The week started on a positive note with President Donald Trump uncharacteristically declaring that a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) had been achieved by US and Iranian negotiators assisted by Pakistani and Qatari mediators to suspend military action and begin sixty days of discussions in pursuit of a peace agreement.
Israel killed at least 73,008 Palestinians inside Gaza since 7 October 2023, and more than 173,260 people have been injured during the ongoing genocide.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat, said Tuesday that the ceasefire deal between the United States and Tehran hinges on whether Israel continues to attack Lebanon because that war has become “connected to the war with Iran, and the two fronts became intertwined and dependent on one another.”
Four activists who belong to Palestine Action, a protest group, who broke into an Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in 2024 and damaged about $1.6 million in equipment for the IDF, were sentenced as terrorists last week.
The Israeli government is working to quickly build housing developments on nearly 60 empty locations throughout the occupied West Bank just in time for the October elections in what an Israeli human rights organization identified as a “reckless pre-election sprint” that will leave a “scorched-earth policy for the next government,” The New York Times reported.
Living conditions inside Gaza are horrible and many displaced Palestinians have been forced to live among the rats and other rodents in the bombed-out enclave, according to a report last week.
President Donald Trump said in an interview Sunday that he spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Israel carried out a new strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs and asked, “What the fuck are you doing?”
Israel killed at least 72,988 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, and more than 173,200 people have been injured.
Israel carried out new airstrikes and enforced new evacuation orders in southern Lebanon on Friday, just a day after the U.S. announced a cease-fire between Tel Aviv and Beirut, which had been rejected by Hezbollah over Israeli violations.
There is near certainty that Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2027 will pass through the House of Representatives to become law this coming week after a failed attempt last Thursday in the House Armed Services Committee to pass an amendment to delete it led by Democratic Party Congressman Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie.