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Crisis in the Middle East
Welcome! Here's the news headlines rundown 2025-APR-01 - 16:00 CEST (Links safety-checked, no paywalls)
#Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #Yemen #Syria 🔔 with updates
🛡 SECURITY LEB (local time): 13:00 🛑🕯Emergency Operations: Death toll of ISR raid on suburb rises to: REPORT -- MAR-31 ⚠️🛑 ISR forces open fire on tobacco farmers: REPORT NNA -- MAR-28 VOT🕯Two killed in ISR airstrike on south Lebanon's Yohmor al-Shaqif: MoH - REPORT NNA -- MAR-27 ⚠️VOT Health Ministry: Civilian injured in Israeli drone attack on Houla - VOT🕯Three killed in Israeli strike on Yuhmor al-Shaqif: REPORT NNA -- 🔵 UNIFIL: Any further escalation of this volatile situation could have serious consequences for the region - REPORT NNA -- MAR-20 📢 General Security Chief of LEB meets U.S. Ambassador: REPORT NNA -- MAR-19 ✅ Army (LAF) deploys security measures in Hosh Al-Sayyed Ali following border tensions: REPORT NNA -- MAR-19 🔵 UNIFIL soldier injured by landmine explosion in southern Lebanon: REPORT NNA -- MAR-17 🔵 UNIFIL peacekeepers in Sector West donate blood to the local community: REPORT NNA -- VOT🕯 Public Health Ministry’s Emergency Operations Center: ISR airstrike on Yohmor leaves one dead, three injured: REPORT NNA -- ⚠️📢 General Security warns against interacting with "SAWA" facebook page: REPORT NNA -- Death toll in total: 🛑🕯4151* people killed, more than 16,800* wounded since the beginning of the Israeli aggression: MoH -- 🛑🕯 Israel kills more than 229* 👩🏽⚕️👨🏾🚒 medics, emergency workers: WHO *updated
✈️ AIR SPACE: ++ ❌🛬 British Airways suspends flights to Israel until end of March 2025 ++ 🛫 American Airlines flight from New York to Delhi diverted to Rome over security threat: REPORT Anadolu ++
✅🛫 JAN-31 Royal Jordanian begins its inaugural flights to Damascus: REPORT JNA ++ ✅🛫
Turkish Airlines resumes flights to Syria after 13-year hiatus: REPORT NNA ++ ❌
🛂 Turkish Airlines forbids Iran, Israel nationals access to flights to Syria: REPORT MEMO ++ ✅🛫 Turkish Airlines to resume flights to Damascus: REPORT Ahram ++ ✅🛫 Iraq to resume
flights to Lebanon, transport minister says: REPORT MEMO ++ ✅🛫 Yemen: Sanaa International Airport fully operational REPORT YNA ++ ✅🛫 Royal Jordanian, Ethiopian Airlines to resume flights to Lebanon, Gulf carriers delay decisions: REPORT Arab News ++
📰 HEADLINES: ++ ⚠️Yemen air defenses shoot down US drone in Marib: REPORT YNA ++ 📢 Millions of Egyptians rally in solidarity with Palestinians against displacement: REPORT Ahram ++ 🛑🕯📢 IFRC 'outraged' at killing of eight medics in Gaza: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 📢 Egypt ‘deeply concerned’ over Israeli escalation in Lebanon: FM to Lebanese PM - REPORT Ahram ++ 🛑🕯Yemen: One killed, four injured in US airstrikes on Saada - REPORT YNA ++ ⚠️ Israel says 2 missiles from Yemen intercepted amid escalation over Gaza assault: REPORT Anadolu ++ ⚖️📢 Turkish court frees AFP journalist as police break up campus protest: REPORT NNA ++ 🛑 21K+ flee Syria violence, Lebanese delegation Damascus visit postponed: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ Expelled South African ambassador to US returns home with ‘no regrets’: REPORT MEMO ++ 📢 Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee deplores renewed Israeli war on Gaza: REPORT NNA ++ US airstrikes target Yemen's Hodeidah and Ma'rib: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 📢 Yemeni community in Germany condemns US-Israeli crimes in Yemen, Gaza: REPORT YNA ++ Algerian decision fuels dispute with France: REPORT MEMO ++ 📢 Moroccans protest Israel's resumption of genocide in Gaza: REPORT MEMO ++ 🛑🕯Yemeni Health Ministry: 132* dead or injured in US-UK strikes on Sanaa, Saada, and al-Bayda ++ *updated
