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Amid the deterioration of service conditions, Gaza Municipality warned of the growing waste crisis in the city due to the severe shortage of machinery required to collect and transport garbage, which has led to its accumulation in streets and random dumps, and to rising health and environmental risks for residents.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed the second Friday prayer of Ramadan at the Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards, amid strict restrictions imposed by Israeli occupation authorities on access to the site.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), during an extraordinary meeting of its Executive Committee at the level of foreign ministers held in Jeddah, reaffirmed that Al-Aqsa Mosque, in its entirety of 144,000 square meters, is an exclusively Muslim place of worship, within the framework of the Hashemite custodianship over Islamic and Christian holy sites.

Several towns across the West Bank witnessed a new escalation in settler attacks on Friday, resulting in injuries and widespread property damage.

Gaza Municipality spokesperson Hosni Mhanna said Thursday that hundreds of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been flooded since Monday due to heavy rainfall.

Pro-Palestinian activists, in coordination with civil society organizations, are preparing to launch a new joint maritime initiative to Gaza, bringing together the “Freedom Flotilla” and the “Sumud Convoy.” The campaign will include 200 vessels aimed at breaking the blockade on the Gaza Strip, with departure scheduled for April 12.

In the context of an open war on Palestinian media, the Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, revealed the martyring of 129 journalists and media workers worldwide during 2025, a record toll, the highest since the committee began documenting these crimes in 1992.

Mohamed al-Hindi, Islamic Jihad’s deputy secretary-general, has described the US-led Board of Peace as nothing more than a “theatrical stunt,” saying it is detached from the reality on the ground.

The Hamas Movement on Wednesday condemned a reported US decision to provide consular services in the Zionist regime’s settlement of Efrat in the Gush Etzion bloc in the West Bank, calling the move a “dangerous precedent” and a de facto recognition of Israeli settlement sovereignty.

The Hamas Movement on Wednesday marked the 32nd anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre by calling for Zionist leaders to be prosecuted for crimes against Palestinians and their holy sites.

Approximately 40,000 worshipers performed the Isha and Taraweeh prayers at Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday evening, despite restrictions imposed by Zionist regime’s authorities on access to the Old City.

Dozens of international humanitarian organizations have petitioned Zionist regime’s top court to block an order that would force at least 37 NGOs to halt humanitarian operations in the besieged Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank, and east al-Quds.