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Syria, SDF strike deal to end clashes over Aleppo’s strategic Tishreen Dam
The Kurdish militia and Turkish-backed factions have been engaged in heavy fighting over the dam since the fall of the former government
❗️Quds Brigades (Gaza):
"We bombed with 107 rockets the command and control site of the Zionist enemy army in the “Awad Allah” area in the Yebna camp, south of Rafah city."
❗️A Statement by Gaza Civil Defense Spokesman Mahmoud Basal:
"A Message to the International Community:
– Since the Israeli occupation renewed its aggression against the citizens of the Gaza Strip on the 18th of last March, many of the wounded have been martyred under the rubble of their homes destroyed by the occupation over their heads without warning because our crews were unable to save their lives due to the occupation’s insistence on preventing the entry of rescue equipment and heavy machinery into the Strip, all while you remain suspiciously silent.
– There were citizens who were still alive, pleading with us to rescue them from under the rubble of targeted homes in Shujaiya, Absan, Rafah, and Deir al-Balah. But after some time, their voices would fade, communication with them would be lost, and now they are nothing more than missing bodies.
– We still wonder… When will the killing in the Gaza Strip stop? And how long will this international betrayal continue?"
Israel airstrike destroys Gaza City’s Baptist Hospital
The hospital has been repeatedly bombed by Israel since the start of the war as part of Tel Aviv campaign against Gaza’s health sector
❗️Statement by Gaza Municipality:
"Gaza is experiencing a major health and environmental disaster due to the accumulation of around 175,000 tons of waste in the heart of the city, and the destruction by the occupation of most waste collection vehicles and vital service facilities."
❗️On the 82nd consecutive day of Israel’s invasion, occupation forces continue to set fire to and demolish homes in Jenin Camp, West Bank.
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❗️Medical Director of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital:
– "The emergency, trauma, laboratory, pharmacy, and emergency radiology departments were the most affected by the Israeli bombing."
– "We call for pressure to be exerted to open the crossings to allow the entry of medical supplies and equipment needed to resume health services in hospitals."
– "We demand pressure on the [Israeli] occupation to protect healthcare institutions in Gaza from attacks, as they are protected under international law."
– "The hospital has gone out of service due to the Israeli bombing."
⭕️ Israel prevents West Bank Christians from reaching Jerusalem to participate in Palm Sunday.
The Israeli occupation issued only 6,000 permits for West Bank Christians to access Jerusalem, despite the number exceeding 50,000.
(Al Jazeera)
Early on Sunday, Israel bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City with two missiles, rendering it out of service and destroying the intensive care and surgery departments.
Israel again justified this crime by claiming it was targeting a "command and control center."
The Baptist Hospital is the last functioning hospital in Gaza City.
Iran, US begin indirect nuclear talks in Oman
Tehran says the negotiations are aimed at lifting US economic sanctions and will not involve its defense capabilities, such as its missile program
Tens of Thousands took to the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh to show solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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❗️Iranian Tasnim News Agency: Indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States have ended in Muscat, Oman.
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❗️The Israeli military says that three rockets fired from Gaza were intercepted a short while ago.
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BREAKING | Qassam Brigades:
"We targeted the 'Nir Yitzhak' settlement with the Rajum short-range 114 mm rocket system."
❗️Gaza Ministry of Health :
_ “Hospitals in Gaza received 21 martyrs and 64 wounded in the past 24 hours.”
_ ”The number of victims of the Israeli aggression has risen to 50,933 martyrs and 116,450 wounded since 7 October, 2023.”
_ ”The number of martyrs has risen to 1,563 and the number of wounded to 4,004 since 18 March 18, 2025.”
❗️Statement by the Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office:
"Several prisoners in Megiddo Prison suffered a health crisis a few days ago after consuming spoiled food provided by the prison administration.
The administration served the prisoners expired eggs, which caused severe symptoms including abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and high fever.
Despite these symptoms, the Israeli prison authorities did not offer any medical care or conduct health examinations."
At least three people were killed in an Israeli attack on the Deir al-Balah municipal building in central Gaza a short while ago.
According to several reports, Israel is threatening to bomb the area again.
⭕️ Spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Esmail Baghaei, speaking on the “Iranian Breakfast” program on Channel Two, discussed the first round of Iran-US negotiations, saying that yesterday’s talks marked the initial round of indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States concerning illegal sanctions and the nuclear issue.
He noted that what took place in Oman was a session meant to test the seriousness and intentions of the other side, given its long history of repeated breaches.
The negotiations were conducted through the mediation of the Omani Foreign Minister and involved four rounds of back-and-forth exchanges between the two sides, during which messages, positions, and general frameworks were shared. In the end, both parties agreed that the discussions were constructive and took place in a respectful atmosphere.
(IRNA)
⭕️ While campaigning on Saturday, Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre promised to deport non-Canadian citizens who engage in what he refers to as criminal hate speech, blaming pro-Palestinian demonstrators and their "hate marches" for a rise in "the targeting of synagogues and Jewish schools with hate, vandalism, violence (and) firebombings."
"We will bring in tougher laws to target vandalism, hate marches that break laws (and) violent attacks based on ethnicity and religion," Poilievre told reporters.
"Anyone who is here on a visitor visa who carries out law-breaking will be deported from this country," he added.
(AFP)
❗️Medical sources to Al Jazeera:
"The death toll has risen to 22 in ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn today."
⭕️ Four informed sources told Reuters on Saturday that the new Syrian government's foreign and finance ministers, along with the governor of the Central Bank of Syria, intend to attend the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which will be held in Washington later this month.
This will be the first participation of an official Syrian delegation in the meetings in at least two decades.
Two sources said it was not yet clear whether the officials had obtained US visas.
❗️Quds Brigades (Gaza):
"We bombed with regular mortar shells (60 mm caliber) a position of Zionist enemy soldiers and vehicles that had penetrated the 'Morag' area north of Rafah city."
❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
– "11 martyrs and 111 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 50,944 martyrs and 116,156 wounded since October 7, 2023"
– "The death toll and injuries since March 18, 2025 has reached 1,574 martyrs, 4,115 injuries."
❗️Khan Yunis police chief Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Darbashi was
killed in an Israeli raid targeting his home west of Khan Yunis, south Gaza.
❗️BREAKING | Israel launches intense bombing campaign on Nuseirat Camp in the Gaza Strip.
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Katz declares Rafah 'part of Israel's buffer zone' after completing seizure of Morag Axis
Israel controls three corridors in Gaza, dissecting the strip in preparation for long-term occupation and the construction of Jewish settlements
A large protest in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka in support of Palestine and denouncing Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
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BREAKING | Israeli military threatens new airstrikes targeting multiple neighborhoods in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
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❗️Israeli occupation forces destroyed the Tahrir petrol station east of Rafah, southern Gaza.
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⭕️ The Israeli army has announced that it has taken full control of the 12-kilometer Morag Corridor, cutting off Rafah from the city of Khan Yunis and the rest of the Gaza Strip.
The "Morag Corridor" is located where the Israeli settlement of the same name once stood before being evacuated during Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza. By controlling Morag, along with the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, Israel will effectively divide Gaza into several parts.
The military is also attempting to expand its buffer zone in southern Gaza, which will stretch from the Egyptian border to the outskirts of Khan Yunis, encompassing the entire city of Rafah—covering roughly 20% of the Strip.