<article data-history-node-id="431650" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-rafah-khan-younis" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-rafah-khan-younis" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel drone attack injures woman, her child near Khan Younis</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli military has carried out several air strikes in parts of southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis following the strikes on Gaza City earlier today,&nbsp;Al Jazeera reported.</p> <p>An Israeli drone attack in Bani Suheila, near Khan Younis, has wounded a woman and her child, according to a Nasser Hospital report, the network said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431650" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-rafah-khan-younis" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-rafah-khan-younis" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel attacks Rafah, Khan Younis</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>We earlier reported that Israeli air strikes had hit eastern Gaza City.</p> <p>Al Jazeera is reporting that the Israeli military has carried out several air strikes in parts of southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis following the strikes on Gaza City.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431649" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-seal-family-home-slain-palestinian" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-seal-family-home-slain-palestinian" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces seal off family home of slain Palestinian</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces welded shut the entrance to the home of slain Palestinian Walid Sabarna with a sheet of iron in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and prevented his family from entering the property on Saturday night, the Wafa news agency reported.</p> <p>Earlier, Israeli soldiers had caused material damage to the house and assaulted family members after interrogating them, the report said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431648" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-update-462" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-update-462" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Morning update</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Good morning Middle East Eye readers,</p> <p>Here are the major developments from Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and its attacks on the wider region:</p> <ul> <li> <p>The Israeli military&nbsp;carried out overnight raids&nbsp;near Jenin, Bethlehem,&nbsp;Tubas, and near Hebron, where it arrested more than 100 Palestinians during the&nbsp;raid on the town of Beit Ummar, according to the Palestinian Information Centre.</p> </li> <li> <p>Israeli forces shot and injured a 14-year-old boy during a raid in the town of al-Yamun&nbsp;in the occupied West Bank.</p> </li> <li> <p>Israeli strikes&nbsp;hit an area in eastern Gaza City despite the ongoing ceasefire.</p> </li> <li> <article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-6" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-WEB:5674a41f-29e4-42d7-8a93-099af2543a47-2" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="261" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="46">An Israeli drone targeted a car in the town of Al-Tiri, Lebanon, according to the National News Agency.&nbsp;The strike also hit a school bus passing behind the car and&nbsp;injured&nbsp;several students and the driver.</p> </article> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431647" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-police-prevent-activists-helping-palestinian-olive-harvesters" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-police-prevent-activists-helping-palestinian-olive-harvesters" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli police prevent activists from helping Palestinian olive harvesters</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli police arrested dozens of activists&nbsp;from NGO Standing Together and and human rights organisation Rabbis for Human Rights&nbsp; on Tuesday.</p> <p>The activists were on their way to join&nbsp;Palestinian olive harvesters&nbsp;near the&nbsp;village of Burin, in the West Bank.</p> <p data-testid="rich-text">Burin is an area that has been repeatedly attacked by Israeli settlers, and was declared a closed military zone on Friday, just before hundreds of Israeli activists were set to join a harvest.</p> <p data-testid="rich-text">"This is Ben-Gvir's police, this is the police of the occupation," Standing Together said. "They promote pogroms and violence; we promote a different path of peace."</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431646" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-cancels-meeting-lebanese-army-chief-over-statement-israels-attacks" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-cancels-meeting-lebanese-army-chief-over-statement-israels-attacks" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US cancels meeting with Lebanese army chief over statement on Israel's attacks on country</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-testid="rich-text">The US cancelled meetings with Lebanese armed forces commander General Rudolf Haykal after it objected to&nbsp; the army issuing a statement on Sunday that Israel had violated&nbsp;Lebanese sovereignty, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing Lebanese officials familiar with the matter said.</p> <p data-testid="rich-text">Haykal was due to arrive in Washington on Tuesday for meetings on "military assistance and border-security cooperation".</p> <p data-testid="rich-text">In the statement, the army accused Israel of "insisting on violating Lebanese sovereignty, causing instability and obstructing the army's deployment in the south".</p> <p data-testid="rich-text">Several Republican lawmakers had called for the cancellation of the meeting in recent days, including Lindsey Graham and Joni Ernst.</p> </div> </div> </article>

In a new ad, Azapac says its mission is 'ridding the government of Zionists who serve Israel over the United States'

In a new ad, Azapac says its mission is 'ridding the government of Zionists who serve Israel over the United States'

The proclamation gives the state's attorney general leeway to sue the groups

<article data-history-node-id="431644" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-13-palestinians-refugee-camp-lebanon-strike" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-13-palestinians-refugee-camp-lebanon-strike" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel kills 13 in air strike on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel struck the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the coastal city of Sidon in Lebanon, killing 13 people, according to Lebanese authorities.</p> <p>Israel says it struck a Hamas facility.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431644" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-13-palestinians-refugee-camp-lebanon-strike" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-13-palestinians-refugee-camp-lebanon-strike" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel kills 13 Palestinians in refugee camp in Lebanon in strike</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel struck the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the&nbsp; coastal city of Sidon in Lebanon, killing 13 people, according to Lebanese authorities.</p> <p>Israel says it struck a Hamas facility.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Mohammed bin Salman grimaced his way through Trump bragging about attacking Iran, in a White House visit designed to rebrand the crown prince's image

