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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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📹 Aftermath of yesterday's attack on the Golani brigade HQ in Al-Manara as a result of an attack from Lebanon.

The Israeli army acknowledged the injury of one soldier.
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🔒 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Fearful Netanyahu scrambles to prevent ICC arrest warrant: Report

🔶️ Israeli journalist Ben Caspit wrote that Netanyahu is “under unusual stress” over the possibility of an arrest warrant being issued against him by the UN tribunal at the Hague, adding that he is leading a “nonstop push over the telephone” to prevent it.

🔶️ The ICC could also issue warrants to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, according to the report.

🔶️ “We will never stop defending ourselves. Whereas decisions of the court in the Hague will not affect Israel’s actions, they would be a dangerous precedent threatening the soldiers and officials of any democracy fighting criminal terrorism and aggression,” Netanyahu said on 26 April.

🔶️ Earlier this month, it was reported that arrest warrants could be issued against top Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, prompting an emergency meeting at the prime minister's office on 16 April.

🔶️ Israel has been accused of genocide by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). An interim ruling at the start of the year determined that Israel was plausibly guilty of the crime of genocide and ordered it to stop genocidal acts during its war on Gaza and take measures to guarantee the efficient provision of humanitarian aid to the strip.

Article reported by @CIG_telegram
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🌷 Palestine: Karim Abu Saleh, a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, from the northern town of Sakhnin, died in Israeli prison 10 days after being re-arrested for an unknown reason.

He was originally arrested for allegedly working with ISIS, and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Israeli sources claim Abu Saleh has "most likely taken his own life". This sounds very strange considering the fact that Karim's first child was born just a few days ago, while Karim was in custody.

He is the 16th Palestinian prisoner since October 7th to die within Israeli prisons-turned-concentration-camps operated by the Israeli Prison Service. A few dozen more Palestinians were murdered since October 7th in concentration camps operated by the IDF.

By B.M. on X
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📷 Artillery shelling on Blida village damaged the local mosque.

Despite that, athan (call for prayer) was sounded.
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📹 Hezbullah released footage of its rocket attack on Meron settlement yesterday night.

The rocket launcher was prepared in the day and timed to launch at night.
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📷 A couple of hours ago, an Israeli attack targeted al-Balat mountain near Marwahin village.

Now, two big explosions were heard in south Lebanon.
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📷 The target was the same as the one from couple of hours ago, Marwahin and Al-Ballat mountain.

Sounds were heard all the way in Tyre.
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⚠️ A rocket barrage was fired in the direction of the Galilee tip.
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📹 Hamas takes credit for the rocket attack from Lebanon towards Israel, in response to the Israeli massacres in Gaza
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📑 Throughout the day, the Israeli enemy carried a series of attacks on Lebanon that included:

- A drone airstrike in Aita al-Shaab
- Airstrikes in Rashaya al-Fukhar, Burger valley in Hasbaya, Teir Harfa, and Khiyam.

Additional Israeli artillery attacks targeted the above, alongside Haneen and Al-Jebayn. At least one civilian woman was injured in the attacks.
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🔻 As for Hezbullah, they took credit for three different attacks:

- Ruwaysat al-Alam military base with a few rockets
- Kherbet Ma'ar artillery base with a concentrated fire attack
- Houses in Metulla settlement hosting soldiers

📑 At least 40 rockets were fried from Lebanon today, the bulk being by Hamas.
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📹 Rain and floods reported in northern Lebanon, notably the Beqaa valley.
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🔴 New York Times business editor Andrew Sorkin seeks an economic boycott on anti-genocide students.

He wrote in a column:
⬥ “Many business leaders have told me they are deeply concerned about incidents of harassment against Jewish students that have taken place at and around universities like Columbia”
⬥ “Companies could tell universities that they won’t hire their students
⬥ “Wall Street, private equity and venture capital firms may uniquely have [a pressure point]: They could threaten to stop managing the endowments” of the universities.
⬥ “Examining D.E.I. policies [Diversity, equity, and inclusion] [...] What would happen if the Wall Street firms also sent such questionnaires to the universities before deciding to work with them as clients?”
⬥ “The most common course of action so far has been to pull back on individual donations.”
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🔴 Israel erases Gaza's religious and cultural heritage

The Pasha's Palace (13th century), also known as Ridwan Castle and Napoleon's Fort, has been completely destroyed.

206 heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed since the start of the Israeli assault.

Have been levelled:
⬥ the ancient harbour of Anthedon (Mycenaean era)
⬥ the archaeological site of the Byzantine Church of Jabalia (built in 444)
⬥ the Great Omari Mosque (7th century)
⬥ the Sayed al-Hashim Mosque (12th century)
⬥ the Library of the Great Omari Mosque (opened in 1277)
⬥ the Samaritan Bathhouse (restored in 1320 by the Mamluk ruler)
⬥ the Rafah Museum (2022)
⬥ the Qarara Museum (2016), whose collection consisted of about 3,000 artefacts dating back to the Canaanites in the Bronze Age.

📝 The deliberate destruction of Gaza's cultural artifacts is an ethnocide or cultural genocide. They should have been protected under Article 1 of the 1954 Hague Convention, that Israel has signed along with Palestine.

Via: QudsNen and Al-Jazeera
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📷 About an hour ago, the Israeli army attacked Khiyam village for the second time in a row today.

🔻 In response, Hezbullah fired an ATGM at a house in Avivim and Duviv settlements. One attack has been credited as of now.
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📑 Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.

The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during an expected Israeli assault.

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📑 The International Criminal Court is being warned by members of Congress in both parties that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with U.S. retaliation — and legislation to that effect is already in the works, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has gone so far as to urge President Biden to intervene to help prevent the warrants, Axios' Barak Ravid reported.

The White House declined to comment on Netanyahu's call with Biden but said "the ICC has no jurisdiction in this situation and we do not support its investigation."

Driving the news: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) issued a statement on Monday calling the reported warrants "disgraceful" and "lawless."

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