⛔ WEST BANK INVASION: ++ 🛑 Four Palestinians injured in colonists' attack on park-goers north of Jericho: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️ ISR forces set fire to homes in Nour Shams refugee camp during Eid al-Fitr: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️ ISR forces, colonists attack Palestinian homes in Masafer Yatta area: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 ISR colonists attack livestock in northern Jordan Valley: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Nablus: Hundreds of Palestinians forced to break fast at checkpoint amid Israeli siege -- REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 ISR forces demolish three stores in northern Jenin: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Over 5,350 violations committed by illegal Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank in past decade: REPORT MEMO ++ 🛑 ISR colonists raid archaeological site near Nablus: REPORT WAFA ++ ❌ ISR forces close checkpoint in Hebron, stranding Palestinian residents and schoolchildren: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑📢 ISR forces detained 762 Palestinians, including 19 women and 90 children, in February: REPORT YNA/PPC ++ 📢 Ministry of Health condemns Israeli raid on Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron: REPORT ++ 🛑🕯Detainee from Jenin dies in Israeli Megiddo prison: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 ISR forces deliver 25 notices to empty Palestinian lands of agricultural rooms and crops in Nablus: REPORT WAFA ++ ❌🚰 Israeli destroys water network in Kisan village, near Bethlehem: REPORT WAFA ++ ISR colonists storm 🔵 UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem: REPORT WAFA ++ *updated
⚖️ GENOCIDE IN GAZA: ++ ⚠️ ISR forces issue new forcible eviction orders for more areas in Rafah: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️📢 Presidency warns of the recent Israeli evacuation orders for entire city of Rafah: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯👨🏾🚒 PRCS announces the number of bodies retrieved in Rafah rose to 14: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯 Renewed Israeli bombardment in Gaza and Khan Younis kills seven Palestinian civilians, injures dozens: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯Over 180 children killed in single day in Gaza amid Israeli assault: 🔵 UN -- REPORT Anadolu ++ 🛑 Nasser hospital, the largest functioning hospital in Gaza, Palestine, was hit by an Israeli strike on March-23: PRIME SOURCE MSF 🛑🕯Eight Palestinians killed in ISR airstrikes, including two* journalists: REPORT WAFA ++ 📰 Amid global inaction, Israel intensifies its forced displacement campaign in the Gaza Strip: PRIME SOURCE Euro-Med Monitor -- MAR-20 🛑🕯ISR airstrikes across the Gaza Strip kill 96* Palestinians, injure others: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯 🔵 UN employee killed, other injured, after ISR forces bombed UN headquarters in Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ ✅👨🏾🚒🧕🏾 Palestinian Red Crescent Society re-operate Al-Quds Hospital in Tal al-Hawa: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯Recent ISR airstrikes on Gaza kill over 192* children — 🔵 UN OCHA: REPORT NNA ++ VOT🕯 Extensive ISR airstrikes on the blockaded strip, more than 500* people killed: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 🔵 UNRWA opens 130 temporary 🧕🏾📚 education centers in Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯Gaza Civil Defence recovers 48 bodies from Al-Shifa Hospital: REPORT MEMO ++ 🔵 UN inquiry accuses Israel of committing acts of genocide in Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Israel provided Gaza with only 5 MW of electricity before power cut: REPORT Anadolu ++ 👩🏽⚕️📢 ICRC warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza: PRIME SOURCE ++ 👩🏽⚕️🧕🏾⛺️ Jordanian Field Hospital 'Gaza 5' treats 26,361 Palestinians: REPORT JNA ++ 👩🏽⚕️👨🏾🚒⛺️ Red Crescent field hospital in Gaza City treats dozens of patients and wounded: REPORT WAFA ++ *updated by MoH
