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Mahmoud Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections another year

October 10, 2026 admin

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. File | Photo Credit: AP President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian elections in nearly 20 years, issuing a decree on Friday to further delay voting for the Palestinian Legislative Council almost another year. Rather than take place as scheduled next month, the decree pushes the elections…

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UN urges access for international investigators to Gaza after bodies found

September 15, 2026 admin

Mourners gather for a mass burial of around 100 Palestinians, including 62 children, whose remains where recovered from rubble, in Gaza City. File | Photo Credit: AFP The United Nations called Tuesday (September 15, 2026) for international investigators to be granted to access to all of Gaza “to assist with evidence-gathering” as hundreds of bodies…

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Mehbooba Mufti welcomes BRICS condemnation of Pahalgam terror attack, but calls out ‘selective outrage’

September 12, 2026 admin

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti. File | Photo Credit: PTI Amid the ongoing BRICS Summit in New Delhi, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday (September 12, 2026) welcomed the world leaders’ condemnation of the Pahalgam terror attack. However, she questioned the failure of…

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The View From India newsletter: ‘Lion King’ in the rubble in Gaza

September 8, 2026 admin

(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here. A photograph of a large group of Palestinian children, seated and lying amid the rubble and ruin in Gaza, watching the ‘Lion King’ projected on a screen, has gone…

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The View From India newsletter: Israel’s strategic predicaments

September 1, 2026 admin

(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.) After Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed, the Jewish nation launched an immediate retaliatory war on Gaza. Its leaders vowed to…

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Israel Defence Minister says troops to stay ‘indefinitely’ in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza

July 1, 2026 admin

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz. FIle | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s Defence Minister said Wednesday (July 1, 2026) that Israeli forces would remain in self-proclaimed “security zones” established in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, without any timeline for withdrawal. “The IDF will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza indefinitely in order to…

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Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says

June 23, 2026 admin

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, ‌resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday (June 23, 2026). The report by the U.N. Independent ⁠International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East…

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Gaza civil defence says toddler among 10 killed in Israeli strikes

April 15, 2026 admin

Palestinians gather around the remains of a police vehicle destroyed in an Israeli strike that killed several people, in Gaza City on April 14, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Tuesday (April 15, 2026) that a toddler was among 10 people killed in separate Israeli strikes in the northern part…

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Young Palestinian boy drowns in muddy water flooding his Gaza tent camp, UN says

January 1, 2026 admin

The U.N. said Thursday (January 1, 2026) that a Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip drowned in floods that engulfed his tent camp, with videos showing rescuers trying to pry his body out of muddy waters by pulling him by the ankle. It was the latest sign of the miseries that winter is inflicting on…

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Israel’s security cabinet approves 19 new settlements in West Bank

December 21, 2025 admin

Israel’s Security cabinet approved the establishment of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move the country’s far-right Finance Minister said on Sunday (December 21, 2025) was aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state. The decision brings the total number of settlements approved over the past three years to 69, according…

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