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The Israeli military says it carried out airstrikes on over 45 locations across Gaza in recent hours, publicizing its ongoing violent bombardment of residential areas in the strip.
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Israel plans to seize all of Rafah for Gaza ‘buffer zone’: Report
The plan includes destroying what is left of the infrastructure and barring the return of displaced Palestinians
Israel's blockade and systematic destruction of Gaza's infrastructure have caused a catastrophic health crisis, leaving 60,000 Palestinian children suffering from severe malnutrition, preventable diseases, and complete lack of clean water - all while life-saving aid remains blocked from entering the strip, according to the Health Ministry.
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Earlier today, Israeli occupation forces abducted more than 20 Palestinians during a violent raid on the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem, subjecting detainees to humiliating treatment as part of their ongoing mass arrest campaign across the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli forces today detonated the home of Mujahid Mansour in Deir Bzeih, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
The destruction comes over a year after Israeli occupation forces killed Mansour following a resistance operation that killed one soldier.
This demolition reflects Israel's long-standing policy of collective punishment - destroying Palestinian homes as revenge for resistance operations, a practice that constitutes a war crime under international law.
❗️Statement issued by the Media Committee in Jenin Camp, occupied West Bank:
– "Israeli occupation forces have intensified gunfire, explosions, destruction, and arson targeting homes in Jenin city and camp, as their wide-scale assault continues for the 79th straight day."
– "Since the early morning hours, Israeli soldiers have fired heavily into Jenin Camp, despite the near-total absence of residents after around 21,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes."
– "The occupation continues to send military reinforcements, armored vehicles, and heavy bulldozers from the Al-Jalama military checkpoint to the vicinity of the camp."
– "Israeli forces have deployed foot soldiers in Al-Ghabzah area surrounding the camp and in Wadi Burqin, where they are carving out and widening roads, altering the landscape of the camp, and demolishing Palestinian homes."
– "The assault on Jenin City and camp has led to the killing of 38 Palestinians, while occupation bulldozers continue large-scale destruction of Jenin’s main roads and infrastructure. This includes systematic vandalism by Israeli tanks, which entered the city for the first time since 2002."
– "The destruction and sabotage carried out by Israeli forces have resulted in the complete or partial demolition—or burning—of 3,250 housing units. Water and electricity have been cut off, and there is a severe shortage of food and essential supplies for children due to the ongoing Israeli siege."
– "Schools and health services in the camp have ceased functioning. The occupation has arrested 278 Palestinians and subjected dozens more to field interrogations during extensive home raids, which have now totaled 733, alongside 15 Israeli airstrikes."
⭕️ Statement – The Refugee and UNRWA Affairs Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) – West Bank Region:
"Amid international silence, the occupation government continues its measures aimed at liquidating the refugee issue and ending UNRWA’s role.
The Refugee and UNRWA Affairs Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the West Bank Region issued a statement regarding the targeting of four UNRWA schools in Shuafat Camp and East Jerusalem, which have been given eviction notices to vacate within a month. The statement reads:
In a blatant challenge to international will and legitimacy, the occupation authorities issued on Tuesday a warning to four schools in occupied East Jerusalem—three of them located in Shuafat Camp—ordering their closure and evacuation within one month. The students are to be transferred to schools run by the occupation municipality.
This move is likely to be followed by similar steps targeting UNRWA service centers, including health and education facilities in Sur Baher and Qalandiya Camp, which serve around 110,000 people. These actions are part of a set of decisions passed by the Israeli Knesset on October 29, 2024, and put into effect on January 29, 2025. The decisions ban any UNRWA administrative or service presence in occupied Jerusalem under the pretext that it is “Israeli sovereign land.” Additionally, the law prohibits any contact or cooperation with UNRWA or its staff across the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
This blatant assault on an international organization established by a UN resolution mirrors the crimes of the occupation in the northern West Bank refugee camps—crimes that threaten the rest of the camps through changes to their geographic and demographic realities. At its core, this attack targets the refugee issue and the right of return by undermining the role and presence of UNRWA, which stands as an international legal witness. It also aims to erase the refugee camps that symbolically embody the right of return—a right that unsettles the Zionist project by countering its false historical narrative with the truth of our people's tragedy.
We strongly condemn these measures and this targeting, which are clearly aimed at dismantling the foundations of our national cause. We also express deep concern over the suspicious Arab and international silence, which in some cases amounts to complicity. We call upon our people in the homeland and diaspora to rise up against these attempts by the occupation and to expose the world's complicity in the face of American arrogance—the same force that sponsors and protects the occupation's crimes and project, and that provides cover for its attacks on our people and their legitimate rights.
This act signals the disintegration of the international system and the collapse of the principles and laws governing international relations in favor of brute force that imposes realities by power."
⭕️ Israel intends to turn all of Rafah (20% of the Gaza Strip’s territory) into a buffer zone, reports Haaretz.
This entails razing whatever is left of it to the ground, forbidding residents from ever returning, and cutting off Gaza from Egypt.
Rafah was home to around 200,000 Palestinians before Israel launched its genocidal campaign on the strip.
❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
– "36 martyrs (including 3 rescued martyrs) and 41 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 from the Israeli aggression has risen to 50,846 martyrs and 115,729 injuries since October 7, 2023."
– "The death toll and injuries since March 18, 2025 has reached 1,482 martyrs, and 3,688 injuries."
