In his first TikTok post, the Prime Minister and his wife, Victoria, walk down the corridor and out through the No10 door as flashing cameras start taking snaps of them

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<article data-history-node-id="432474" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/arab-cup-palestinian-football-uniting-what-politics-has-divided" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/arab-cup-palestinian-football-uniting-what-politics-has-divided" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At the Arab Cup, Palestinian football is uniting what politics has divided</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>In a time of deep&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;anguish, the national football team's successive victories in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2625405/sport" target="_blank">Arab Cup</a>, currently taking place in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/qatar" target="_blank">Qatar</a>, have ignited a rare and precious sense of unity.</p> <p>This joy begins in the rain-soaked tents of displaced families in Gaza, stretches to refugee camps in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/lebanon" target="_blank">Lebanon</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/jordan" target="_blank">Jordan</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/syria" target="_blank">Syria</a>, and ripples across Palestinian communities worldwide.</p> <p>From Rafah comes Ihab Abu Jazar, the team's coach, whose family home was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.net/sport/2025/12/7/%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%84-%D8%AE%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88-%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8" target="_blank">destroyed</a>&nbsp;and whose mother was moved to a tent in the Mawasi area. He becomes, suddenly, a beacon of hope.</p> <p>For a fleeting moment, his squad delivers triumph on the green pitch, qualifying for the next round and dedicating the victory first to Gaza and then to Palestinians everywhere.</p> <p>Behind the Fida'i, the team's nickname meaning fighter, a collective spirit emerges. It transcends sport, reflecting a profound yearning among Palestinians to reclaim an unfragmented identity, free from the suffocating grip of political division and despair.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/arab-cup-palestinian-football-uniting-what-politics-has-divided">At the Arab Cup, Palestinian football is uniting what politics has divided</a></h3> <p><img alt="Palestinian football fans gather at a cafe in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 7 December 2025 to watch their national team play Syria in the Arab Cup in Qatar (Zain Jaafar/AFP)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/000_87DK2DK%281%29.jpg.jpg?itok=gq4Dw5hq"></p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="432427" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-demolish-two-palestinian-homes-west-bank-village" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-demolish-two-palestinian-homes-west-bank-village" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces demolish two Palestinian homes in West Bank village</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-26" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-WEB:831f4b5f-31b3-4622-adb9-838c1e9e5a2a-12" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="603" data-start="258">Israeli occupation soldier demolished two homes and an agricultural shed belonging to brothers Nidal and Ahmed Mahmoud Abdel Khaleq in the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah, on Monday.</p> <p data-end="603" data-start="258">Local sources speaking to Wafa, said the buildings, each about 150 square metres and home to roughly 14 people, were destroyed by soldiers accompanied by a military bulldozer.</p> <p data-end="1025" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="605">Authorities had reportedly issued Nidal with a demolition notice three months earlier. He filed an appeal, but the homes were razed before the court issued a response, despite being located within the village’s approved structural plan. The incident underscores Israel’s ongoing campaign of forced displacement and house demolitions, which violates international law and deepen the oppression of Palestinians.</p> </article> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432422" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-earmarks-almost-1-billion-expand-illegal-west-bank-settlements" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-earmarks-almost-1-billion-expand-illegal-west-bank-settlements" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel earmarks almost $1 billion to expand illegal West Bank settlements</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-14" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-WEB:831f4b5f-31b3-4622-adb9-838c1e9e5a2a-6" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="670" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="224">Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has set aside approximately more than $830 million to fund the creation of 17 new settlements in the occupied West Bank over the next five years, according to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot.</p> <p data-end="670" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="224">The move signals an accelerated push to entrench illegal Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land, further tightening Israel’s grip on the territory and deepening its system of apartheid and colonisation.</p> </article> </div> </div> </article>

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The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.

<article data-history-node-id="432433" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-starts-building-new-barrier-along-jordan-border" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-starts-building-new-barrier-along-jordan-border" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel starts building new wall along Jordan border</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="113" data-start="0">Israel has confirmed the launch of work on a new border wall with Jordan, extending its expanding militarisation of surrounding areas and of the occupied West Bank.&nbsp;</p> <p data-end="571" data-start="394">In the first stage, Israeli authorities will construct two separate stretches, each around 80 kilometres long, along the north-eastern section of the Israel-Jordan frontier, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.</p> <p data-end="878" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="573">Officials estimate the project will cost about more than $1.7 billion and form part of what it claims is a wider “multi-layered” security structure expected to run roughly 500 kilometres, from the southern occupied Golan Heights down to north of Eilat, further entrenching Israel’s securitised and colonial expansion across the region.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>