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❗️An Arab source participating in the mediation talks with Hamas has reportedly told Israeli i24NEWS Channel that Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas will soon choose the names of 15 members for a committee to administer the Gaza Strip, from a list of 40 candidates.
At present, no agreement has been reached between the parties on the committee’s formation or any nominee, and the final decision lies with Egypt. Hamas has once again proposed to Egypt a formula under which it would commit to handing over its heavy weapons to Egypt, refraining from smuggling arms, digging tunnels, or conducting any military build-up activities.
BREAKING | Israeli helicopter opens fire toward the eastern areas of Gaza City.
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VIDEO | The moment the bodies of 45 Palestinians who were held captive by Israel arrived at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
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⭕️ Riyadh cables signs MoU to manage and develop Syrian cable facilities
Riyadh Cables Group Company announced that its subsidiary has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with the Syrian Sovereign Fund to manage, operate, and develop the facilities of Syrian Modern Cable Company. The agreement aims to strengthen Syria’s cable industry by localizing technical expertise and enhancing local capabilities in the energy and electrical cables sector. Further development plans are yet to be disclosed.
❗️Hamas's military wing, the Qassam Brigades:
"As part of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood prisoner exchange deal, the Qassam Brigades will hand over the bodies of three Israeli captives that were found earlier today along the route of one of the tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip, at 8 pm Gaza time."
BREAKING | Israeli shelling reported in eastern Gaza City.
(Palestine Today correspondent)
Iraq, Turkiye finalize 'first of its kind' agreement to regulate shared water resources
Turkiye has built multiple dams allowing it to limit the flow of water desperatedly needed to keep Iraq's rivers from drying up
‼️ According to his family, Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Hussein Ghawadra, from the village of Bir al-Basha south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, has died in Israeli prisons.
He is the father of freed detainee Shadi Ghawadra, who was exiled to Egypt.
VIDEO | An Israeli surveillance balloon was spotted flying over the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon.
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Washington’s ‘new Gaza’ project meets Gulf pushback
Trump’s Gaza reconstruction plan envisions rebuilding only within areas under Israeli control in the strip
❗️According to local sources, the body of Assaf Hamami, commander of the southern brigade in the Israeli army’s Gaza Division, who was captured by the resistance on 7 October, 2023, has been recovered in Khan Yunis, south Gaza.
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❗️Local sources to Sham TV:
"Israeli occupation forces are bringing logistical equipment and engineering vehicles towards the countryside of Quneitra adjacent to the disengagement line opposite the occupied Golan."
⭕️ Sudan briefs UN on UAE-backed RSF atrocities in El-Fasher and Bara
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Sudan’s envoy to the UN in Geneva, Hassan Hamid, presented what he described as “extensive evidence” of atrocities committed by the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El-Fasher, North Darfur, and Bara, North Kordofan, since 26 October, according to SUNA, Sudan’s state news agency.
Speaking before senior UN officials including Deputy High Commissioner Nada al-Nashif, Hamid detailed “ethnically motivated executions” targeting civilians, along with “mass killings of patients, caregivers, and medical staff at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El-Fasher.” He also reported the burning of residential areas, sexual assaults, and killings of displaced people who had sought shelter in hospitals and schools.
Hamid accused the international community’s inaction of emboldening the RSF “to continue these horrific crimes.” He further described similar atrocities committed in Bara following the militia’s seizure of the city on 25 October, which triggered mass displacement and widespread human rights violations.
RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) later admitted that “violations” occurred but claimed investigation committees were formed.
VIDEO | Israeli occupation forces abduct a woman from the town of Al-Dhahiriya, south of Hebron in the West Bank.
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⭕️ Israel says three bodies handed over by Hamas not captive remains
Israel announced on Saturday that the remains of three individuals handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross in Gaza do not belong to any Israeli captives.
