two weeks
Israel says it has struck more than 600 targets in the strip since breaking the ceasefire and resuming the genocide in Gaza on 18 March
David’s Corridor: Israel's shadow project to redraw the Levant
Through ‘David's Corridor,’ Israel aims to forge a geopolitical artery stretching from occupied Golan to Iraqi Kurdistan, reshaping West Asia under the guise of fostering minority alliances and realizing biblical claims.
By Mahdi Yaghi
US-backed Kurdish troops begin withdrawal from Aleppo under security pact with Damascus
The Kurdish-led SDF reached an agreement with Damascus to integrate Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo into government control
❗️Large protests erupt near the US embassy in Amman, Jordan, demanding support for Palestine and Gaza.
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Israeli soldiers filmed themselves laughing while destroying a home in Rafah's Shaboura neighborhood - a war crime under international law.
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❗️Lebanon's National News Agency:
"US Deputy Envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus has arrived in Beirut, Lebanon."
⭕️ The Trump administration proceeded with the sale of over 20,000 US-manufactured assault rifles to Israel last month, according to a document reviewed by Reuters. This move advanced a deal that the Biden administration had previously put on hold.
On 6 March, the US State Department informed Congress of the $24 million sale, stating that the intended recipient was the Israeli National Police, according to the document.
❗️Israeli occupation forces raise an Israeli flag on the roof of a house in Jenin Camp, occupied West Bank.
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BREAKING | Yemeni Armed Forces announces that it targeted the aircraft carrier USS Truman and a number of warships in the Red Sea in the second clash in the past 24 hours.
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❗️Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkiye, and Bulgaria have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on a new green energy corridor.
The agreement was signed during the 11th Southern Gas Corridor and 3rd Green Energy Advisory Council Ministerial Meetings in Baku on 4 April.
Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said on X, “This marks the launch of another regional project in the field of green energy, with Azerbaijan as the source.”
He added that the project will boost renewable energy transmission, trade, and regional energy security.
❗️Israel has killed at least 34 Palestinians in raids across the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 28 of them in southern Gaza.
(Medical sources to Al Jazeera)
A heartbreaking photo shows the tiny, lifeless body of a Palestinian infant at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, killed by an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza.
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⭕️ According to Reuters, the US Senate voted down an attempt to prevent $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel on Thursday.
With votes of 82-15 and 83-15, lawmakers rejected two resolutions aimed at blocking the sale of heavy bombs and other weapons. The resolutions to prevent the arms sales were put forward by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
During his speech, Sanders highlighted the civilian death toll and the worsening malnutrition and starvation among children, exacerbated by recent aid blockages.
He stated, "What is happening now is unimaginable. It has been 31 days and counting without any humanitarian aid reaching Gaza, nothing at all. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel, for over a month."
US Senate overwhelmingly votes to uphold US arms transfers to Israel
The show of support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza coincided with an announcement by Trump stating that Netanyahu will return to the US capital 'in the not-so-distant future'