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Umm Shukry has tended to her olive trees for 10 years. This olive harvest, she was prevented from accessing her land because of settler attacks
West Bank settler violence is impacting Palestinians’ olive harvest
HAMRA, West Bank — Umm Shukry inspects her olive trees one by one, just as she did every year for a decade. But this olive harvest season is different. Nearly all her trees are damaged; their branches bare and brittle.Examining each limb, she feels exhausted with sorrow.“I am suffocated. I am suffocated from seeing my hard work turn out like this,” she told CNN. “I used to spend so much time here under the scorching heat, taking care of them… we’ve had this land for over 50 years.”For the past two years, the 72-year-old has been prevented from accessing her land, cut off by settler violence and Israeli army restrictions. It sits opposite an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley. The Israeli settlers living there have assaulted and threatened her family,...
November 07, 2025

West Bank settler violence is impacting Palestinians’ olive harvest

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa
UN lifts sanctions on Syrian president ahead of White House visit
NEW YORK — The UN Security Council has voted in favour of a US resolution to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa ahead of his White House visit next week.Sharaa was named transitional president after leading a rebel offensive that ousted Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, ending 13 years of civil war.Washington's ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the UN had sent a "strong political signal" that recognized Syria was in a "new era" since Assad was deposed.Sharaa was under UN sanctions as the leader of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which was formerly linked to al-Qaeda. The US removed HTS from a list of foreign terror groups in July.The UN also removed sanctions on Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab.Syria's foreign minister welcomed the removal...
November 07, 2025

UN lifts sanctions on Syrian president ahead of White House visit

Buildings in Gaza City have been reduced to grey, dusty rubble
Gaza in total devastation after two years of war
GAZA CITY — The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still for 180 degrees, from Beit Hanoun on one side to Gaza City on the other.Beyond the distant shapes of buildings still standing inside Gaza City, there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighborhoods that once held tens of thousands of people.This was one of the first areas Israeli ground troops entered in the early weeks of the war. Since then they have been back multiple times, as Hamas regrouped around its strongholds in the area.Israel does not allow news organisations to report independently from Gaza. Today it took a group of journalists, including the BBC, into the area of the Strip occupied by Israeli forces.The brief visit was...
November 06, 2025

Gaza in total devastation after two years of war

Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris have been freed after being detained in Iran since May 2022
Iran releases two French nationals from detention
TEHRAN — Iran has released two French nationals who were detained there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron has said.Cécile Kohler, 41 and her partner Jacques Paris, 72, have been released from Evin prison, Macron said on Tuesday, with France's foreign minister later confirming they were "safe" at the embassy in Tehran "ahead of their final release"."I welcome this first step. The dialogue continues to allow for their return to France as quickly as possible," Macron said.The pair, who were arrested in May 2022 during a tourist trip, are believed to be the last French nationals held in Iran.Last month, they were found guilty of spying on behalf of both France and Israel, and were handed lengthy prison sentences, according to Iranian state media reports.A...
November 05, 2025

Iran releases two French nationals from detention

IDF Israel Defense Forces (IDF) handout photo showing its former Military Advocate General Major General Yifat Tomer-YerushalmiIDF
Israeli military's ex-top lawyer arrested as scandal over video leak deepens
JERUSALEM — The former top lawyer in the Israeli military has been arrested, as a political showdown deepens over the leaking of a video that allegedly shows severe abuse of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers.Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned as the Military Advocate General of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last week, saying that she took full responsibility for the leak.On Sunday, the story took a darker turn when she was reported as missing, with police mounting an hours-long search for her on a beach north of Tel Aviv.She was subsequently found alive and well, police said, but was then taken into custody.The fallout from the leaked video is intensifying by the day.Broadcast in August 2024 on an Israeli news channel, the footage shows reserve soldiers at the Sde Teiman...
November 03, 2025

