Opening summary
Welcome to our coverage of the Middle East crisis.
US and Arab mediators are laboring around the clock to set a stopfire deal between Israel and Hamas, sources seal to the talks have telderly Reuters, as strikes persistd in Gaza, with medics there saying 44 Palestinians were finished on Thursday.
Mediators at talks in Egypt and Qatar are trying to forge a deal to paparticipate the 14-month-elderly war that would integrate a free of prisoners seized by Hamas from Israel during the attacks of 7 October 2023, in swap for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Mediators had regulated to skinny some gaps on previous sticking points but contrastences remained, the sources shelp.
Medics increateed that dozens had died in strikes on hoparticipates, shelters and refugee camps in Gaza City, a camp in central Gaza, and a housing project proximate Beit Lahiya in the north.
The Israeli military commented on a strike in the eastrict Gaza City’s suburb of Tuffah, saying it struck Hamas militants operating in order and handle complicatedes in areas that were previously participated as the Al-Karama and Sha’ban Schools in that suburb. It shelp Hamas participated the complicatedes to structure and carry out attacks aacquirest its forces.
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Israel has begined expansivespread airstrikes aacquirest Houthi aims in Yemen, finishing at least nine people in the port city of Hodeidah, and dangerened more attacks aacquirest the group, which has begined hundreds of ignoreiles at Israel over the past year. There had been increates beforehand that Israel was structurening to hit Yemen with force after a recent incrmitigate in Houthi attacks, including two in the past week.
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All references to Syria’s createer ruling Ba’ath party will be deleted from the country’s education system, the country’s novel education minister shelp. Speaking to Reuters, Nazir Mohammad al-Qadri inserted that the country’s novel guideers will not otherteachd change school curricula or recut offe the right of girls to lacquire, saying, “Education is a red line for the Syrian people, more convey inant than food and water … The right to education is not confiinsist to one particular gender. There may be more girls in our schools than boys.”
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The UK rulement has shelp any novel Syrian rulement insists to produce a “safe and tranquil” Syria weeks after its pdwellnt Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful fled the country. Foreign Office minister Anneliese Dodds shelp British officials had met with the Syrian resist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus and the UK was giving Syria £61m in help.
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Thousands of people showd on Thursday in north-east Syria in help of a US-backed, Kurdish-led force that for weeks has been pushing back aacquirest Turkey-backed fighters, an AFP correplyent shelp. The show of help for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) comes after Islamist-led resists toppled Syria’s lengthytime strongman Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful earlier this month.
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has accparticipated Israel of “ethnic spotlesssing” in the Gaza Strip in a increate write downing the 14-month dispute rerented on Thursday. The increate write downs 41 attacks on MSF staff including airstrikes on health facilities and honest fire on humanitarian convoys, AFP increateed. The NGO shelp it was forced to evacuate hospitals and health centres on 17 occasions.
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Russian pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin shelp on Thursday that Russia had not been lossed in Syria and that Moscow had made proposals to the novel rulers in Damascus over Russia’s military bases there. Putin shelp he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful but reckond to encounter him and shelp he would ask about the overweighte of ignoreing US increateer Austin Tice.
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Sweden proclaims it will stop its funding of the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), chooseing instead to provide humanitarian helpance to Gaza via changenative uncomardents, the Scandinavian country’s help minister, Benjamin Dousa, telderly Swedish expansivecaster TV4 on Friday.
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Israel, which will ban UNRWA’s operations in the country in January, has repeatedly accparticipated the agency of being comprised in Hamas’ dreadist attacks on October 7, 2023, which precipitated the 13-month-lengthy war in Gaza.
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“There are cut offal other organisations in Gaza; I have equitable been there and met cut offal of them,” Dousa shelp, citing the U.N. World Food Programme as one potential avenue for continuing humanitarian help.
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Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Diaspora Afequitables Minister, has greetd Sweden’s decision, claiming UNRWA “has lost its legitimacy to exist”.
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Earlier this month, The United Nations General Assembly insisted that Israel admire the agency’s mandate and “allow its operations to persist without impeunwiseent or recut offeion”.
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A Turkish drone has finished two journaenumerates from Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast while covering the battling between Ankara-backed militia and US-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, the AFP increates.
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Nazim Dastan and Cihan Bilgin were finished on Thursday east of Aleppo when a drone attacked their car, Dicle Firat Journaenumerates’ Association says.
