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A wild Pikachu was spotted among those who were running away from Turkish police, who were firing tear gas at demonstrators.
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UPDATE | The Israeli army announces that it assassinated Ahmad Adnan Bajiji, a battalion commander in Hezbollah's Radwan Force, in the early hours of 27 March in Maaroub, south Lebanon.
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❗️Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza:
“The number of martyrs from the Israeli bombing since dawn today has risen to 11 after two martyrs succumbed to their wounds.”
❗️Palestinian journalist Aboud Battah from Gaza:
"Thousands of messages have been sent by Zionist intelligence to citizens' cell phones in the Gaza Strip, calling on them to rise up against Hamas rule. It is clear that this is the enemy's last weapon.
The demonstrations are not a spontaneous event. The Zionist enemy contacted figures and mukhtars during its entry into the Beit Lahia area and asked them to stand alongside its army.
Most of them refused, so they were tortured or arrested, and some were pressured through the arrest of their children."
❗️BREAKING | Palestinian sources report that Hamas spokesman Abdel Latif al-Qanou was killed in an Israeli strike on his tent in Jabalia al-Balad, north Gaza.
In the past hour, Israel has targeted Jabalia al-Balad, Beit Lahia, and Khan Yunis in the south, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
BREAKING | Israel targeted a vehicle with a drone strike in Maaroub, south Lebanon, in what appears to be an assassination.
Sources report one person was killed.
⭕️ Saudi Arabia will host a meeting between Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa and Syrian Defense Minister Marhaf Abu Qasra on Thursday in Jeddah to discuss border issues, a Lebanese source told AFP.
The meeting, held under Saudi sponsorship, comes after a previously scheduled visit by Menassa to Damascus was postponed by the Syrian side due to preparations to form a new government, according to a Syrian government source.
❗️Israel's Channel 14:
"Security estimates indicate that Hamas has more rockets with a range of 45 kilometers and hundreds more with shorter ranges."
The Trump Doctrine: Brinkmanship and blowback in a unipolar hangover
Trump’s attempt to reinvent US power through economic coercion, proxy discipline, and selective warfare may be speeding up the decline of US global dominance in a world no longer willing to play by American rules.
By Aymun Moosavi
⭕️ The US has been attacking Yemen since rebooting its bombing campaign on 15 March, leaving at least 79 civilians dead and over 100 injured.
Unfortunately, western media seems more fascinated by the drama surrounding Trump’s leaked Signal group chat, rather than the grave reality behind the group chat's intended purpose.
⭕️ Since Israel resumed its assault on Gaza on 18 March, at least 830 Palestinians have been killed and 1,787 injured, bringing the total death toll since 7 October, 2023, to 50,183, with over 113,800 injured, according to the Ministry of Health.
In the past 24 hours alone, 39 were killed and 124 wounded, while many bodies remain trapped under rubble due to the lack of rescue capacity. A new massacre in Jabalia al-Balad killed 11, including a mother and five children, as the Israeli army continues ground operations and seizes territory in northern and central Gaza.
The ongoing blockade has caused critical shortages of food and fuel, with flour expected to run out by the end of March, threatening a wider famine. The Ministry also warned of a collapse in the healthcare system amid widespread destruction and severe shortages of essential medicine.
(Quds News Network)
❗️National and Islamic Action factions in Gaza:
– "We call on our people to remain vigilant and cautious against the occupation's attempts to fragment the internal front, and emphasize the need to maintain national unity and exercise awareness to confront hostile schemes.
– We urge the international community to intervene to stop Israeli policies for which our people are paying a heavy price, and to protect the rights of Palestinians.
– We stress the need to stand against any attempt to threaten national unity or incite against the resistance, as our people are the most capable of confronting the occupation's plans."
❗️Israel's Channel 14:
"Today, Israeli military forces demolished 24 Palestinian greenhouses built near the security fence and the Bat Hefer settlement in the Tulkarem province of the [occupied] West Bank, as they were deemed a security threat to the surrounding settlements."
❗️Palestinian Prisoners' Club:
– "Medical crimes are escalating in occupation prisons, with the spread of diseases and epidemics among prisoners. Data from Megiddo Prison warns of a health catastrophe."
– "We warn that the continued spread of diseases in occupation prisons and the denial of medical treatment to prisoners will inevitably lead to the deaths of more prisoners."
