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  • Trump heads on major Middle East tour

    Trump heads on major Middle East tour

    US President Donald Trump on Monday left for Saudi Arabia on what he called a “historic” tour of the Middle East that will mix urgent diplomacy on Gaza and Iran with huge business deals.

    Air Force One took off on a journey that will include visits to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — and possibly talks in Turkey on the Ukraine war.

    Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza will hang heavy over the first major tour of Trump’s second term — but in one sign of progress, US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Soldier Edan Alexander to Meet Trump and Qatar’s Emir in Doha, Family Says

    Soldier Edan Alexander to Meet Trump and Qatar’s Emir in Doha, Family Says

    The handover took place in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The Israeli military confirmed it received Alexander and said he is in good health.

    Hamas said it released Alexander after “important talks” with the U.S. and praised the American administration’s efforts. The resistance movement emphasized that serious and responsible negotiations produce results in freeing prisoners. Continued military aggression, they warned, only prolongs prisoners’ suffering and risks killing them.

    Hamas…

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    News Source: qudsnen.co

  • With US-Saudi defense pact stalled, Trump eyes civilian nuclear deal

    With US-Saudi defense pact stalled, Trump eyes civilian nuclear deal

    Negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have placed the Trump administration’s strategic approach to the Middle East in a holding pattern.

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Israel Admits Holding Over 10,000 Palestinians, Including 400 Children, While Hiding Thousands from Gaza

    Israel Admits Holding Over 10,000 Palestinians, Including 400 Children, While Hiding Thousands from Gaza

    Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israel says it is holding more than 10,100 Palestinians in its jails as of May 2025, stated prisoners’ rights groups, who also warn the real number is much higher.

    These figures only include those Israel officially admits to detaining. They do not cover thousands of others — especially from Gaza — who remain forcibly disappeared in Israeli military camps and secret facilities.

    According to the latest joint update by Palestinian prisoner…

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    News Source: qudsnen.co

  • The Erasure of Gaza: A Courtesy of the Tamed Empire

    The Erasure of Gaza: A Courtesy of the Tamed Empire

    Israel continued to carry out massacres in Gaza. (Photo: via social media, QNN)

    By Mohamed El Mokhtar

    The bombs fall on Gaza, but the chains tighten in Washington. The Palestinian lies in ruins; the American, in submission.

    The suffocation of Gaza is not merely an excess of violence. It reflects something deeper—a programmed subjugation, the work of an empire that no longer commands but obeys, that no longer thinks but executes.

    One might dismiss this as editorial happenstance. But…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Trump, Netanyahu talk on phone ahead of expected release of Israeli-American captive from Gaza – Middle East Monitor

    Trump, Netanyahu talk on phone ahead of expected release of Israeli-American captive from Gaza – Middle East Monitor

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump today shortly before the expected release of the last living Israeli-American captive from the Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv said.

    “The Prime Minister thanked President Trump for assistance in releasing IDF [Israeli occupation army] soldier Edan Alexander,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

    According to the statement, Trump reaffirmed “his commitment to Israel and his desire to…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • Israel approves new method of land theft in West Bank – Middle East Monitor

    Israel approves new method of land theft in West Bank – Middle East Monitor

    Israel’s security cabinet yesterday approved a decision aimed at implementing large-scale land registration in the West Bank for the first time since the territory came under occupation in 1967, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

    This Israeli decision would lead to the final registration of property rights in Area C of the West Bank – the area placed under exclusive Israeli control according to the Oslo Accords. This violates international law…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • Half a million people in Gaza on the verge of starvation

    Half a million people in Gaza on the verge of starvation

    LONDON, (PIC)

    A global hunger monitoring group said that the entire population of the Gaza Strip remains at risk of severe famine and that half a million people are at risk of starvation, describing this as a significant deterioration since its latest report in October.

    A report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative, released on Monday, said the Gaza Strip “is still confronted with a critical risk of famine” after over a year and a half of…

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    News Source: english.palinfo.com

  • Pope Leo calls for release of jailed journalists, notes their courage | News

    Pope Leo calls for release of jailed journalists, notes their courage | News

    The new pontiff talks of witnesses ‘who report on war even at the cost of their lives’.

    Pope Leo XIV has called for the release of journalists imprisoned for doing their work while affirming free speech.

    Leo, who was elected pontiff on Thursday after the death of Pope Francis, gave his first news conference at the Vatican on Monday.

    Addressing some of the thousands of journalists who travelled to Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff, he said journalists jailed “for…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Israel Kills One Palestinian Woman Every Hour in Gaza – Euro-Med Monitor

    Israel Kills One Palestinian Woman Every Hour in Gaza – Euro-Med Monitor

    Israel continued to carry out massacres in Gaza. (Photo: social media, via QNN)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    Citing its field team in Gaza, the organization said many of the women killed were of childbearing age, and included those killed alongside their children in their homes.

    Israel has killed an average of 21.3 Palestinian women per day, or approximately one woman per hour, through direct bombardment of the Gaza Strip since October 2023, according to the Euro-Med Human Rights…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com