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Israel deadly raids on Lebanon

The Israeli regime presses ahead with its brutal war on Lebanon, killing and injuring more civilians in the Arab country. In the capital Beirut, over a dozen airstrikes hit residential buildings in the city’s southern suburbs, resulting in multiple casualties. That followed an evacuation order for several areas. The regime also targeted a town east of Beirut, killing at least five people and wounding two others. In the north, Israel conducted its first strike since October 2023, hitting a building housing Syrian refugees in the village of Ain Yaaqoub. The attack killed at least 28 people and injured several others. Meanwhile, the IOF continued striking the southern cities of Nabatieh and Tyre. The recent strikes bring the death toll since October last year to more than 3,200, with above 14,100 people injured.

Khan Yunis bloodbath

More civilians are killed and injured in Gaza as the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on the blockaded Palestinian territory rages on. An Israeli shelling of a house in Gaza City killed three Palestinians. Another airstrike targeted a group of people in the west of the city of Khan Yunis, killing eleven civilians. 15 Palestinians were killed in shelling of a house in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza that remains under crippling Israeli siege for more than a month. The death toll since the beginning of the regime’s onslaught on Gaza in October last year has surpassed 43,600 with over 103,900 injured. Meanwhile, on the ground, 4 Israeli soldiers have been killed and several others have been injured by resistance fighters in northern Gaza. The Israeli military has been carrying out an extensive ground invasion there, in what Palestinian officials, journalists, and witnesses describe as ethnic cleansing.

Slamming Israeli agenda

Condemnations are pouring in after the remarks by an Israeli far-right minister about the annexation of the occupied West Bank. EU foreign policy Chief, Josep Borrell said he QUOTE “unequivocally condemns” Bezalel Smotrich’s call to take over the West Bank, and described it as an obvious step toward illegal annexation. Earlier, Jordan’s foreign ministry called the statement a blatant violation of international law. A spokesman for the Palestinian president slammed the Israeli plan, saying it is a confirmation to the world that the regime’s new focus will be the West Bank. Palestinian resistance movements, Hamas and Islamic Jihad said the remarks show the colonial intention of the Israeli regime and its denial of Palestinians’ rights. Hamas stressed that the West Bank is, and will remain, an integral part of the independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital. It also urged Muslim countries and the United Nations to stop Israel’s illegal policies that only escalate tensions at regional and international levels.

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