Knesset to reduce 2025 budget by NIS 125m after costly war | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Israel News/Israel PoliticsKnesset Speaker Amir Ohana announces a NIS 125 million budget cut for 2025, with the funds directed to the treasury to…
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Knesset to reduce 2025 budget by NIS 125m after costly war
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Category 5 Hurricane Melissa brings flooding and catastrophic 200 mph winds to Jamaic
Heavy floodwaters swept across southwestern Jamaica, winds tore roofs off buildings and boulders tumbled into roads on Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa came ashore as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on…
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Gaza twins thought it was a toy. It was actually a bomb.
The Shorbasi family was sitting in their severely damaged house in Gaza City, enjoying the relative calm of the ceasefire. Then they heard an explosion and rushed outside to find their six-year-old twins bleeding on the ground.
The boy, Yahya,…
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Israelis bristle as Trump makes clear who calls the shots in Gaza truce – The Washington Post
- Israelis bristle as Trump makes clear who calls the shots in Gaza truce The Washington Post
- Netanyahu Has Allowed Trump to Turn Israel Into an American Vassal State Haaretz
- US attempts to exert authority over Israel The Jerusalem Post
- Israel…
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Illegal settler terror devastates West Bank olive harvest
Palestinians watch smoke rising after a vehicle is set on fire by Israeli settlers during an attack on the first day of the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Beita, October 10 2025. ((Avishay Mohar/Activestills)) Israeli military…
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Eased definitions, fewer sanctions: These are the changes in the haredi draft framework
The text of the Draft Law, initiated by the Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Boaz Bismuth, was published Tuesday evening by Channel 12 News, revealing substantial changes in favor of the Haredi public.
Among the…
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Gaza “Peace Plan” Should De-radicalize Israelis, Not Palestinians
An armed Israeli settler violently restrains a photojournalist near the Palestinian village of Idhna, west of Hebron, on Oct. 12, 2025. ( Photo by Mosab Shawer/Middle East Images via AFP ) Israel violated the ceasefire, while Israeli settlers…
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Israel and US Scorn ICJ Ruling Against Starving Civilians
The World Court says Israel has a duty as the occupying power to cooperate with UN relief efforts, not impede them.
By Marjorie Cohn, Reposted from Truthout, October 24, 2025
This week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ or World Court)…
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The IDF Can’t ‘Protect’ Palestinians From Settler Attacks
Israeli forces stand guard as illegal Jewish settlers raid the Old City area of Hebron, West Bank on September 20, 2025. (Amer Shallodi – Anadolu Agency) ‘The army stood by,’ write journalists who see themselves as opponents of the…
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West Bank Faces Unprecedented Israeli Violence Amidst Ceasefire
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and twisted mouth,
The…Continue Reading