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Israeli ministers said the settler outpost at Homesh will be retrospectively legalised (file photo from May 2023)
Israel announces major expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank
JERUSALEM — Israeli ministers say 22 new Jewish settlements have been approved in the occupied West Bank — the biggest expansion in decades.Several already exist as outposts, built without government authorisation, but will now be made legal under Israeli law. Others are completely new, according to Defence Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.Settlements — which are widely seen as illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this — are one of the most contentious issues between Israel and the Palestinians.Katz said the move "prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel", while the Palestinian presidency called it a "dangerous escalation".The Israeli anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now called it...
May 29, 2025

Israel announces major expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank

Palestinians storm a UN World Food Program warehouse and carry bags of flour in Central Gaza on Wednesday
Hundreds of starving Palestinians storm Gaza food warehouse in deadly incident, says UN agency
GAZA — A hungry crowd of Palestinians broke into a United Nations warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday, resulting in at least two deaths and multiple injuries as famine conditions worsen in the Strip.“Hordes of hungry people broke into the WFP’s Al-Ghafari warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza, in search of food supplies that had been pre-positioned for distribution,” the World Food Programme (WFP) said. “Initial reports indicate two people died and several were injured in the tragic incident.”It is unclear what caused the deaths and injuries. WFP said it is working to verify the exact circumstances, but emphasized the tragedy reflects “alarming and deteriorating conditions on the ground” directly linked to the aid blockade.Several videos and photos seen by CNN show...
May 29, 2025

Hundreds of starving Palestinians storm Gaza food warehouse in deadly incident, says UN agency

A Palestinian woman carries a girl wounded in an Israeli strike in the Saftawi neighborhood west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2025
EU says Israeli strikes in Gaza 'go beyond what is necessary' to fight Hamas
BRUSSELS — The EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has said that "Israeli strikes in Gaza go beyond what is necessary to fight Hamas" as the death toll there continues to mount.Kallas also said that the EU did not support a new aid distribution model backed by the US and Israel which bypasses the UN and other humanitarian organisations."We don't support the privatization of the distribution of humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid can not be weaponized", she said.Israeli air strikes and other military actions since it resumed the war in March following a ceasefire have killed 3,924 people, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Israel says it is acting to destroy Hamas and get back hostages the group holds.Kallas' remarks follow an intervention by new German...
May 28, 2025

EU says Israeli strikes in Gaza 'go beyond what is necessary' to fight Hamas

Steve Witkoff’s comments to CNN mark the first time he has said he would preside over negotiations for an end to the war during the temporary ceasefire
US envoy says Gaza ceasefire deal is on the table, as Israel prepares for ‘unprecedented attack’
JERUSALEM — US special envoy Steve Witkoff has told CNN that a ceasefire-hostage deal for Gaza is currently on the table with a pathway to end the war, and urged Hamas to accept it.The proposal would see the release of half of the living hostages and half of those who have died in exchange for a temporary ceasefire before negotiations begin for a comprehensive agreement to end the war.He declined to specify how long that temporary truce would last, which has been a key issue in the negotiations.“Israel will agree to a temporary ceasefire/hostage deal that would see half of the living and half of the deceased return and lead to substantive negotiations to find a path to a permanent ceasefire, which I have agreed to preside over,” Witkoff told CNN on Monday. “That deal is on the...
May 27, 2025

US envoy says Gaza ceasefire deal is on the table, as Israel prepares for ‘unprecedented attack’

A general view shows the reactor at the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, 746 miles south of Tehran, February 25, 2009
Iran says it’s ready to compromise with Trump, suggests US understands its red lines
TEHRAN — Iran is open to compromises on its nuclear program in talks with the United States, but uranium enrichment remains non-negotiable, Tehran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson told CNN, indicating Washington understands this position.“If the intention is to make sure that Iran’s nuclear program would not be weaponized, I think that’s something that we could simply do,” Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign ministry, said in Tehran on Monday.Asked by CNN how a compromise can be reached in talks, Baghaei said, “So many ways” without specifying.However, he added that Iran’s right to nuclear energy would have to be protected, echoing the long-standing Iranian position on talks.“If the (US’) intention is to deprive Iranians of their right to peaceful...
May 27, 2025

