EU commission announces $1b ‘Team Gaza Initiative’ aid The European Union commission announced the launching of “Team Gaza Initiative” at the Palestine Donor Group meeting in Brussels on Monday, which aims to bring together €883. 6m ($1b) in financial contributions to support early recovery projects for the strip in line with the 2025 Gaza Peace Plan. The initiative will involve 12 Euopean countries and Japan, alongside the European Investment Bank and the World Bank.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in prison with Sepideh Kashani, who worked with husband Houman Jokar to save Asiatic cheetah Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has described the rearrest of two Iranian environmentalists, one of whom she met at Evin prison, as “unimaginably cruel and alarming”. Husband and wife Houman Jokar and Sepideh Kashani were arrested by the ministry of intelligence at their home on 1 July. No reason has been given and their whereabouts are unknown.
Video: US Congressman says Israeli settlers detained him in West Bank US Congressman Ro Khanna says he and his delegation were detained by armed Israeli settlers during a visit to the occupied West Bank, despite the settlers and Israeli forces being informed that an American congressman and other US citizens were inside the vehicle. Khanna said Israeli forces sided with the settlers instead of protecting the American delegation. Khanna said the group was surrounded by settlers carrying US-made M4 machine guns while visiting the Palestinian hamlet of Khirbet Zanuta to witness the aftermath of settler attacks.
Displacement has drastically reshaped every aspect of daily life in war-ravaged Gaza for 24-year-old Mayyada, who is seven months pregnant with twins and caring for her two-year-old daughter, but now she and her family are getting settled into a temporary home of their own.
Four settlers arrested for attacking CNN crew in West Bank Israeli police said they arrested four suspects on Saturday for damaging a vehicle carrying foreign journalists in the occupied West Bank. US broadcaster CNN had described it as an attack on its crew by Israeli settlers. According to CNN, its team was reporting near the village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, when the incident took place.
Centcom says US launches strikes on Iran after IRGC hits container in Hormuz The United States Central Command (Centcom) said early Sunday morning that its forces began launching a third round of strikes on Iran this week after Iran’s IRGC attacked a Cyprus-flagged container transiting the Strait of Hormuz. In a post on X, Centcom said a civilian crew member of M/V GFS Galaxy was missing, and the vessel is unable to continue the journey due to an onboard fire and significant engine-room damage. “Iran was provided yet another opportunity to demonstrate adherence to the Memorandum of Understanding after being held accountable for earlier attacks on commercial vessels, but has again failed,” the Centcom statement said.
Israeli police detain four settlers after attack on CNN crew Israeli police have detained four settlers after they attacked and damaged a vehicle carrying a CNN crew in Sinjil, in the occupied West Bank, The Times of Israel reports. Police said officers responded after settlers blocked the journalists’ car and damaged it. They arrested four people and seized their vehicle, where officers found clubs and a knife, according to the Israeli newspaper.
Israeli settlers held US lawmaker Ro Khanna at gunpoint in occupied West Bank Submitted by Elis Gjevori on Sat, 07/11/2026 - 16:41 Settlers carrying US-made rifles blocked the congressman’s delegation as it visited a Palestinian village ethnically cleansed by Israeli settlers Democratic Representative Ro Khanna delivers remarks in the event titled 'Beyond the Epstein Class: A New Economic Inequality' in April 14. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP) Off Armed Israeli settlers carrying US-made weapons held Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna at gunpoint in the occupied West Bank as he visited Palestinian communities to witness Israel’s human rights abuses first-hand. “Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine,” Khanna wrote on X on Saturday.
Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during occupied West Bank visit US Democratic lawmaker Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a visit this week to the occupied West Bank. Speaking with Reuters from a Palestinian village, Khanna said his group's van was surrounded by settlers wielding M4 rifles on Wednesday while touring a part of the southern West Bank where residents face frequent Israeli settler attacks. "We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the US House of Representatives.
Video: Israeli settlers assault elderly Palestinian man Israeli settlers assaulted 80-year-old Ibrahim Ismail al-Jabour and his family in the Hawara area of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank on Friday. Local sources said Israeli soldiers stood by protecting the settlers while they were attacking the family pic. twitter.
Report: Israeli settlers attack women, elderly shepherds in Hebron Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian women and elderly shepherds in the Masafer Yatta area of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Friday, according to Quds News Network. The settlers also targeted their livestock, the QNN posted on X. There has been a surge in settler attacks in the West Bank.
