Middle East Experience

"I want you to hear my brother's voice," 16-year-old Ofir Angrest, who questioned joining IDF combat service while hostages remain in Gaza, pleaded.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: 'Hear my brother's voice': Shouting breaks out at Knesset over refusal to play hostage recordings

Efforts to reach dozens of people trapped under the rubble of a multi-storey residential building in devastated north Gaza carried on Monday, the civil defence agency said, despite persistent fighting.Rescuers on Sunday said they had pulled at least 34 bodies -- including women and children -- from rubble of the building in the Beit Lahia district after a particularly lethal pre-dawn strike in the area where Israeli forces began a major operation on October 6.The United Nations and others have decried humanitarian conditions in the area.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Rescuers struggle to reach dozens missing after north Gaza strike

Irwin Cotler is a human rights lawyer, a member of Parliament, and former justice minister in a Liberal government, serving between 2003 and 2006.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Canada foils Iranian plot to assassinate pro-Israel human rights lawyer

Tensions hit a high last week when a 31-year-old Kuki woman was burned alive.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Mass violence returns to Indian state home to the Bnei Menashe

Israel offers NIS 5M reward and safe passage from Gaza for hostage intelligence, up from NIS 1M.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Netanyahu offers NIS 5m. for info on hostages, informant can exit Gaza

A woman was trapped in a building, and five others were wounded and fully conscious, MDA added.  
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Woman killed, five wounded following rocket strike in Shfaram

Sources are saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to reach a deal with Hezbollah, while realizing that the "rise or fall" of any arrangement will hinge on the enforcement mechanism.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: As Netanyahu warms to Israel-Lebanon deal, US role comes into play

A US envoy said he was in Beirut Tuesday because he saw "a real opportunity" to end the Israel-Hezbollah war, with the Lebanese group announcing then postponing a speech by its leader shortly after.On September 23, Israel began an intensified air campaign in Lebanon before sending in ground troops, nearly a year into exchanges of fire initiated by Hezbollah in support of Palestinian ally Hamas after its October 7, 2023 attack sparked the war in Gaza.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: US envoy in Beirut says 'real opportunity' to end Israel-Hezbollah war

European powers -- backed by the United States -- are pushing ahead with a plan to censure Iran for its poor cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at a board meeting starting Wednesday, diplomats told AFP.Tensions between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have repeatedly flared since a 2015 deal curbing Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for sanction relief fell apart.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iran faces fresh censure over lack of cooperation at UN nuclear meeting

The survey is particularly focused on the impact of the Israel-Hamas war on Jew-hatred in the workplace. 
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: New survey in UK to assist addressing antisemitism in workplaces