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The Zionist occupation military has conducted an assault in the southern Lebanese province of Nabatieh, killing at least one individual, in the latest flagrant breach of a tenuous ceasefire agreement with Lebanon – PressTV report.

Lebanese Health Ministry: One person was injured in the Zionist airstrike on a car in Al-Abbassiyeh, Tyre district, South Lebanon.

Zionist artillery shelling targeted the outskirts of Kfarshouba, South Lebanon, alongside intensive sweeping operations.

Al Akhbar

Two separate clashes broke out on Wednesday between residents of the southern Lebanese towns of Yater and Froun and UNIFIL soldiers, after peacekeepers attempted to enter the towns without a Lebanese Army escort.

The situation escalated to the point where UNIFIL personnel brandished their weapons, prompting the Lebanese Army to intervene, request reinforcements, and eventually restore calm.

Local media reported rising public resentment toward UNIFIL, fueled by a BBC report showing peacekeepers escorting a journalist to a former Hezbollah site.

The Cradle Media

The Wall Street Journal revealed that ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan is preparing international arrest warrants for Zionist ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir. The charges relate to their involvement in expanding illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, which could constitute war crimes under international law.

Prosecutors are also investigating other Israeli officials linked to settlement expansion. The final decision on whether to proceed rests with Khan’s deputies, as Khan is expected to go on leave. There is uncertainty about how the court will handle the matter in his absence.

Experts raised concerns about the potential for US retaliation, including efforts to cut off the ICC from the US financial system. Such measures, they warn, could paralyze the court and pose a serious threat to its future operations.

Al Akhbar

Zionist colony secretly approves 22 new illegal settlements in occupied West Bank
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Zionist colony’s Security Cabinet has secretly approved the construction of 22 new illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank, according to a report by Yedioth Ahronoth. The move includes the re-establishment of settlements dismantled under the 2005 disengagement plan, and was proposed by War Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. The Cabinet also approved resuming land registration in Area C, which makes up 61% of the West Bank and is under full Israeli control.

The move comes despite a July 2024 ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declaring Israel’s presence in the occupied territories unlawful. Since October 2023, nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in West Bank attacks by Israeli forces and settlers.

The Cradle Media

The Gaza Media Office says the massive wave of Palestinians quickly advancing toward the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) center in Rafah is the result of the systematic weaponization of starvation by the Zionist colony.
The Media Office condemned the Israeli regime on Tuesday, and said the video footage of starving Palestinians overrunning a GHF aid center is an indictment of the regime and its systematic policy of “starvation, siege, and bombing.”
The GHF is an Israeli-US-backed group, based in Geneva, that has been set up to function as an alternative to the already established methods of aid delivery, through UN-affiliated organizations, to Gaza.
The UN and many aid organizations have refused to cooperate with the GHF, which they say contradicts humanitarian principles and appears to “weaponize aid.”
“Thousands of starving civilians besieged and cut off from food and medicine by the occupation for nearly 90 days, rushed to these areas in a heartbreaking scene that ended with the storming of distribution centers and the seizing of food under the crushing weight of hunger,” the Media Office said.
The Israeli regime’s forces have responded to the starving crowd by “opening fire and injuring several citizens, which reflects the total collapse of the so-called humanitarian track that the occupation claims to uphold,” the Media Office added. 
Ahmed Abu Taha, that was one of the people who went to the center to seek aid, reported that crowds of people stormed into the distribution center and broke the fences. They heard gunfire and saw Israeli forces aircraft overhead, “It was chaos … people were panicked,” he said.According to the reports by the Israeli media, the so-called aid workers affiliated with the GHF, instead of trying to control the situation or at least provide some semblance of order amid the chaos, have evacuated the center.
The GHF has said in a statement that due to the huge number of people moving toward the center, it was forced to evacuate its employees and although it has its own armed forces, they did not open fire on the people.
The GHF has claimed it began “distributing” aid yesterday and according to the organization, by late afternoon on Tuesday it had distributed about 8,000 food boxes, equivalent to about 462,000 meals.
But the reality of the situation, as seen by the reports coming from southern Palestine, has shown that the GHF operations have collapsed under the strain of the entire population being starved for three months.
Since October 7, when the Israeli regime began its genocidal war on Gaza, it has killed nearly 54,000 Palestinians and injured nearly 119,000 others, most of whom are children and women.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has escalated dramatically since March 18 because the Israeli regime has severely restricted the entry of food, fuel, medicine, and water into the territory.
According to the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), Gaza suffers from phase 5 famine, and nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are at risk of acute malnutrition.
IPC defines phase 5 famine as when at least one in five households experience an extreme lack of food and face starvation, resulting in destitution, extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition, and death.

PressTV report