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An elderly Palestinian man raises his hands in prayer during a protest organized by residents demanding their return to their homes in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarm
UN and Palestinians warn West Bank demolitions could permanently displace hundreds
TULKAREM — Palestinian officials have warned of “forced displacement” after the Israeli military ordered a series of demolitions in the occupied West bank, citing security and “operational need.”The Palestinian Refugee Affairs Department condemned the decision by the Israeli authorities to demolish 25 residential buildings in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem calling it ” blatant violation of international humanitarian law,” in a statement on Tuesday.Calling on the international community to intervene, the department said “the systematic demolition policy in Nur Shams camp will lead to the forced displacement of dozens of families, as part of a plan aimed at emptying the Palestinian camps and erasing their existence, and imposing long-term control over them, as part...
December 17, 2025

UN and Palestinians warn West Bank demolitions could permanently displace hundreds

Narges Mohammadi was given temporary release from prison on medical grounds last year (file photo)
Iranian Nobel laureate taken to hospital after 'violent arrest', family says
LONDON — Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was taken to hospital after being beaten when she was arrested last week, her family says.The 53-year-old human rights activist told them in a phone call on Sunday that she was brought to an emergency department twice after being "attacked by plain clothed agents with severe and repeated baton blows to the head and neck", according to the Narges Foundation.There was no comment from Iranian authorities, but they have said she was detained for making "provocative remarks" at a memorial ceremony in the city of Mashhad on Friday.The Nobel Committee and award-winning film-maker Jafar Panahi are among those calling for her release.Ms Mohammadi, the vice-president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran, was awarded the 2023...
December 16, 2025

Iranian Nobel laureate taken to hospital after 'violent arrest', family says

Experts say the climate crisis is in part responsible for the extreme weather fluctuations
Dozens killed in Morocco flash floods
RABAT — Flash floods have killed at least 37 people in Morocco's coastal Safi region, according to state-owned television.Cars and mounds of rubbish were seen sweeping through the main port city of Safi after torrential rain hit on Sunday.Dozens of people have been receiving treatment in hospital for their injuries, say local authorities, and at least 70 homes have been inundated in the old city centre.Local reports say access to and from the city is blocked on certain roads because of damage and debris.Residents on Sunday described it as a dark day, with one telling the AFP news agency: "I've lost all my clothes. Only my neighbour gave me some to cover myself. I have nothing left. I've lost everything."Another survivor said he wanted to see government trucks at the scene...
December 15, 2025

Dozens killed in Morocco flash floods

A car destroyed following an Israeli strike, near Nablusi junction, in the west of Gaza City on, 13 December 2025, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. (EPA)
Israel says it killed senior Hamas weapons commander in Gaza strike
GAZA CITY — Israel said on Saturday it killed a senior Hamas commander in an air strike targeting a vehicle inside Gaza City, in what it described as a major blow to the group’s military capabilities. In a joint statement, the Israeli military and the Shin Bet security agency said they had “eliminated” Raed Saad, the head of weapons production for Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades. Saad was considered one of the most prominent Hamas military figures in Gaza and played a key role in overseeing weapons manufacturing and deployment. According to Israel, Saad led several brigades during the Hamas-led attack on Israeli communities east of Gaza City on October 7, 2023, and was responsible for the deaths of many Israeli soldiers through the use of explosive devices during the...
December 14, 2025

Israel says it killed senior Hamas weapons commander in Gaza strike

A child crosses a flooded track in Khan Younis between makeshift tents used by displaced Palestinians
Flood misery for Gazans awaiting next stage of peace plan
JERUSALEM — More than 800,000 Gazans are at risk from flooding, the UN says, as a powerful winter storm sweeps through the Strip.The heavy rain has already deluged camps, and led several buildings to collapse.A steady stream of water trickles through openings in the tent Ghadir al-Adham shares with her husband and six children in Gaza City. Her family is still displaced after the war, and waiting for reconstruction to begin."Here we are, living a life of humiliation," she told the BBC. "We want caravans. We want our homes rebuilt. We long for concrete to keep us warm. Every day I sit and cry for my children."Two months into an American-imposed ceasefire, Gaza is stuck in the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan - its territory divided between the warring parties, its people...
December 12, 2025

