🚨 Syria: Israeli jets conducted an airstrike on SAA positions in southern Damascus, from above the occupied Golan Heights.

Syrian AD were triggered and intercepted several of the missiles.

⋯ A fire broke out in the Al-Midan residential neighborhood in southern Damascus, as a result of the Israeli aggression a short while ago.

Ambulances are reportedly rushing towards the area.

⋯ A second fire broke out in the vicinity of the Kafr Souseh neighborhood in Damascus moments ago, most likely a result of the Israeli strikes.

⋯ Syrian MoD: “At about 1:20 a.m., the Israeli enemy conducted an airstrike, launching numerous missiles from the occupied Syrian Golan towards targets in the vicinity of Damascus. Our AD systems intercepted some of the missiles, and the attack resulted in the injury of 2 soldiers and some material losses.”

SOHR says Hezbullah recently had four martyrs in Syria

UK-based, pro-opposition media Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) sparked rumors about Hezbullah fighters being martyred in two separate incidents. It claims that, according to “reliable SOHR sources”, “three members of the Lebanese Hezbollah militias, including a commander” were killed on 27 ⁠March when driving over a landmine in the eastern Homs countryside, while a commander was martyred on 24 ⁠March in the US attack on Deir Ezzor.

However, a ‘trustworthy source’ to Al-Mayadeen said that there is ‘absolutely no truth’ to these rumors; what is said about fatalities in the US attack is ‘completely untrue’ and about Homs is ‘fake news’.

#fake_news

🚨 Reports of airstrikes on Damascus launched by the rogue state—for the second day in a row.

⋯ Syrian MoD: “At exactly 12:17 a.m., the Israeli enemy launched bursts of missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, during an attack on a site in Rif Dimashq. Our air defense systems intercepted a number of the missiles, and the attack led to some material losses.”

🚨 The IRGC announces the martyrdom of one of its advisors, Milad Haidari, in the Israeli attack on Damascus last night, and vows to retaliate.

The movement ‘Return to the Mount’ is abetting Jewish extremists to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform a ‘Passover sacrifice’.

The maximum reward has been doubled:
🏅 Arrested: 500 ⁠shekels.
🥉 Arrested with a lamb or kid (young goat): 1,200.
🥈 Arrested with a lamb or kid inside ‘Temple Mount’: 2,500.
🥇 Successful sacrifice: 20,000 (about $5,600).

According to the Hebrew calendar, it should happen before sunset on Wednesday, 5 ⁠April.

⋯ Similarly, the ‘Temple Institute’ (Machon HaMikdash), whose mission is to build a Third Temple, has called on supporters to gather with offerings at the gates of Al-Aqsa, next Wednesday 15:50–19:00.

“The sacrifice of Passover is a serious and fundamental mitzvah. The only commandment similar in rank to it is the circumcision (Brit Milah).”

⋯ 15 rabbis ask Ben-Gvir for animal sacrifice permission

15 rabbis sent a letter on 30 ⁠March to PM Netanyahu and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demanding permission for a Passover sacrifice at Al-Aqsa. Such sacrifice, they say, is in the “national interest” of Israel. Previously, in 2021, the chief rabbi of Jerusalem ruled that the sacrifice is incumbent, even in the absence of a Temple structure or lacking a Red Heifer. (Israel365)

Among signatories:
• Yehuda Kroizer, rabbi of a West Bank settlement, head of the yeshiva founded by slain terrorist Meir Kahane. His son Yitzhak is a Knesset member for Jewish Power (Ben-Gvir's party)❗
• Yisrael Ariel, founder of the ‘Temple Institute’.
• Micha Peled, the Chabad rabbi of Beit Horon in the West Bank.
• Baruch Kahane, endorsed by the ‘nascent Sanhedrin’ in 2016 to be the next High Priest (Kohen Gadol) for the ‘Temple service’ (Israel365).

⋯ Interestingly, Ben-Gvir has attempted to perform the Passover sacrifice himself in 2006 (he was stopped by police); in 2017, he was in the legal defense group of ‘Return to the Mount’, according to the Times of Israel.

The decades-long agreement between Israel and Jordan (the custodian of Jerusalem's Islamic and Christian sites) said that Jews would be allowed access to Al-Aqsa, but rituals would be forbidden. However, since the 2000s, Israel has bypassed the Waqf (cf Israeli ⁠incursions) and more recently allowed loud Jewish prayer.

On ⁠1 April 1986, the Israeli occupation in Lebanon participated in the April Fool when it circulated false news that Minister Nabih Berri was subjected to an assassination attempt on Ouzai Road by Shiite or Iranian extremists (Hezbullah) and was seriously injured.

They attributed the news to Lebanese radio stations, which caused an alarm and confusion and almost a ‘fitna’ between the Lebanese.

(Archive by @⁠⁠⁠booklebanon)

NGO-funded media The Public Source has been sued by the Lebanese Forces party (LF) over an article about LF's past environmental crimes done through Beirut Port.

As tweeted yesterday: “On Friday, March 31, the Cybercrime Bureau, on behalf of the Lebanese Forces, summoned our editor-in-chief, Lara Bitar, to appear for interrogation. (...) The LF was angered by an article we published that drew attention to some of the environmental crimes they committed during and after the Lebanese civil war.”