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Israel to Offer Six-Week Gaza Truce for 40 Hostages in Qatar Talks, Israeli Official...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel will send a high-level delegation headed by its Mossad chief to Qatar on Monday for mediated talks with Hamas designed...

Hebrew University Professor Suspended After Calling to Abolish Zionism, Casting Doubt on Oct. 7...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has suspended a senior faculty member after she advocated the destruction of Zionism and called into...

Gaza: Number of children killed higher than from four years of world conflict

Amid reports of fresh Israeli airstrikes in Gaza overnight into Wednesday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that more children have been...

Israeli Jets Hit Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley for a Second Day

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israeli warplanes struck deep into Lebanon for a second consecutive day on Tuesday, hitting a facility belonging to Hezbollah in the...

Israeli Strike on Car in South Lebanon Kills Hamas Member

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). An Israeli drone strike on a car outside the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Wednesday killed a member of Hamas...

Israel Set to Formally Declare Annual Day of Remembrance for Oct. 7 Massacre

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Israeli government is set to vote on Sunday to formally declare an annual day of remembrance for the victims of...

Gaza: 23 million tonnes of debris ‘will take years to clear’; acute malnutrition doubles...

In a fresh alert about the disastrous humanitarian emergency still unfolding in the enclave, the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, said on Friday that...

Closing Circles: Iran’s Exclusionary 2024 Elections

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Hezbollah Tells Iran It Would Fight Alone in War With Israel

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). With ally Hamas under attack in Gaza, the head of Iran’s Quds Force visited Beirut in February to discuss the risk...

Palestinian Schools Teach Sexism, Gender Discrimination, New Report Says

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Palestinian curricula teaches girls that women are inferior to men and demands that they sacrifice their bodies and families for “jihad,”...

Italian Anti-Terror Police Arrest PA-Linked Palestinians Over Alleged Terror Plot

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Italian authorities on Monday announced the arrest of three Palestinians on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks in Europe, one of...

Israel Checking Reports That Hamas’ Military No. 2 Killed in Gaza Strike

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel was checking on Monday if Hamas’s second-highest military leader died in an air strike, media said, as talks stumbled to...

Starving Gaza | Crisis Group

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Crisis Group experts...

Flare-Ups and Frustration as Kashmir Waits for a Vote

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Israel to Ramp Up Military Operations Against Hezbollah if No Truce Reached Next Week:...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel has told mediators that it will escalate its military operations against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist group in Lebanon, to the...

Israel’s Shin Bet, Military Open Investigations Into Events Leading Up to Oct. 7 Massacre

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, has begun conducting an investigation into the operational reasons for the failures leading up...

Kenya and the Chaos in Haiti

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). In this episode of The Horn, Alan talks to Diego Da Rin, Crisis Group’s...

The Double Standards Debate at the UN

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Israeli Energy Ministry Announces New Discounts for Holocaust Survivors, Other Seniors

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel’s Energy Ministry on Wednesday announced new discounts on energy costs for Holocaust survivors and other senior citizens as part of...

The Stakes in the Ethiopia-Somaliland Deal

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Israeli Defense Minister Says Hezbollah Aggression Bringing Critical Point Nearer

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday the continuing tension with the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah at the border with...

India Advises Nationals in Israel to Leave Border Areas After Citizen Killed in Hezbollah...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). India’s embassy in Israel on Tuesday issued an advisory telling its nationals working in the Jewish state to move away from...

Gaza Ceasefire Talks Extended in Cairo for Another Day, Hamas Says

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Hamas negotiators will remain in Cairo for another day at the request of mediators, keeping ceasefire talks going after two days...

Media quotes March 2024

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Media quotes March 2024 Source of original article: RSS (www.crisisgroup.org). The content of this article does not necessarily reflect...