#Quneitra-based Golan Media says Israeli forces have abducted 39 Syrians, including minors, since repeated incursions into southern Syria began late last year. SANA reported a unit with tanks entered Jabata al-Khashab yesterday, arresting quarry workers. #Syria #Israel

🔴 BREAKING: Israel Launches New Wave of Strikes Across Southern Lebanon The Israeli military has unleashed heavy airstrikes across various parts of southern Lebanon in what Al Jazeera described as the most serious escalation since the ceasefire that ended the 2024 war with Hezbollah. Israel’s security cabinet convened today to assess the escalating situation in Lebanon, Israel’s Channel 12 reports. The outlet earlier said that Israeli officials are preparing for a potential new confrontation with Hezbollah, aimed at weakening the group and pushing both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government toward what they describe as a “stable agreement” with Israel. Lebanon’s Army, L’Orient Today reports, submitted its second monthly report today to the Cabinet outlining operations carried out south of the Litani River to locate and dismantle Hezbollah weapons depots and other military infrastructure in the border area. 📸 Israeli airstrike hits an iron workshop and a sawmill between the towns of Tura and Al-Abbasiyeh in south Lebanon. More details: ⬇️🧵

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The Gaza Ministry of Health announced that six patients died at Al-Shifa Medical Complex due to the lack of essential medicines and medical supplies, as the Israeli blockade continues to prevent aid from entering the Strip. The ministry warned that Gaza’s healthcare system is collapsing, with hundreds of patients at risk as critical hospital departments stop functioning. Doctors reported a rise in premature infant deaths, now exceeding 35%, due to shortages of medicines and intensive care materials. Health authorities called on the international community to act urgently to save the remaining health facilities and prevent a worsening humanitarian disaster in Gaza.

🇱🇧 U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack: “Lebanon Is a Failed State — the State Is Hezbollah” At Bahrain’s Manama Dialogue, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack delivered an openly interventionist pitch urging Lebanon to abandon its resistance and normalize with Israel. “The Lebanese talk and talk — they charm you into submission,” he said, before calling Lebanon “a failed state.” Barrack claimed the “French-mandated confessional system” had collapsed, that the country’s banks were looted and its institutions broken, and that “the state is Hezbollah.” He recited figures — “40 thousand soldiers making $2,200 a month, versus 60 thousand in the army making $275.” Hezbollah, he said, provides water, power, and education while the state offers nothing. He called disarming Hezbollah unrealistic — “you can’t tell Lebanon to forcibly disarm one of its political parties” — but pressed for its “neutralization” through integration and border deals with Israel. Washington’s line, he said, is that “Israel is ready to make border and boundary agreements with all its neighbors, and it owes America a favor.” He invoked Trump’s June 21 B-2 bomber deployment to support Israel as proof Israel will act in a way that’s supportive of American diplomacy in the region. Barrack mocked Lebanon’s ban on contact with Israel: “You can’t even say the word ‘Israel.’ They still call it ‘the south of the Litani.’ What era are we living in?” He urged Beirut to “go from Beirut to Tel Aviv, have that conversation on the Blue Line… in four months you could end all of this.” Turning to Lebanon’s leadership, he praised a few by name — President Aoun, Prime Minister Nouf, Speaker Berri — but dismissed them as “dinosaurs.” “They’re trying,” he said, “but you’ve got to go from the pay phone to Starlink — not pay phone to home phone, not to cell phone. Straight to Starlink.” He ended by warning that time is running out: “Israel every day is bombing the south because you still have thousands of rockets and missiles threatening it. After October 7, Israel has said it will defend its borders and enforce them in its own right. Put your weapons down, Hezbollah, and we will not have a problem.”

🟣 Mustafa Barghouti: Israel Is Creating a “No War and No Peace” Situation in Gaza Dr. Mustafa Barghouti says Netanyahu is deliberately engineering a new phase of the war — “no full war, but continuous Israeli attacks,” mirroring Israel’s strategy in Lebanon. Having failed to achieve full ethnic cleansing during the two-year assault, Israel now seeks “gradual ethnic cleansing” by blocking reconstruction and fostering despair. ➤ Barghouti says Netanyahu’s aim is to impose a three-part regimen of control: 1️⃣ Continuous Israeli airstrikes whenever and wherever they choose. 2️⃣ Israel alone decides when to violate the ceasefire. 3️⃣ Preventing Gaza’s reconstruction — making it impossible to rebuild and forcing displacement. ➤ After two years of bombardment, more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed and 170,000 injured — roughly 12% of Gaza’s population, equivalent to 35 million Americans. Video: @ArabCenterWDC (October 29, 2025)