Israel bans Jerusalem Grand Mufti from Al-Aqsa Mosque for a week Israeli forces first detained Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine and preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, after he concluded Friday sermon and prayers, WAFA reported. Following his detention, Israeli authorities handed Sheikh Hussein an order barring him from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex for one week. In August last year, Israeli authorities issued a six-month ban on Sheikh Hussein, after he delivered a Friday sermon condemning Israel’s starvation policy against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
OCHA says war heightens risks for women in southern Lebanon Women and girls in southern Lebanon, which has suffered devastation due to Israeli military operations, face heightened risks of gender-based violence and disrupted access to essential health services, the UN's humanitarian agency has reported. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement that female-headed households, adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, older people, and people with disabilities remain particularly vulnerable. United Nations Population Fund estimates that there are 390,000 women of reproductive age among displaced and returnee populations.
Years of high inflation have pushed millions of Iranian households into a struggle over basic expenses, with new estimates showing wages barely cover food costs before rent, healthcare and other necessities are even considered.
‘We just disappeared’: Palestine Action defendant recalls ‘horrifying’ arrest A defendant facing charges in connection with a Palestine Action raid on an Israeli arms factory said that she and her co-defendants “still have PTSD”, following their arrests by counter-terrorism police. Hannah Davidson, 53, along with her co-defendants Ian Sanders, 47; Aleksandra Herbich, 41; Teuta Hoxha, 30; Sean Middlebrough, 33; Julia Brigadirova, 33; and Madeleine Norman, 31, face charges of violent disorder and criminal damage in connection with a break-in to an Elbit Systems plant in Filton, near Bristol, in August 2024. On Monday, William Plastow, 35, was acquitted of violent disorder by the presiding judge, Patrick Field, who concluded that the prosecution had not produced enough evidence against him.
‘We just disappeared’: Palestine Action defendant recalls ‘horrifying’ arrest Submitted by Katherine Hearst on Fri, 07/10/2026 - 17:19 Hannah Davidson is among eight defendants facing criminal damage and violent disorder charges in connection with a raid on an Elbit Systems factory A van allegedly used by Palestine Action to break into the Elbit Systems factory in Bristol (X) Off A defendant facing charges in connection with a Palestine Action raid on an Israeli arms factory said that she and her co-defendants “still have PTSD”, following their arrests by counter-terrorism police. Hannah Davidson, 53, along with her co-defendants Ian Sanders, 47; Aleksandra Herbich, 41; Teuta Hoxha, 30; Sean Middlebrough, 33; Julia Brigadirova, 33; and Madeleine Norman, 31, face charges of violent disorder and criminal damage in connection with a break-in to an Elbit Systems plant in Filton, near Bristol, in August 2024. On Monday, William Plastow, 35, was acquitted of violent disorder by the presiding judge, Patrick Field, who concluded that the prosecution had not produced enough evidence against him.
Israeli settlers injure eight Palestinians near Hebron Israeli settlers injured eight Palestinians in an attack in Khirbet Asafi, in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. Settlers have repeatedly attacked the area as they seek to displace Palestinian communities. Around 50 acres of land in Masafer Yatta in West Bank were seized by settlers in area featured in the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land'.
UN investigators provide additional evidence of genocide by RSF in Sudan’s el-Fasher Submitted by Sondos Asem on Thu, 07/09/2026 - 15:46 Survivor testimony show fresh evidence of rape and mass atrocities during el-Fasher's takeover by the UAE-backed paramilitary Displaced Sudanese people who left El-Fasher after its fall, sit in the shade in Tawila amid the remains of a fire that broke out in the camp on 11 February 2026 (AFP) Off The United Nations Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan (FFMS) on Wednesday released a new tranche of survivor testimony from the fall of Darfur's el-Fasher, in evidence corroborating a recent report accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of commiting genocide against non-Arab communities. In a conference room paper, the mission said its evidence base had grown to 333 survivor interviews, up from 320 in February, and that the new material "reaffirmed" its conclusion that the RSF’s October takeover of the North Darfur capital "bore the hallmarks of genocide". The FFMS is an independent investigative mechanism established by the UN Human Rights Council to document violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed during Sudan's war, which broke out between the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in April 2023.
Israeli forces detain Al-Aqsa Mosque religious leader after Friday prayers Israeli forces have detained Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, on Friday, Wafa news agency reports. Local sources said that Sheikh Hussein was detained after he concluded the Friday sermon and prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is located in occupied East Jerusalem.
