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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
The Trump administration will keep 611 essential workers on board at USAID, according to a notice sent to workers at the US foreign aid agency late Thursday night and shared with Reuters by an administration official on Friday. The administration had earlier planned to keep fewer than 300 staff at the US Agency for International Development out of the agency's worldwide total of more than 10,000, Reuters previously reported, citing four sources familiar with the plan.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
Britain supports the independence of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and has no plans to sanction its officials, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's spokesperson said on Friday. The spokesperson was asked about the ICC after U.S. President Donald Trump authorized economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work on ICC investigations of US citizens or allies such as Israel. "That's a matter for the US," the spokesperson told reporters.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
A man and his three daughters were reportedly killed in an explosion in a house in Tyre Harfa, southern Lebanon, Hezbollah-affiliated media in Lebanon reported on Friday. The explosion was reportedly caused by un-exploded IDF ammunition left at the site.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
The International Criminal Court (ICC) must be able to pursue its fight against global impunity without hindrance, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday. "The ICC guarantees accountability for international crimes and gives a voice to victims worldwide. It must be able to freely pursue the fight against global impunity. Europe will always stand for justice and the respect of international law," she wrote on social media platform .
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
Hamas is deliberately delaying the submission of the list of hostages to be released on Saturday, sources told the Saudi state-owned news outlet Al Arabiya on Friday. The delay is allegedly in retaliation for what Hamas claims is Israel not adhering to agreed-upon humanitarian protocol.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
BREAKING NEWS
Former Gaza hostage Keith Siegel was discharged from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv after completing all the required tests, the hospital reported on Friday.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
The UN human rights chief said on Friday that he was deeply disturbed by the escalating crisis in eastern Congo, urging all those with influence to help halt the violence and warning of a risk that it spreads beyond the country's borders. "If nothing is done, the worst may be yet to come, for the people of the eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), but also beyond the country’s borders," Volker Turk told an emergency meeting of the Geneva Human Rights Council.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
Sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump on the International Criminal Court (ICC) are "absolutely understandable," Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a Facebook post on Friday. Szijjarto also said that the ICC has recently become "a biased political tool" and that Hungary was also evaluating its cooperation with the institution. The ICC on Friday said it condemned the decision by Trump to impose sanctions on its staff.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
The International Criminal Court (ICC) condemned the US sanctions issued against it in a statement on Thursday evening. "The ICC condemns the issuance by the US of an Executive Order seeking to impose sanctions on its officials and harm its independent and impartial judicial work," the statement read. "The Court stands firmly by its personnel and pledges to continue providing justice and hope to millions of innocent victims of atrocities across the world, in all situations before it.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Alon Hachmon |Amichai Stein |Tal Shalev
Detectives from Kafr Kassem police station discovered a ready-to-use explosive device in an open area near Jaljulya during an operation, it was revealed on Friday. The explosive device was discovered Thursday night as part of an operation by Central District police officers to thwart the usage and trafficking of weapons. Police squads arrived at the scene and worked to safely neutralize the explosives in order to protect the lives of civilians.
