Middle East Experience

Gaza's civil defence agency reported 21 killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday, the latest attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians where the Israeli military said it targeted militants.A spokesman for the civil defence agency, Mahmud Bassal, said more than half the dead at the Gaza City school were children. According to witnesses, a group of orphans had earlier gathered at the building to receive sponsorship from a local aid group.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Gaza rescuers say Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter kills 21

The current war has done nothing to diminish Naomi’s love for Israel. “If anything, it has made me more patriotic,” she says. “This is my home, and I am here for better and for worse.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Naomi Oren: A journey from Siberia to Israel

After Trump's remarks, IAC CEO Elan Carr spoke alongside US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, the Holocaust scholar Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, about the rise in antisemitism.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: IAC highlights October 7 in opening night of summit dominated by Trump

Protesters also gathered outside the home of President Isaac Herzog's Tzahala home, renaming the street Herzog lives on "The Abandoning President" Street.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: 'The gov't has given up on them': Protesters gather calling to bring hostages home

‘This project was never about money’: Exposing truth about Hamas massacre and challenging narratives, 'The Killing Roads' documentary launches Oct. 1.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: 'The Killing Roads': Igal Hecht's new documentary on Oct. 7 massacre

From behind a metal fence set up by security forces in southern Beirut on Saturday, local residents watched and waited as emergency personnel dug through debris, and the body count rose.The fate of their friends and neighbours remained unclear, a day after an Israeli strike tore into Beirut's densely populated southern suburbs on Friday.Lebanese authorities reported civilian victims in the raid Israel said targeted Hezbollah commanders.The claws of two tracked excavators dug through the mangled concrete and metal of a flattened building.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Beirut digs for victims at building flattened in Israeli strike

A blast caused by a gas leak at a coal mine has killed at least 51 people, state media said Sunday, in one of Iran's deadliest work accidents in years."The number of dead workers increased to 51" in the explosion at the Tabas mine in eastern Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported, revising an earlier death toll of 30.It said 20 more were injured.The explosion occurred at around 9:00 pm (1730 GMT) on Saturday, when around 70 workers were present at the site in South Khorasan province, IRNA said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iran blast kills more than 50 mine workers

Armed and masked Israeli forces raided the office of global news channel Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order.It was the latest salvo in a long-running feud between the Arab broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government which has worsened during the war in Gaza.Since the war began on October 7 when Hamas Palestinian militants attacked Israel, Al Jazeera has aired continuous on-the-ground reporting on the effects of Israel's military campaign.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israel forces raid Al Jazeera TV in West Bank, order 45-day closure

Education system in Israel's north will operate online, with no physical learning in schools.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Home Front Command extends education institutions safety directives until Monday

Civilians combed through the wreckage of their homes Sunday in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, besieged for months by paramilitaries who have now launched a "full-scale assault", according to the United Nations.As the world body's high-level General Assembly meeting prepares this week to spotlight Sudan's 17-month war -- which has claimed tens of thousands of lives and caused the world's largest displacement crisis -- global leaders have warned against cataclysmic violence in the city of two million.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: 'Barely anyone left': Sudan's El-Fasher devastated by fighting