A ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war is set to begin Sunday at 8:30 a.m., mediator Qatar said Saturday after Israel’s Cabinet voted to approve the truce and hostage release agreement.
Following a meeting that lasted more than six hours into the…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Two supreme court judges shot dead in Tehran
Two senior Iranian judges have been shot dead in the country’s supreme court, state media reports.
The judiciary’s news website, Mizan, said that judges Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh were killed after an armed man entered the court, in the…
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Trump comeback restarts Israeli public debate on West Bank annexation
When Donald Trump presented his 2020 plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it included the Israeli annexation of swathes of the occupied West Bank, a controversial aspiration that has been revived by his reelection.
In his previous stint…
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Lebanon president says Israel must withdraw from south by January 26 deadline
Lebanon’s new president said on Saturday that Israel must withdraw from his country’s south by the January 26 deadline set to fully implement an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire agreed last year.
His remarks follow a speech by Hezbollah leader Naim…
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Lebanon’s president, UN call for Israel to leave south Lebanon
Lebanon’s new president Joseph Aoun stressed to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday the urgency of an Israeli military withdrawal as stipulated by a ceasefire deal that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war in November.
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Gaza ceasefire set to begin one day before Trump’s inauguration
WHITE HOUSE —Israel’s Cabinet approved a deal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release, with 24 ministers voting in favor and eight ministers rejecting the agreement. The deal is scheduled to be implemented beginning Sunday.
The deal to…
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Israeli-Hamas ceasefire set to begin 1 day before Trump’s inauguration
The Israeli Cabinet approved the Gaza ceasefire for hostage release early Saturday, paving the way for the deal to be implemented beginning Sunday, a day before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. White House Bureau Chief Patsy…
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2 judges shot dead at Iran’s supreme court: media
TEHRAN, IRAN —Two judges were killed in a shooting attack on Saturday at the Supreme Court building in Tehran, state media reported.
“Three judges of the Supreme Court were targeted. Two of them were martyred,” the Judiciary’s Mizan Online…
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Gaza ceasefire to begin Sunday morning
A ceasefire in the Gaza war will begin Sunday morning at 0630 GMT, mediator Qatar said on Saturday after Israel’s cabinet voted to approve the truce and hostage-prisoner release deal.
Qatar and the United States, which mediated the deal along with…
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Israel’s Operation Good Neighbor’s impact lives on in Syria – ex-cmdr.
Lt.-Col. (res.) Eyal Dror, commander of Israel’s Operation Good Neighbor from 2016 to 2018, has witnessed firsthand how humanitarian aid can bridge gaps between sworn enemies.
Currently evacuated from his home in Kibbutz Dafna due to the…
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