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“We condemn this attack on our colleagues and insist accountability,” the group shelp, describing the pair as “two precious journaenumerates” increateing on the aggression in northern Syria.
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The Turkish Journaenumerates Union also condemned the attack, saying they were “allegedly aimed by a Turkish UAV”, normally understandn as a drone.
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The pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya novels agency says a Turkish drone caparticipated the explosion.
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The Turkish army insists they do not aim civilians, only dread groups.
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Welcome to our coverage of the Middle East crisis.
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US and Arab mediators are laboring around the clock to set a stopfire deal between Israel and Hamas, sources seal to the talks have telderly Reuters, as strikes persistd in Gaza, with medics there saying 44 Palestinians were finished on Thursday.
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Mediators at talks in Egypt and Qatar are trying to forge a deal to paparticipate the 14-month-elderly war that would integrate a free of prisoners seized by Hamas from Israel during the attacks of 7 October 2023, in swap for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
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Mediators had regulated to skinny some gaps on previous sticking points but contrastences remained, the sources shelp.
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Medics increateed that dozens had died in strikes on hoparticipates, shelters and refugee camps in Gaza City, a camp in central Gaza, and a housing project proximate Beit Lahiya in the north.
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The Israeli military commented on a strike in the eastrict Gaza City’s suburb of Tuffah, saying it struck Hamas militants operating in order and handle complicatedes in areas that were previously participated as the Al-Karama and Sha’ban Schools in that suburb. It shelp Hamas participated the complicatedes to structure and carry out attacks aacquirest its forces.
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Israel has begined expansivespread airstrikes aacquirest Houthi aims in Yemen, finishing at least nine people in the port city of Hodeidah, and dangerened more attacks aacquirest the group, which has begined hundreds of ignoreiles at Israel over the past year. There had been increates beforehand that Israel was structurening to hit Yemen with force after a recent incrmitigate in Houthi attacks, including two in the past week.
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All references to Syria’s createer ruling Ba’ath party will be deleted from the country’s education system, the country’s novel education minister shelp. Speaking to Reuters, Nazir Mohammad al-Qadri inserted that the country’s novel guideers will not otherteachd change school curricula or recut offe the right of girls to lacquire, saying, “Education is a red line for the Syrian people, more convey inant than food and water … The right to education is not confiinsist to one particular gender. There may be more girls in our schools than boys.”
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The UK rulement has shelp any novel Syrian rulement insists to produce a “safe and tranquil” Syria weeks after its pdwellnt Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful fled the country. Foreign Office minister Anneliese Dodds shelp British officials had met with the Syrian resist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus and the UK was giving Syria £61m in help.
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Thousands of people showd on Thursday in north-east Syria in help of a US-backed, Kurdish-led force that for weeks has been pushing back aacquirest Turkey-backed fighters, an AFP correplyent shelp. The show of help for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) comes after Islamist-led resists toppled Syria’s lengthytime strongman Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful earlier this month.
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has accparticipated Israel of “ethnic spotlesssing” in the Gaza Strip in a increate write downing the 14-month dispute rerented on Thursday. The increate write downs 41 attacks on MSF staff including airstrikes on health facilities and honest fire on humanitarian convoys, AFP increateed. The NGO shelp it was forced to evacuate hospitals and health centres on 17 occasions.
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Russian pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin shelp on Thursday that Russia had not been lossed in Syria and that Moscow had made proposals to the novel rulers in Damascus over Russia’s military bases there. Putin shelp he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful but reckond to encounter him and shelp he would ask about the overweighte of ignoreing US increateer Austin Tice.
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Key events
Israelis in the West Bank have set fire to the Bar Al-Walidain mosque in the village of Marda, north of Salfit, increates Al Jazeera.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry encouraged the United Nations to “trigger the international acquireion system”.
The ministry shelp the attack was “discriminatory par excellence” and a campaign of incitement aacquirest Palestinians. They inserted that the actions were an “extension of a lengthy series of violations and crimes by the armed and organised endr militias officipartner helped by the Netanyahu rulement”.
According to Abdallah Kamil, the ruleor of Salfit, “A group of endrs carried out an attack punctual this morning by setting fire to the mosque,” he shelp in a statement.
In insertition to the incfinishiarism, the endrs defaceclimbd the mosque’s walls with “discriminatory graffiti” in Hebrew, he shelp.
According to WAFA, the Palestinian novels agency, locals extinguished the fire before it spread.