MEDIA WORKERS: MAR-24 🛑🕯ISR bombardment kills Al-Jazeera journalist in Gaza: REPORT WAFA -- 🛑🕯Mohammad Mansour of Palestine Today TV killed in an airstrike: REPORT WAFA FEB-18 ❌🛑 Israel extends closure of Al Jazeera's Jerusalem office, bans work for another 60 days: REPORT MEMO ++ 🛑🕯 209* journalists killed by Israel in Gaza: REPORT MEMO 🛑🕯 ++ Anadolu freelance cameraman Saed Abu Nabhan killed by Israeli army: PRIME SOURCE ++ Number of journalists killed in Gaza exceeds that of World War II: REPORT YNA ++ Family of journalist 🕯Shatha Sabbagh holds PA responsible for her death in Jenin: REPORT YNA ++ 📢 CPJ calls for international probe after evidence indicates Israel targeted journalists in deadly Lebanon strike: PRIME SOURCE CPJ ++ 🛑 Israeli military court sentences WAFA’s Rasha Harzallah to prison and fine: REPORT WAFA ++ CPJ: ‘Catastrophic’ Journalists say ethnic cleansing taking place in a news void in northern Gaza ++ Journalists Syndicate Ramallah: The occupation commits a new massacre against journalists REPORT WAFA ++
🗄️ Last week's breaking news: ++
📢 Third Palestine Conference kicks off in Sanaa: REPORT YNA ++ 📢 Sanaa, 🔵 UNHCR discuss joint cooperation in Yemen: REPORT YNA ++ Knesset approves return of extremist Ben Gvir, his Otzma Yehudit party
to occupation government: REPORT YNA ++ 📢 Egypt,
Qatar discuss efforts to stabilize Gaza ceasefire despite Israeli attacks: REPORT NNA ++ 📢 Jewish activists arrested in US protest for Palestinian’s release: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 📢 Qatar calls for IAEA
inspection of all Israeli nuclear sites: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 🛑🕯Over 300 Syrian Alawite civilians killed in latest massacre: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 📢 LEB Ministry of Public Health and 🔵 UNICEF launch ACWA Programme to support war-wounded children in Lebanon: REPORT NNA ++ 📢 Freed hostages demand Netanyahu to fully implement Hamas deal: REPORT NNA/AFP ++ 🔵 UN expresses support for Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 📢 Algeria warns France against ‘tampering with’ 1968 migration pact: REPORT Anadolu ++ 📢 Leaders of Malaysia, Columbia and South Africa say Gaza war proved international system a failure: REPORT WAFA ++ 📢 Arab League chief decries Israeli strikes in Syria as ‘provocative escalation’: REPORT MEMO ++ Iran rules out
'direct talks' with US on nuclear issue: REPORT NNA ++ 📢 ICC asked to investigate Biden and
other former US officials for complicity in war crimes: REPORT MEMO ++ ⚖️
ICJ allows African Union to participate in case on Israel's obligations regarding 🔵 UN activities in occupied Palestinian territories: REPORT
MEMO ++
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🛑 #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #GenevaConvention
VOT #ViolationOfTruce
🛡 #CivilProtectionMeasures #security
Latest report
Amid global silence, Israel’s statements and aid blockade confirm intent to continue genocide
Report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Humanitarian aid is a fundamental right of civilians under international humanitarian law, with no exceptions, and there is no legal justification for Israel to deny Palestinians access to essential aid. Israel is not only using humanitarian aid as a bargaining chip for political and military gain, but is also deliberately enforcing a policy of systematic starvation, creating life-threatening conditions designed to make survival in the Gaza Strip impossible.
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Photo: Trucks of Egyptian Red Crecent carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip cross the border gate in Rafah, Egypt.
