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April 2025

Gaza: 21 martyrs and 64 wounded people arrived at hospitals in 24 hours
Palestinian Information Center: Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 21 martyrs and 64 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks. Read More

Hamas says dealing positively with Cairo ceasefire talks
Al Mayadeen
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The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas announced on Saturday that its negotiating delegation, led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, has departed for the Egyptian capital, Cairo, in response to an official invitation from Egypt. In a statement, Hamas said the delegation would meet with Qatari and Egyptian mediators to continue efforts aimed at reaching an agreement and securing a ceasefire to end Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Read More

Hamas warns of settlers’ intent to preform Passover rituals at Aqsa Mosque
Palestinian Information Center:
Senior Hamas official Haroun Nasiruddin has warned that Jewish temple mount groups’ declared intent to perform animal sacrifice rituals at the Aqsa Mosque reflects persistence in targeting the Islamic holy site and igniting a religious conflict.
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Iran, US to hold next round of indirect talks on Saturday: Araghchi
Al Mayadeen: Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi announced that the next round of negotiations between Tehran and Washington is scheduled for next Saturday, following what he described as a "constructive" first round of indirect talks in the Omani capital of Muscat. Speaking after the conclusion of Saturday’s session, Araghchi said that four exchanges of messages took place between the Iranian and American delegations through Omani intermediaries. Read More

Indonesia's Gaza intervention: A humanitarian gesture or a strategic trap?
Press TV:
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday announced his country's readiness to offer temporary shelter to Palestinians injured in the ongoing Israeli genocidal war that has claimed over 50,000 lives in nearly 600 days. Read More

How The West is Using Israel to Control The Arab World?
by Dr Elias Akleh
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It would be better for the Arab leaders to warn and inform their people that Israel is a launching pad for a broad western colonial campaign aimed firstly at destroying the Arab homeland and colonizing it by planting Zionist terrorism in the form of the Israeli entity which aims to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates, from the far south of the Nile – on the Sudan borders – to the far north of the Euphrates – to the Turkish borders – to build what is called Greater Israel in the Promised Land promised by a racist land broker god to a criminal, savage, genocidal people. Read More

Pakistan's religious leaders announce Jihad against Israel, US over Gaza genocide
Middle East Eye:
Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, one of Pakistan's most prominent Islamic scholars and a former judge of the Federal Shariat Court, has declared military "jihad" against Israel is an obligatory duty for all Muslim governments. Speaking at the National Palestine Conference in Islamabad on Thursday, Usmani said Muslim countries had "failed to provide sufficient support to those fighting to protect" Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. "What is the use of the armies of Muslim countries if they do not engage in jihad?" he asked. Read More

Global Humanity and Remaking of Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution for the 21st Century and  Beyond By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
The book offers critical analysis of current global affairs (wars in Gaza and Ukraine and several other pertinent issues) and invites policy makers in the Western world to RETHINK about their role and practices to wage egomaniac wars against innocent humanity and its ultimate natural consequences to destroy Earth, human lives and sustainable future for all.
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Detainee Ahmed Manasra Freed After 10 Years in Israeli Prisons
Al Mayadeen
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Israeli authorities released 23-year-old Ahmad Manasra from Nafha Prison in the Negev Desert on Thursday, ending 10 years of imprisonment. Israeli authorities deliberately released Ahmad Manasra away from the main gate of Nafha Prison, where his family had been waiting to welcome him, and after his release, he encountered a resident of Be’er Sheva and used their phone to call his family and let them know he had been free, as per Al Mayadeen's correspondent.  Read More

Gaza Health Ministry: Israeli attacks left 186 martyrs and wounded in 24 hours
Palestinian Information Office:
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Thursday that hospitals in the Gaza Strip received 40 martyrs and 146 wounded during the past 24 hours. Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a horrific massacre by bombing a densely populated residential square in Baghdad Street in the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, on Wednesday morning, which resulted in the complete destruction of about ten houses on top of its residents, leading to the martyrdom of 40 civilians and the injury of more than 50 people. Read More

