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Former CIA Analyst Pleads Guilty To Leaking Secret Israeli Plans

January 17, 2025 admin

Washington: A CIA employee who was accused of leaking classified documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran pleaded guilty on Friday to criminal charges that he willfully retained and transmitted national defense information, the U.S. Department of Justice said. In pleading guilty, Asif William Rahman, who worked at the U.S. intelligence agency since 2016, acknowledged…

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Fate Of Two Child Hostages Grips Israel After Gaza Deal

January 17, 2025 admin

Tel Aviv: The fates of a baby and his four-year-old brother, taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023, have been on everyone’s mind in Israel since the announcement of a Gaza ceasefire. Kfir Bibas, whose second birthday falls on Saturday, is the youngest of the 251 people seized by militants during Hamas’s unprecedented attack…

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Watch: Joe Biden announces Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal

January 16, 2025 admin

Watch: Joe Biden announces Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal Source link

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Gaza Ceasefire: What We Know So Far

January 15, 2025 admin

Key mediator Qatar said on Wednesday that 33 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza would be released in the first stage of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the war in the Palestinian territory. Two sources close to Hamas earlier told AFP that Israel would release about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, while an Israeli government spokesman…

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Trump’s ‘Monaco’ Vision For Gaza Is As Tone-Deaf As It Can Get

January 15, 2025 admin

During his election campaign in October, Donald Trump was asked if Gaza could be rebuilt. He replied: “Gaza could be better than Monaco,” adding, “It has the best location in the Middle East, the best water, the best everything.” Ever the real estate developer, one might think Trump’s response hinted at business opportunities. Indeed, it…

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Israeli Strikes Kill Nine People In Gaza As Truce Talks Resume In Qatar

January 5, 2025 admin

Cairo: Israeli airstrikes killed at least nine Palestinians in two separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, taking the weekend death toll to 97, Palestinian medics said, as US and Arab mediators stepped up efforts to conclude a ceasefire deal. Health officials said an Israeli airstrike killed five people in a house in the…

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Parents Of Israeli Teen Held Hostage By Hamas

January 5, 2025 admin

The family of 19-year-old Liri Albag, an Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas since October 7, 2023, said she looks “broken and shattered” in a recent video released by the militant group on Saturday. In the three-and-a-half-minute footage, Ms Albag, visibly distressed, speaks of being held for over 450 days. “Today we received a sign of…

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‘I Don’t Even Know If There’s A Strategy’: On Israel-Palestine Conflict

January 1, 2025 admin

(The following is an excerpt from Stanly Johny’s ‘Original Sin: Israel, Palestine and the Revenge of Old West Asia’, being published with the permission of HarperCollins India. Based on his multiple reporting visits to the region and dozens of interviews, Johny traces the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict.) After the Hamas attack, Israel launched a…

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How Broken AC Almost Saved Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh From Assassination

December 29, 2024 admin

Israel’s planned assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Hamiyeh on July 31 was nearly foiled by a broken air conditioning unit, a Channel 12 report has revealed. The operation in Tehran faced a last-minute hurdle when Haniyeh left his room to address the issue, raising fears that he might be moved to a different location and…

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Israel’s Netanyahu To Undergo Prostate Removal Surgery Today

December 29, 2024 admin

Netanyahu underwent a test at Hadassah Hospital on Wednesday. Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday, his office said after he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection. The procedure comes with Israel at war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip more than 14 months after they carried…

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