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US-Israeli genocide in Gaza

Palestinians across the besieged Gaza Strip have endured yet another day of carnage as Israeli strikes continue unabated, claiming more civilian lives. In northern Gaza, Israeli warplanes targeted an UNRWA medical facility in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing nine children along with nearly a dozen other Gazans. Survivors have described the attack ‘Beyond imagination’. Meanwhile in central Gaza, at least two more Palestinians fell victim to an Israeli drone-strike, hitting a gathering of people west of az-Zawayda town. Another drone in southern Gaza injured several more people targeting a neighborhood, near Khan Yunis. Such attacks have taken the lives of around 50 Gazans and injured dozens more within just 24-hours raising the Palestinian death toll since the regime broke the truce, on March 18, to more than 1,100.

Israeli atrocities in West Bank

Israeli forces and settlers continue their violent raids on towns and cities across the occupied West Bank, killing and injuring more Palestinians and damaging their property. In one of the latest incursions, Israeli forces killed a 33-year-old Palestinian during a morning raid in the Old City of Nablus. The regime’s forces also demolished a Palestinian farm and several structures in the town of Abu Dis, east of Al-Quds. Earlier, Hundreds of settlers, who were protected by the regime’s forces, burned two livestock farms and three vehicles. Three Palestinians were shot with live and rubber-coated steel bullets during confrontations that ensued the attack. Violent attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have greatly increased in the West Bank over the past several months, leaving hundreds of Palestinians dead. 

Tensions over Taiwan

China's military has conducted a live-fire drill around Taiwan, a day after its large-scale naval and air exercises, aiming to warn Taiwan against pursuing independence. The exercise, codenamed ‘Strait Thunder’ was carried out in the middle and southern regions of the Taiwan Strait, an essential route for global shipping. The drills involved precision strikes on simulated targets such as key ports and energy facilities. Taipei has condemned China’s drills as a threat to peace and security in the region. Taiwan has scrambled its fighter jets as parts of its measures to monitor China’s actions. The military drills come amid rising tensions, as China reaffirms its claim over Taiwan with the self-governed island demanding sovereignty, relying on US support and military aid. But Beijing has vowed that as long as Taiwan independence provocation continues, anti-independence punishment will not stop.

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