Fires Rage in Israel as Cross-border Battles Spike

Fires broke out in the Western Galilee region in northern occupied Palestine, Monday, in an attack launched by Hezbollah with drones. This is while the Israeli occupation forces imposed restrictions on navigation on the beaches of southern Haifa.

“A drone launched from Lebanon fell in the Western Galilee region, without sounding the sirens,” Israeli Army Radio announced.

Fires and direct damage in the Western Galilee due to an intense rocket barrage from Hezbollah, the social media reported, adding that firefighting crews were on the scene working to extinguish the fires.

Hezbollah announced the implementation of 27 operations to confront attempts by the Israeli occupation forces to advance into southern Lebanon, and against its deployment sites and military bases in the border areas, and the attacks extended to towns in the Upper and Western Galilee and in the Israeli depth as well.

On the other hand, the Israeli forces imposed restrictions on navigation on the shores of southern Haifa on Monday afternoon for “security reasons,” according to Yedioth Ahronoth.

Further social media posts suggested that Hazbollah targetted the Haifa naval base with a squadron of drones as the Israeli occupation army continued its extensive military aggression against Lebanon, coinciding with intensive bombing and raids, especially in southern and eastern Lebanon This is at a time when Hezbollah continued to launch missile attacks on military sites and Israeli settlements.

The Lebanese News Agency said the Israeli attacks continued throughout last night and until Monday morning, on the villages of Tyre and Bint Jbeil districts, including the towns of Barghliyeh, Ain Tuta neighborhood between the towns of Burj Rahhal and Abbasiyeh, the entrance to Tyre Dibba, Ramadiyeh, Jamijmeh, Shehabiyeh, Batoulieh, and Burj Qalawiyeh.

The Israel army opened fire with its heavy machine guns towards the forests adjacent to the towns of Naqoura, Jabal Labouneh, Alma al-Shaab, Tyre Harfa, al-Dahra, and Aita al-Shaab.

The aggression on Lebanon so far resulted in the killing of 3,136 with 13,979 wounded, including a large number of children and women and displaced about 1.4 million persons. Most of the victims and displaced persons were recorded after September 23.

Hezbollah responds daily by launching missiles, drones and artillery shells targeting military sites, intelligence headquarters, military gatherings and settlements, while the occupying state announces part of its human and material losses, and military censorship imposes a strict blackout on most of the losses, according to observers.

In October 2024, the Israeli occupation army launched a ground operation in southern Lebanon with the aim of “strike and dismantle Hezbollah’s military infrastructure” in the region, according to the occupation. This ground operation is part of a broader operation launched by Israel in Lebanon in September 2024 under the name “Northern Arrows,” against the backdrop of Hezbollah’s support for the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip since October 8, 2023. The party has repeatedly stressed that halting its attacks in support of the resistance in Gaza is linked to the occupation halting its war of extermination on the Strip.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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Israeli Cell Nightmare: Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya!

Former Palestinian detainees have shared harrowing testimonies about the condition of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been held for more than 450 days in Israeli prisons after being abducted during the genocide in Gaza. According to the testimonies, he has been subjected to severe abuse and medical neglect with one saying Israeli guards stripped him naked and unleashed police dogs on him.

According to testimonies reported Thursday by the Asra Media Office, former Palestinian detainees described the harrowing and brutal conditions faced by Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya inside Israeli prisons.

Former detainee Hamza Abu Amira said the Palestinian doctor was subjected to “exceptionally harsh treatment,” including continuous humiliation and severe physical and verbal torture by specialized Israeli prison units. He said guards forced him, under extreme pain, to repeat degrading phrases intended to strip him of his human dignity.

Another released detainee, Rami Abu Amira, described what he called one of the most disturbing scenes he witnessed, saying interrogators “stripped Dr. Hussam completely naked and unleashed police dogs on his frail body,” leaving deep wounds and scratches across him.

He added that the doctor often returned from interrogation sessions “physically shattered and barely conscious,” reflecting the scale of suffering he endured inside the prison.

The testimonies of former detainees extended beyond the physical torture, pointing to what they described as a systematic attempt to destroy the Palestinian doctor “psychologically and morally” as Abu Safiya was widely known for his resilience and humanitarian work.

