🧵 Newly uncovered documents dating from the 1948 Nakba that saw the creation of the state of Israel reveal the extent to which Zionist fighters were ordered to "annihilate" civilians and their villages⤵️ Haaretz says it found documents belonging to Golani Brigade member Rafi Kotzer near bins in Jerusalem, including files on the trial of Shmuel Lahis, the only Israeli commander sentenced for killing Arabs in 1948

🧵 Exactly 32 years after the massacre at Ibrahimi Mosque, the site faces tighter Israeli control, restricted worship and escalating threats to its Islamic character ⤵️ When an Israeli settler killed dozens of Palestinian worshippers during Ramadan at the Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994, the shock reverberated far beyond Hebron.

The massacre marked a tragic turning point for the sacred site in the occupied West Bank and its Islamic identity

🧵 Analysts have questioned the muted 'mainstream media' response to Epstein’s Israel ties.

Some British outlets have focused on the sex offender's less substantial ties to Russia ⤵️ Epstein had a close association with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak over many years, with an FBI source in the files saying that Barak had trained Epstein as a spy

🔴 LIVE DAY 783 #Israel #Palestine

- Demographic experts say over 100,000 likely killed in Gaza
- American teen released from Israeli prison after nine months
- European leaders say Israeli settlers sowing 'terror' among Palestinians

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Here are the latest updates from Israel's war on Gaza:

- Palestinian outlets say Israeli occupation forces stormed homes in the Al-Far’a camp, south of Tubas, forcing families into the street as troops swept through the area.

- The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out more than 200 raids, arrests and searches across the northern occupied West Bank during its three-day operation, as local communities accused soldiers of killing young Palestinians on the spot.

- Residents in Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, reported clashes between young Palestinians and armed settlers, unfolding at the same time as Israeli troops pushed into several towns and villages across the territory.

- Off Gaza’s southern coast, Israeli naval vessels fired towards the shores of Khan Younis, continuing a pattern of intimidation and blockade enforcement.

- Amnesty International said on Thursday that Israel was "still committing genocide" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite last month’s ceasefire agreement.

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🧵: EXCLUSIVE: Arrest warrant applications for Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on charges of apartheid are ready and in the hands of two deputy prosecutors at the ICC, Middle East Eye can reveal ⤵️ If the warrants are issued, it will be the first time that the crime of apartheid is charged at an international court

🔴LIVE DAY 678 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli attacks killed at least 32 people including 13 seeking aid
- Over 100 humanitarian groups accused Israel of blocking critical aid
- Israel set to approve new settlements in West Bank

Live updates⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/live-54-p… 📰 Israel's Ben Gvir seen threatening Marwan Barghouti in prison in new video

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🔴 LIVE DAY 655 #Israel #Palestine

- Gaza hospitals recorded 15 deaths from starvation in 24 hours
- Israeli strikes killed 72 Palestinians in the past day
- US withdraws from Unesco because Palestine is a member state

Live updates ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/israel-ki… Israeli settlers have set up a new outpost northwest of Ramallah, in a further escalation of land grabs across the occupied West Bank middleeasteye.net/live/israel-ki…

🔴 LIVE #Israel #Iran

- Trump says Iran must return to "international system, or things will get worse"
- Israel's estimated cost of damage in war with Iran is $3 billion

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middleeasteye.net/live/israel-ta… The Israeli military said on Saturday it detected a missile launched from Yemen towards Israeli territory

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🔴LIVE #Israel #Iran

- Donald Trump says US has struck Iranian nuclear sites
- Israel targeted Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, claiming it was part of Tehran’s weapons programme

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US B-2 bombers were involved in the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites which Donald Trump announced moments ago
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🔴LIVE: Israel targets Iran's nuclear sites and military commanders in major attack

- Iran launches missile strikes on Israel
- Explosions reported in Iran
- Israeli media confirms first fatality

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🧵The Nakba: All you need to know

The 1948 forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland has created the longest unresolved refugee crisis in modern history ⤵️ Every year on 15 May Palestinians mark the Nakba, "catastrophe" in English, when around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948

🔴 LIVE DAY 576 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet have approved an expansion of the offensive in Gaza
- 27 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn
- Group of UN and NGO organisations reject Israel's plan to shut down humanitarian organisations

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middleeasteye.net/live/israel-ga… Yemen's Houthi rebels on Monday blamed Washington for around 10 strikes in and around the capital Sanaa

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🔴 LIVE DAY 562 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli strikes kill four in southern Gaza
- Hundreds of Palestinians sheltering in Arab American University campus in Jenin
- Trump threatens to cut another $1 billion in Harvard funding

