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Edan Alexander, 21, is the first hostage to be released by Hamas since a ceasefire ended in March.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Interior Ministry urges residents to stay home and avoid movement, warning of further instability.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:The BBC's Fergal Keane reports on the rise of malnutrition in Gaza's children.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Israeli negotiators headed to Doha on Tuesday Israel is sending a negotiating team to Doha, Qatar on Tuesday for further discussions on reaching a ceasefire and captive-swap deal in Gaza, the Times of Israel has reported. This comes of the heels of the release of US-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander on Monday. Hamas expressed a willingness to keep engaging diplomatically, and said talks can bring about results where the...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:From AI to weapons, Trump's Gulf visit looks to swap politics for business Submitted by Sean Mathews on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 20:24 Saudi officials will push for American investments in the kingdom, as US officials lobby for petrodollars to flow the opposite way US President Donald Trump gestures as he departs Air Force One at Miami International Airport, in Miami, Florida, on 19 February 2025 (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Former Israeli intelligence officials urge Trump to continue sidestepping Netanyahu A letter signed by former senior figures in the Israeli security sphere is calling on US President Donald Trump to sidestep Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and work to release the remaining captives in Gaza. The letter, dated Sunday, says it is written on behalf of more than 550 members of Commanders for Israel's Security,...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Move comes as administration largely closes refugee admissions from countries experiencing widespread violence, poverty.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Video from the Israeli military showed the moment of US-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander reuniting with his family.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:US students enter seventh day of hunger strike for Gaza Submitted by Syma Mohammed on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 19:03 California State University students from several campuses have gone on a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians at risk of famine in Gaza A pro-Palestinian protester walks past graffiti reading βYour Complicity Will Be Rememberedβ in a hallway of the student services building at California State...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:President makes push to bring down drug prices that have long been a source of financial strain for US patients.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:The IPC says a full 100% of Gaza now experiences acute food insecurity while half-a-million people face starvation.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Protesters in Basel condemned Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Israeli lawmaker lambasts Netanyahu for not securing Edan Alexander's release himself Israeli Knesset member Moshe Tur-Paz criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday via a post on X, suggesting that perhaps being an American is safer than just being Israeli, given it was the US President Donald Trump who helped secure the release of Israeli-American dual national Edan Alexander from Hamas captivity. "Did I...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:A ceasefire between India and Pakistan is currently holding, bringing relief to civilians who fled after recent attacks.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:After the ceasefire: What lies ahead for India and Pakistan? Submitted by Zia Ur Rehman on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 18:04 Root causes of India-Pakistan conflict remain unaddressed, leaving the two a hair-trigger away from another war Pakistani Rangers perform during the βBeating Retreatβ ceremony at the border gates of Pakistan and India at the Wagah crossing near Lahore, Pakistan, on 4 May 2025 (Amir Ali/AFP) Off Air...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Qassam Brigades releases photo of Israeli-American captive after handover The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, released a photograph on Monday shortly after releasing the US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Alexander, standing in the middle next to a Red Cross representative and alongside three members of the Brigades, is shown to be in relatively good health...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:BBC accused of 'political censorship' over failure to release Gaza medics documentary Submitted by Oscar Rickett on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 16:31 Mike Leigh, Lindsey Hilsum and Susan Sarandon over 600 prominent figures calling for release of 'Gaza: Medics Under Fire' BBC Headquarters at the Broadcasting House in central London pictured in 2023 (AFP) Off The BBC has been accused of "political censorship" as it faces...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:The new pontiff talks of witnesses 'who report on war even at the cost of their lives'.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander released from Gaza captivity Edan Alexander, a dual Israeli-American national who is a soldier in the Israeli forces, was released from captivity in Gaza on Monday. He had been held since 7 October 2023. The agreement to release him was brokered by the Trump administration and regional mediators, largely sidestepping Israel. Alexander was handed over to the International...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Israel to take full control of land registry in West Bank's Area C, cementing annexation Submitted by Lubna Masarwa on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:29 Government votes to legally nullify any Palestinian efforts to register land in majority of the West Bank This picture taken from Nablus on 23 March 2025 shows the new expansion of the Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh, east of the city, in the occupied West Bank (AFP/Zain...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:The Kurdistan Workersβ Party, or PKK, has announced that it plans to disband and disarm.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Famine imminent in Gaza if Israel doesnβt lift blockade, hunger monitor warns Submitted by Sally Aljoud on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:05 Over 93 percent of population is suffering from acute food insecurity, with communal kitchens shutting down A Palestinian boy gestures as he waits for a portion of hot food distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 5 May 2025 (AFP) Off Famine...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Pakistani military says UK engines powered Israeli drones used by India Submitted by Imran Mulla on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 13:10 MEE matched the photo of a drone engine circulated last week with an engine produced by British company UAV Engines Ltd, a subsidiary of Israel's Elbit Systems Residents gather over the roof of a damaged house at the site where an alleged drone was shot down in Karachi on 8 May (AFP) Off...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Netanyahu says forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza 'inevitable' Submitted by MEE staff on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:09 Israeli prime minister boasts to parliamentary committee that the army is 'destroying more and more homes' to force people to leave Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the annual ceremony on the eve of Israelβs Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem on 29 April 2025...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Tidjane Thiam's campaign has been halted because presidential candidates are not allowed to hold dual citizenship.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Israeli troops 'killed civilian during Hamas attack and covered it up' Submitted by Nadav Rapaport on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:05 The killing of Tom Godo by the army is the latest example of Israelis killed intentionally or mistakenly during the 7 October Hamas-led attack An Israeli soldier walks in a damaged house in Kfar Aza, one of the kibbutzim attacked during the 2023 Hamas-led attack, on 27 October 2023 (Fadel...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:US president may have excluded Israel from his pursuit of megadeals in the Gulf, but he remains a committed supporter
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:The latest attacks come as the African Union rejects any 'interference' in the civil war, which has killed over 20,000.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Detainees were regularly executed and unarmed people killed in their sleep during night raids, according to ex-soldiers.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Pope Leo XIV urged the release of imprisoned journalists across the world.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:PM Starmer's shift to the right on immigration risks alienating Labour's large base of left-of-centre supporters.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Gaza market massacre: 'My son was stolen from me' Submitted by Ahmed Dremly on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 13:21 Noah al-Saqa had just celebrated his 10th birthday, but was a victim of an Israeli attack on a restaurant and market that killed 33 people. One family's story sums up the ongoing tragedy of Gaza Daoud al-Saqa holds up a photo showing his son Noah on his birthday, 6 May 2025 (Ahmed Dremly/MEE) Off At just 10 years old,...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Economic deals and security top the agenda on Trump trip to Middle East, the first state visit of his second term.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Why US liberals refuse to acknowledge that Trump is a homegrown dictator Submitted by Hamid Dabashi on Tue, 05/06/2025 - 17:15 From Tocqueville to today, the real danger lies not in Trump's vulgarity but in the tyranny masked as democracy - built on illusion, repression, and majority rule without dissent US President Donald Trump reacts during a meeting with the Canadian prime minister in the Oval Office at the White...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Police bodycam footage shows Newark Mayor Ras Baraka being arrested outside a detention centre in New Jersey
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