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الأزمة الإسرائيلية – الإيرانية: فرصة للعودة عن حافة الهاوية

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). في 13 نيسان/أبريل، وبعد أيام من التهديدات، أطلقت إيران وابلاً جوياً يستهدف مواقع...

The Gaza War's Spillover in the Middle East (Online Event, 29 February 2024)

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). In this online event, Crisis Group experts discuss the regional repercussions of the Gaza war. Source of original article:...

Starving Gaza | Crisis Group

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Crisis Group experts...

Hebrew University Professor Suspended After Calling to Abolish Zionism, Casting Doubt on Oct. 7...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has suspended a senior faculty member after she advocated the destruction of Zionism and called into...

Israel’s Shin Bet, Military Open Investigations Into Events Leading Up to Oct. 7 Massacre

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, has begun conducting an investigation into the operational reasons for the failures leading up...

Israel to Offer Six-Week Gaza Truce for 40 Hostages in Qatar Talks, Israeli Official...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel will send a high-level delegation headed by its Mossad chief to Qatar on Monday for mediated talks with Hamas designed...

Gaza: 23 million tonnes of debris ‘will take years to clear’; acute malnutrition doubles...

In a fresh alert about the disastrous humanitarian emergency still unfolding in the enclave, the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, said on Friday that...

Israelis on Edge as Iranian Threat to Attack Looms

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israelis nationwide are preparing for an imminent attack by Iran and wider escalation in the north with Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist...

IDF Announces Death of Soldier in North Gaza, Bringing Israeli Ground Offensive Death Toll...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday announced the death of a soldier killed during an operation targeting Hamas at Shifa...

Israel’s Costly Defense Against Iran Onslaught Leads to Calls to Increase Budget

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel must increase its defense budget significantly after seeing the high cost of defending the Jewish state against Iran’s massive drone...

Palestinian Teen Murders Brother Suspected of Collaboration With Israel: Reports

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In an act of brutality in the West Bank city of Jenin, a 19-year-old Palestinian was executed by his twin brother...

Israeli Hospital Earns Spot In Global Top 10

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A hospital in central Israel was ranked in the top 10 of medical centers globally, in the new rankings out by...

The Stakes in the Ethiopia-Somaliland Deal

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). ...

Iran Could Review ‘Nuclear Doctrine’ Amid Possibility of Israeli Strike, Iranian Commander Warns

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a US-designated terrorist organization, suggested on Thursday that the Iranian regime...

‘Hamas Branch in Jerusalem Must Be Closed!’ Israelis Protest Outside UNRWA Office, Accuse Agency...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dozens of protesters on Wednesday gathered in front of the Jerusalem office of the United Nations agency responsible for Palestinian refugees,...

‘Your credibility is on the line’: CPJ, 38 others urge MFC member states to...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 38 other media freedom organizations in calling out the “collective official silence of the MFC...

Strike on Iran’s Consulate in Syria Is ‘Turning Point’, Hezbollah Head Says

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The head of Lebanon’s armed terrorist group Hezbollah said on Friday that Israel’s strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus this week marked a...

UN continues to face aid access denials in Gaza

Israeli authorities have not given a clear reason why, said OCHA Spokesperson Jens Laerke, speaking during the regular briefing by UN humanitarian agencies in...

Israeli Energy Ministry Announces New Discounts for Holocaust Survivors, Other Seniors

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel’s Energy Ministry on Wednesday announced new discounts on energy costs for Holocaust survivors and other senior citizens as part of...

Israel Sets New Standards for Saving Wounded Troops in War

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Israeli army’s chief medical officer told a recent gathering of NATO and allied officials about the striking success of the...

دوائر مغلقة: انتخابات 2024 الإقصائية في إيران

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). ...

New U.S. Envoy on Ending Sudan’s War

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). In this episode of The Horn, Alan Boswell talks with Tom Perriello, recently...

Security Council urged to ‘end the bloodshed’ in Gaza

Dennis Francis convened the UN’s most representative body, comprising all 193 Member States, following the Security Council’s failure to adopt a resolution put forward...

Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Editor’s notes: The list below is CPJ’s most recent and preliminary account of journalist deaths in the war. Our database will...