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WATCH | Qassam Brigades releases a video showing its fighters targeting the settlement of Ashdod with a barrage of S55 rockets.
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❗️US President Donald Trump:
"With Iran, yeah, if it requires military, we're gonna have military. Israel will obviously be very much involved in that, and be the leader of that."
❗️PIJ's Quds Brigades announced earlier this evening that it seized two Israeli EVO MAX drones while they were carrying out intelligence missions in the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
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❗️Trump:
"I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately."
Israel and Turkiye in Syria: No clash, just a division of spoils
Despite public posturing, Israel and Turkiye are not adversaries in Syria but cooperative actors carving up the country along lines drawn by US-led regional designs.
By Gulriz Ergoz
UPDATE | The Israeli attack targeted a drone that crashed in the vicinity of the Ramieh Public School due to technical issues earlier today.
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❗️Ambulance Director at the Palestinian Red Crescent in Nablus (occupied West Bank) to Al Jazeera:
– "The occupation forces have been besieging and storming Balata Camp since dawn."
– "We coordinated with the Red Cross to evacuate patients from the camp."
– "Injuries from occupation gunfire and beatings by soldiers."
– "We evacuated three sick children from Balata Camp and are working to evacuate more."
WATCH | Yemeni Armed Forces releases footage showing the wreckage of a US MQ-9 drone that was shot down in the airspace of Al-Jawf Governorate by a locally made surface-to-air rocket.
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UPDATE | Al-Masirah:
"10 martyrs, including 5 women and 4 children, and 16 wounded, including 4 critically, as a result of the US airstrikes on a residential neighborhood in Al-Hawak District, Hodeidah, western Yemen."
A student protest at Birzeit University in Ramallah, occupied West Bank, against Israel's ongoing war of extermination in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian resistance.
Despite brutal suppression efforts by both the Israeli military and Palestinian Authority security forces, including abductions and targeting of student leaders, the pro-resistance student movement continues to grow stronger.
WATCH | Trump’s Yemen campaign: Indiscriminate bombing, no plan — and all to serve Israel.
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⭕️ Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee claims Hezbollah is "secretly rebuilding" an "underground weapons production site" in Choueifat, part of Beirut's southern suburb.
He claims that the site, previously targeted in November 2024, was concealed from inspectors during a surprise visit in January—adding that equipment was removed ahead of time and returned afterwards.
UPDATE | Al Jazeera correspondent:
"35 martyrs in two Israeli raids on the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City."
Resistance's weapons an internal matter’: Hezbollah MP responds to US pressure
As Washington pressures Lebanon to disarm the resistance, internal discussions have focused on the establishment of a ‘national defense strategy’ to protect the country from Israel
BREAKING | Israel announces that it is officially expanding its assault on the West Bank (dubbed 'Operation Iron Wall') to include the city of Nablus and its Balata refugee camp.
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⭕️ In a letter, hundreds of reserve soldiers and officers in the Israeli Air Force are demanding an end to the war on Gaza in exchange for the return of all kidnapped Israelis. They assert that the war is currently being waged according to personal political interests (referring to Netanyahu).
According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the commanders of the air force do not rule out the possibility that dozens of other regular soldiers will join the protest message.
The army decided not to ask the signatories of the letter to participate in military missions, especially since they expressed their lack of confidence in the army.
The message worried army leaders before it was published, and warnings were unsuccessful in preventing its publication.
Maariv reported that the army began an investigation into the identity of the signatories of the letter.
BREAKING | US warplanes bomb the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
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❗️Amazon cancels orders from multiple vendors in China following Trump’s tariff announcement.
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While Israel escalates its assault on the region, UAE and Qatar participate in joint air drills by its side.
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BREAKING | US warplanes bomb a residential area in Amin Muqbel city, Hodeidah Governorate, west Yemen. Many casualties reported.
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❗️An Israeli drone targeted a prefabricated room in the playground of Ramieh Public School, south Lebanon.
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❗️Yemeni Saba News Agency:
"The death toll from US aggression raids on a residential neighborhood in Al-Hudaydah Governorate has risen to 11, including five women and four children."
US readiness for face off with China ‘hurt’ by costly Yemen campaign: Report
Washington has been depleting already low stockpiles and is being forced to divert warships from the Pacific
⭕️ According to The New York Times, US military leaders preparing for a potential conflict with China are increasingly worried that long-range precision weapons stored in the Asia-Pacific might soon be redirected to West Asia. This concern stems from the high volume of munitions being used in the brutal attacks on Yemen, initiated by US President Donald Trump.
Officials also note that American preparedness in the Pacific is being strained due to the Pentagon’s shifting of warships and aircraft to West Asia following the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza in October 2023.
Reports indicate that the sustained pace of operations is placing heavy demands on US naval and air forces, with personnel and equipment facing wear and tear under intense deployment cycles, and routine maintenance becoming increasingly difficult.
"We are your men, O Sinwar."
Chants for late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar can be heard during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in Balata Camp, Nablus, West Bank.
❗️Israeli occupation forces fire towards young Palestinian men throwing rocks at them in Nablus, West Bank.
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❗️A massive demonstration in the Yemeni city of Taiz in support of Gaza and to demand an end to the war of extermination against the Palestinian people.
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WATCH | Quds Brigades releases footage showing its fighters planting a 'Thaqib' bomb, which later detonates underneath an Israeli tank during its incursion into the Shujaiya neighborhood, eastern Gaza City.
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⭕️ According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Authority: Ahmad Manasra, now 23 years old, will be freed from Israeli prisons this Friday after spending 10 years in brutal conditions.
Ahmad, who is from east Jerusalem, was detained by Israel as a child in 2015, at only 13 years old, and has since endured severe suffering in Israeli prisons. Though not found to have participated in the alleged stabbings cited by the Israeli authorities, he was convicted and sentenced to nine and a half years.
On the day of his arrest, he was severely beaten, resulting in a skull fracture and traumatic brain injury, and his 15-year-old cousin Hassan was killed.
Since November 2021, he has been held in prolonged solitary confinement, leading to serious mental health issues, including schizophrenia and depression.
He has been subjected to ruthless physical and psychological interrogation sessions, isolated from other prisoners, and deprived of visits and necessary treatment.
❗️Press Statement by the Popular Resistance Committees in Palestine:
"The horrific and bloody Zionist massacre carried out by the fascist Israeli army, which targeted an entire residential block in the Shujaiya neighborhood—resulting in the martyrdom, injury, and disappearance of dozens beneath the rubble—is a clear continuation of the genocidal war and ongoing massacres being perpetrated by the Zionist entity in the Gaza Strip.
Deliberately bombing homes on top of their residents, with full prior knowledge of their presence, and tearing apart the bodies of children and women with missiles, reaffirms the brutal and fascist nature of the Zionist regime and its leaders, and their disregard for all humanitarian values and norms.
We hold the criminal US administration and its president, Donald Trump, fully and directly responsible for these horrific massacres and the continued genocide and ethnic cleansing being carried out by the Nazi war criminal Netanyahu against women and children—crimes that would not be possible without American and Western political and military support and international complicity.
We call for an escalation of protests, mobilization, and revolutionary action in all its forms and tools against the interests of the Zionist entity and its sponsor of terrorism, America, in support of Gaza, in rejection of these crimes, and in condemnation of the shameful international silence."