In the latest flagrant violation of a shaky ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, the Israeli military has carried out a strike against a residential building in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut, killing at least three and wounding several others.

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said in a brief statement that at least three people lost their lives and seven others sustained injuries in the Israeli attack on Beirut’s Sfeir area.

The local al-Mayadeen television news channel reported that the airstrike targeted a densely populated area at around 3:30 a.m. local time (0030 GMT) on Tuesday, destroying a building and damaging nearby structures.

The report added that the Lebanese army had arrived at the scene and set up a security cordon in the vicinity of the blast.

Civil defense teams and ambulances also rushed to the spot, rescuing people from under the rubble and transporting the injured to hospitals.

The Israeli military later announced in a statement that it targeted a member of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement “who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them.”

A joint statement released by the Israeli military and the regime’s so-called internal security service, Shin Bet, alleged that the aerial attack had targeted a leading Hezbollah figure in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Informed sources, however, dismissed the claim, and told al-Mayadeen TV that an ordinary member of Hezbollah had been martyred in the strike.

The Israeli airstrike marks the second such attack on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital.

On Thursday, the Israeli army targeted the southern Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood for the first time since a ceasefire went into effect in late November between Israel and Hezbollah.

And now, with this second attack, it seems this is Israel’s new strategy and the occupying regime is not going to stop.

Just two days ago, Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem warned that if Israel continues attacking the group or Lebanon’s capital, the resistance movement will retaliate accordingly.

After enduring substantial losses over almost 14 months of conflict and not achieving its aims in the offensive against Lebanon, Israel had no choice but to agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah. The ceasefire was implemented on November 27.

Since the initiation of the agreement, the occupying forces have been conducting attacks on Lebanon, violating the ceasefire, which encompasses airstrikes across the Arab nation.

On January 27, Lebanon declared its decision to prolong the ceasefire with Israel until February 18.

Despite the February 18 deadline having passed, Israel persists in its occupation of five critical areas in southern Lebanon, which include Labbouneh, Mount Blat, Owayda Hill, Aaziyyeh, and Hammamis Hill, located near the border.

Lebanon has denounced the ongoing presence of Israeli military personnel, which constitutes a breach of the ceasefire agreement and the stipulated withdrawal timeline. High-ranking officials in Beirut have stated their intention to “employ all measures” necessary to expel the occupying forces from the Arab country.

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Yemen’s Defense Minister Major General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi says the armed forces have become a “formidable power” amid the ongoing aggression by the United States and Britain, asserting that the Yemeni forces are now “difficult to defeat”.

In a statement released on Monday, Atifi said Yemen “possess vast and significant capabilities and surprises in military manufacturing and war production that will astonish the enemy and reassure our allies.”

"The armed forces have established a qualitative industrial base and are steadily advancing in this direction, with doors to success wide open."

The United States and the UK resorted to heavy offensive naval buildup off Yemen’s coastline, and escalated attacks on the Arab Peninsula country to try to stop its pro-Palestinian strikes.

Sana’a has been responding to the intensified attacks by targeting American warships, and enhancing its preparedness to take on the naval assets.

The Yemeni minister further said the Yemeni forces were now "capable of achieving major victories not only for Yemen but also for the vital causes of the Ummah."

The minister affirmed that Yemen's supportive stance toward the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip will remain steadfast despite US-Israeli aggression.

"Yemen’s steadfast position in support of the Palestinian people will remain unchanged, no matter the risks faced by our steadfast Yemeni people."

The statement also denounced Arab stances toward the great injustice against the Palestinian people by the US-backed Israeli regime.

Atifi said the Yemeni people "cannot stand silent or neutral" in the face of the destructive chaos and the fires of Zionist ambitions that have spread throughout the region.

Elsewhere in the statement, Atifi hailed the role of strong leadership of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in confronting aggression by the US and its allies across the West Asia region.

