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Tom O'Connor

Miami, New York

Deputy Editor of National Security and Foreign Policy at Newsweek

Contributor at Miami Herald

Award-winning @Newsweek Senior Writer/Deputy Editor covering Middle East/China/Russia/North Korea/more ex-@ibtimes @DailyStarLeb @nypost @SIAdvance #ForzaNapoli

Articles

  • 1 day ago | newsweek.com | Tom O'Connor

    A representative of a left-wing faction fighting alongside the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza has told Newsweek his group is open to a temporary ceasefire in their war with Israel and called for greater efforts to establish a unity government among different Palestinian parties.

  • 1 day ago | miamiherald.com | Tom O'Connor

    A representative of a left-wing faction fighting alongside the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza has told Newsweek his group is open to a temporary ceasefire in their war with Israel and called for greater efforts to establish a unity government among different Palestinian parties.

  • 1 day ago | newsweek.com | Tom O'Connor

    A senior Hamas official has slammed America's decision to exercise its veto power against a United Nations Security Council draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, arguing the decision ran contrary to the ideals that Washington purports to promote on the world stage.

  • 2 days ago | newsweek.com | Tom O'Connor

    Located among the sprawling dunes of Israel's southern desert is a central component of what Avner Cohen calls his country's "worst kept secret."The Negev Nuclear Research Center, officially renamed in 2018 after late Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and often referred to by the name of the nearby city of Dimona, is widely known to be the complex where Israel first underwent the project to obtain nuclear weapons back in the late 1950s.

  • 3 days ago | newsweek.com | Tom O'Connor

    A senior Hamas official has accused Israel of putting Palestinian civilians in harm's way by forcing them to collect humanitarian assistance at U.S.-backed sites, only to be faced with deadly force. Israeli forces have been accused twice in recent days of opening fire on civilians seeking to receive aid being distributed at a site administered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near the southern city of Rafah.

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9 May 25

My latest: Catholics overseeing Gaza church send message as new pope inherits war Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem's Fr. Ibrahim Nino tells @Newsweek "Church will always stand with the poor and the suffering," noting Pope Leo XIV's "peace" & "justice" vow https://t.co/Y316mEuE2N

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8 May 25

My latest: Iran dissidents pressure US talks with secret nuclear site claims PMOI/MeK rep tells @Newsweek if Iran would "abandon their nuclear weapons program, that would clearly be a huge weakness of the regime" while govt denies covert weapon research https://t.co/IJk9ZPt1H0

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5 May 25

My latest: Houthis tease "new weapons" to keep planes out of Israel's skies Ansar Allah source tells @Newsweek of "effective" means to impose aerial siege as IDF vows "full readiness" & US military affirms support for ally & "its right to self-defense" https://t.co/5pLbVwKXrl