Middle East Experience

‘UNRWA is facing collapse; we are witnessing the agency’s coup de grace’ warned UNRWA’s media advisor, which featured antisemitic tropes and accusations of corruption.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: UNRWA official in webinar with Hamas, PFLP members: ‘UNRWA is a victim of October 7’

Data from shipping analytics firm Kpler suggests Iran is offloading more crude from its floating storage off the coast of Malaysia and Singapore.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Why Iran's oil exports are surging to China despite Trump's 'maximum pressure'

Argentina announced two days of national mourning on Thursday after the bodies of two Israeli Argentine children who had been taken hostage by Hamas were handed over by the group.Hamas delivered the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, three of which it said were members of the Bibas family — Shiri Bibas and her two young sons.While the identities of the Bibas boys, Kfir and Ariel were confirmed by Israeli forensics, they said Shiri was not among them, as the militants had claimed.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Argentina to observe two days national mourning for Bibas brothers

The daughter of murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013.In a Paris court on Thursday, Bethany Haines, 27, read out the last text message she would ever receive from her father, David Haines, before he was abducted by IS in north Syria aged 42.Sitting in the dock as she read were Frenchmen Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, and Abdelmalek Tanem, 35, on trial for holding four French journalists hostage for IS in Syria between 2013 and 2014.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Daughter of British IS victim reads last texts to him at France trial

The IDF was instructed to increase its activities in the West Bank and to keep a close eye on the terrorists who have been released from prison during the ceasefire.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: IDF arrests 90 terrorists in West Bank counterterrorism operation

Between Stalin’s shadow and the Cold War, the Soviet leader both perpetuated and decried Soviet antisemitism.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Khrushchev and the Jews: The attitude of Stalin's successor to Soviet Jewry

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: This week in Jewish history: Biblical civil war, Jewish refugees killed by torpedo

"None of this was deserved. We will miss you forever. We will not give up on Mom, Shiri," Ofri Bibas, Yarden's sister stated.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Bibas family speaks out for first time since identification of Kfir and Ariel's bodies

Waltz said that Hamas's return of the Bibas children's bodies, without their mother Shiri, shows what despicable people Hamas are and why they can never be allowed to run Gaza.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Trump 'horrified' by return of Bibas children, Security Advisor Mike Waltz says

Arab leaders met in Riyadh on Friday to craft a plan for Gaza's post-war reconstruction to counter Donald Trump's proposal for the United States to take over the territory without its Palestinian inhabitants.Trump's plan has united Arab states in opposition to it, but disagreements remain over who should govern Gaza and how its reconstruction can be funded.An image published on Saudi state television showed the kingdom's de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the leaders of other Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Arab leaders meet in Saudi Arabia to hash out Gaza plan