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Israeli artillery shelling east of Gaza City

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Gaza Ministry of Health: 4 martyrs and 9 injuries, the total that arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.

Gaza Ministry of Health: ▪4 martyrs and 9 injuries, the total that arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours. ▪1,505 martyrs and 5,332 injuries since the ceasefire on 11 October 2025 until today. ▪838 martyrs, total bodies recovered (from under the rubble) since the beginning of the aggression. ▪74,396 martyrs and 175,449 injuries since the beginning of the aggression on 7 October 2033.

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Gaza Government Media Office: We are closely monitoring the blatant campaign of disinformation and the false statement issued by the so-called “Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories”

Gaza Government Media Office: ▪We are closely monitoring the blatant campaign of disinformation and the false statement issued by the so-called “Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories,” through which he is trying, as usual, to promote false claims and fabricated accusations about the mechanisms for organizing commercial movement and the entry of goods into the Strip, inventing stories about forcing traders to pay money by force, distorting procedures for regulating cash circulation, and trying to hold the government apparatus in Gaza responsible for the disruption of truck entry. ▪In the face of this disinformation practiced by the occupation, which aims to evade humanitarian obligations and justify violations and threats to impose more restrictions that deepen the policy of starvation against our people, we have taken the initiative to put the relevant international and regional parties in the picture with the clear facts, as we have sent official letters and correspondence to the following: the mediators, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the State of Qatar, and the Republic of Turkiye; Ramiz Alakbarov, Acting Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process; the UN Humanitarian Coordinator; Nikolay Mladenov, Executive Director of the Peace Council; and Ali Shath, Commissioner-General of the National Committee for Gaza Management. ▪We affirm our categorical rejection of these fabrications promoted by the occupation and categorically deny imposing any taxes or government fees on commercial trucks. ▪We affirm that we have not collected any taxes or fees on commercial activities throughout the past three years, taking into account the exceptional humanitarian and economic conditions we are experiencing in light of the war of genocide against the residents of the Gaza Strip. ▪As for what the occupation’s coordinator falsely referred to regarding the amount of (10,000 shekels), it is in fact linked to a “voluntary community initiative” in which a number of businessmen, personalities, institutions, and companies operating in the Strip participate within a national community contribution fund, and its resources are directed entirely to supporting the most vulnerable and affected groups (orphans, widows, women in need, children, and needy students), in addition to financing shelter, sanitation, and urgent relief projects, according to the highest humanitarian standards and considerations. ▪The procedures related to cash transactions (at a rate of 30%) that the occupation tried to distort came as an inevitable necessity to address the severe imbalances in the Palestinian market, foremost among them the severe shortage of cash liquidity and the spread of worn-out banknotes, and the resulting increase in citizens’ suffering and the disruption of buying and selling operations and the settlement of daily transactions. ▪We affirm that this approach was not a unilateral government decision, but rather came in full agreement with the Chamber of Commerce and at its initiative, in response to the challenges facing market activity. ▪Reducing these regulatory measures to claims of “controlling money,” without verifying their nature and objectives, is a purely misleading conclusion that lacks objectivity, and through which the occupation seeks to justify policies of restriction and starvation against our Palestinian people. We affirm our full readiness to clarify the regulatory bases of these procedures before the competent international bodies. ▪The government apparatus in the Gaza Strip is committed, out of its responsibilities, to applying Palestinian law and combating the monopolization of essential goods, price manipulation, and exploiting citizens’ needs to achieve illegitimate gains under harsh humanitarian conditions, and we will not leave our people prey to any attempts at monopoly, manipulation, or exploitation. ▪Any procedures taken against some traders are based solely on suspicions and violations that require legal accountability, including suspicions of illicit gain, and are fully subject to the legal and judicial principles and procedures in force in Palestine and in the Gaza Strip specifically. ▪We strongly reject the occupation’s attempt to build general conclusions on individual cases whose circumstances were not presented in full, and to exploit them to portray them as a campaign of forced collection. We are fully prepared to provide all documents and testimonies for an objective verification of the reasons for those lawful and justified measures. ▪Our top and urgent priority is ensuring the regular and sufficient flow of goods. Accordingly, the announced understandings, including what was agreed upon in the Sharm el-Sheikh track, obligate the occupation government headed by the criminal “Netanyahu” to implement its commitments to allow aid and supplies to enter, specifically the entry of (600) trucks per day. ▪We stress our categorical rejection of allowing any reduction or obstruction of this commitment, or linking its implementation to flimsy claims about regulating the internal market. ▪We also reject any attempt to hold the government apparatus responsible for reducing the entry of trucks, as the استمرار of these restrictions deepens the humanitarian and economic crisis and hinders the provision of food, medicine, and shelter.