UPDATE | Local sources report that the Israeli airstrike on Shujaiya has killed at least 20 Palestinians and injured 50 others.
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An Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building packed with displaced Palestinians in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood, killing at least 11 people—including women and children—and wounding 35 others.
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❗️Director of Field Hospitals at the Ministry of Health in Gaza to Al Jazeera:
– "We cannot find medicine to treat our sick children in the Strip."
– "The children of Gaza are suffering from numerous illnesses without access to treatment."
– "There is a spread of diarrhea and hepatitis among Gaza’s children due to the lack of clean water and proper food."
– "Most of the wounded arrive at hospitals with full-body burns, and Israel is using new weapons."
🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces announced the downing of a US MQ-9 drone over Al-Jawf Governorate using a locally made missile, marking the third such incident in ten days and the eighteenth since the onset of their support for Gaza.
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❗️BREAKING | US warplanes launch 8 airstrikes on the capital Sanaa, Yemen.
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Netanyahu says 'explosion' of Iran nuclear program only acceptable path toward deal with US
Indirect talks between the US and Iran over its nuclear program are set to begin in Oman following a 'diplomatic breakthrough'
❗️Israeli occupation forces storm the town of Yamoun, west of Jenin, West Bank.
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More child victims recovered from Israel's horrific massacre in Gaza City's Shujaiya neighborhood, as rescue teams battle with bare hands and primitive tools to extract survivors from the rubble.
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❗️Israeli warplanes launched two massive airstrikes on Gaza City's Shujaiya neighborhood, targeting the Al-Nazzaz area shortly after a horrifying massacre killed over 20 Palestinians in the same area.
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❗️Israeli occupation forces continue to bulldoze and destroy homes in Jenin Camp, occupied West Bank.
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⭕️Amid ongoing US-Israeli plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza, Indonesia has expressed its readiness to temporarily host Palestinians affected by the ongoing war in Gaza, according to its president Prabowo Subianto, who announced the initiative as he began a diplomatic visit to West Asia. He estimated that the first group could include around 1,000 individuals.
"We are ready to evacuate the wounded, the traumatized, the orphans," Prabowo said, emphasizing that those brought to Indonesia would stay temporarily—receiving medical care and recovery support until conditions in Gaza are safe enough for their return.
"Indonesia's commitment in supporting the safety of Palestinians and their independence has pushed our government to act more actively," he said, before departing on a trip that includes stops in Turkiye, Egypt, and Qatar.
His remarks follow a February statement from Indonesia’s foreign ministry rejecting any proposals to permanently relocate Palestinians out of Gaza. Prabowo had also expressed Indonesia’s willingness to send peacekeepers to Gaza if needed.
⭕️ In an interview with Al Araby TV, Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc MP Ihab Hamadeh addressed a recent Reuters report, indicating Hezbollah's openness to the possibility of handing over its arms — but only on condition of a complete Israeli withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territory and as part of a broader defense strategy to protect southern Lebanon.
Hamadeh stressed this remains an internal Lebanese matter, rejecting foreign interference—particularly from the US, which had direct involvement in the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.
Hamadeh clarified however that this was not an official stance, noting Hezbollah’s positions are only declared through formal statements.
❗️Civil Defense in Gaza:
“Reports indicate that 30 people, including children, are trapped under the rubble and we are unable to rescue them in the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.”
US airstrikes kill several civilians in Yemen’s Hodeidah
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this week that Washington’s war on Yemen is ‘about to get worse’
A Palestinian child killed in the Israeli occupation's massacre in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, a short while ago.
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⭕️ According to a report by Israel Hayom:
The Israeli shekel dropped to its lowest in six months on Wednesday as the dollar climbed past 3.8 shekels, driven by institutional investors pulling funds out of the country. This comes in the wake of what’s being described as the “ambush” meeting between Netanyahu and Trump, alongside the official start of US tariffs on Israeli goods. Analysts say the meeting gave the impression that Trump is sidelining Netanyahu — “as if Netanyahu were Zelensky and Israel were Ukraine” — raising fears that Israel’s political and economic risk is growing. With confidence in Netanyahu’s government faltering, investors are backing away, seeing better long-term opportunities in the US for now.
Yesterday evening, Jordanian security forces cracked down on protesters near the Israeli embassy in Amman, using force to suppress the demonstration.
As a key ally of Israel, the Jordanian government has systematically stifled dissent against the Gaza genocide, routinely arresting and intimidating protest organizers.
⭕️ In remarks made during a meeting in Algeria, Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi confirmed that the indirect talks between Iran and the US, set for 12 April in Oman, will focus solely on the nuclear issue—specifically, "making transparency and giving assurances about the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the removal of the cruel sanctions."
Araghchi said the talks in Muscat will be a test of US seriousness, given its history of unilateralism and violations.
The negotiations will be led by Araghchi and US envoy Steve Witkoff.
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❗️Lebanon’s National News Agency:
“Intense low-altitude flights of Israeli enemy drones over the town of Sidon in southern Lebanon.”
❗️BREAKING | US warplanes bomb residential area in Hodeidah, west of Yemen, killing at least 6 civilians, including 3 children.
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❗️Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Andrey Rudenko:
"If the United States attacks Iran, Russia is not obligated to provide military assistance under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement with Iran."