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❗️Khalil al-Hayya's (Deputy Head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip) 2 year-old grand son was murdered in the Israeli massacre on Dar al-Arqam School in Gaza on Thursday.
An Israeli 'news' account on X, Open Source Intel, posted the following, sparking a lot of controversy:
"Grandson of Hamxs leader Khalil Al-Hayya has been ELIMINATED today in Gaza ❌"
Shin Bet chief says PM fired him after refusing to interfere in corruption trial
Netanyahu demanded Ronen Bar tell judges that he should not testify in court due to 'security reasons' during the war against Lebanon
❗️Gaza Health Ministry:
– "Gaza hospitals received 60 martyrs and 162 wounded in the last 24 hours"
– "The death toll from the Israeli aggression since 18 March has risen to 1,309 martyrs and 3,184 wounded."
– "The overall death toll has risen to 50,669 martyrs and 115,225 wounded."
Israeli army organizes 'hiking tours' for Jewish settlers in occupied Syria
Israeli settler leader Bezalel Smotrich has declared his goal of extending the borders of 'Greater Israel' to Damascus
❗️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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❗️UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, to Al Jazeera:
– “Evidence of the killing of medics in Rafah has been concealed."
– “What is happening in Gaza is not a war but a genocide, and there is no protection for Palestinian lives."
– “The Israeli military faces no restrictions or accountability when it comes to killing Palestinians."
– “Western leaders claim to protect civilians, yet they roll out the red carpet for Netanyahu."
– “These leaders consider shielding Netanyahu more important than upholding international law or protecting Palestinians."
– “Freedoms are being crushed in the West, and there must be a revolution against the system that is destroying civil liberties and civilian lives."
"Qatar is a complex country, not a simple country, but it's not an enemy state, and many praise it."
In a video statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Qatar is not an enemy. In defense of his aides, he says that Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, MK Benny Gantz, and Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar have all visited Qatar and praised it.
Shin Bet rejected Netanyahu's claim of Bar being invited by Qatar to VIP sections of football matches at the 2022 World Cup, issuing a statement saying:
“This was not a case of watching a game, but rather a tour and series of work meetings, some of which were held in the stadium during the World Cup matches."
Shin Bet said that Israel set up an international operations center, in where the heads of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and Israeli army intelligence visited to oversee their teams’ work and ensure Israeli attendees' safety.
Shin Bet added that several meetings with professionals and officials were conducted inside the stadiums at the hosts’ request.
❗️Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philipe Lazzarini on X:
"Harrowing.
At least 100 children are reported killed or injured every day in # Gaza, since the strikes resumed (on 18 March) according to
@ UNICEF
Young lives cut short in a war not of children’s making.
Since the war began 1.5 years ago, 15,000 children were reportedly killed.
The ceasefire at the beginning of the year gave Gaza’s children a chance to survive & be children.
The resumption of the war is again robbing them of their childhood. The war has turned Gaza into a 'no land' for children.
This is a stain on our common humanity.
Nothing justifies the killing of children wherever they are.
Resume the # ceasefirenow"
❗️Israeli occupation forces storm the towns of Burqin and Qabatiya, near Jenin, occupied West Bank.
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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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