Israeli army continues to launch deadly attacks on Gaza
Palestinian Information Office
: The Israeli occupation army continued last night and on Thursday to carry out deadly attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of civilians. According to local media sources, Israeli forces also continued today to detonate more homes and displace families in the Gaza Strip, further exacerbating the dire humanitarian situation under a stifling blockade that risks plunging the population into severe famine. Read More

Gaza: Dozens released from Israeli jails
Palestinian Information Office: The Israeli occupation army released some 80 Palestinian detainees into the war-battered Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, local sources said. The detainees, who had been kidnapped during the genocidal war on Gaza, were set free at the Israeli-controlled Kissufim border crossing in eastern Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, the Anadolu news agency quoted local sources as saying. Read More

Dozens of settlers defile Aqsa Mosque
Palestinian Information Office: Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Thursday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, dozens of settlers entered the Mosque through its Maghariba Gate and provocatively toured its courtyards under police protection.
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Sudan tells ICJ UAE driving force behind genocide in Darfur
Al Mayadeen
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Sudan told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was the "driving force" behind what it called
a genocide in Darfur via its support for rebels fighting the Sudanese army.  Sudan accused the UAE of providing weapons to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have been fighting a two-year civil war against the Sudanese army, and while the UAE denied these allegations, UN experts and US lawmakers considered the accusations credible. Read More

Scholar: Without strong response, Arabs risk falling under Israeli control
Press TV
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In the absence of a strong Arab response, the Levant region could fall completely under the dominance of the Israeli regime, an Arab scholar and head of a research institute warns.
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Three civilians killed in Sana'a as US intensifies airstrikes on Yemen
Press TV
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At least three civilians have been killed in new US airstrikes on Yemen's capital, bringing to 107 the total number of people killed in such attacks across the country since mid-March.
The al-Masirah television, citing Yemen's health ministry, said the strikes hit the al-Sabeen district early Thursday. Read More

Israeli airstrikes kill 45 in Gaza, dozens in one massacre
Al Mayadeen
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At least 45 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since dawn Wednesday, according to an Al Mayadeen correspondent, with 35 of the fatalities recorded in the al-Shuja'iya neighborhood in eastern Gaza following a horrific massacre committed by Israeli forces. According to reports, Israeli warplanes launched midday strikes targeting a residential block consisting of eight adjacent homes in al-Shuja'iya, resulting in dozens of martyrs and wounded, most of them women and children. Several people remain missing under the rubble. Read More

Hamas calls on normalizing countries to close Israeli embassies
Palestinian Information Center
: Hamas demanded that countries still maintaining relations with the “criminal Zionist occupation” cut those ties and close the embassies of the “Nazi entity,” in support of the Palestinian people who are facing a “brutal Zionist genocide.” In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas said that the terrorist occupation army committed a bloody massacre this morning in one of the most heinous acts of genocide, by bombing a residential area crowded with civilians and displaced persons in the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City, resulting in the death of 29 martyrs, most of whom were women and children, and injuring more than 50 others, while the search continues for dozens missing under the rubble. Read More

Israel bombs several civilian houses in southern Lebanon
Al Mayadeen
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Israeli forces escalated attacks on southern Lebanon Wednesday, striking a home in Yater with missiles after threat calls, hitting prefabricated rooms in Ramia via drone, and maintaining constant aerial surveillance.
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Yemeni Armed Forces shoot down US MQ-9 drone, 3rd in 1 week
Al Mayadeen
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The Yemeni Armed Forces have documented the wreckage of a US MQ-9 drone that was shot down over Al-Jawf province on Wednesday, according to footage released by the Yemeni Military Media. Read More

Trump announces 90-day pause on tariffs but raises China levies to 125%
Press TV:
US President Donald Trump has declared a 90-day pause on tariffs, but notably excluded China from the delay.
The announcement was made via his Truth Social platform. It outlined a temporary reciprocal tariff of 10% for most countries during the pause. However, tariffs on Chinese goods were sharply increased to 125%, also effective immediately. Read More