<article data-history-node-id="431643" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/saudi-arabia-says-it-will-not-normalise-relations-israel-until-there" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/saudi-arabia-says-it-will-not-normalise-relations-israel-until-there" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Saudi Arabia says it will not normalise relations with Israel until there is a path to Palestinian statehood</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Tuesday that he wouldn't normalise relations with Israel until there was a "clear path" to Palestinian statehood.</p> <p>"We want to be part of the Abraham Accords. But we want also to be sure that we secure a clear path of two-state solution," the Saudi prince told US President Donald Trump during their meeting in the Oval Office.</p> <p>"We're going to work on that, to be sure that we can prepare the right situation as soon as possible," he added.</p> <p>Pressed by Trump, who said that his guest had a "very good feeling" for the Abraham Accords, the prince said: "We want peace for the Israelis. We want peace for the Palestinians."&nbsp;</p> <p>"We want them to coexist peacefully in the region, and we will do our best to reach that date."</p> <p>The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco in 2020 became the first Arab&nbsp;states to normalise relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords.</p> </div> </div> </article>

The Trump administration is considering country of origin as a 'negative factor' in major shift

<article data-history-node-id="431639" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanese-students-bid-farewell-principal-killed-targeted-attack-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanese-students-bid-farewell-principal-killed-targeted-attack-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Lebanese students bid farewell to principal killed in targeted attack by Israel</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Students bid farewell to their school principal, Mohammad Shweikh, at his funeral on Tuesday after he was targeted and killed by Israel.</p> <p>Israelis launched a drone strike on Shweikh's&nbsp;vehicle while he was inside it in the town of al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon on Sunday.&nbsp;<br> ⁠<br> The Israeli army claimed that Shweikh was a "Hezbollah terrorist" without providing any evidence.⁠<br> ⁠<br> Israeli soldiers on Sunday also fired at a patrol of Unifil peacekeepers from inside Lebanese territory that it occupies. The soldiers⁠&nbsp;blamed the incident on “poor weather conditions”, saying it did not deliberately fire at the troops.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431637" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israelis-attack-palestinians-town-teenager-they-murdered-earlier-day" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israelis-attack-palestinians-town-teenager-they-murdered-earlier-day" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli soldiers attack Palestinians in home town of teenager they killed earlier </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and teargas on Palestinians&nbsp;in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, on Tuesday, Wafa news agency reported.</p> <p>The soldiers initially raided the home of teenager Waleed Khalil Sabarneh, whom they killed earlier on Tuesday, damaging his family's furniture and belongings, confiscating their phones, and detaining his parents for interrogation.&nbsp;</p> <p>The soldiers then prevented worshippers from leaving the Beit Ummar Grand Mosque after the evening and night prayers.</p> <p>After confrontations broke out between town dwellers and soldiers, Israeli soldiers unleashed the bullets, stun grenades and teargas on Palestinians.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431636" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-two-more-people-south-lebanon" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-two-more-people-south-lebanon" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel kills two more people in south Lebanon</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Lebanon said Israeli strikes on the country's south killed two civilians on Tuesday, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p> <p>The attacks marks Israel's latest deadly attack despite a ceasefire that has been in place since last November. Israeli is said to have killed more than 70 people since then according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.&nbsp;</p> <p>An "Israeli enemy drone strike on a car in the city of Bint Jbeil killed one person", the health ministry said in a statement, while the state-run National News Agency said the raid killed an employee of the Bint Jbeil municipalities union.</p> <p>The health ministry later said an Israeli drone strike on a car killed one person in Blida near the Lebanese border.</p> <p>The Israeli military did not respond to AFP's request for comment.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Imposing international forces on Gaza is latest colonial chapter in Palestine’s history, analysts say

<article data-history-node-id="431634" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/how-un-gaza-resolution-creates-new-foreign-mandate-over-palestinians" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/how-un-gaza-resolution-creates-new-foreign-mandate-over-palestinians" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">How the UN Gaza resolution creates new foreign ‘mandate’ over Palestinians</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An international force will use “all necessary measures to carry out its mandate” in Gaza, a newly approved&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-us-resolution-gaza-approved-un-security-council" target="_blank">United Nations Security Council resolution</a>&nbsp;stipulates.&nbsp;</p> <p>The resolution puts&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US</a>&nbsp;President Donald Trump in control of the Palestinian enclave, with multinational troops in an "International Stabilisation Force" (ISF) overseeing his 20-point plan for its future.&nbsp;</p> <p>The term “mandate” is all too familiar in the context of foreign involvement in the affairs of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>“This is a classic colonial scheme which totally disregards the rights and aspirations of the indigenous people,” Avi Shlaim, the British-Israeli historian, tells Middle East Eye.</p> <p>“In this sense, it is comparable to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">British</a>&nbsp;Mandate for Palestine.”&nbsp;</p> <p>You can read more <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-un-resolution-creates-new-foreign-mandate-over-palestinians">here</a>.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Trump eye deals in AI, tech and nuclear in landmark visit

