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🔴 LIVE DAY 653 #Israel #Palestine - Israel issues new expulsion orders in Deir al-Balah - Four-year-old girl dies of malnutrition in Gaza - Hamas expected to agree soon, on latest ceasefire deal, Israeli sources say Live updates ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/israel-ki…

"Never in recent history has a civilian population been locked into a fenced strip of land - denied food, water, and fuel - while being bombed from air, land, and sea. This is not siege. It is the world’s first televised extermination" ✍️Opinion by Soumaya Ghannoushi…

"The integration of Druze groups into the central administration in Damascus would contribute to the country’s national unity, while reshaping the broader power dynamics across Syria" ✍️Opinion by Ersin Aksoy pulse.ly/gx9gpgrzyx

"This is not famine. This is weaponised hunger. The deliberate strangling of a people - not with rope, but with red tape. Not just with bombs, but with bureaucracy" ✍️Opinion by Soumaya Ghannoushi pulse.ly/pbxoaanpzq

US President Donald Trump was "caught off guard" by Israel’s bombing of Syria, the White House said on Monday, signalling a potentially new sour point in his relationship with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pulse.ly/dcwjxfdljh

"We received calls from several families trapped in the Al-Baraka area of Deir el-Balah due to shelling by Israeli tanks, there are a number of wounded, but no one can reach the area to evacuate them" - Gaza's civil defence agency pulse.ly/cvwms1ywm2

In an attempt to rescue civilians wounded in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Monday, four Palestinian men reportedly climbed onto the roof of a building but were later targeted and killed by another Israeli strike

In an attempt to rescue civilians wounded in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Monday, four Palestinian men reportedly climbed onto the roof of a building; however, were later targeted and killed by another Israeli strike

Israeli special forces have abducted Dr Marwan al-Hams, spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) field hospital in the southern part of the enclave pulse.ly/kxo8nbd2px

"Get in a plane with humanitarian aid, break the aerial siege. Would they down your airplane? The Pope’s plane?" Pontiff faces growing pressure on social media to lead efforts to bring life-saving food and medical supplies into the besieged enclave pulse.ly/uunj5iccia

“This is one of the worst tragedies we’ve seen so far.” Cindy McCain, the executive director of the World Food Programme, told CNN on Monday that Israeli tanks and soldiers opened fire on starving Palestinians who were waiting for UN aid trucks in northern Gaza on Sunday

Images collected by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which monitored the war in Sudan since it began in April 2023, show the smouldering ruins of the Shaq al-Noum, one of several villages in North Kordofan attacked by the RSF pulse.ly/hvkeuxvujh

Ankara has been in talks with the UK, the lead nation in the Eurofighter consortium, since 2023, over the procurement of the fighter jets pulse.ly/rn9izo7830

A group of 25 countries, including France and the UK, have called on Israel to end its 21-month war on Gaza and said the suffering of ordinary Palestinians had "reached new depths" pulse.ly/plh8eiapgk

"The Hindu nationalist attacks on Mamdani are a predictable display of depraved bigotry" - Audrey Truschke, Rutgers University-Newark pulse.ly/sbvvyxrnrp

Palestinian health officials reported on Sunday that 18 people had died from malnutrition the previous day pulse.ly/hzr6nl3fay

Israel's bid to carve out a zone of influence in Druze majority southern Syria conflicts with Trump's plan for a unitary state led by Damascus pulse.ly/im5ckunpus

Progress has stalled as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have resisted merging under the Syrian Defense Ministry, insisting on retaining a separate military command and organisational structure pulse.ly/mj5xencchm

Sudanese-Dutch businessman Yaslam Altayeb was held captive by the RSF at a Khartoum military base for 15 days in April 2023 following the outbreak of the war. He says he was tortured by the paramilitary group and wants the British government to act pulse.ly/zeuk6us0uy