Fri 31 October 2025: An overwhelming majority of Palestinians are opposed to Hamas’s disarmament and are deeply sceptical that US President Donald Trump’s peace plan will lead to a permanent end to Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, according to a survey. About 70 percent of Palestinians polled across the occupied West Bank and Gaza […]
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Fri 31 October 2025: France has sent a team of military and civilian personnel to Israel to take part in planning the post-ceasefire phase in the Gaza Strip, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced Thursday, Anadolu reports. Barrot told LCI television that France joined countries contributing to the US-led coordination center established between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. […]
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Fri 31 October 2025: A teenage boy has fallen to his death during a mass ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally against military conscription in Jerusalem, which had shut down the main entrance to the city. Packed crowds of mostly men clogged the roads around the Route 1 highway leading into Jerusalem. Israeli media estimated that about 200,000 people flocked […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: The bank built the largest mall in the world, but also racked up massive debt and gave loans to insiders. Tehran, Iran – Authorities have merged one of Iran’s largest private lenders into the country’s biggest state-run bank in a move that highlights a deeply troubled economy and will further squeeze average […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: When Google and Amazon negotiated a massive $1.2bn cloud computing deal in 2021 with the Israeli government, a secret arrangement known as the “winking mechanism” was included, according to a new joint investigation by The Guardian and the Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call. The secret warning system obligates the companies to […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: The wife of UK journalist Sami Hamdi is calling for his release after he was detained earlier this week by US immigration officials when his visa was revoked for unsubstantiated “national security” reasons. “Our beloved Sami was abducted over the weekend by the US government because of his courageous and effective […]
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Wed 29 October 2025: At least 279 Israeli soldiers have attempted suicide over 18 months during Israel’s war on Gaza, according to a new report. Israel’s public broadcaster KAN said the report by the Knesset Research and Information Center showed “worrying data regarding suicide attempts among Israeli soldiers” from January 2024 to July 2025, 36 […]
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Wed 29 October 2025: The US president has addressed questions from reporters over the deadly Israeli attacks on Gaza, on board Air Force One as he travelled from Japan to South Korea. “As I understand it, they took out an Israeli soldier,” Trump told reporters. “So the Israelis hit back and they should hit back. […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned Monday that countries would reject being asked to “enforce” peace in Gaza if deployed under US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan. “What is the mandate of security forces inside of Gaza? And we hope that it is peacekeeping, because if it’s peace enforcing, nobody will want […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: The World Health Organisation says two years of fighting has more than doubled the number of people in Gaza who need mental health care, rising from about 485,000 to more than one million. Before Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, UNICEF estimated about 500,000 children in Gaza needed mental […]
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