Iran says it’s ready to compromise with Trump, suggests US understands its red lines

Israeli police remove a right-wing activist in Jerusalem's Old City
Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks occupation of Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day on Monday.Chants of "death to Arabs" and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces occupying the Palestinian-majority East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.Violence broke out as ultranationalist Jews streamed into Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's walled Old City.Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said the event had become a festival of "hatred and racism", adding it was "a disgrace and an insult to Judaism".Israeli police were deployed as violence broke out in the walled Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem shortly after midday.Thousands of nationalist Israelis descended to Damascus...
May 27, 2025

Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks occupation of Jerusalem

Some aid trucks have entered Gaza in recent days, after Israel eased an 11-week blockade
Head of controversial Israel-backed Gaza aid group resigns
JERUSALEM — The head of an organization set up to distribute aid in Gaza as part of a controversial Israel-backed plan has resigned, saying it could not work in a way that adhered to "humanitarian principles".Jake Wood quit the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) late on Sunday, saying it would not be able to fulfill the principles of "humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence".The plan, also backed by the US, envisions private contractors delivering aid to Palestinians via Israel-designated distribution sites. It was heavily criticised by the United Nations, which says it will not participate.Israel insists the plan is needed to stop Hamas stealing aid, which the armed group denies doing.Under the GHF plan, Palestinians would be expected to collect boxes...
May 26, 2025

Head of controversial Israel-backed Gaza aid group resigns

A girl stands in the ruins of the school building in Gaza City that was hit by an air strike
Children among dead as Israel strikes Gaza school housing displaced Palestinians
GAZA — At least 54 Palestinians have been killed in two separate Israeli air strikes overnight, including a strike on a school sheltering displaced families in central Gaza, two hospital directors have told the BBC.Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City had been housing hundreds of displaced people from the town of Beit Lahia, currently under intense Israeli military assault.A spokesperson for Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence said 20 bodies, including those of children, were recovered – many were severely burned after fires engulfed two classrooms turned into living quarters.The Israeli military (IDF) said it had targeted "a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command and control center".The IDF said the area was being used "by the terrorists to plan... attacks against Israeli...
May 26, 2025

Children among dead as Israel strikes Gaza school housing displaced Palestinians

Na’ama Levy made the comments after Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month that defeating Israel’s enemies is the supreme objective and more important than securing the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza
Former IDF hostage in Gaza says one of her biggest fears was Israeli strikes
TEL AVIV — An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier released during a ceasefire-hostage deal has said one of her biggest fears during captivity were strikes carried out by Israel.Na’ama Levy, one of five IDF female soldiers released in January, made the comments during a weekly rally at Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square on Sunday demanding the return of hostages.“They (strikes) come unexpectedly. At first you hear the whistles, you pray that it won’t fall on us, and then – the explosions, a noise so loud that it paralyzes the body, and the ground shakes,” Levy told a crowd of thousands.“Every time, I was sure that this was the end of me. It was one of the scariest things I experienced there and that’s also what endangered me more than anything,” she continued, describing an...
May 26, 2025

Former IDF hostage in Gaza says one of her biggest fears was Israeli strikes

The Madrid meeting comes as Israel’s aid blockade fuels a looming famine amid relentless bombing of Gaza
Spain hosts European and Arab nations to discuss Israel's Gaza assault
MADRID — Spain hosted European and Arab countries for high-level talks in Madrid on Sunday, in an effort to pressure Israel to stop its military offensive in Gaza and move forward with a two-state solution.“The only interest that all of us who are gathered here today... is to stop this unjust, cruel, inhumane war by Israel in Gaza, to break the blockade of humanitarian aid and to move definitively towards a two-state solution," Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, told media ahead of the meeting of 20 countries.Albares referred to Gaza as an "open wound in humanity," that is claiming victims every day, and warned that silence is an "accomplice to this massacre."The Madrid Group, also known as the G5+, is made up of European and Arab...
May 26, 2025

Spain hosts European and Arab nations to discuss Israel's Gaza assault

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