58 Palestinians martyred, 213 injured in Gaza in the past 24 hours
Palestine Information Center:
The Ministry of Health in Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that its hospitals received 58 martyrs and 213 wounded citizens over the past 24 hours. It pointed out that the casualties of the Israeli renewed aggression since March 18 had reached 1,449 martyrs and 3,647 injured.
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Egypt proposes new deal for Gaza ceasefire: Israeli media
Al Mayadeen
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The Israeli regime received Egypt's updated proposal for a prisoner exchange deal and a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. 
The deal revolves around the release of eight living captives from the Gaza Strip in exchange for a truce that lasts between 40 and 70 days. Captives would be released in stages; however, Israeli media outlets said that neither the Palestinian Resistance led by Hamas nor the Israeli government had issued their final response to the deal. Read More

US war machine takes Yemen under 22 new attacks; 16 killed, injured in al-Hudaydah
Press TV
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The United States has launched 22 fresh deadly airstrikes across several provinces around Yemen shortly after subjecting the country to dozens of similar aerial attacks.
Yemeni sources reported the new assaults on Wednesday, saying they targeted the capital Sana’a and the central province of Ibb among other places. Read More

Hamas mourns Tunisian youth who raised Palestinian flag
Palestine Information Center:
The Hamas Movement has mourned the death of Fares Al-Khaled, a 21-year-old Tunisian youth who passed away on Monday after attempting to raise the Palestinian flag atop a building at the Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Design in Manouba Governorate, northern Tunisia.
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Death toll of journalists in Gaza rises to 211 since October 7, 2023
Palestine Information Center:
The Government Media Office in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the number of journalists killed since Israel launched its war of genocide on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, has risen to 211. This comes following the killing of journalist Ahmad Mansour, who succumbed to his wounds on Monday after an Israeli airstrike targeted a journalists’ tent near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
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US secures 99-year rent-free access to Diego Garcia naval base
Al Mayadeen
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The United States is preparing to acquire long-term, rent-free access to Diego Garcia, a distant military base in the Indian Ocean, under a pact close to being signed by Mauritius and the United Kingdom.
The pact permits US soldiers to utilize the island for 99 years without paying rent. The pact has sparked political debate in Britain, with the Reform Party's deputy leader Richard Tice indicating that if the Reform Party were to win, the pact would be cancelled. Read More

Israeli Airstrike Kills 9 Children Playing in Gaza Street
Quds News Network
: A chilling attack by the Israeli military has left nine children dead as they were playing in the street in Gaza. The airstrike targeted the children in the Al-Tufah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, on Sunday, as part of the ongoing genocide in the region. Read More

Gaza is a graveyard of the Muslim world’s conscience
Mondoweiss
: Gaza’s blood stains not only the hands of Israel, the U.S., and the West — but also those of 2 billion Muslims who remain silent witnesses. Read More

Faith without deeds

Blood for trillion-dollar deal

First They Came for The Jews… The Waqf Amendment Bill 2024
by Dr Ram Puniyani
: Parliament recently passed the Waqf Amendment Bill calling it ‘Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995, UMMID, in short. In the wake of the LoP, Rahul Gandhi stated that after this the religious properties of other communities will be targeted. He was on the dot as immediately after the passage of the bill the RSS mouthpiece Organiser published an article about the property of the Catholic Church. Though it immediately withdrew the article, the message was loud and clear. Read More

Pakistan  Cricket Is In A Crisis
By Syed Rifaquat Ali
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Not a single player
in the Pakistan cricket team looks like an established professional cricketer. Recently, the Pakistan cricket team toured New Zealand and played three T-20 and three ODI, and lost all matches but one (Pakistan won one T-20 match). Read More

Gaza children slaughtered amid violent strikes; death toll hits 50,695
Al Mayadeen
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26 Palestinians were killed and 113 were injured in 24 hours, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported, as Israeli attacks on the besieged enclave continue unabated. In a statement released Sunday, the Ministry confirmed that several victims remain trapped under the rubble and in the streets, where emergency and civil defense crews are unable to reach them due to ongoing Israeli assaults. Read More

