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❗️Hebrew media reports indicate the transfer of wounded soldiers from Gaza after a building collapsed on an Israeli force.
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Israeli soldiers are furious that they can’t cut water to Palestinians in Gaza during 'Operation Gideon’s Chariots.'
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❗️Hamas in a press statement: 'No real [ceasefire] negotiations have taken place since last Saturday'
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"We in the Hamas movement consider the continued presence of the Zionist delegation sent to Doha, despite its proven lack of authority to reach an agreement, as a blatant attempt by Netanyahu to mislead global public opinion and falsely present an image of engagement in the negotiation process. The delegation’s stay has been extended day by day without entering into any serious talks, and in fact, no real negotiations have taken place since last Saturday.
Netanyahu’s statements regarding the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip are merely an attempt to obscure the truth and deceive the international community. Not a single aid truck has entered the Strip to date, including the few trucks that reached the Kerem Abu Salem crossing but were not received by any international body."
UK sanctions West Bank violence network including 'settler grandmother' Daniella Weiss
Officials also announced the suspension of free trade deal negotiations with Israel over 19 months into the British-backed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
❗️Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed that a date has been proposed for the next round of Iran-US negotiations but said Tehran has not yet accepted the invitation.
In remarks at a memorial ceremony for the late President Ebrahim Raisi, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dismissed western opposition to Iran’s uranium enrichment as "nonsense," affirming that the Islamic Republic does not wait for permission to enrich uranium and follows its own independent path.
Khamenei added that he would explain at a later date why western powers are so insistent on halting Iran’s enrichment program.
(Tasnim News Agency)
❗️US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Syria could be weeks away from 'full-scale civil war.' (AFP)
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BREAKING | UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy announces the suspension of free trade deal negotiations with Israel and confirms that the Israeli ambassador has been summoned over Israel’s military expansion and ongoing blockade of Gaza.
Lammy warned that further action will be taken if Israel proceeds with Operation Gideon’s Chariots without allowing the entry of sufficient humanitarian aid.
❗️On Monday, Sudan’s ambassador to the United Nations said that the United Arab Emirates launched air and drone strikes on Port Sudan on 4 May, using aircraft based at an Emirati facility on the Red Sea.
Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss stated that the attack occurred a day after a Sudanese military airstrike on the city of Nyala, which targeted an Emirati aircraft and resulted in the deaths of 13 foreign nationals, including “Emirati elements.”
❗️“I want to save as many as these 14,000 babies as we can in the next 48 hours."
UN's humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher told BBC this morning that up to 14,000 babies in Gaza could die within 48 hours without immediate aid.
He called for a massive influx of humanitarian assistance and said the estimate is based on reports from UN teams on the ground, many of whom have been killed by Israel.
Khamenei blasts 'absurd' US demands in nuclear talks
The Islamic Republic has repeatedly rejected Washington’s calls for Tehran to halt uranium enrichment
⭕️ The Palestinian Water Authority has reported that at least 85 percent of water and sanitation infrastructure in the Gaza Strip has been damaged by Israel.
Gaza’s Government Media Office stated that since the October 2023, Israel has destroyed over 330,000 linear meters of water networks and more than 655,000 linear meters of sewage pipelines.
❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
– "87 martyrs and 290 injuries were admitted to Gaza Strip hospitals in the past 24 hours."
– "The initial toll of those who arrived at hospitals since dawn today until now is 53 martyrs and more than 50 wounded as a result of the occupation's massacres and targeting of citizens in the Gaza Strip."
– "The death toll and injuries since March 18, 2025 has reached 3,427 martyrs, 9,647 injuries."
❗️The UN has been granted Israeli approval for approximately 100 additional emergency aid trucks to enter Gaza, although the initial deliveries in weeks were still being held by Israeli authorities, a spokesperson announced today.
"We have requested and received approval for more trucks to enter today, many more than were approved yesterday," Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office (OCHA), told a press briefing in Geneva. Asked for a specific number, he replied: "Around 100."
❗️Earlier today, Palestinian journalist Mohammad Amin Abu Daqqa was assassinated by an Israeli drone in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
Israel has murdered at least 221 journalists in Gaza since the start of its brutal war.
❗️Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said at an economic forum in Doha that recent Gaza ceasefire talks have made no progress due to "fundamental differences between parties."
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BREAKING | A new 'security incident' reported in Gaza by Israeli pages. It is currently under military censorship.
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WATCH | Speaking earlier this month at the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford openly touted his role in rebranding former Al-Qaeda leader and ISIS operative Ahmad al-Sharaa.
Ford himself was a major backer of the extremist opposition groups unleashed across Syria at the start of the war in 2011.
