Middle East Experience

Iran's Chamran-1 satellite was reportedly put into orbit with a rocket that uses solid-state fuel in its third stage just a week after the IRGC sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iran's IRGC launches its fifth satellite into space

Novelist Elias Khoury, one of Lebanon's most renowned writers and a fervent advocate of the Palestinian cause, died on Sunday from illness aged 76, sources close to his family told AFP.Khoury, who was born in 1948 to a Christian family in Beirut, died in the Lebanese capital where he had been hospitalised for months, the sources said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury dies aged 76

Israel dropped leaflets over a Lebanon border village Sunday urging residents to leave, state-run media said, but Israel's military told AFP a brigade had taken the initiative without approval.It was the first time Israelis had told residents of south Lebanon to evacuate in 11 months of cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israel over the Gaza war, triggered by Hezbollah ally Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israeli leaflets tell south Lebanon residents to evacuate

A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist movement had ample resources to continue fighting Israel despite losses sustained over more than 11 months of war in Gaza."The resistance has a high ability to continue," Osama Hamdan told AFP during an interview in Istanbul. "There were martyrs and there were sacrifices... but in return there was an accumulation of experiences and the recruitment of new generations into the resistance."
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Hamas official says group has 'high ability' to continue Gaza war despite losses

Thirty-four women prisoners went on hunger strike in an Iranian prison Sunday to mark two years since protests erupted against clerical authorities, the foundation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said."Today, on the 15th September 2024, 34 female political prisoners in Evin Prison have gone on a hunger strike in commemoration of the second anniversary of the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement and the killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini," it said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: 34 Iran women prisoners on hunger strike: jailed Nobel peace laureate

The IDF will now probe why the interceptor impact only caused the missile to break up and did not completely destroy it.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Houthi's ballistic missile fired toward Israel is not hypersonic, IDF says

Shane Curry, charged with first-degree murder for fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Nevaeh Goddard, with a sword, attempted suicide after.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: ‘Hitting her is not working, have to knife her’: Man accused of stabbing girlfriend with sword

As the war drags on, Israel faces increased threats on multiple fronts, with vulnerabilities growing beyond Gaza, pressing the need for a decisive and swift end to the conflict.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Yemen ballistic missile attack shows why time is not on Israel’s side

The attacker was shot at the scene by an officer from the Israel Border Police.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Terrorist stabs police officer at Old City's Damascus Gate, attacker shot at the scene

Judy Selig Grossman is a part of the story of Israel. Her connection to the Land of Israel and to the nation of Israel is constant. 
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Chicago woman made aliyah in 1973 and became part of Israel's story