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Correspondent: One injured person in critical condition in shelling by an Israeli drone on Al-Amal neighborhood northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip

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Israeli drone strike on the Al-Amal neighborhood area northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip

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Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): We strongly condemn the Colombian government's move to open an embassy in occupied Jerusalem

Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): ▪We strongly condemn the Colombian government's move to open an embassy in occupied Jerusalem, and we consider it a blatant attack on the rights of our Palestinian people and a clear violation of international law and UN resolutions that reject changing the legal status of the city of Jerusalem. We affirm that Jerusalem is occupied Palestinian land. ▪The new Colombian government's reversal of the principled positions of former Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who severed ties with the Israeli entity because it committed the crime of genocide in Gaza, represents a bias and a losing bet on a criminal entity whose international isolation is increasing. ▪We call on the Colombian government to immediately reverse this unjust decision and not proceed with this step, which constitutes a violation of the rights of our Palestinian people and a denial of the justice of their cause and their rights to self-determination and to establish their independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

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Gaza Health Ministry: the occupation Israeli authorities continue to close the Rafah land crossing for the second consecutive week to the movement of evacuating patients and wounded for treatment abroad.

Gaza Health Ministry: ▪the occupation Israeli authorities continue to close the Rafah land crossing for the second consecutive week to the movement of evacuating patients and wounded for treatment abroad. ▪These practices are an extension of a series of grave violations of international humanitarian law, and a deliberate deprivation of the wounded and patients of their inherent right to treatment. ▪We warn of the repercussions of this closure, which has led to a dangerous and rapid buildup of critical cases, as waiting lists swell day after day, far exceeding the ability of the worn-out and besieged hospitals to absorb or provide the minimum level of treatment. ▪We call on all concerned parties to exert serious and urgent pressure on the occupation to open the Rafah crossing and all crossings, and to facilitate the departure of critical medical cases to save what can be saved.

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Palestinian Professional Unions Gathering - Gaza governorates: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, continues to reduce the services it provides to Palestinian refugees in its five areas of operation in a dangerous step that affects the agency’s work and the rights of its employees, including reducing working hours and ending the contracts of some employees under the pretext of the financial deficit it is suffering from.

Palestinian Professional Unions Gathering - Gaza governorates: ▪The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, continues to reduce the services it provides to Palestinian refugees in its five areas of operation in a dangerous step that affects the agency’s work and the rights of its employees, including reducing working hours and ending the contracts of some employees under the pretext of the financial deficit it is suffering from. ▪We call for the protection of Palestinian refugees, and for rallying around the United Nations Relief and Works Agency as the sole witness to the Nakba, and we warn against infringing on the rights of its employees. ▪We affirm that UNRWA is not merely a relief services institution, but rather a primary and essential institution linked to the rights of Palestinian refugees and their sacred and just cause. ▪We stress that addressing the agency’s crisis is the responsibility of the agency’s administration, donor countries, and various UN bodies, and any new reduction will directly affect the health, education, women’s, relief, and emergency humanitarian services that the agency oversees providing to Palestinian refugees. ▪We warn of the danger of dragging the agency’s employees into this crisis by infringing on their fixed employment rights, or تحميلهم the consequences of the financial deficit that the agency is suffering from. ▪We call on donor countries and the host countries of the agency in its areas of operation to bear the consequences of their responsibility and to move immediately and urgently to save the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and ensure its continued operation and the continuation of its relief and emergency humanitarian services to Palestinian refugees in all areas. ▪We call on all trade union, international, and UN bodies to move immediately and urgently to protect the agency and protect the fixed rights of its employees and not infringe upon them.

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Israeli artillery shelling strikes east of Khan Younis city in southern Gaza Strip

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Israeli warplanes fly in the skies over southern Gaza Strip

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Gaza Municipality: Our crews found the body of a martyr wearing winter clothes during their field work on Al-Rashid Street near the "Al-Baydar" area.

Gaza Municipality: Our crews found the body of a martyr wearing winter clothes during their field work on Al-Rashid Street near the "Al-Baydar" area.

Gaza Municipality: ▪Our crews found the body of a martyr wearing winter clothes during their field work on Al-Rashid Street near the "Al-Baydar" area. ▪The crews promptly transferred the body to Al-Shifa Hospital, where it was handed over to the hospital administration to complete the necessary procedures.

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