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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi |Marco Carnelos
US President Donald Trump's private appeal to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - while publicly threatening all-out war - may now be paying off. For the first time since a brief attempt in 2021 under former president Joe Biden, the US and Iran will be engaging in supposedly "indirect" talks that could quickly become "direct", depending on whose narrative you accept.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi
Just a month after it was revealed that the US held direct talks with Hamas - a move that reportedly outraged the Israelis - the Trump administration is now beginning direct high-level talks with Iran, the president said on Monday. Sitting alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a longtime advocate of military operations against Iran's nuclear facilities, Trump made the surprise announcement to reporters gathered in the Oval Office at the White House.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi
The Ministry of Interior in Gaza on Wednesday said it was mourning the deaths of two members of the police force after they were killed in an Israeli air strike. "We mourn the martyrdom of Captain Mureed Mohammed Farjallah and Lieutenant Younis Mohammed al-Masharfa, who were killed in an Israeli bombardment targeting a group of police officers and personnel in Deir al-Balah," the statement said. "Five other police personnel were injured.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi
More than 30 US Democratic lawmakers have slammed the Trump administration’s “disturbing” arrest of Tufts University student and Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk for her “pro-Palestine” views. “The rationale for this arrest appears to be this student’s expression of her political views.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi
Award-winning Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha said on Friday that he has cancelled all his US speaking events because he "felt unsafe traveling, especially after watching students and university professors abducted on the street just in front of other people". Abu Toha is the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza and has been interviewed by major US news outlets. "I had 16 events scheduled for the next five weeks (at Stanford, Columbia, NYU, and Cornell among other places).
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi
Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a "lynch mob" of Israeli settlers on Monday night in the Palestinian village of Susya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Susya is also the site of an Israeli settlement, which is illegal under international law and something most American administrations have agreed violates Article 49 of the Geneva Convention.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi
Protesters gathered on Friday outside a London police station in support of an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor questioned as part of an investigation into alleged public order offences during a pro-Palestine demonstration. Walking up the gentle slope from the Strand with the aid of a stick, and wearing a grey overcoat, a green scarf and a flat cap, Stephen Kapos smiled and waved as he passed through cheering supporters and up the steps into Charing Cross Police Station at 2.40 pm.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi
On the evening of 17 March, masked federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) surrounded Badar Khan Suri in Rosslyn, Virginia, just as he returned home from opening his fast. Suri, an Indian citizen and a post-doctoral scholar at Georgetown University, was told that his student visa had been revoked and that he faced imminent deportation. Suri's wife, Mapheze Saleh, a Palestinian with American citizenship, watched as the masked agents took him and his passport and drove off.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi
Hamas has urged the international community to take a clear position on Israel's targeting of aid workers in Gaza, calling Wednesday's attack on UN personnel a 'heinous crime'. "The latest heinous crime the Israeli occupation carried out was the targeting of a building in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah used by foreign workers in UN agencies, and resulted in the killing of one international employee and the injury of five others," Hamas said in a statement.