The handover came a day after Israel returned the bodies of 30 Palestinians to Gaza, completing an earlier exchange that followed the transfer of two hostage remains earlier in the week. Hamas’s armed wing said it had offered Israel body samples for testing, but Israel refused and demanded full remains for examination. The group stated it handed them over “to stop Israel’s claims,” while Gaza’s health authorities noted difficulties in identifying bodies due to a lack of DNA testing kits.
Since the so-called 'ceasefire' began on 10 October, the Palestinian resistance has released the remains of 17 captives, with 11 still in Gaza. In exchange, Israel has been returning 15 unidentified Palestinian bodies for each Israeli captive’s remains. Hamas has said that Israel's violations, along with the widespread devastation in Gaza, have made the task of retrieving Israeli captives' remains extremely difficult.
So far, 225 Palestinian bodies have been returned, of which only 75 have been identified, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
❗️Yemen’s Ansarallah warns of 'crushing' response to any Israeli attack
A senior Ansarallah official, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, vowed that any act of aggression by the Israeli regime against Yemen would be met immediately with a “crushing” response. His statement followed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Ansarallah is a major threat to Israel and his pledge to eliminate the movement.
Another senior figure, Mohammed al-Farah, dismissed Israeli threats as a diversion from the regime’s military failures and the ongoing devastation in Gaza, warning that any attack on Yemen would only swell the ranks of the resistance and provoke a decisive counterstrike.
Since October 2023, Yemeni forces say they have carried out numerous operations in solidarity with Gaza which have included striking targets across the occupied territories, targeting Israeli vessels, and enforcing a maritime blockade that Yemeni authorities say has disrupted military supply routes and Israeli trade.
(Press TV)
VIDEO | Israeli occupation soldiers who raped a Palestinian captive inside the notorious Sde Teiman prison held a press conference while hiding their faces and bragging that they are still free.
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BREAKING | Israeli Knesset advances death penalty bill targeting Palestinian detainees
Israel’s Knesset National Security Committee has advanced a bill that would impose a mandatory death sentence on Palestinian detainees convicted of killing Israelis, after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir renewed pressure on the coalition and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled his support.
The proposal, which had previously been delayed over concerns it could endanger Palestinians still held in Gaza, is now being rushed to a first reading in the plenum as early as Wednesday, reflecting the government’s ongoing shift toward harsher, exclusionary measures against Palestinians.
What makes the bill especially punitive is that it is drafted to apply only to those who kill Israeli citizens (often during armed acts of resistance), while explicitly not applying to Israelis who kill Palestinians. Far-right ministers are insisting that courts have no discretion, framing it as “deterrence,” but the result is the consolidation of a two-tier legal system in which Palestinians can be executed by law and Jewish Israelis cannot, even in cases of racially or nationally motivated killings. It also fits into a wider campaign to harden an already inhumane Israeli policy toward Palestinian detainees since 7 October, 2023, using the “security” pretext to expand carceral and capital powers over a population under occupation.
US issues ‘final warning’ to Baghdad over Iraqi resistance factions
The country’s defense minister says Washington informed him of upcoming US operations ‘near Iraq’
UPDATE | Israeli media and police spokesperson report that Israeli prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has been found alive.
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‼️ Israeli prosecutor linked to torture video leak disappears, police launch beach search
Israeli media reports that Israeli police are searching for Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi after losing contact with her.
The prosecutor, who resigned after being implicated in leaking horrific footage of Israeli soldiers torturing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility, has gone missing.
Police search operations are centered around Tel Aviv’s Tzuk Beach, where her vehicle was found. According to Channel 12, she left a message for her family before disappearing, prompting them to contact authorities.
Israeli Carmel News channel commented that she “should have been under protective arrest” as “many high-ranking figures in the deep state are interested in making sure she doesn’t open her mouth.”
Israeli war minister accuses Lebanese president of ‘dragging feet,’ threatens ‘deeper’ escalation
Israel has killed over 30 people since the start of last month under the pretext of preventing Hezbollah from rebuilding its forces
⭕️ US issues 'final warning' to Iraq over resistance factions
Iraqi Defense Minister Thabit al-Abbasi revealed what he described as Washington’s “most serious warning” to Baghdad, delivered by his US counterpart Pete Hegseth during a phone call.