US intel report blames government forces for 'violence, instability' in Syria
Syrian security forces massacred over 1,500 Alawite civilians on the country’s coast in early March
❗️Following the arrest of 48 individuals, including Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Turkish police conducted house raids in Istanbul and Ankara.
The Ankara Bar Association said that an investigation has been launched into 22 people by the press crimes prosecutor.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya reported that:
– "1,879 suspects have been detained, with 260 arrested and 468 placed on probation."
– "Legal procedures are ongoing for 662 individuals."
– "12 detainees were linked to terrorist organizations and had prior records for crimes such as drug offenses and intentional injury."
– "150 police officers were injured during the operations."
❗️Israel targeted a car in Yahmar al-Shaqif, south Lebanon, earlier today, killing 3 people.
After the attack, Israeli forces bombarded the area around the vehicle with more than 13 artillery shells, preventing citizens and paramedics from approaching the site.
❗️Palestine Today correspondent:
"The number of martyrs has risen to seven following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the al-Gharbawi family home near Ahmad Yassin Street in the Safatawi area, north of Gaza City."
US, UK jets launch 15 air raids on Yemeni capital as Trump threatens 'long' war
Dozens have been killed by the western aggression in support of Israel and its ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza
BREAKING | US warplanes targeted a stone quarry in Al-Arqoub, Khawlan district, in Yemen's Sanaa province, with four airstrikes.
At least two killed and two injured in the attack.
❗️Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip:
"During the past period, we received a number of proposals and initiatives, which we approached with positivity and responsibility in order to achieve our goals: a complete end to the aggression against our people in Gaza, the full withdrawal from the Strip, a prisoner exchange, reconstruction, and the lifting of the blockade. However, the Zionist occupation reneged on the agreement it signed with us and with the guarantor mediators, refused to move to the second phase, and resumed its aggression against our people."
❗️Israeli army issues renewed warnings for areas in Gaza City, announcing that these are the areas from which rockets are being launched and describing it as the "final warning" before an attack.
According to the UN, over 140,000 Palestinians have been displaced in just over a week, since the start of Israel's renewed aggression on the strip.
❗️The Palestinian Islamic Jihad's (PIJ) Quds Brigades announces that its rocket force targeted the Hatzerim air base in Beersheba with a rocket barrage.
The Israeli army said a rocket was intercepted.
❗️Palestine Today correspondent:
"11 martyrs as a result of the occupation's raids on tents housing displaced people and a charitable food bank in the central Gaza Strip."
All of Lebanon rejects normalization: PM
Lebanon’s parliament speaker recently warned that Israel is trying to ‘lure’ the country into normalization talks
❗️Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim:
– "Communications with mediators are still ongoing in an effort to reach a framework or proposal to resolve the current crisis.
– The movement is approaching all new proposals with full responsibility, positivity, and flexibility—on the condition that any agreement must ultimately lead to ending the war and the withdrawal of occupying forces.
– No one will accept an agreement that amounts to a “temporary calm, with hostages exchanged for food and water,” only for war and displacement plans to resume under new pretexts.
– What is happening in the occupied West Bank—killings, displacement, and land annexation—is clear evidence that the issue is not with Gaza or its resistance, but with the enemy’s broader plan to erase all Palestinian presence and rights in their homeland."
Netanyahu vows to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza if captives not released
Israeli forces have reentered Gaza on the ground, recently marching into the Netzarim corridor, which Tel Aviv was supposed to withdraw from as part of the ceasefire agreement
❗️Mayor of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Mohammad Jarrar:
– "All of the camp's homes, totaling 3,250, have either been completely or partially destroyed or burned during the ongoing Israeli military operation."
– "The [Israeli] occupation forced over a thousand Palestinians to evacuate their homes around the camp."
❗️Israeli PM Netanyahu, speaking at the Israeli Knesset, reiterates Israel's threat to seize parts of Gaza.
"The more Hamas persists in its stubbornness and refuses to release our captives, the stronger and harsher the pressure we will apply. And I say to you, members of the Knesset—and I say this to Hamas as well—this includes taking control of territories [in Gaza], and also other matters that I will not detail here."
❗️Leader of the Israeli Opposition in the Knesset, Yair Lapid, to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
"Mr. Prime Minister, while you were talking about your 'absolute victory,' there were sirens sounding in the Gaza envelope."