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Armed Israeli settlers with assault rifles during West Bank attack

Israeli Settlers Armed With US M4 Rifles Detain Congressman Ro Khanna in West Bank

US Congressman Ro Khanna was held for over an hour by armed Israeli settlers with American-made M4 rifles at Khirbet Zanuta in the West Bank, with his aide calling the US Embassy

July 12, 2026

by Arab Desk

European Commission building Brussels where options paper on Israeli settlement trade ban circulated July 2026

Brussels Puts Israeli Settlement Trade Ban on Table as EU Debates Legal Path

The European Commission circulated a formal options paper Thursday listing three possible trade restrictions on Israeli settlement goods, including a full import ban, as EU ambassadors prepare to convene Friday ahead of ministerial talks Monday and a formal decision not

July 10, 2026

by Arab Desk

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas casts ballot at polling station

Abbas Sets November 28 as Date for First Palestinian Elections in Twenty Years

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has set November 28 as the date for the first legislative elections

International Court of Justice building in The Hague on the week it ordered Israel to facilitate UN aid into Gaza

Gaza Genocide Day 687: Ceasefire Without Bread as ICJ Orders Aid, US Warns on Annexation

Cairo — On Day 687 of the Israel Palestine Conflict, the ceasefire looks less like mercy than a management exercise, a pause that preserves the machinery of deprivation. The world’s highest court

November 9, 2025

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JD Vance meets Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem amid Gaza truce talks

Gaza Genocide Day 686: Deadlines, Pressure, and the Truce on a Clock

Jerusalem — On Day 686 of the Israel Palestine conflict, the conversation around a fragile Gaza truce widened beyond battlefield metrics to the levers that make ceasefires either hold or fray: congressional

November 9, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Aid trucks line up at Kerem Shalom crossing at dawn as Gaza ceasefire tests gate schedules

‘Durable’ ceasefire, thin trust, and the test at the gates

Jerusalem — On Day 685 of the Israel Palestine Conflict, the ceasefire that was sold as a reset remains a daily test of will, logistics, and credibility. Washington’s most visible emissary this

March 9, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Families gather at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square as released captives arrive for medical checks and reunions

Gaza Genocide Day 667: Israel’s gatekeepers squeeze aid as Gaza tests the truce

GAZA — On Day 667 of the Israel Palestine conflict, the war felt, briefly, suspended between ceremony and rubble. In a resort city chosen for optics as much as access, a leaders’

November 9, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Israelis celebrate after news of the first-phase truce at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv

Gaza Genocide Day 673: Ceasefire’s First Fragile Proof

Gaza City — the promise of quiet arrived in whispers before dawn and then, suddenly, as a chorus. In Gaza’s battered neighborhoods, families murmured that the guns might go silent. In Tel Aviv’s

November 9, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Satellite view shows long lines of Gaza aid trucks near the Kerem Shalom crossing during the ceasefire

Gaza Genocide Day 671: Ceasefire wobbles as aid and trust falter

GAZA — Two years after the morning that reset the region’s clocks, the conflict is no longer a rolling news story so much as the scaffolding of daily life. In Gaza, families

November 9, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Gaza City skyline at night as explosions light the sky during renewed bombardment, September 2025

Washington meeting sells hope as Gaza bleeds again

Tehran — The bombardment of Gaza City intensified on Monday even as Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House for talks with Donald Trump over a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war.

October 9, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Donald Trump meets Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office ahead of Gaza plan talks

Trump’s Gaza gamble runs into empty seats, grim reality

Tehran — Donald Trump is betting that momentum and optics can do what 21 months of grinding war, failed truces, and serial “frameworks” could not: force a pivot from siege to settlement

September 29, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks near UN headquarters in New York amid a US visa dispute

Gustavo Petro visa snub puts US-Colombia partnership on edge

Bogotá — The United States’ cancellation of Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s entry visa set off the sharpest rupture in years between Washington and Bogotá, converting a long, often pragmatic partnership into an

September 28, 2025

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Displaced families evacuate Gaza City along the coastal road after new orders

Gaza city assault widens as Trump touts deal, Hamas says no plan

Cairo — Hamas said on Saturday that it has not been presented with any formal plan from Washington to halt the war in Gaza, even as Israeli forces pushed deeper into Gaza

September 28, 2025

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