2024: A Year of Reckoning - World Report 2025
Report by Human Rights Watch
This has been a year of elections, resistance, and conflict, testing the integrity of democratic institutions and the principles of international human rights and
humanitarian law. Whether in response to heightened repression in Russia, India, and Venezuela, or catastrophic armed conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, governments around the world are being
called upon to demonstrate their commitment to human rights, democracy, and humanitarian action.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: Palestinian civilians return to Khan Younis in Gaza, April 26, 2024
Killer Robots: UN Vote Should Spur Treaty Negotiations
Report by Human Rights Watch
Urgent action needed to address Autonomous Weapons Systems: The record number of countries voting in favor of the second-ever United Nations General Assembly resolution on lethal autonomous weapons systems, or “killer robots,” highlights the urgent need to open negotiations on a new treaty to ban them, Human Rights Watch said in a statement from DEC-05 in New York.
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Photo: The United Nations General Assembly hashtag #UNGA at UN Headquarters in New York City
‘Catastrophic’: Journalists say ethnic cleansing taking place in a news void in northern Gaza
Report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ Staff)
On Wednesday, November 6, an Israeli strike killed at least 15 people in a house in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. But communications difficulties meant that the Gaza health ministry struggled to determine the death toll. This is just one example of countless others where local reporters were able to help verify information about potential atrocities during Israel’s escalating offensive in the area, journalists tell CPJ.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: Journalists film destroyed buildings in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in northern Gaza on October 9, 2024
The international system has shamefully failed to halt Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Palestinian Territory - The reluctance of the international system to implement decisive actions against Israel’s mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern region, exposes a stark disregard for Palestinian lives and dignity, and fuels the continuation of its crime of genocide. Institutions like the European Union (EU), International Criminal Court (ICC), and International Court of Justice (ICJ), alongside various United Nations (UN) bodies, have deviated from their founding principles of protecting civilians and upholding justice. In over 13 months, these bodies have neglected their fundamental duty to safeguard civilian life and stop Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
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Photo: An Israeli soldier poses as homes burn in the background in northern Gaza - Social Feed
Journalists face Israeli strikes, displacement, attacks as war escalates in Lebanon
Report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ Staff)
The recent escalation of Israel’s war in Lebanon has imperiled the press as they face Israeli strikes that have destroyed news outlet offices and killed at least three journalists, in addition to being assaulted, obstructed, threatened, and detained while reporting. At about 03:00 am - on October 25, an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing 18 journalists from multiple media outlets in Hasbaya, a town in southern Lebanon. The strike killed Al-Mayadeen TV’s camera operator Ghassan Najjar, broadcast engineer Mohammed Reda, and Al-Manar TV’s camera operator Wissam Kassem.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: Mourners and media personnel carry signs with pictures of the three Lebanese journalists killed in an Israeli strike on October 25, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT - COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS
A year on, there is still no accountability following the October 13, 2023, targeted Israeli attack that killed Issam Abdallah and injured six journalists in southern Lebanon -
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Photo: AFP journalist Dylan Collins speaks on his mobile phone after being injured by Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon on Oct. 13, 2023. The Israeli strikes, later determined to be targeted
attacks, killed a Reuters videographer and wounded six other journalists
JUSTICE REPORT EUROPE
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and
Morocco cannot include goods or resources originating from Western Sahara.
The ECJ emphasized that Western Sahara is considered a “non-self-governing territory” under international law and, therefore, it is
distinct from the Kingdom of Morocco. As such, any trade agreements that include products from Western Sahara must explicitly recognise this status and cannot be automatically considered as part
of agreements involving Morocco. Read the report by Middle East Monitor:
DIRECT LINK
Indie Journalism
In the largest public analysis of ISR military strike footage, Airwars reviewed hundreds of clips of strikes in Gaza posted on official military media accounts in the first month of the war. Despite the grainy videos published with few details on targets or locations, Airwars matched 17 strikes to specific geo-coordinates where researchers had tracked Palestinians killed or injured. In these strikes alone, more than 400 civilians were reported killed. Source: Airwars Org
Lawyers for the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq went back to court to challenge Keir Starmer's failure to ban all arms sales to Israel. Declassified UK spoke to lawyers Dearbhla Minogue and Ahmed Abofoul.
For the 32nd year, the entire world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to the illegal US embargo against Cuba. The USA and Israel opposed the
international community in a vote of 187 to 2. Ben Norton explains why the US empire has waged such a vicious economic war on Cuba for six decades.
Source: G/E
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