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Military expert Major General Faiz Al-Duwairi highlighted the increasing targeting of Israel’s Ramat David base by Hezbollah. This base, crucial for northern occupied Palestine, houses around 60% of Israel’s aircraft used in attacks on Lebanon, posing a strategic threat if its operational capacity is diminished.
Ramat David is an airbase 20 kilometers southeast of Haifa.
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Gaza’s civil defense said Sunday that it recovered the bodies and remains of 17 Palestinians who had been missing beneath the rubble of homes destroyed in Israeli attacks during the genocide in the enclave.
The recoveries were made as part of the second phase of the “Recovery of Martyrs’ Bodies” project, launched on July 19 to locate Palestinians buried under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel, despite limited equipment and machinery available to rescue teams.
The second phase includes searches beneath destroyed homes in Gaza City in the north and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
The civil defense said in a brief statement that its teams recovered the bodies of 16 missing Palestinians from the rubble of homes belonging to the Hajji and Al-Nadeem families in the Zeitoun and Yarmouk neighborhoods of Gaza City.
The remains of one other missing person were recovered from the rubble of a home belonging to the Al-War family in the Nuseirat refugee camp, it added.
Recovery operations are proceeding slowly because of a shortage of heavy equipment, despite the Gaza ceasefire agreement in effect since Oct. 10, 2025, which Palestinian authorities say provides for the entry of machinery to remove rubble and recover victims.
In October 2025, Gaza’s government media office said around 9,500 Palestinians had been reported missing since the start of the Israeli war, including people whose bodies remain under destroyed buildings and others whose fate is unknown.
The second phase of the recovery project is scheduled to involve 800 working hours and searches beneath 147 destroyed homes in the Gaza, North Gaza and Central governorates, where 1,072 bodies are believed to remain buried, according to previous civil defense figures.
The first phase began in late November 2025 and resulted in the recovery of around 333 bodies and human remains out of 559 missing people believed to be beneath the rubble of 54 homes and buildings.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and injured over 174,000 others, while causing widespread destruction to civilian infrastructure.
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Israel is holding 37 Palestinian journalists in its prisons, including 19 under administrative detention without charge or trial, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said Sunday.
The nongovernmental group said all 37 journalists were detained following the start of the Gaza genocide in October 2023.
It said Israel continues to target Palestinian journalists through arrests, prison sentences, solitary confinement and prosecution over their work and freedom of expression.
Among the latest detainees are journalists Muath Ammarna and Sabri Jibrin, who were arrested Thursday after Israeli forces raided their homes in Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
The group said Ammarna has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli authorities and is now being detained for the third time over his journalistic work.
It also cited the case of journalist and writer Mahmoud Fatafta, who was sentenced to 48 months in prison over what Israel describes as “incitement,” one of the harshest sentences issued in such cases, according to the statement.
The society said Israeli authorities increasingly use “incitement” charges against journalists, alongside administrative detention based on what authorities describe as “secret files.”
Nineteen journalists from the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are currently held under administrative detention, accounting for 51% of all detained journalists, it added.
The group also highlighted the case of journalist Bushra al-Tawil, 33, who was transferred from Damon Prison in northern Israel to solitary confinement at Ramla Prison in central Israel.
It accused Israeli authorities of intensifying isolation and other restrictive measures against female Palestinian prisoners, alongside food deprivation, denial of medical treatment and poor sanitation conditions.
The society said detained journalists face the same conditions as other Palestinian prisoners, including hunger, medical neglect, torture, abuse, solitary confinement and denial of basic rights.
Journalists are also targeted through killings, enforced disappearances and direct attacks while carrying out their work, it added, describing this as part of a systematic policy aimed at restricting Palestinian reporting and documentation of Israeli crimes and violations.
The occupied West Bank has seen daily Israeli army raids and escalating attacks by occupiers since the start of the Gaza genocide in October 2023. The attacks have included killings, arrests, demolitions, attacks on homes, vehicles and mosques, destruction of agricultural land, restrictions on farmers, displacement of Palestinians and expansion of illegal settlements.
On Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said Israeli forces detained more than 100 Palestinians across the West Bank over the previous week, bringing the number of West Bank detainees since October 2023 to more than 25,000, in addition to thousands detained from Gaza.
