Hundreds watched on Thursday as four black coffins, which Hamas said held the remains of Israel’s Bibas family and an elderly hostage, were carried off stage by Palestinian militants in southern Gaza.
The ceremony, held on a sandy area that was…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Why is Iran urging Qatar to release $6B in frozen oil payments?
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has asked the Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to release $6 billion in Iranian oil revenues held in Doha, despite US pressure not to do so.
“[Qatar is] a friendly and brotherly country,…
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Israel says 3 Palestinian militants killed in West Bank
How Beirut’s international airport became the latest flashpoint in Israel-Iran tensions
LONDON: Just weeks after Lebanon formed its first government in more than two years,…Continue Reading
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Ex-Mossad official – Hamas plots Hezbollah reign in Gaza
Rami Igra, former head of the Mossad’s Prisoners and Missing Persons Division, warned that Hamas seeks to establish a Hezbollah-style rule in Gaza, using the Palestinian Authority as a front while maintaining control behind the scenes in…
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Israel identifies remains of child hostages but says body Hamas returned was not their mother
UN calls for rapid economic recovery in Syria to reverse losses from 14 years of conflict
NEW YORK CITY: A newly published report from the UN Development Programme warned that…Continue Reading
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Iranian authorities raid homes of Baha’i minority, arrest 2
Iranian Intelligence agents raided the homes of 14 Baha’i citizens in Alborz and Qazvin provinces, arresting two individuals.
According to the annual report of the Commission on International Religious Freedom last year, the Iranian…
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Iran executed 975 people in ‘horrifying’ 2024 escalation
PARIS —Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday.
Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French group Together Against the Death…
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Gazelle Sharmahd mourns Bibas family slain by Hamas
“Yarden Bibas – the same jihadists who stole my father are the ones who stole your beloved wife Shiri and your two innocent children, Ariel and Kfir,” Gazelle Sharmahd, daughter of executed German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, told…
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Iran executed 975 people in ‘horrifying’ 2024 escalation: rights groups
Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday.
Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French group Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM)…
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Trump says he has not seen the Egyptian counter to his plan for Gaza
WASHINGTON —U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday evening he has not seen the proposal being discussed by Arab leaders as an alternative to his plan to take over Gaza once the war between Hamas and Israel ends.
“I haven’t seen…
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