"Yemen, with its armed forces and strong backing from the Leader of the Revolution, now possesses a multi-purpose military arsenal."

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement said in a televised speech on Thursday stated that there is no justification for US strikes against Yemen. Houthi said the US launched the onslaught against our country at the same time as the Gaza genocidal war to support the Zionist regime began.

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Zamzam in the narrations

In Shiite and Sunni narrative sources, there are many traditions about Zamzam water:

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▪️ The best water on the ground

▪️ Faithful

▪️ The benefit of fear and grief

▪️ Increased science factor

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▪️This to give this water gift

▪️ Drink and sprinkle the body

▪️ Take it to it

▪️ Open the baby's chunk with

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Shiite Imams have also expressed their attribution to Zamzam on the occasion and have identified themselves as the son of Zamzam.

For example, Imam Sajjad (PBUH) said:

 ايُّهَا النَّاسُ، أَنَا ابْنُ مَكَّةَ وَمِنَى، أَنَا ابْنُ زَمْزَمَ وَالصَّفَا

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It is advisable to say after drinking it:

? «اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْهُ عِلْماً نَافِعاً وَ رِزْقاً وَاسِعاً وَ شِفَاءً مِنْ کُلِّ دَاءٍ».

It is advisable to drink a little from the water of the Tawaf and before trying to pour it on his head and back and belly and say:

"Allah the Almighty of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his abuser and the same as the whole of the dawn"

"Lord! "Make this useful scientific and therapeutic scientific and therapeutic for any pain and disease."

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Drinking Zamzam water is especially true before trying to try and after Tawaf.

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Zamzam's water as a gift and asking for a gift and washing it with it.

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The purpose of paying this zakat is to define society and to meet the needs of the poor.

Payment of Fitr over any Muslim that

2. It is capable of fasting

2- As well as those who have not been fasting for excuses or traveling

2. And even to all those who have not deliberately fasted. It is obligatory.

Payment of Fitr is one of the eligibility conditions for Ramadan.

By Iqbal Jassat

The sheer intensity of missile strikes and deadly bombings across the besieged Gaza Strip not only marked the settler-colonial regime’s continuation of the genocide of Palestinians but also a decisive rejection of the ceasefire it had agreed to.

The child-murdering regime’s criminal leadership—particularly Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on the International Criminal Court’s wanted list—has sought every pretext under the sun to resume massacring innocent civilians in Gaza.

Despite the so-called "lull" during the first phase of the ceasefire, Israel had been itching to shed more Palestinian blood, adding to the tens of thousands of martyrs since October 7, 2023.

Overnight, while displaced Palestinians—subjected to the Zionist regime’s inhumane blockade of food, fuel, medication, and other essentials—were preparing Suhoor meals in makeshift plastic tents and bombed-out buildings during Ramadan, Netanyahu unleashed another wave of terror upon them.

Within minutes, more than 400 civilians were killed, mainly women and children. Over a thousand more were injured, with no means for medical treatment.

Reports indicate that the current military strikes are deadlier and broader in scale than the ongoing drone attacks Gaza has suffered while Netanyahu repeatedly violated the original ceasefire terms.

In response to this aggression, the Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas condemned Israel for disregarding its obligations and overturning the truce agreement.

Israel, which has repeatedly violated the ceasefire that took effect on January 19, sought to fabricate new terms to justify blowing up the deal entirely.

Journalists Jeremy Scahill of Drop News and Abubaker Abed of Press TV noted that since January, Netanyahu had waged a campaign of sabotage and provocation, openly violating the agreement by obstructing and outright blocking aid deliveries into the Strip.

Although food and other supplies were permitted during the first 42-day phase of the deal, Israel refused to allow nearly all 60,000 mobile homes and admitted only a fraction of the 200,000 tents into Gaza.

While Netanyahu has attempted to blame Hamas with fabricated charges of undermining the ceasefire, the reality is that Israel imposed a "total blockade on any aid, including food and medical supplies to the Strip and resumed its policy of using starvation as a weapon of war."

