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Mossad Director Barnea lands in US for Iran talks with Witkoff

Mossad Director David Barnea arrived in the US on Friday morning for talks on the Iran situation and possible US response, Axios reported.

US slams South Africa for hosting joint naval drills with Iran amid protest crackdown

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.

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Pentagon sends ‘USS Abraham Lincoln’ to Middle East amid Iran turmoil

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.
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Iranian forces raid cities in Oct. 7-style rampage

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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Trump admin sanctions ‘architects’ behind brutal crackdown on Iranian protesters

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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200 rally in Holon for Iranian protesters

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.

Trump admin sanctions ‘architects’ behind brutal crackdown on Iranian protesters

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.”

IDF strikes Hezbollah in response to ‘repeated’ truce violations

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.

Argentina bans ‘terrorist’ Muslim Brotherhood branches

The government of Argentina on Thursday declared the Muslim Brotherhood branches in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan terrorist organizations.

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Islamic Jihad is holding last hostage’s body in Gaza, says Israeli official

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 chooses single burned-out house to bear testimony to October 7

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

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‘My paradise had turned into hell:’ ex-Gaza hostage releases memoir

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.
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US President Donald Trump informs Tehran US will not attack Islamic Republic

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.

Cairo: Palestinian factions to finalize committee to govern Gaza

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.

Tehran doctors say security forces intentionally firing at protesters’ eyes, heads

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

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Former Hamas hostage David Cunio recounts 738 days of captivity, abuse and survival

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.

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IDF confirms six terrorists killed in ‘serious’ Gaza ceasefire violation

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.

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Iran protest death toll said to be at least 12,000

More than 12,000 people are feared dead in Iran after a sweeping crackdown on anti-regime protests, with CBS News reporting on Tuesday that sources inside and outside the country believe the toll could be as high as 20,000 and newly verified video showing hundreds of bodies stacked at a morgue near Tehran.

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Mississippi suspect laughed as he confessed to torching ‘Synagogue of Satan’ — FBI

The FBI said on Monday that the suspect in an apparent US arson attack against a Mississippi synagogue confessed and admitted to antisemitic animus.

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Ex-Navy SEAL, who saw US government as ‘controlled by Israel, Jews,’ convicted in plot to bomb police

A U.S. Navy SEAL, who displayed neo-Nazi symbols and praised terrorist groups, was convicted on Jan. 12 of planning to use explosives against police at a California protest, federal prosecutors said on Monday.

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