According to Abbasi, the warning concerned Iraq’s resistance factions and included a direct threat “in the event that these factions carry out any operations in response to what Washington intends to do in the region near Iraq in the coming days.” Hegseth reportedly ended the call with the words: “This is your final notice … and you know very well how the current administration will respond.”
The Iraqi minister said the conversation, which lasted about 12 minutes and included senior Iraqi military officials, also touched on cooperation regarding drones, a proposed intelligence-sharing memorandum, and a pending deal for Bell helicopters. Analysts told Asharq al-Awsat the warning reflects a new US approach aimed at 'curbing Iranian influence' and pressuring resistance factions to “either align with the state or await potential US military operations.”
(Asharq al-Awsat)
⭕️ Netanyahu calls Palestinian prisoner abuse leak worst PR crisis in Israel's history
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the leak of footage showing ostensible abuse of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman “caused enormous reputational damage to Israel, to the IDF, and to our soldiers.”
“It is perhaps the most serious public-relations attack Israel has experienced since its founding — I cannot recall one so concentrated and intense,” he added, calling for an “independent and impartial inquiry.”
The remarks came after Military Advocate Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned Thursday, admitting she had leaked the 2024 video.
⭕️ In a statement, Hamas denounced the false claims made by US Central Command about the alleged looting of an aid truck in Gaza, calling them baseless fabrications meant to justify cutting humanitarian aid and to cover up the international community’s failure to end Israel’s blockade and starvation of civilians. The movement said Gaza’s police and security forces lost more than a thousand members while protecting aid convoys, and that chaos and looting only occurred under Israeli occupation control. No international or local organization has filed any complaint or report about such an incident, proving the claim was fabricated to justify the siege.
The movement also said US drones that allegedly captured footage of a truck failed to record Israel’s daily crimes, including the killing of 254 Palestinians—91 percent of them civilians—since the ceasefire began, the destruction of homes, and the prevention of essential supplies from entering Gaza.
It also said Washington’s stance deepens its complicity in the siege and suffering of Gaza’s population and called on it to show human conscience and moral responsibility instead of continuing to justify Israel’s ongoing violations.
❗️Israeli PM Netanyahu in a cabinet session:
• "We will not allow the Lebanon front to once again be a source of threat to Israel, and we will do what is necessary to prevent that."
• "The Houthis are a very significant threat to Israel and we will do whatever is necessary to remove it."
• "Hamas is present in positions under our control in Khan Yunis and Rafah, and we are working to eliminate its members there."
❗️ Contradicting reports by Tasnim News Agency, Iran’s government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani confirmed that Tehran has received messages from the United States regarding the possible resumption of nuclear negotiations.
“The Iranian Foreign Ministry has received messages from the US about restarting the nuclear talks,” Mohajerani said, adding that “further details about the nature and content of these messages will be shared at an appropriate time.”
⭕️ Iranian source denies receiving US message via Oman
An informed source told Tasnim News that reports claiming the United States had sent a message to Iran through Oman are “not true,” refuting allegations published by Iraq’s Baghdad Al-Youm.
The Iraqi outlet had reported that Washington conveyed a proposal to resume suspended nuclear talks via Muscat.
Iranian officials reiterated their commitment to diplomacy but stressed that any negotiations “with predetermined and one-sided results are unacceptable.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi recently stated in Oman that the US has shown no readiness to negotiate on equal terms, leaving Tehran “no justification” to continue talks under current conditions.
(Tasnim News)
❗️Israeli official to Al-Arabiya TV:
"We will not allow the reconstruction of the direct line of Lebanese villages along the northern border."
⭕️ After participating in the war on Gaza, a senior officer — considered one of the Israeli army’s most veteran drone operators — has committed suicide. Military censorship continues to bar the publication of his name, despite months having passed since his death.
(Haaretz)