On Sunday, Israel also cut off Gaza’s electricity supply, forcing a major desalination plant to drastically reduce water output, severely limiting drinking water for 600,000 people in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis.

Hamas has remained committed to the agreement and was eager to maintain it, "but Netanyahu, looking for a way out of his internal crises, preferred to reignite the war at the expense of the blood of our people," Hamas stated.

According to Haaretz, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani demanded immediate international action to force Israel to implement a ceasefire, abide by the agreement, and return to negotiations.

That a key mediator is directing demands solely at Israel confirms that, contrary to Netanyahu’s claims, Hamas has not violated the agreement—the other side has.

This is further reinforced by media reports that families of Israeli captives in Gaza have denounced their own regime, not Hamas.

Indeed, Netanyahu’s right-wing terror-thugs, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, not only welcomed the renewal of scorched-earth policies but gleefully admitted the plans were prepared weeks ago. Ben-Gvir is now set to rejoin the cabinet.

Their excitement over the slaughter of innocent mothers and babies reveals more than mere approval. It confirms that Israel never intended to honor the agreement and deliberately plotted to blame Hamas as a pretext for ongoing savagery in Gaza.

Since the ceasefire began 60 days ago, the Palestinian resistance and rights organizations have meticulously tracked Israel’s repeated violations, as reported by the Palestinian Prisoner Network, Samidoun.

"At the same time, in order to protect their people, the Resistance has not once violated the ceasefire agreements nor retaliated against the Zionist war criminals."

Izzat al-Risheq, a founding member of Hamas’s political bureau, reacted, stating the enemy "will not achieve through war and destruction what it has failed to achieve through negotiations."

Israeli activist Alon Mizrahi captured the devastation of this renewed genocide, immediately followed by harrowing images, as a tsunami of shock, disbelief, and pain. He put it in these words:

"Let’s allow these feelings to crystallize into even stronger resolution and conviction."

Iqbal Jassat is an executive member of Media Review Network, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Palestinians are marking the Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, amid "brutal Zionist aggression, siege, starvation, killing, and destruction."

“On the blessed Eid al-Fitr, we remember the steadfastness of our great people and their heroic resistance, and we ask Allah to accept their acts of devotion, their struggle, their steadfastness, and their sacrifices,” Hamas said in a statement on Sunday.

It added, “This year, Eid al-Fitr arrives as our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and al-Quds face brutal Zionist aggression amidst siege, starvation, killing, and destruction, under a shameful international silence and the unconditional American support for the occupation.”

The Gaza-based group then urged Arab and Muslim nations to “double down on their efforts to support our people in Gaza, shoulder their responsibilities for escalating popular actions, exert pressure to end the aggression and lift the siege, and champion the just Palestinian cause.”

Hamas finally reiterated its pledge to remain firmly committed to Palestinians and tread the path of resistance until final victory is achieved and an independent sovereign Palestinian state with al-Quds as its capital is established.

The Israeli military has continued launching airstrikes on various areas of Gaza since the early hours of Gaza, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza performed Eid al-Fitr prayers over the rubble of destroyed mosques, in displacement shelters, and beside the ruins of their homes amid the relentless Israeli bombardment.

The Israeli army launched a surprise aerial attack on the Gaza Strip on March 18, killing over 920 people, injuring more than 2,000 others, and shattering the ceasefire agreement with Hamas and the deal on the exchange of Israeli captives for Palestinian abductees.

According to the Health Ministry in Gaza, more than 50,200 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 114,000 other individuals injured in the brutal Israeli military onslaught on Gaza since October 7, 2023.

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the only proxy force in the region is the Zionist regime, which invades other countries on behalf of the world’s colonial powers and "must be uprooted."