Flood misery for Gazans awaiting next stage of peace plan

A drone picture shows the destruction after an explosion at the seaport of Beirut, 5 August, 2020
Bulgarian court rejects extradition of Russian linked to Beirut port blast
SOFIA — A Bulgarian court rejected Lebanon's request on Wednesday to extradite the owner of a ship linked to a cargo of ammonium nitrate at the centre of the massive 2020 port explosion in Beirut.Igor Grechushkin, 48, who holds Russian and Cypriot citizenship, was arrested in Sofia in September on an Interpol red notice.Lebanon has asked Bulgaria to extradite him in connection with blast on 4 August 2020, which killed at least 218 people and injured more than 6,000, and devastated large swathes of the area around Beirut’s port, causing billions of dollars in damage."The court rejected Lebanon’s request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, ruling that the Lebanese authorities had not provided adequate assurances that he would be protected from the death penalty or that any such...
December 11, 2025

Bulgarian court rejects extradition of Russian linked to Beirut port blast

Israeli army carries out a raid, and replaces the UN flag with the Israeli flag at the UNRWA center in east Jerusalem on Monday, December 08
Israeli police raid UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem and replace UN flag with Israeli flag
JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities raided the compound of UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, took down the UN flag, and raised Israel’s flag, UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X.Lazzarini said Israeli police, accompanied by Jerusalem municipal officials, “forcibly” entered the UNRWA compound, bringing in “trucks and forklifts.”“All communications were cut. Furniture, IT (Information Technology) equipment, and other property were seized,” he added.Israeli police told CNN in a statement that the operation “was carried out by the Jerusalem Municipality as part of a debt-collection procedure.” Police were present “to secure the municipality’s personnel,” the statement said.A spokesman for the Jerusalem...
December 09, 2025

Israeli police raid UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem and replace UN flag with Israeli flag

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) address a joint press conference in Jerusalem, 07 December 2025. — EPA
Netanyahu says second phase of ceasefire expected 'very shortly' during Merz visit to Israel
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of the ceasefire "very shortly" after Hamas returns the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza.The Israeli premier also added that he would be meeting US President Donald Trump later this month.Netanyahu made the comments during a visit to Israel by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, his first trip to the country as head of state, during which the latter also visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.The two leaders discussed Gaza, a topic on which they expressed clear differences, but were still keen to emphasise a commitment to maintaining the two countries' close bilateral relationship.Merz had come to Israel as a friend "much later than I actually...
December 08, 2025

Netanyahu says second phase of ceasefire expected 'very shortly' during Merz visit to Israel

Bassem Naim, an official in Hamas' political wing, speaks in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday
Hamas willing to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ weapons, senior official says
DOHA — Hamas is willing to discuss “freezing or storing” its weapons, a senior official said on Sunday, amid concerns that the nascent ceasefire deal between Israel and the militant group could collapse.Speaking to the Associated Press in Qatar on Sunday, Bassem Naim said that Hamas is “very open minded” about what to do with its remaining weaponry.The US-brokered ceasefire deal requires Hamas to give up its arms under the supervision of independent monitors as part of the demilitarization of Gaza.Disarmament is a key part of the second phase of the 20-point ceasefire agreement.“We can talk about freezing or storing or laying down, with the Palestinian guarantees, not to use it at all during this ceasefire time or truce,” Naim told the AP.On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister...
December 08, 2025

Hamas willing to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ weapons, senior official says

Yasser Abu Shabab, pictured in an image posted on the Popular Forces’ Facebook page
Leader of anti-Hamas militia armed by Israel killed in Gaza
GAZA — The leader of an anti-Hamas group that was armed and backed by Israel has been killed in Gaza, the group confirmed Thursday, in a potential blow to Israel’s post-war plans in the shattered territory.Yasser Abu Shabab, who led a militia controlling a patch of territory in Rafah in southern Gaza, was killed while trying to “de-escalate a conflict” between members of a family in a public square, the organization said. One Israeli source said earlier the death resulted from “internal clashes.”Two Israeli sources said that Israel tried to evacuate Abu Shabab to a hospital in the country’s south before he was pronounced dead.Abu Shabab was the leader of the most prominent of several Israeli-backed armed groups in Gaza, and his death could prove to be a setback to Israel’s...
December 05, 2025

Leader of anti-Hamas militia armed by Israel killed in Gaza

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