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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held talks in Beirut on Wednesday to discuss a government plan for arms control and ongoing Israeli attacks in the country’s south.

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November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Heavy rains caused flooding at the Kuwait Field Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, leaving parts of the facility, including operating rooms, under water, on Tuesday, Nov. 25.
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction, and the expansion of Israeli violence to the West Bank.

#OPINION by Dr Ramzy Baroud

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November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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A devastating new study has found that more than 112,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its assault in October 2023.

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November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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A historic reckoning is underway in the corridors of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

#OPINION by Jasim Al-Azzawi

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November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Israeli authorities decided on Tuesday to destroy and remove a Palestinian tree area in Jenin governorate in the north of the occupied West Bank, citing “security” reasons, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

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November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Authoritarianism Without Borders: Punishing Justice to Protect Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

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November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Indonesia is preparing one of the largest peacekeeping deployments in its history — a 20,000-strong force of soldiers, engineers.

#OPINION by Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat & Yeta Purnama

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November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Pessimism is rising over progress in the next phase of US President Donald Trump’s plan, amid reports of a deadlock caused by US difficulties in setting up the International Stabilisation Force (ISF).

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November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The British government has issued an unreserved apology and paid £225,000 ($285,000) in libel damages to Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin. The Muslim community leader was falsely accused of being involved in war crimes during Bangladesh’s 1971 War of Independence.

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November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Israel’s Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee approved a bill on Tuesday that would allow Israelis to directly buy land in the occupied West Bank.

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November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The diplomatic advisor to the President of the United Arab Emirates, Dr Anwar Gargash, described US President Donald Trump’s move to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation as a “strategic, courageous and historic decision”.

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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Palestinians, whose homes were destroyed by Israeli attacks, struggle with poor weather con as heavy rainfall flooded many tents in Gaza Strip.

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November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Demonstrations and sit-ins took place on Tuesday in several areas of the Tartus and Latakia governorates, as well as in parts of Homs and Hama.

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November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Before a demonstration in Berlin, police removed a poster depicting Palestinian female detainees from the march's lead vehicle. The action provoked anger among protesters, who asserted their right to display the images as an expression of solidarity.

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November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails continue to suffer acute hunger, with one detainee telling his lawyer that inmates are “starving and dreaming of food”.

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November 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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A large section of the separation wall in the West Bank collapsed after heavy rain, while parts of central West Bank roads also saw soil landslides. A video clip showed the complete destruction of part of the concrete wall.

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November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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The meeting between US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last week saw clear tension because Trump pressed Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords, according to informed sources.

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November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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The West Bank city of Bethlehem is preparing to send the popemobile of late Pope Francis to the Gaza Strip after transforming it into a mobile clinic to be used to treat Palestinian children injured in Israel’s genocidal war, Anadolu reports.

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November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said that humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip remain catastrophic despite the ceasefire, warning that Israeli restrictions on aid are preventing any meaningful improvement.

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November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Germany and Jordan expressed alarm Tuesday over escalating violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, calling on Israeli authorities to hold perpetrators accountable as attacks against Palestinian farmers reach unprecedented levels.

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November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Lebanon faces a “war of attribution,” Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday, calling for taking all necessary precautions to confront any potential Israeli escalation, Anadolu reports.

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November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The UN Security Council Resolution 2803(2025) undermines all the purported purpose of maintaining peace and security.

#BLOG by Ramona Wadi

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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Demonstrators gathered outside the BBC headquarters in London on Monday (Nov. 24) to protest in support of six pro-Palestinian activists who are on a hunger strike in the United Kingdom.
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Iraq enters 2025 facing the same unsparing question that has haunted it for two decades: can it remain a partner to Washington while sustaining the political and economic lifelines that tie it to Tehran?

#OPINION by Jasim Al-Azzawi

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November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM