Middle East Experience

The PSC leader said in a Monday statement that he would contest the charges at a February 21 court date.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: PSC and Stop War leaders, Piers Corbyn charged after anti-Israel London protest

Saudi FM: "I don't see the incoming US administration as contributory to the risk of war, on the contrary, President Trump has been quite clear he does not favor conflict."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: War between Israel and Iran should be avoided, Saudi FM says

The objective of Operation Iron Wall is clear: to severely disrupt the capabilities of terrorist organizations in Jenin and northern Samaria. 
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Palestinian prisoners' release a key reason for IDF's Jenin operation

"On the directive of the Security Cabinet, the IDF, the ISA, and the Israel Police have today begun a...military operation to defeat terrorism in Jenin," Netanyahu said.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Jenin and the West Bank: Israel's new battlefronts after Gaza, Lebanon

TV week in Israeli culture

Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: The Wedding Plan is a light-hearted comedy, Protection series offers suspenseful drama

Israel's cabinet voted to approve a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal on Saturday, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, ending days of uncertainty about whether the truce would go into effect this weekend. The ceasefire, set to begin Sunday, would halt fighting and bombardment in Gaza's deadliest-ever war.It would also enable the release of hostages held in the territory since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israeli government approves Gaza ceasefire deal

A ceasefire in the Gaza war will begin on Sunday morning, mediator Qatar said after Israel's cabinet voted to approve the truce and hostage-prisoner release deal.Since Qatar and the United States, which mediated the deal along with Egypt, announced the agreement on Wednesday, Israeli strikes on Gaza have continued.On Saturday, Gaza's civil defence rescue agency said at least five members of a family were killed when a strike hit their tent in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Gaza ceasefire to begin Sunday morning

Lebanon's new president said on Saturday that Israel must withdraw from his country's south by the January 26 deadline set to fully implement an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire agreed last year.His remarks follow a speech by Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem who accused Israel of hundreds of ceasefire violations, warning it against testing "our patience" and calling on the Lebanese state to be "firm" in its response.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Lebanon president says Israel must withdraw from south by January 26 deadline

When Donald Trump presented his 2020 plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it included the Israeli annexation of swathes of the occupied West Bank, a controversial aspiration that has been revived by his reelection.In his previous stint as prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu pushed for partial annexation of the West Bank, but he relented in 2020 under international pressure and following a deal to normalise relations with the United Arab Emirates.With Trump returning to the White House, pro-annexation Israelis are hoping to rekindle the idea.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Trump comeback restarts Israeli public debate on West Bank annexation

The police believe that the event was a terror attack carried out by a Tulkarm resident who entered Israel illegally.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Terrorist wounds several in stabbing attack in Florentine, Tel Aviv