As Arab regimes rush to normalise ties, Israel's genocide in Gaza and expulsions across Palestine expose a settler-colonial project boundless in ambition yet crumbling at its core

<article data-history-node-id="431632" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/al-jazeera-cameraperson-shot-israeli-soldier" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/al-jazeera-cameraperson-shot-israeli-soldier" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Al Jazeera cameraperson shot by Israeli soldier</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An Al Jazeera cameraperson was shot and wounded by Israeli forces while covering Palestinians protesting near Tulkarem&nbsp; in the&nbsp;West Bank on Tuesday.</p> <p>Fadi Yassin was covering a demonstration by Palestinians in the Nur Shams refugee camp when he was shot in the leg by an Israeli soldier. Yassin said the soldier had taken aim at his leg.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Yassin told Al Jazeera the Palestinians were demonstrating to demand return to their homes after they were displaced by Israelu authorities 10 months ago.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431629" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-kill-two-palestinian-teenagers" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-kill-two-palestinian-teenagers" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli soldiers kill two Palestinian teenagers</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian teenagers near Bethlehem&nbsp;on Tuesday, Wafa news agency reported</p> <p>The General Authority for Civil Affairs notified the Ministry of Health about the murder of Imran Ibrahim Imran Al-Atrash, 18, from Hebron, and Waleed Mohammad Khalil Sabarneh, 18, from the town of Beit Ummar.</p> </div> </div> </article>

The home secretary's approach is designed to defang Reform UK but critics argue it is inhumane

<article data-history-node-id="431628" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sniper-safaris-how-dehumanisation-enables-atrocities-sarajevo-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sniper-safaris-how-dehumanisation-enables-atrocities-sarajevo-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">'Sniper safaris': How dehumanisation enables atrocities, from Sarajevo to Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Reports out of Milan, where prosecutors are&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15283069/Tourists-paid-70-000-shoot-innocent-people-human-safari-hunting-trips-Sarajevo-extra-charged-kill-children.html" target="_blank">investigating</a>&nbsp;allegations that rich tourists paid to kill civilians for sport in Sarajevo’s infamous “Sniper Alley” during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, are shocking only to foreigners.</p> <p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/N1info/posts/more-than-three-decades-after-the-siege-of-sarajevo-italian-prosecutors-have-ope/849551354097596/" target="_blank">allegations</a>&nbsp;now emerging are as grotesque as they are painfully familiar to Bosnians: access arranged through intermediaries, payments set by target, children costing more to kill.&nbsp;</p> <p>This story was reported and documented by local and regional&nbsp;<a href="https://www.infobiro.ba/article/472496/snajperski-safari-u-sarajevu-vjesnik?fbclid=IwY2xjawOIDtJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF5d2hoTXRyQzA4RndpNFUyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MghjYWxsc2l0ZQEyAAEeXEKQ6vyWn6gN5D9wzzQQu5vlT37VrBp30XH6nPlq29p4lZ1R2hvnR7lj1qk_aem_tWCWtPMFdl-bxhWqQCMHPg" target="_blank">media</a>&nbsp;as far back as 1995, and more recently in Bosnian writer Haris Imamovic’s book&nbsp;<a href="https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/documentary-film-alleges-that-foreigners-took-part-in-civilian-hunting-in-bosnian-capital/" target="_blank"><i>Vedran and the Firemen</i></a>&nbsp;and Miran Zupanic’s 2022 documentary<i>&nbsp;</i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23861448/" target="_blank"><i>Sarajevo Safari</i></a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>What is deeply disturbing to a Bosnian like myself is not just the horror of these reports, but the conditions that made such violence possible.&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/sniper-safaris-how-dehumanisation-enables-atrocities-sarajevo-gaza">Read more:&nbsp;'Sniper safaris': How dehumanisation enables atrocities, from Sarajevo to Gaza</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="align-center media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A Bosnian worker looks out at Sarajevo through a hole in a war-damaged building that once marked the front line during the 1992-95 Bosnian War in Sarajevo on 13 November, 2025 (Reuters)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b865ac75-ed21-4a1c-b325-bc93d53f2719" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/A%20Bosnian%20worker%20looks%20out%20at%20Sarajevo%20through%20a%20hole%20in%20a%20war-damaged%20building%20that%20once%20marked%20the%20front%20line%20during%20the%201992_95%20Bosnian%20War%2C%20in%20Sarajevo%2C%20Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina%2C%20November%2013%2C%202025.%20REUTERS.jpg" width="1400" height="787" alt="A Bosnian worker looks out at Sarajevo through a hole in a war-damaged building that once marked the front line during the 1992-95 Bosnian War in Sarajevo on 13 November, 2025 (Reuters)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A Bosnian worker looks out at Sarajevo through a hole in a war-damaged building that once marked the front line during the 1992-95 Bosnian War in Sarajevo on 13 November, 2025 (Reuters)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>