Here are Monday’s updates from Israel, Iran, Lebanon and the Middle East:
■ Pakistan is confident it can get Iran to attend talks with the United States, a senior Pakistani government official told Reuters.
■ A delegation of
Category: 1. Israel
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Complaint against Bennett: Unprecedented collective accusation
"Emet LeYaakov" organization sends sharply worded letter to former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, demanding that he retract his statement that "draft evasion is killing our soldiers" and issue a public apology.
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IDF Soldiers Talk About the ‘Moral Injury’ – and the Silence
Yuval sits biting his nails, his legs fidgety. It’s noon in Tel Aviv and the street is full of people. Sometimes he looks around, anxiously scanning the people passing by. “Sorry,” he says. “My biggest fear is a vendetta.”
But Yuval…
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Jerusalem’s Catholic Assembly condemns destruction of Jesus statue in Lebanon
“This act constitutes a grave affront to the Christian faith and adds to other reported incidents of desecration of Christian symbols by IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon,” said the statement by the Assembly.The statement demanded that the IDF…
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A Palestinian mother’s account of Israeli detention and torture
Israeli forces tortured Saeda al-Shrafi, a Palestinian mother of two, during a six-week detention in 2023 in which she was held without charge or trial ((MEE/Ahmed Dremly)) Detained while fleeing northern Gaza, Saeda al-Shrafi recalls weeks…
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Mom of child murdered by Israeli bulldozer pleaded with Congress
March 16, 2003. Rachel Corrie nonviolently blocks Israeli bulldozers from destroying Palestinian homes along the Rafah/Egyptian border along with nine other International Solidarity Movement volunteers. Photos from earlier in the day, NOT OF… Continue Reading
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3 reasons the war between the US, Israel and Iran is headed for a frozen conflict
With a shaky ceasefire in place between the US, Israel and Iran – and little progress on talks to resolve the complex issues at the heart of the war – where is this conflict going?
The most likely scenario is a frozen conflict.
A…
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Israel kills three in Gaza as truce violations continue
The fresh casualties were the latest in ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement in effect in the Palestinian enclave since October 2025.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said in a statement that Israel had so far committed 2,400…
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Iran’s top negotiator threatens ‘to reveal new cards on battlefield’ while blasting US blockade
Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO, hand reins over to iPhone maker’s hardware leader
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down from the job that he inherited from the late Steve Jobs, ending a nearly 15-year reign that saw the…
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Should diaspora Jews ‘decentre’ Israel?
The buzzword of the moment is decentre. Everyone’s decentring everything all the time these days. Or maybe there are just two main contexts in which this comes up, at least on the beats I cover. Some women are decentring men, or trying. And…
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