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Israel strips Hebron municipality of authority over Ibrahimi Mosque
Middle East Monitor
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July 16, 2025
Israel has withdrawn certain administrative powers over the Ibrahimi Mosque from the Palestinian-run Hebron Municipality, transferring them to the religious council of the Israeli Kiryat Arba settlement, an Israeli newspaper reported on Tuesday....
Israel strikes central Damascus as Syrian government widens attack on Sweida
The National News
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Israel attacked the main Syrian military compounds in the centre of Damascus on Wednesday, in response to an escalating Syrian government offensive on the southern city of Sweida. A Syrian military official told The National that the Army General...
Random Musing: Is the new Superman movie ‘anti-Israel’? Depends on your 'extrapolation bias'
The Times of India
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The Betteridge’s Law of Headings state that whenever the heading of an article begins with a question, the answer to that is ‘No’. It’s a fairly accurate law, but in this case, things are a tad more complicated because we are dealing with the most...
Freedom of the Seas for All – Except Israel
Israel Today
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July 17, 2025
Israel is once again in the crosshairs of global double standards – openly and unabashedly. While the world speaks of freedom, international law, and human rights, an old truth is reasserting itself in the Red Sea: different rules apply to the...
More nuanced assessment suggests US and Israeli strikes on Iran significantly set back the regime’s nuclear program
Washington Examiner
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July 18, 2025
B-2 TARGET: ‘BADLY DAMAGED, POTENTIALLY DESTROYED’: A new U.S. intelligence assessment is lending more support for President Donald Trump’s boasts that Operation Midnight Hammer, in which American B-2 stealth bombers delivered 12 massive...
'With love to Gaza': French Olympian endorses anti-Israeli rapper
Israel Hayom
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July 18, 2025
Manelle Inaho, who competed last summer in the Paris Olympics and led France's artistic gymnastics national team, attended a music performance this week by Palestinian-American rapper Saint Levant, known as a staunch anti-Israeli figure. The event...
Who are the Christians of Palestine?
The Pillar
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July 21, 2025
People are sometimes surprised to learn that there are Christians living in Gaza. Mass at Holy Family Church, Gaza’s only Catholic church, in 2014. © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk. When television news bulletins reported July 17 on the deaths of three...
Israel strikes Syrian city of Sweida, vows to protect Druze from govt forces
TVC News Nigeria
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July 16, 2025
Israel launched attacks against Syrian government forces in southwestern Syria for the second day on Tuesday, vowing to maintain the area demilitarised and to defend the Druze minority as deadly battles raged near the Israeli border. According to...
Israel Strikes Syrian Capital
The American Conservative - Washington D.C.
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July 16, 2025
Explosions rocked the Syrian capital of Damascus on Wednesday as Israel ramped up attacks on its northern neighbor. Israeli military strikes targeted the Syrian Defense Ministry’s headquarters and the presidential palace following a wave of...
Muslim Scholars Deem Trump ‘Enemy Against God’
The Daily Signal - Washington D.C.
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July 16, 2025
Iranian media unveiled a letter this month written by “100 Muslim scholars and intellectuals” that declared President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “enemies against God.” In this letter, the Muslim scholars warned...
US Amb. Huckabee blasts & threatens Israeli gov’t over visa restrictions for Evangelical orgs
All Israel News
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee holds a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90 U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, blasted the Israeli interior ministry for continuing to...
Israel strikes Syrian Defence Ministry as clashes between government and Druze minority rage on
The Malta Independent
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Associated Press Wednesday, 16 July 2025, 15:49 Last update: about 26 minutes ago The Israeli military launched Wednesday a rare airstrike in the heart of Damascus, hitting the Syrian Defence Ministry headquarters as clashes in the southern Syrian...
Does the bishop in Jerusalem believe Hamas and the IDF are morally equivalent?
Anglican Ink - Florida
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July 18, 2025
During his speech to the Church of England’s General Synod last Tuesday, the Archbishop of Jerusalem, Dr Hosam Naoum, did not mention Hamas once or its savage massacre of Jews in southern Israel on October 7th 2023. His comment that food...
High Court to hear landmark genocide case against Israel
Barbados Today
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July 18, 2025
12 The High Court will convene on July 28 to hear the State’s request to strike out a landmark application seeking to invoke provisions of the island’s Genocide Act in a bid to hold Israel accountable for alleged genocide, war crimes, and crimes...
Two UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank
The Guardian
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July 18, 2025
Two UK charities have transferred millions of pounds to an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank with the endorsement of the charities regulator, the Guardian can reveal. Documents show that the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT), via a conduit...
Israel bombs Syria army HQ after warning Damascus to leave Druze alone
The Economic Times
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July 16, 2025
Israel said it bombed Syrian army headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after warning the Islamist-led government to leave the Druze minority alone in its Sweida heartland where a monitor says sectarian clashes have killed nearly 250 people....
Israel transfers authority for Ibrahimi Mosque in West Bank to settler council: Report
Yeni Safak
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Israeli authorities have stripped the Palestinian-run Hebron municipality of administrative powers over the Ibrahimi Mosque and transferred them to a settler religious council, according to a report Tuesday by the Israel Hayom daily. Describing...
Syrian officials and Druze leaders announce renewed ceasefire after rare Damascus attack
WSBT 22 - Indiana
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July 16, 2025
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced Wednesday a renewed ceasefire after days of clashes that have threatened to unravel the country’s postwar political transition and have drawn...
Top Jerusalem clerics visit Gaza after deadly church strike
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
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Two of Jerusalem's most senior Christian clerics travelled to Gaza on Friday after a deadly Israeli strike on the Palestinian territory's only Catholic church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said. The Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem,...
Israel bombs Syria army HQ after warning to leave Druze alone
Oman Observer
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July 16, 2025
Sweida, Syria: Israel said it bombed Syrian army headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after warning the government to leave the Druze minority alone in its Sweida heartland where a monitor says sectarian clashes have killed nearly 250 people....