Former detainee Ahmad Qaddas said “the prison cells echoed with the doctor’s screams under severe beatings,” adding that other detainees were prohibited from approaching his cell or even asking about his health condition.

He said the abuse inflicted on Abu Safiya “was not merely physical torture, but an attempt to crush his humanity, identity, and dignity.”

According to the detainees’ testimonies, Abu Safiya’s health has sharply deteriorated. They said he suffers from persistent vomiting and an inability to keep food down, while being denied adequate medical treatment.

Former prisoners also said that Israeli prison forces repeatedly raided his sleeping area and threw sound grenades and gas canisters near him despite his critical condition, worsening his daily suffering according to the Quds News Network.

The testimonies further describe prolonged shackling of his hands and feet, deprivation of food and basic sanitation, and being forced to insult himself and repeat humiliating phrases in what detainees described as an effort to break his spirit.

Last month, an Israeli court extended the detention of Abu Safiya, amid reports that he has been subjected to severe torture and other forms of abuse. According to Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), the court extended his administrative detention for an indefinite period.

In a statement in March, UN special rapporteurs Tlaleng Mofokeng and Ben Saul said they had received reports that Abu Safiya’s health condition “remains dire”.

“He has been systematically denied critical medical examination and treatment, and deprived of essential care to such an extent that his life, health, and wellbeing have been gravely endangered,” they said.

Abu Safiya, the former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, was detained by Israeli forces in December 2024 amid Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the coastal enclave.

He was arrested after refusing to leave the hospital, which was the last functioning health facility in Gaza’s north, amid Israeli attacks.

Like many other detainees from the Gaza Strip, Israel has held Abu Safia without charge or trial, prompting widespread condemnation.

His arrest and detention are “a reflection of Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian health workers and the decimation of the healthcare system in Gaza in order to inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians”, Amnesty International said.

In the statement, the UN experts said Abu Safiya “has suffered an arbitrary deprivation of liberty, violation of his human rights, including the right of every human being to be free from torture and ill treatment, and his right to health is being eroded”.

They urged the international community, including countries “with influence on Israel”, to take action “to ensure prevention, recourse and justice”.

“Israel must release Dr. Abu Safiya and all health care workers, and ensure they have access to appropriate medical care,” they said.

Gaza’s healthcare network has been decimated by Israel’s war on the enclave, with more than 930 attacks on the sector recorded since October 2023, according to World Health Organization (WHO) figures from last month.

All 36 hospitals in the Strip have suffered damage due to Israeli attacks, the WHO said, while only half of all hospitals are partially functional.

Palestinian healthcare workers have also been targeted throughout the war.

Humanitarian group Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) said at least 1,722 medical workers were killed between October 2023 and October 2025 – an average of more than two killed every day.

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Double-Standard Punches!

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday demanded an “public progress update” on the FBI’s investigation into the Israeli military’s 2022 killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank.

In an open letter to the Justice Department and FBI chief Kash Patel, the CPJ expressed concern that the US had diluted its official assessment of her death.

The group urged the department and the FBI – which falls under the Justice Department – to “provide a public progress update on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) investigation into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh,” a US citizen and journalist fatally shot on May 11, 2022, by the Israeli army while reporting in the West Bank city of Jenin, the letter said according to Anadolu.

“The effectively stagnant status of this case is inconsistent with ensuring the security of US citizens anywhere in the world — a clear priority of President Donald J. Trump’s administration,” the letter said.

It noted that although the FBI opened an investigation into her killing in November 2022, “it has made no demonstrable progress more than three years later,” adding that there have been “no signs of FBI investigative activity to gather other evidence in Israel or Palestine.”

“This troubling lack of concrete progress — four years after Abu Akleh’s death — represents a profound failure of the U.S. government to respond promptly and impartially to the killing of one of its citizens by a foreign military,” the letter said.

“We therefore urge you to support justice and accountability by: • Providing a public update on the status of the investigation and reasons for delay. • Committing to a timeline for the FBI to complete a thorough criminal investigation and to publicly release its findings, with full transparency as to the methodology and conclusions.”

It also called for ensuring that the investigation “is impartial and independent, free from political considerations, and consistent with U.S. domestic laws and obligations recognized under international law.”

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