Middle East Experience

This comes after the US pressured Qatar to expel Hamas leadership in Doha.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Qatar pulls out of mediating role between Israel and Hamas

Buskila and Mazuz emphasized that during their time at the airport, they felt they were isolated solely because they were Israelis.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Israelis unable to return home are still at Amsterdam's airport

The Democratic Party’s defeat has many causes, but its anti-Zionist wing has clearly contributed to its electoral collapse.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: To recover, Democrats must expel anti-Zionist extremists who put off Middle America

Iran signalled an openness towards Donald Trump Saturday, calling on the president-elect to adopt new policies towards it after Washington accused Tehran of involvement in a plot to kill him.Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif urged Trump to reassess the policy of "maximum pressure" he employed against the Islamic republic during his first term."Trump must show that he is not following the wrong policies of the past," Zarif told reporters.His remarks came after the United States accused Iran of conspiring to assassinate Trump.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iran urges Trump to change 'maximum pressure' policy

An IRGC commander discusses Iran's missile expansion strategy and its implications for Israel.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Iran eyes longer-range missiles, says deputy IRGC aerospace chief

Qatar has withdrawn as a key mediator for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal after concluding that Hamas and Israel were unwilling to negotiate "in good faith", a diplomatic source told AFP Saturday.The Gulf emirate, which has hosted Hamas's political leadership since 2012 with the blessing of the United States, has been involved in months of protracted diplomacy aimed at ending the war triggered by the Palestinian group's October 7 attack on Israel last year.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Gaza mediator Qatar bows out, source says, in sign of impasse

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 23 people, including seven children, in the village of Almat north of the capital Beirut.AFPTV footage showed rescuers rummaging with their bare hands through the wreckage of a house that had been completely razed, pulling out bodies wrapped in blankets while an excavator moved the rubble.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Lebanon says 7 children among 23 dead in Israeli strike north of Beirut

Israeli air strikes killed dozens of people in Lebanon and Gaza Sunday, rescuers and authorities said, ahead of a US deadline for improved aid delivery to the Palestinian territory.Rescuers in the Gaza Strip said 13 children were among 30 people killed by Israeli strikes in the territory's north.The first strike early Sunday hit a house in Jabalia, killing at least 25 people including 13 children and injuring more than 30, Gaza's civil defence agency said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Deadly strikes on Gaza, Lebanon as Israel faces aid deadline

From a bunker in Metula, a town in Israel's bombarded north, David Azoulai showed off the remnants of burnt-out ordnances as if they were artifacts from a museum."The rockets are from the east... Iran, Russia and North Korea," he said, handling the mishappen shrapnel of projectiles produced there.But the shards -- from anti-tank missiles, rockets and even parts of a sophisticated drone -- were not precious antiquities, but artillery fired over the past year by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite Islamist group, from southern Lebanon.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: A long way home for residents of Israel's 'most bombarded' town

The Alloush family would have been getting ready for breakfast on Sunday morning when an Israeli strike hit their home in northern Gaza, according to a distraught relative.The blast blew dozens of Palestinians into pieces, Abdullah al-Najjar said from the scene of the attack in Jabalia.Many children were among them, according to rescuers.At around six o'clock, "there was a very huge explosion... When we arrived here, all the bodies were torn apart," Najjar said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israeli strike on Gaza home leaves bodies 'torn apart'