Israeli military's ex-top lawyer arrested as scandal over video leak deepens

A stone sculpture of a high-ranking official from the dynasty of Pharaoh Thutmose III
Netherlands to return stolen ancient sculpture to Egypt
AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands has said it will return a stolen 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt.It is "highly likely" the stone head, dating from the time of the pharaohs, was plundered during the Arab Spring in either 2011 or 2012, according to the Dutch Information & Heritage Inspectorate.A decade later, it turned up at an arts and antiques fair in Maastricht and, following an anonymous tip-off, Dutch authorities determined it had been stolen and exported illegally.Dutch outgoing prime minister Dick Schoof made the pledge to hand it back as he attended the opening of the archaeological Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza this weekend.The Dutch government said the sculpture of a high-ranking official from the dynasty of Pharaoh Thutmose III is "deeply meaningful to Egypt's identity".The...
November 03, 2025

Netherlands to return stolen ancient sculpture to Egypt

Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies of three deceased hostages handed over by Hamas, make their way toward the border crossing with Israel in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, SundaY
Israel receives remains of 3 more deceased hostages from Gaza
JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday received the bodies of what Hamas said are three more deceased hostages held in Gaza.The remains were transferred to Israel via the Red Cross and taken to the country’s national forensics laboratory for identification.US President Donald Trump said the body of an Israeli-American dual national, Omer Neutra, was among the dead hostages Hamas gave Israel on Sunday.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Washington, Trump said he spoke to the parents of Neutra. “They’re thrilled, in one sense, but in another sense, obviously, it’s not too great, but we’re very happy to have done it,” he said.The latest transfer of remains comes after Hamas handed over the bodies of two deceased hostages on Thursday evening, identified as Amiram Cooper,...
November 03, 2025

Israel receives remains of 3 more deceased hostages from Gaza

The bodies of the dead Palestinians were transferred by the Red Cross in refrigerated lorries
Gaza doctors struggle to investigate 'signs of torture' on unnamed dead returned by Israel
JERUSALEM — Out of a single room, with no DNA testing facilities or cold storage units of its own, the forensics team at Gaza's Nasser hospital face the challenges brought by peace.Over the past eleven days, 195 bodies have been returned to Gaza by Israeli authorities, in exchange for the bodies of 11 Israeli hostages, under the terms of Donald Trump's ceasefire deal. Two other bodies – those of Tanzanian and Thai hostages – have also been returned.Photographs released by Gaza's medical authorities show some of the bodies badly decomposed, and arriving in civilian clothes or naked except for underwear, some with multiple signs of injury. Many have their wrists tied behind their backs, and doctors say some bodies arrived blindfolded or with cloth roped around their...
October 31, 2025

Gaza doctors struggle to investigate 'signs of torture' on unnamed dead returned by Israel

On Tuesday, Hamas fighters removed a body bag from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis
Israel confirms identities of hostages' bodies returned by Hamas
JERUSALEM — Israel has confirmed the identities of two deceased hostages whose bodies it received from Hamas via the Red Cross in Gaza on Thursday.Forensic tests showed the remains were those of Amiram Cooper, 84, and Sahar Baruch, 25, the Israeli prime minister's office said."The government of Israel shares in the deep sorrow of the Cooper and [Baruch] families and all the families of the fallen hostages," it said in a statement.The Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Israel demanded that all 11 Israeli and foreign deceased hostages still in Gaza be returned immediately by Hamas in line with the US-brokered ceasefire agreement.Amiram Cooper was abducted along with his wife, Nurit, from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, which sparked the war....
October 31, 2025

Israel confirms identities of hostages' bodies returned by Hamas

Mohammed Ibrahim is seen in this picture provided by his family
Palestinian American teenager to remain in Israeli jail despite growing pressure from US lawmakers
JERUSALEM — An American teenager held in an Israeli prison without trial for more than eight months will remain in detention for at least another week and a half, despite growing pressure from US lawmakers for his release.Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old Palestinian-American from Palm Bay, Florida, was arrested by Israeli forces in February 2025 after being accused of throwing rocks at Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Ibrahim has told lawyers that he confessed to the accusations out of fear after he was beaten and threatened with more beatings.The Israel Prison Service said it doesn’t comment on individual cases for privacy considerations but added that it operates according to the law and under the supervision of oversight bodies.A court hearing on Wednesday ended without...
October 31, 2025

Palestinian American teenager to remain in Israeli jail despite growing pressure from US lawmakers

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