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❗️Israeli Beitar Jerusalem fans assault Palestinian bus drivers after football cup final loss
Following Beitar Jerusalem’s defeat in the Israeli national football cup final last night, multiple eyewitness reports confirm that Palestinian bus drivers were brutally attacked in the aftermath of the match by Israeli settlers.
The attackers, affiliated with Beitar’s nationalist fan base, unleashed verbal abuse and physical violence on Palestinian workers near public transportation hubs in the city.
❗️Israeli police arrested Sanaa Salama, the widow of the late Palestinian intellectual Walid Daqqa, while she was with her daughter Milad in Jerusalem after Ben-Gvir demanded her deportation.
According to Hamas’ Prisoners’ Media Office, Sanaa was transferred to an interrogation center.
The Israeli police confirmed the arrest in a statement, claiming she was being investigated for allegedly posting content that “incites against the state and its soldiers.”
❗️At least 10 people killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza today
(Medical sources to Al Jazeera)
BREAKING | Israel issues mass forced displacement order in Gaza across vast area, but to where are people supposed to go?
In a new wave of forced displacement, Israeli authorities have demanded the immediate evacuation of all residents from the neighborhoods of Al-Atatra, Jabalia al-Balad, Shujaiya, Al-Daraj, and Al-Zeitoun, now declared “active combat zones.”
These areas cover a huge portion of northern Gaza; neighborhoods where tens of thousands of civilians, including many already displaced, are currently sheltering. The map issued with the announcement shows an extensive red zone now marked as “dangerous combat area.”
While no clear safe zones are provided, the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate.
❗️Israel preventing UN from accessing Gaza aid for three days, says spokesperson
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that around 600 aid trucks are currently waiting on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) crossing, but Israel has denied the UN permission to retrieve and distribute the supplies for the past three days.
Dujarric explained that all movement must be coordinated with COGAT, the Israeli agency overseeing activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. He noted that the UN requires Israeli clearance to access and return from the aid site and raised concerns about the safety of the approved routes. “The last time we were able to move goods, we had an agreed-upon route with the Israelis,” he said, adding, “ongoing insecurity and restrictive conditions are making it extremely difficult to deliver humanitarian assistance.”
US says Israel accepts Witkoff ceasefire proposal
The proposal reportedly does not include a guarantee that the ceasefire would become permanent, a key Hamas demand
❗️White House: Israel approved temporary ceasefire proposal sent to Hamas
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the temporary ceasefire proposal submitted to Hamas earlier today had "the full backing of Israel."
“Israel signed off on this proposal before it was sent to Hamas,” she told reporters.
Leavitt added that discussions are ongoing and expressed hope for a ceasefire, though she did not clarify that it is only temporary, which would allow for the return of captives. She declined to provide further details and said she was unsure whether Hamas had accepted the proposal. “If and when a ceasefire is confirmed, you’ll hear it from me, the president, or Special Envoy Witkoff,” she said.
BREAKING | Israeli settler militias set fire to Palestinian farmland near the village of Al-Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
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Blasts reported near GHF site as Gaza aid seekers targeted by Israeli army
US mercenaries operating the aid distribution site also opened fire at Palestinians with stun grenades
❗️Palestinian civilians trapped near Gaza aid point are at risk amid Israeli military presence
Palestinians who traveled to a newly established aid distribution site at the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza are now stranded due to heavy Israeli military activity in the area, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reporting from Gaza City.
Mahmoud said Israeli tanks and armored vehicles have surrounded the site, with gunfire making it too dangerous for people to leave. Many of those stuck had walked over five kilometers to collect a single food parcel and are now calling on the Red Cross to help secure a safe passage. “They’re exhausted, traumatized, and hungry,” he added.
Eritrea breaks west's Red Sea chokehold, pivots to Iran, Russia, China
Tel Aviv loses another Red Sea partner: Eritrea emerges as a critical node in the rising Eurasian multipolar nexus, defying US-Israeli plans for regional control.
By Aidan J. Simardone
Breaking | Khader Faqih, a paramedic with the Al-Risala Scout Association, was shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces while inspecting his home in the Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, near the Lebanon-Palestine border.
His killing marks a new violation of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, signed in November 2024.
❗️Netanyahu backs Witkoff’s Gaza proposal, but only for temporary ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the captives families on Thursday that he accepts US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s temporary ceasefire proposal, Axios reported.
Hamas has confirmed it is studying the offer, reiterating its longstanding position that any agreement must lead to a full and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The Witkoff proposal only introduces another temporary truce.
❗️12-year-old Palestinian boy shot by Israeli forces during West Bank raid
A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was wounded after Israeli forces opened fire during a military incursion into the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank on Thursday evening.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the child suffered gunshot injuries to both legs and was treated by emergency medical teams at the scene.