India–Pakistan war: The winners and the losers
Chinese military hardware stole the show, French ones lost their stock, India's clout took hits, and Pakistanis crowed. Yet, ultimately, the brief, hot India–Pakistan war was a victory only for the Global North's divide-and-rule project for the Global South.
By Pepe Escobar
❗️Israeli occupation forces continue raiding Palestinians' homes during their invasion of the town of Kafr ad-Dik, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.
A curfew has been imposed in the town for the seventh consecutive day.
⭕️ At the Qatar Economic Forum, US deputy envoy for the region Morgan Ortagus repeated the US call for the full disarmament of Hezbollah across all of Lebanon, not just in the south, and urged Lebanese politicians to take decisive action.
Ortagus said that the Lebanese authorities have done more in the past six months than in the previous 15 years but emphasized that “there’s a lot more to go.”
Israeli Foreign Ministry's response to the UK: 'The British Mandate ended 77 years ago.'
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"Following the UK’s announcement that it will suspend free trade agreement negotiations with Israel and impose sanctions on settlers: Even prior to today’s announcement, the free trade agreement negotiations were not being advanced at all by the current UK government. More than that, the agreement would serve the mutual benefit of both countries. If, due to anti-Israel obsession and domestic political considerations, the British government is willing to harm the British economy — that is its own prerogative.
The sanctions against residents of Judea and Samaria are unjustified, and regrettable, especially at a time when Israel is mourning yet another victim of Palestinian terror — Tzeela Gez, of blessed memory, who was murdered on her way to the delivery room.
Doctors continue fighting for her newborn’s life in hospital.
The British Mandate ended exactly 77 years ago. External pressure will not divert Israel from its path in defending its existence and security against enemies who seek its destruction."
UN warns 14,000 babies at risk of dying in Gaza, calls Israel's aid scheme 'potential war crime'
The UN undersecretary for humanitarian affairs says the babies will die in the next 48 hours if aid does not reach them
❗️Israel's Channel 13:
"Israel is preparing to return the negotiating delegation from Doha, as no progress has been made in the talks."
BREAKING | UK sanctions a number of Israeli settlers linked with violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Among those targeted is extremist settler leader Daniella Weiss.
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❗️Quds Brigades announces that its fighters successfully detonated a pre-planted GBU-39B bomb, left behind by Israeli forces, targeting an Israeli military vehicle during its incursion on Al-Montar Street in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, on 12 May 2025.
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❗️Local sources in Syria report that unidentified individuals posted religious leaflets on several churches in Al-Hamirat, Tartous Governorate, calling on Christians to convert to Islam and describing other religions as "false."
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⭕️ Nearly 100 bodies were found in four newly discovered mass graves in the village of Sanobar in the Jableh countryside of the Syrian coast, reportedly victims of the widespread massacres committed by the HTS-led Syrian security forces and their affiliated extremist factions in March.
Local residents compiled lists identifying 44 victims in the first grave, 33 in the second, 19 in the third, and 9 in the fourth.
⭕️ Israel approves $1.4 billion border wall between occupied West Bank and Jordan in push to expand control over Jordan Valley
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The Israeli security cabinet has approved a $1.4 billion plan to construct a high-tech, multi-layered security barrier along the entire eastern border with Jordan, in what it claims is a step to bolster “national security.”
The 425-kilometer wall—stretching from the southern Golan Heights to Eilat—will combine physical fencing, advanced sensors, military outposts, and command infrastructure.
Construction is set to begin in June and will unfold in stages, with initial work focusing on 80 kilometers of terrain. War Minister Israel Katz framed the project as a preemptive measure against Iran (weapons entering from Jordan), claiming it would prevent the eastern front from becoming “another terrorist corridor.”
Many argue the move is less about security and more about accelerating de facto annexation of the occupied West Bank.
Researcher Aliyan al-Hindi notes the project mirrors earlier proposals from the Sharon era that aimed to shift the border 20 kilometers westward into Palestinian territory. If implemented, the wall would cut through the Jordan Valley and large swathes of land near Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and southern Hebron—areas long targeted for Israeli expansion.
Critics warn that the plan threatens to enclose Palestinian communities into fragmented enclaves, further entrenching isolation and segregation on the ground under the guise of border security.
Israeli drone strike on south Lebanon injures several including children
Tel Aviv has violated the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon over 3,000 times since it was signed in November
❗️Gary Lineker, BBC’s highest-paid presenter, has left the British news company following a social media post he shared last week condemning Israel and Zionism. He shared someone else’s video that included an emoji of a rat, which is an old anti-Semitic trope.
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