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🔴 LIVE DAY 559 #Israel #Palestine

-13 people in same family killed in Israeli attack on house in Khan Younis
-Israel intercepted a missile launched from Yemen
-38 people killed in US attack on Ras Isa’s port in Yemen

Live coverage ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa… Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on Friday that no ceasefire deal will be reached with Hamas and no humanitarian aid will be allowed into Gaza until the Palestinian group is defeated middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa…

🔴 LIVE DAY 557 #Israel #Palestine

- Gaza death toll reaches 51,000
- Israeli forces arrest 14 Palestinians in West Bank raids
- Health workers and Nobel laureates issue joint letter demanding end to Gaza war

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Here are some of the latest updates from Israel’s war on Gaza:

• Israeli air strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across Gaza since early Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported. In separate incidents, the outlet cited medical sources saying three were killed in Jabalia camp and six in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood. Separately, Wafa reported Israeli forces killed a Palestinian sheltering in a tent near Gaza City.

• Israeli forces have shot a Palestinian youth at the Qalandiya checkpoint, located north of occupied East Jerusalem, amid raids across the occupied West Bank.

• The New York Times reported that 14 of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed in Gaza last month were "executed" by Israeli forces as they were shot in the head or chest.

• WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has again urged the protection of health care and called for immediate humanitarian access to deliver health supplies into and across Gaza.

• Jordan’s Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Jafar Hassan discussed "the situation in Gaza and the West Bank" with the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department in Washington, DC.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 555 #Israel #Palestine

- EU to boost financial support to PA
- Israeli forces continue raids in occupied West Bank
- Hamas says it is approaching truce talks in Cairo in 'responsible and positive' manner

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Here are some of the latest updates from Israel’s war on Gaza:

- Ireland said it was “appalled” by the Israeli air strike on al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, which led to the death of a Palestinian child, and the forced evacuation of wounded people. Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin described the assault as part of a “wider and deeper unacceptable development in modern warfare”

- A meeting is being held in Cairo between Hamas, Egyptian and Qatari mediators to discuss a ceasefire deal in Gaza, after Israel had broken it in March. The Hamas delegation described its approach to the talks as “responsible and positive”, and said that it was “open to any new proposals so long as they were based on ending the war and ensuring a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza”

- At least three Palestinians have been wounded as Israeli troops raided the Jalazone refugee camp and forced a number of Palestinians from their homes in the Nur Shams refugee camp, according to al-Jazeera Arabic

- The Washington Post reported that the US State Department had decided that there were no proof that links Rumeysa Ozturk, a student who was detained in March by masked immigration agents on the street, to antisemitic activities or support for a “terrorist” organisation, and that there were no sufficient evidence to revoke her visa

- At least six people were killed and 26 others were wounded in suspected US airstrikes around Sanaa, according to the Yemeni Houthi militant group. The Houthis also claimed shooting down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone

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🔴 LIVE DAY 550 #Israel #Palestine

-Israeli forces storm Unrwa schools in occupied East Jerusalem
-Israel bombs Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and Baalbek
-US air strikes slaughter Yemeni civilians, including three children and two women

Live coverage ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa… The Palestinian Foreign Ministry is urging stronger global action to protect Unrwa's work after Israeli authorities closed six of the agency’s schools in occupied East Jerusalem middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa…

🔴 LIVE DAY 548 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli military orders Palestinians in five neighbourhoods to flee after rockets fired into Ashdod and Ashkelon

- Israeli troops shot dead 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy in West Bank

Live coverage ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/israeli-a… Israeli forces have shelled a tent sheltering journalists near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis

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🔴 LIVE DAY 545 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli strikes in Lebanon, killed at least three people
- At least 10 people killed in air strike on a home in of Khan Younis
- Israel killed a Palestinian man during a raid on Jenin

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… A Tufts University student from Turkey, who was arrested last week in Massachusetts by masked US immigration officials after advocating for Palestinians amid Israel's war in Gaza, said on Thursday that she would not be deterred

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🔴 LIVE DAY 544 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 24 Palestinians
- The Israeli military’s latest attacks on Daraa have killed at least 11 people
- US fighter jets have killed one person in Yemen

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… The Israeli military has carried out more attacks on the town of Naqoura in southern Lebanon, including a strike on a home in the town centre, and a second on the town’s outskirts
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🔴 LIVE DAY 542 #Israel #Palestine

- At least 34 Palestinians killed in relentless Israeli strikes across Gaza
- Unicef reports 322 children killed and 609 wounded since March 18
- Israel ordered a full evacuation from Rafah

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Israeli forces have killed Palestinian journalist Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil, along with his wife and three children, in an attack on their home in Khan Younis
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