Iran warns neighbors against US use of their airspace for attacks
Al Mayadeen
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Iran is resisting US President Donald Trump’s demands for direct talks over its nuclear program, instead proposing continued indirect negotiations via Oman, a long-established intermediary, a senior Iranian official told Reuters.
Iran has simultaneously issued warnings to regional countries, including Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Turkey, and Bahrain, warning them that allowing US forces to use their territory or airspace in an attack on Iran would be viewed as a hostile act. Read More

Yemeni forces conducts fresh retaliatory operation against US warships in Red Sea
Press TV
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The Yemeni Armed Forces have launched an attack on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and its escorts in the northern Red Sea in retaliation for the continued US aggression against the Arab country and the destruction of its vital infrastructure.
Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesperson for Yemen’s military, stated on Sunday morning that the hours-long operation involved coordinated strikes by naval, drone, and missile units. Read More

US spent $1 billion on Yemen offensive with limited results: Report
Press TV
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A recent report has revealed that the US military’s nearly $1 billion offensive against the Yemeni armed forces has had limited success in impacting its capabilities.
The US broadcaster, CNN, cited three unnamed sources as saying that the onslaught, which was launched on March 15, has already used hundreds of millions of dollars worth of munitions for strikes against Yemen’s armed forces, including JASSM long-range cruise missiles, JSOWs, which are GPS-guided glide bombs, and Tomahawk missiles. Read More

Fractured Ummah: How leadership crisis, disunity undermined the Palestinian cause
Press TV
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The Islamic world, once a beacon of unity and resistance against colonialism, now stands fractured and weakened. This fragmentation is the result of decades of internal failures and cunning ploys by external powers to create fissures in the fabric of the Ummah.
Propaganda, sectarianism, and the prioritization of narrow national interests have eroded the collective strength of the Arab and Muslim world. At the heart of this disunity lies the failure to rally around the Palestinian cause, a seventy-year-old struggle that remains a litmus test for Arab and Muslim solidarity. Read More

Muslim scholars issue fatwa calling for jihad against Israel as strikes pummel Gaza
Middle East Eye: Several prominent Muslim scholars have issued a rare religious decree or "fatwa", calling on all Muslims and Muslim-majority countries to wage "jihad" against Israel after 17 months of devastating war against Palestinians residing in the besieged enclave. Ali al-Qaradaghi, the secretary general of the International Union Of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an organization previously led by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, called on all Muslim countries on Friday “to intervene immediately militarily, economically and politically to stop this genocide and comprehensive destruction, in accordance with their mandate”. Read More

Israel’s Ritual of Massacres: The Philosophy Behind Killing Palestinians on Eid
Quds News Network: On the first day of Eid al-Fitr, Israel turned Gaza into a slaughterhouse. Warplanes bombed homes, refugee camps, and even rescue workers. At least 76 Palestinians were murdered, including entire families, women, and children. This was not just another day of war. It was part of a pattern. Killing on Eid has become an Israeli ritual, one designed to shatter the spirit of an occupied people. Read More

Israel has killed over 300 children since it broke Gaza ceasefire: UNICEF
Press TV:
The UN children’s fund (UNICEF) says Israeli forces have killed over 300 children since Tel Aviv broke the Gaza ceasefire and renewed its genocidal war on the territory on March 18.
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Hezbollah mourns commander, son, martyred in latest Israeli aggression
Al Mayadeen:
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah announced on Tuesday the martyrdom of Commander Hassan Ali Bdeir, known as Hajj Rabih, on the path to occupied al-Quds.
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BNM’s Three Day Campaign in Geneva:
Advocating for Balochistan’s Independence and Exposing Pakistan’s War Crimes
Pressenza:
The Baloch National Movement (BNM) organized a three day campaign at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, to raise awareness about Pakistan’s ongoing genocide against the Baloch nation and to advocate for an independent Balochistan
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US deports 100,000 people, arrests 113,000 since Trump's inauguration
Al Mayadeen:
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported over 100,000 individuals since President Donald Trump took office, the New York Post reported, citing an ICE source.
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