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A UN human rights body has called on Israel to immediately release Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been in detention since he was seized by Israeli troops in December 2024 during the Gaza war.
Tehran, Iran – Iran has reappointed Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei as chief justice as authorities focus on continuity amid the funeral of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
On July 7, the Freud Museum London will host an online event titled “How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel?” It is organized around a 2025 publication by the Tavistock Working Group, 12 child psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychotherapists who began meeting fortnightly after October 7, 2023, to discuss w…
Opposition leader Yair Lapid warned on Monday that the government's unanimous decision to declare it would not comply with a High Court of Justice ruling regarding the composition of the Second Authority Council was part of a broader effort by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition to "steal" or "rig" the upc…
“We, as academics, are kind of the last bastion of independent critical thinking in Israel, and these boycotts are defunding us, demoralizing us, silencing us,” Dr. Ofek Riemer told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
Who are you going to listen to, your mother or your father?
A handful of countries in the Opec+ oil-producing alliance plan to modestly increase their output next month, bringing more oil online after fuel prices fell to levels not seen since before the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Militant group’s statement makes no promise to disarm unilaterally as Israel and the US have demanded
The government approved a proposal on Sunday to streamline the licensing and integration process for qualified psychologists who make aliyah and want to practice in Israel.
The Islamic Republic of Iran targeted civilian populations as a matter of military strategy during the round of conflict stretching from late February through early April of this year, Adv. Uri Morad, an international law attorney and director of international law and public diplomacy at the Jerusalem Institute of J…
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Palestinian sources who spoke to The Jerusalem Post on Monday expressed deep suspicion over Hamas’s announcement and said that the group is unwilling to relinquish its power.
Millions of mourners have attended the funeral ceremonies of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as have representatives of several dozen countries — presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, parliament speakers and more.
A UN human rights group is warning that the life of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safia is in imminent danger and is demanding his immediate release from “arbitrary” Israeli detention.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Monday in Syria, making him the first major western leader to visit the war-torn country since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in 2024.
French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Damascus on Monday on the first visit by a western leader to post-civil war Syria, where he will set out his “demands” for an inclusive state.
US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday about the ongoing negotiations with Iran, at an event marking the launch of Trump Accounts, saying, "We're going to make a deal, or we're going to finish the job."
Almost a third of vessels that crossed the Strait of Hormuz over the past few days did so along the coast of Oman, tracking data suggests, as the waterway remains a key part of the fragile truce between the US and Iran.
O Hamas anunciou nesta segunda-feira (06/07) a dissolução do seu governo na Faixa de Gaza. O grupo armado se prepara para transferir o poder para um comitê técnico apoiado pela Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), como parte de um acordo de cessar-fogo mediado pelos Estados Unidos.
Huge crowds attended the funeral procession of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in central Tehran on Monday, which also featured a banner reading ‘Kill Trump’ and chants of ‘Death to America’.
The streets of Tehran have been lined with huge crowds as Iran continued its public mourning for the late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israeli forces have carried out an air strike on the town of Baraachit in southern Lebanon's Bint Jbeil district, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
THE last three Filipino crew members of the Iran-seized MV Epaminondas returned to the country on Monday, completing the repatriation of all 10 Filipinos aboard the Liberia-flagged container vessel nearly three months after it was caught in a security incident in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his ties with US President Donald Trump are “fine”, dismissing reports of rifts between the two leaders over the ceasefire with Iran and Israel’s attacks in Lebanon.
Russian state nuclear company Rosatom is planning to send personnel back to Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant starting in mid-July, the Interfax news agency reported.
Ismail al-Thawabta, director del departamento de prensa del gobierno administrado por Hamás, en conferencia de prensa en el Hospital Al-Aqsa en Deir al-Balah, Franja de Gaza, el 6 de julio del 2026. (AP foto/Jehad Alshrafi)
While the world’s attention has focused on the war in Gaza and the humanitarian catastrophe facing its population, another, less visible but equally dangerous system has been operating behind the scenes – one that deserves serious scrutiny and thorough investigation.
The cabinet’s declaration on Sunday that it would not recognize actions by the outgoing Second Authority Council has turned a dispute over a media regulator into a broader clash with the High Court of Justice over whose legal authority is binding.
Two Britons jailed in Iran on espionage charges are maintaining a hunger strike over prison conditions and have been denied adequate medical care and contact with their families, US-based Iranian human rights news agency HRANA reported on Monday.
The Israeli army says it targeted the Al-Aqida area in southern Lebanon, claiming that "four suspects" approaching the so-called security zone in a vehicle posed a threat to its forces.
The war in Ukraine and the fall out from the Iran conflict are high on the NATO summit’s agenda this week. But well before Secretary General Mark Rutte takes to the stage on Tuesday, NATO’s most powerful individual had already set the tone.
The nephew of Hussein al-Sheikh, vice president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), was arrested by Israeli security forces on suspicion of smuggling contraband goods into Gaza as part of an operation that also involved Israeli soldiers, Israel's i24News reported on Monday.
We previously discussed the unprecedented collapse observed in recent months in Chinese oil demand and imports, which led to the bizarre scenario where even Iran can't find buyers (read China) for its temporarily unsanctioned oil armada (see "Iran Runs Into Big Problem: No Buyers For Its Oil, As Full Tankers Pile Up…
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared that Israel has launched a “revolution in settlement” expansion, which he says will see illegal outposts extended beyond the occupied West Bank into the Negev and Galilee.
Footage appears to show an Israeli soldier firing a stun grenade into a car full of young Palestinians during a raid on the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. The soldier can be seen shouting at a group of young men who were sitting inside a car, raising his gun, before throwing the grenade …
“Have people in Israel heard about Charlotte?” one of my readers in New York asked me this past week. She urged me to write about one of the most talked-about events to have shaken the local Jewish community in recent days.
A bill allowing for gender-segregated academic programs passed its second and third readings at the Knesset’s Education, Culture and Sports Committee on Monday, and will soon be brought before the Knesset plenum for final approval.
The Bank of Israel Monetary Committee lowered the national interest rate to 3.50% from 3.75%, the bank announced on Monday.
The ruins of Tel Qedesh sit on a high plain in the Upper Galilee near the border with Lebanon.
Britain has scrapped a flagship £45 million programme aimed at helping one million girls across Africa, Asia and the Middle East gain access to higher education, just two years after it was announced.
An Israeli attack on a vehicle in southern Lebanon has killed at least four people, according to Lebanese state media.
Less than two weeks before his daughter’s wedding, Khalil al-Masri set out with his eldest son to complete what should have been one of the family's happiest final preparations: paying for and confirming the reservation of the wedding dress she had chosen at a shop in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood.
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Ismail al-Thawabta, general director of the Hamas-run government media office, speaks during a press conference at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
The Palestinian group Hamas has announced the dissolution of the body that has governed Gaza for nearly two decades, paving the way for a technocratic committee to implement civilian rule in the war-ravaged, besieged territory.
Reports on July 5 and 6 indicated that Hamas might be open to dissolving its government in Gaza. This is widely reported now under claims that Hamas might “hand over” governance or that it was going to “announce dissolution” of its government.
The IDF at 8:00 a.m. (3:00 p.m. Israel time) on Monday started mapping out and categorizing buildings in Venezuela as either due to be demolished or potentially salvageable despite being damaged, following the tragic June 24 earthquakes, which killed at least 3,300 people, but probably thousands more.
Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial
Hundreds of thousands are attending the funeral of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran in a clear display of solidarity and defiance by the country’s people, geostrategic analyst Christopher Helali, who is attending the ceremony, has told RT.