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Sources told A-Sharq Al-Awsat preparations are underway for a “safe exit” for prominent officials, with Turkey mentioned as one of the potential destinations for some of those leaving Gaza.
Read more: i24 News
Mossad Director David Barnea arrived in the US on Friday morning for talks on the Iran situation and possible US response, Axios reported.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The US on Thursday criticized Iran’s presence at naval drills off South Africa’s coast as “particularly unconscionable” given the regime’s crackdown on protests.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Pentagon has ordered the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its carrier strike group to move to the Middle East amid mounting unrest in Iran, according to multiple media reports.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
As the information blackout in Iran persists, a grim picture is emerging from the few reports slipping through the regime’s digital blackout. Heavy weaponry, typically reserved for war zones, has been turned against the citizenry, with heartbreaking accounts of families torn apart by state-sponsored violence now coming to light.
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The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Thursday sanctions against what it described as the “architects of the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
About 200 people gathered in Holon near Tel Aviv on Wednesday evening for a rally held in support of protesters in Iran—the first gathering of its size since the Dec. 28 outbreak of unrest in the Islamic Republic.
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The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Thursday sanctions against what it described as the “architects of the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators.”
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The Israel Defense Forces attacked Hezbollah targets across Lebanon on Thursday in response to the Iranian-backed terrorist organization’s “repeated violations of the ceasefire,” the military said.
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The government of Argentina on Thursday declared the Muslim Brotherhood branches in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan terrorist organizations.
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The body of the last remaining Israeli hostage in Gaza is being held by Islamic Jihad in the Hamas-controlled section of the northern Gaza Strip, an Israeli official said on Wednesday.
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Kibbutz Be’eri has selected the house that will remain standing as a testament to the horrors of October 7, 2023, a month after residents voted to demolish all but one of the homes destroyed during the Hamas onslaught on the Gaza-adjacent community.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Former Israeli hostage Shoshan Haran is releasing a memoir, titled Captive on a Mission, about her experiences in Gaza.
The book, to be released in Hebrew on Jan. 18 by publisher Yediot Achronot, describes for the first time what Haran and six of her family members went through in the Gaza Strip.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
US President Donald Trump informed Tehran that the US would not strike the country and asked the Islamic Republic to exercise restraint as well, Pakistani outlet Dawn reported on Thursday afternoon, citing Iran’s Ambassador to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Palestinian factions are holding talks in Cairo aimed at finalizing the composition of a 15-member technocratic committee that will temporarily govern the Gaza Strip, according to regional media reports.
Read more: i24 News
Iranian security forces are deliberately firing at protesters’ heads to cause them debilitating injuries, local doctors have claimed, citing wounds inflicted on hundreds of patients they have treated.
Read more: The Times of Israel
David Cunio, one of the Israelis abducted by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, gives a harrowing account of his nearly two years in Hamas captivity in Gaza, describing starvation, psychological torment, underground imprisonment and the struggle to survive for the sake of his family.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel Defense Forces soldiers on Tuesday evening eliminated six armed terrorists during an exchange of fire in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli military confirmed on Wednesday morning.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate