Tag: Israel
Lebanon’s Army Accuses Israel of Blocking Pullout
The pilot-zone plan Israel and Lebanon agreed to in late June covers just three villages, Froun, Srifa, and Zawtar al-Gharbieh, with no fixed exit timetable for Israeli forces, and Trump declined to commit to one during his July 21 meeting with President Joseph Aoun, according to PBS News. Two of…
Israel Approves International Force’s Entry Into Gaza
Israel's security cabinet voted Sunday to grant the International Stabilization Force immunity under Israeli law, a legal enablement rather than an order to deploy, a day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departs for Washington to meet President Donald Trump on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace's…
Al-Sharaa: Syria Seeking Security Deal With Israel
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview aired Sunday that Damascus is actively working toward a security agreement with Israel that involves several other countries, expressing hope it could serve as a gateway to comprehensive peace, according to Al Jazeera. He said any such agreement would not compromise Syria's…
Israel Strikes Gaza After Displacement Orders
Israeli strikes killed at least two Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, hours after the military issued evacuation orders for four areas and then hit those same locations, according to Al Jazeera. Israeli air strikes destroyed homes in the Bureij and Jabalia refugee camps and in Gaza City's Zeitoun and Tal…
Israeli Troops Raid Syrian Border Village
Israeli forces entered the village of al-Samdaniyah al-Sharqiyah in the northern Quneitra countryside on Sunday, setting up a temporary checkpoint and searching civilians, according to SANA. A patrol of five military vehicles carried out the operation before withdrawing, with no arrests reported.Israeli forces also fired three mortar rounds and one…
Lebanon Tests Peace Amid Regional War
Lebanon’s most promising peace experiment in years began on Tuesday with a small, tangible act: Lebanese army units walked into Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh after Israeli forces pulled out of the southern village.It was the first handover of ground under a US-brokered framework meant to replace both Israeli occupation and Hezbollah’s independent…
Israeli Strikes Kill 11 in Gaza Despite Ceasefire
Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people across the Gaza Strip late Saturday, including a family of five, in one of the deadliest single days since the October ceasefire took effect, according to Daily Sabah.A family of five, three children and their parents, was killed when a strike hit a…
Iranian Missiles Intercepted Near Eilat and Aqaba
Israeli and Jordanian forces intercepted Iranian missiles fired toward the Jordanian city of Aqaba on Sunday, prompting Israel to launch Iron Dome interceptors near the neighboring resort city of Eilat after shrapnel from an intercepted missile landed just north of the city. American air defense systems intercepted the primary missile…
Can Trump’s Middle East Peace Survive?
The Abraham Accords – the 2020 agreements brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump in his first term – made the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain the first Arab states in a quarter-century to recognise Israel, with Morocco following and Sudan beginning a process it never completed. They were one of…
Germany Pushes EU Force to Replace UNIFIL
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has proposed an EU-mandated force for southern Lebanon after the UN peacekeeping mission ends, arguing that Europe should prevent a security vacuum along the border with Israel.“We should examine in the EU whether we can ensure that no security vacuum arises with a European mandate…
