Founder of the English Defense League, whom leading British Jewish groups have denounced as ‘a thug,’ says Israel represents ‘all the things that we as British people hold dear’
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Category: 3. Middle East
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US denies Hamas violating hostage-ceasefire deal, says Gaza demilitarization ‘very complex’
US looking for Palestinians who can staff technocratic government in post-war Gaza
The US is working to identify and recruit Palestinians to take part in the transitional technocratic government that will administer postwar Gaza, a…
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Egypt to deploy security personnel in post-ceasefire Gaza
Egypt to deploy security personnel in post-ceasefire Gaza | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastEgypt proposed an initial deployment of 1,000 security personnel trained in Jordan or Egypt, aiming to gradually expand the effort to enforce…
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Months after Assad’s fall, families of missing still seeking justice
Orla GuerinSenior International Correspondent, in Syria
BBC/Goktay KoraltanHuman remains have been unearthed at this site in Eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus A burly bearded man in a blue tunic moved swiftly through grassy stubble on a windswept…
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In Jerusalem market, hostage release and ceasefire inspire both optimism and anxiety
As shops in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market reopened Wednesday morning for the first ‘regular’ day after the holiday season, locals were divided over whether Israel’s ceasefire and the return of the last 20 hostages held by Hamas…
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Dozens charged under anti-terror laws in UK court over Palestine Action support
LONDON — About 30 people appeared in a London court on Wednesday, charged under anti-terrorism laws for supporting Palestine Action, the latest such cases after the British government banned the group in July.
More than 2,000 people…
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After their bodies returned, Guy Illouz and Cpt. Daniel Perez laid to rest in Israel
Funerals were held on Wednesday for slain hostages IDF Cpt. Daniel Perez and Guy Illouz, whose bodies were returned to Israel from the Gaza Strip two days earlier as part of a ceasefire agreement.
Perez was laid to rest at the Mount Herzl…
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Handcuffed, caged, thrown in a pit: Hostages’ families describe two years of hell
One was whipped. Another was put in a cage. Still another was thrown into a pit. More than one was handcuffed.
In the days since they were released from two years in brutal captivity, freed hostages have shared, through their families,…
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Donald Trump: Israel could resume Gaza war if Hamas renegs on deal
Donald Trump: Israel could resume Gaza war if Hamas renegs on deal | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle East”Israel will return to those streets as soon as I say the word. If Israel could go in and knock the crap of them, they’d do that,”…
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Syria’s Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow for first time since Assad’s fall
Syria’s interim President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has held his first talks with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow since ousting Russia’s ally Bashar al-Assad 10 months ago.
Putin spoke of the “special relationship” between both countries.
Sharaa…
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