Ayatollah Khamenei made the comments during a speech at Imam Khomeini’s Mosalla Grand Prayer Grounds in Tehran on Monday after leading Eid al-Fitr’s prayers. The Islamic festivities known as Eid al-Fitr mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

“The Westerners accuse the zealous youths of the regional nations of being proxies. I would like to say that there is only one proxy force in this region which is the corrupt usurping [Israeli] regime,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

The Leader added that Israel is committing genocide and if given the opportunity, it will invade other countries’ territories, just as it invaded Syria as the proxy force of the colonizers.

“This criminal gang must be uprooted from Palestine and it will be uprooted. Everyone must strive to eliminate this evil entity from the region,” he asserted.

'Crushing blow'

The Leader pointed to US threats against Iran, warning that any wicked act would certainly receive a "crushing and decisive blow."

“If the enemies are thinking of stirring any sedition inside the country, the Iranian nation will respond to them,” Ayatollah Khamenei added.

The Leader lamented that the “bloody” incidents in Gaza, Lebanon, and Palestine made the people’s lives bitter during the holy month of Ramadan.

He went on to say that the assassination of officials is a common practice of the Israeli regime, which is backed by the US and Western governments.

Ayatollah Khamenei said that the vicious Zionist regime is blatantly committing genocide, killing children, beating massive people, and assassinating figures.

However, the Leader added, arrogant Western powers are turning a blind eye to all such crimes and even smiling and supporting them.

The Leader noted that it is a religious, moral and humanitarian duty to strive to eradicate the Israeli regime.

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has extended his best wishes to the leaders and nations of Muslim countries on the auspicious occasion of Eid al-Fitr, urging more unity and solidarity within the Muslim world. 

In a message on Sunday, Pezeshkian said Eid al-Fitr is the manifestation of unity and consolidation of religious and social bonds among Muslims.

It is also the time for the fruition of their sincere prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, he added.

The Iranian president expressed hope that the world would witness further solidarity among Muslim nations, the establishment of peace and stability among Muslim countries and enhanced relations in all areas with the blessings and auspiciousness of Eid al-Fitr.

Millions of people in more than a dozen Muslim countries are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, marking the conclusion of the holy month of Ramadan after the new moon of the lunar calendar month of Shawwal was sighted the previous night.

Muslims in Iran will mark the Eid with nationwide mass prayers on Monday.

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Former Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Bakhshi said about the spirit of Iran's response to Trump's letter that the letter was self-restrained

Ali Shamkhani, former Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council: Since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, the United States has used a combined package against Iran, which includes military threats, psychological operations, interference in Iran's internal affairs, mobilization of its so-called allies against Iran, and ... and this package is not a new combination.

According to Tabnak, citing Tasnim, he added: "We are not unfamiliar with this combination of Americans, which has a history of more than 45 years against Iran."

In response to the American threats, the former Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council said that we take every threat seriously, but not to surrender; but to confront it. The Iranian nation has never accepted and will never accept surrender, and we believe that the United States has no choice but to pursue a fair logic in dialogue with Iran.

Regarding Iran's response to Trump's letter sent yesterday, Mr. Shamkhani also said that this response was prepared by various relevant agencies of the country; the response that Iran gave in this letter is "self-contained."

He added: This response was sent to the Americans through the Omani channel; while the United States was considering another channel, Iran preferred to send its response through Oman.

Regarding the content of the response, the former Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council also said that Iran has always had indirect talks with the Americans, so the letter states that Iran is ready for indirect talks and if the talks are from an equal position, there is a readiness to take further steps for talks.

Masoud Pezzekian said regarding the details of Iran's response to the US President's letter: "The response that the Supreme Leader gave regarding the letter that Trump sent to Dr. Araqchi was delivered to Oman and reached the American liaison, and there, direct negotiations were rejected, but indirect negotiations have always been Iran's concern, and now the Supreme Leader has emphasized that indirect negotiations can continue. We are not only avoiding negotiations, but it is those non-commitments that have caused us problems. So far, they must prove that they can build trust in their decisions, which I hope will happen."