❗️A woman has been killed and several people injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip, according to local sources.
Sources in Gaza hospitals confirmed that three people were also killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Saftawi area, north of Gaza City.
❗️UNRWA says enough aid to save 200,000 in Gaza waits in their warehouses
UNRWA wrote on X that in Amman, a three-hour drive from Gaza, “we have enough supplies to sustain over 200,000 people for an entire month”.
“Flour, food parcels, hygiene kits, blankets and medical supplies are ready to be delivered”, the agency added, again urging the unrestricted allowance of aid into Gaza, which has been under an Israeli blockade since March.
⭕️ A video published by Israeli soldiers documents their use of a Palestinian as a human shield, after forcing him to wear military fatigues and search homes in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
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In the past two hours, Israeli warplanes launch several airstrikes on villages in south Lebanon and Bekaa.
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❗️Earlier this evening, Israeli warplanes bombed the southern Lebanese villages of Al-Rayhan, Al-Bissariya, Ramia, Yater, Ain Qana, Kfar Fila, Tebna, Wadi Barghaz, and the outskirts of Kfar Kila.
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BREAKING | Israel says it intercepted one missile launched from Yemen.
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❗️Israel has killed at least 70 Palestinians in attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn today.
(Medical sources to Al Jazeera)
⭕️ 'We will not be uprooted' | Thousands of Palestinians mobilize in Beersheba (Bir al-Saba') as Israel escalates home demolitions in the Negev (Naqab)
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Thousands of Palestinians rallied in the city of Beersheba (occupied Bir al-Saba') today in one of the largest demonstrations witnessed in the Negev (occupied Naqab) in recent years.
The mass mobilization, dubbed the national “Dignity Demonstration,” was organized in protest of Israel’s intensifying campaign of home demolitions and forced displacement targeting Arab Bedouin communities.
Protesters converged near the so-called “Bedouin Resettlement Authority,” denouncing what they view as state-led efforts to uproot and erase indigenous presence under the guise of 'unlicensed construction.'
The demonstration, which drew an estimated 15,000 people from across the Negev and other Arab towns, was marked by black flags, powerful chants, and signs rejecting demolitions, displacement, and erasure.
Slogans like “Stop the demolitions and displacement” and “We will not be uprooted” highlighted the community’s unwavering demand for recognition, dignity, and the right to remain on their ancestral lands. The protest coincided with a region-wide general strike that shut down schools, municipal offices, and public services in a sweeping act of civil disobedience.
Organized by the High Steering Committee for Arabs and other local bodies, the protest was hailed by political groups like the National Democratic Assembly as a turning point.
The party emphasized that the demonstration shattered fear and reasserted Palestinian political presence in the street. It called for a unified grassroots strategy to resist Israeli colonial policies in the Naqab and beyond, linking the struggle for housing and recognition to the broader fight against displacement, apartheid, and systematic violence across all of Palestine.
(Arab 48)
WATCH | Former UNRWA spokesperson says the US-Israeli "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)" is “a fig leaf for genocide.”
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⭕️ UK minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Hamish Falconer, said on Thursday that the Israeli government’s approval of 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank is a "deliberate obstacle" to Palestinian statehood.
"The UK condemns these actions. Settlements are illegal under international law and do not protect Israel," he added.
❗️Israeli forces killed municipal employee in southern Lebanon, not Hezbollah member, Lebanese official confirms
The mayor of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Zein Ali Ghandour, has rejected Israeli claims that a recent airstrike killed a Hezbollah member, stating instead that the victim was a municipal worker carrying out his duties. The strike, which targeted the outskirts of the village, killed Mahmoud Hasan Atwi while he was operating a water well to supply the town.
In a statement, Ghandour condemned the attack as a direct assault on civilians, public infrastructure, and state institutions. He urged the international community to take action against what he described as ongoing Israeli violations.
WATCH | Qassam Brigades publishes, as part of the "David's Stones" series of operations, footage from a complex ambush that targeted Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the area of Al-Aqsa School in the town of al-Qarara, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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UK prosecutors collaborate with Israel to persecute anti-genocide activists as 'terrorists': Report
Activists disrupting the production of Elbit drones used by Israel to kill civilians in Gaza are being prosecuted under UK counterterror laws
US envoy meets Syrian president in Damascus, promotes 'dialogue' with Israel
Thomas Barrack said the US must 'give this young government a chance' amid its continued abduction and killing of members of the Alawite religious minority
❗️Israeli forces climbed onto the roof of the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque in Tulkarem's Nour Shams refugee camp, located in the northern occupied West Bank, and raised the Israeli flag atop the mosque.
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