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❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
– “60 martyrs and 162 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 1,309 martyrs and 3,184 injuries."
– “The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 50,669 martyrs and 115,225 wounded since 7 October 2023."
Reconstruction efforts persist in the city of Tyre (Sour) as workers repair damage from Israel's bombardment of southern Lebanon.
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❗️Gaza City Municipality:
"The 'Mekorot' water pipeline, which constitutes 70% of the water supply available to the city's residents and those displaced to it, has been shut down."
❗️Medical sources to Al Jazeera:
“10 martyrs in ongoing Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today.”
"You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide."
At Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event, CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s speech was interrupted by Palestinian employee and engineer Ibtihal Abu Saad, who called out the company’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Microsoft supplies AI and cloud infrastructure to the Israeli military, enabling mass surveillance and violence against Palestinians.
❗️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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❗️Jagan Chapagain, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies:
"Relief workers were brutally killed and thrown into a grave. Ambulances in Rafah were destroyed and buried in the sand, and nearby, the bodies of relief workers were found buried in large numbers. The medics believed that their vehicles, marked with the Red Crescent emblem, would make their purpose clear—that international humanitarian law meant something and that they would be protected. We cannot allow these attacks to become normalized."
❗️US President Donald Trump posted this video on Truth Social with the following caption:
“These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis!
They will never sink our ships again!”
❗️Al-Mayadeen:
– “The atmosphere of the meeting between [Lebanese President] Aoun and [US Envoy] Ortagus was positive and touched on the issue of the northern and eastern borders with Syria and the southern border with Palestine.”
– “Aoun confirmed that negotiations on the land borders remain at the previous level, and what Ortagus proposed was within the context of discussion, not demands.”
– “Aoun assured Ortagus that the army is fulfilling its duties and coordinating with the committee monitoring the implementation of the ceasefire, in which the US is involved.”
In late March, Israel indiscriminately murdered 15 Gaza rescue workers in Rafah—targeting ambulances with flashing lights.
Newly surfaced footage debunks Israel's claim that the vehicles were moving "without coordination or emergency lights."
(Haaretz)
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