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Mar 21 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Israel’s military says a ground invasion of southern Gaza’s Rafah is under way and troops are pushing into the north near the town of Beit Lahiya and central areas.
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Israeli war planes have bombed military targets west of the capital Damascus, according to the TV Manar news outlet.
Hamas calls Israel’s strikes a ‘treacherous’ attack on defenceless Palestinian civilians, accusing it of trying to overturn the Gaza ceasefire. Netanyahu says he acted due to stalled truce talks.
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Report says at least 308 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli air attacks across Gaza. The number of people killed so far included 154 in the northern part of the territory.
Israel's ongoing blockade of aid to Gaza has left roughly a million Palestinian children 'living without the basic necessities they need to survive,' according to UNICEF.
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The US military posts a video on X of a warplane taking off, saying "forces continue operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists."
This follows Houthi media reports of two new US strikes on Yemen's Hodeidah.
Israeli forces continue attacks on Gaza despite the ceasefire, while the US launches air strikes on Yemen after Houthi rebels vow to resume targeting Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea over Gaza's total blockade.
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The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting that an additional person has been killed in the US attacks on the northern province of Saada.
Israeli bombardment of Gaza's Rafah and nearby Khan Younis continues despite an active ceasefire, killing a number of Palestinians.
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Palestinian authorities say Israeli prison guards assaulted detainees in the Ofer prison, west of Ramallah, beating them and spraying them with gas.
Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, as temperatures plummet and Israel’s blockade on food, water and essential winter supplies continues.
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Israel summoned the Vatican ambassador over comments by Pope Francis, in which he criticised Israeli killings in Gaza as “cruelty”.
Medical sources in Gaza report dozens of Palestinians killed as Israeli bombings intensify and tanks advance in the besieged territory's north and south.
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At least three Palestinians were killed when Israeli fighter jets bombed the Nassar family home in central Gaza City.
Israel attacked the Lebanese capital Beirut in a new wave of powerful air attacks overnight, while it continues its deadly bombardment across the besieged Gaza Strip.
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A Palestinian man has been injured by live bullets in the chest during the Israeli forces' storming of the town of Aqqaba in the occupied West Bank, according to the report.
The UN has warned that Palestinian civilians held under “near-total brutal siege” by Israeli forces in northern Gaza are “starving while the world watches”.
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Israeli fighter jets are carrying out a 'very heavy bombardment,' with four consecutive strikes reported near Beirut's airport, according to Lebanon’s Al Araby Al Jadeed news outlet.
Israeli forces have attacked Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital for a second day, injuring medical staff, patients, and newborn babies.
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Israeli forces hit the children's ward with incubators at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital using "planes and quadcopter drones," forcing the evacuation of the nursery, according to medical staff member Eid Sabbah.
“The entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed under our watch”, says Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.
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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has told Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant a Gaza ceasefire would ‘dial down tensions’ with Iran.
Austin again reaffirmed the US’s “ironclad” for Israel.
Israeli forces have committed a 'major massacre' in which hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the Jabalia refugee camp, according to Gaza’s civil defence, while intense Israeli attacks continue across Lebanon.
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Around 150 Palestinians have been killed and injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, which has levelled at least 10 residential buildings, reports the Wafa news agency.
Israeli forces are targeting hospitals in northern Gaza, while they continue the stifling siege on Jabalia and deadly attacks across the besieged enclave.
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Israeli forces have laid siege to the al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia and the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, where hospital staff say tanks have surrounded the facilities and are shelling the buildings.
Hezbollah said it launched a "complex" attack to overwhelm Israel’s air defences, as Israel's nine-day siege of northern Gaza's Jabalia camp traps tens of thousands of Palestinians without food or water.
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Israeli fighter jets bombed tents housing forcibly displaced Palestinians inside the grounds of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, reports the Wafa news agency.
At least 200 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces as the military siege of north Gaza enters a ninth day, says the enclave's health ministry, as Israel continues air attacks on the besieged territory and Lebanon.
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The US has expressed concern to Israel after reports Israeli troops fired on UN peacekeeper positions in Lebanon, in at least two incidents since Thursday.
40 nations have signed a joint statement calling for peacekeeper protection.
On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we highlight the mental health crisis facing Palestinian children due to the war on Gaza, years of Israeli occupation, and forced displacement.
Around 80% of children in the Gaza Strip experience depression, sadness, and fear due to over a decade of the Israeli blockade on the territory, according to Save the Children.
Oct 7, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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Israel has killed more children in Gaza over the past year than in the equivalent period of any other war in the last two decades, according to Oxfam.
Many have called it a 'war on children.' We look at the impact Israel’s war has had on Palestinian children.
Israel's attacks on Gaza have left at least 19,000 unaccompanied children, who may be orphans or separated from their parents, says the UN.
The UN accused Israel of severe breaches of a child's rights treaty, saying its actions in Gaza have had a horrific impact on children.
Sep 30, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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#OnThisDay 24 years ago, Israeli forces shot and killed 12-year-old Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Durrah in Gaza as his father attempted to shield him from bullets.
The moment shook the world and turned Al-Durrah into a symbol of the second Palestinian Intifada ⤵️
The fatal shooting by Israeli forces of Muhammad and his father, Jaber al-Durrah, was captured by Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu Rahma, who was filming for TV channel 'France 2' during the Second Intifada in 2000.
Lebanon declares three days of mourning for Hassan Nasrallah after the Hezbollah leader was killed in an Israeli air attack on Beirut, as Israel’s warplanes continue their nonstop bombardment.
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Nasser Yassin, the minister coordinating Lebanon’s crisis response, says about 1 million people have been displaced by Israeli air attacks, including hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes since Friday, reports Reuters.