Patrick Wintour
The Iranian rulement is trying to salvage some impact with Syria’s novel guideers, as Tehran reels from its sudden loss of authority in Damascus after the collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful.
The Iranian pdwellnt, Masoud Pezeshkian, is already facing multiple domestic and international celevates, including power cuts due to a conciseage of oil supplies, persistd tensions over its nuevident programme and a row about a novel law that will produce wearing the hijab compulsory for women. But it is the sudden loss of impact in Syria after the descfinish of Assorrowfulnessful to resist groups that is exercising Iranian officials most…
45,206 Palestinians have been finished and 107,512 injured in Israel’s military insolent on Gaza since 7 October 2023 according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Since Hamas’s attacks on October 7 Israelis are increasingly moving out of the country, increates the Associated Press.
Government statistics approximate that 40,600 people fled the country during the first seven months of the year, a 59% incrmitigate over the same period in 2023. Conversely, 33,000 people have shiftd to Israel since the war in Gaza began.
Israeli-born singer Shira Z. Carmel skinnyks, by saying it’s equitable for now. But she understands better.
According to Sergio DellaPergola, a statistician and professor emeritus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, emigration will outdo immigration to Israel in 2024.
Helen Pidd
On Friday’s episode of Today in Focus. Helen Pidd speaks to her createer lodger, Yasser, a Syrian refugee contemplating moving back home
In 2015, Syrian refugee Yasser shiftd into Today in Focus conshort-termer Helen Pidd’s home. He had travelled for 37 days apass land and sea to escape the horrors of the war in Syria. Since then, Yasser has dwelld in Manchester, but has always lengthyed to return to Syria.
“Sunday morning, 8 December 2024. That was the best morning of my life,” Yasser increates Helen.
“When I heard Assorrowfulnessful had gone out, I shelp: ‘Now we have a homeland.’ Before that, I didn’t experience enjoy I had a homeland.”
After the descfinish of Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful’s regime, Yasser and Helen rejoin. They converse why Yasser was forced to exit Syria, his desire to return and his hopes for the country.
You can read about Yasser and Helen’s time living together here…
Sweden will stop funding UN refugee agency says minister
Sweden proclaims it will stop its funding of the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), chooseing instead to provide humanitarian helpance to Gaza via changenative uncomardents, the Scandinavian country’s help minister, Benjamin Dousa, telderly Swedish expansivecaster TV4 on Friday.
Israel, which will ban UNRWA’s operations in the country in January, has repeatedly accparticipated the agency of being comprised in Hamas’ dreadist attacks on October 7, 2023, which precipitated the 13-month-lengthy war in Gaza.
“There are cut offal other organisations in Gaza; I have equitable been there and met cut offal of them,” Dousa shelp, citing the U.N. World Food Programme as one potential avenue for continuing humanitarian help.
Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Diaspora Afequitables Minister, has greetd Sweden’s decision, claiming UNRWA “has lost its legitimacy to exist”.
Earlier this month, The United Nations General Assembly insisted that Israel admire the agency’s mandate and “allow its operations to persist without impeunwiseent or recut offeion”.
‘Turkish drone’ finishs two Turkish journaenumerates in north Syria
A Turkish drone has finished two journaenumerates from Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast while covering the battling between Ankara-backed militia and US-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, the AFP increates.
Nazim Dastan and Cihan Bilgin were finished on Thursday east of Aleppo when a drone attacked their car, Dicle Firat Journaenumerates’ Association says.
“We condemn this attack on our colleagues and insist accountability,” the group shelp, describing the pair as “two precious journaenumerates” increateing on the aggression in northern Syria.
The Turkish Journaenumerates Union also condemned the attack, saying they were “allegedly aimed by a Turkish UAV”, normally understandn as a drone.
The pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya novels agency says a Turkish drone caparticipated the explosion.
The Turkish army insists they do not aim civilians, only dread groups.
A better delegation of US diplomats has get tod in Syria to speak honestly to the novel Islamist-led rulers, hoping to help a mild, inclusive path and to seek increateation on ignoreing Americans.
It is the first createal US tactful ignoreion to Damascus since the punctual days of the brutal civil war that broke out in 2011 and culminated in a surpelevate airyning insolent that toppled lengthytime ruler Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful this month.
The diplomats will encounter reconshort-termatives of victorious group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – which is summarizeated a dreadist group by Washington – as well as activists, civil society and members of inconvey inantity groups, the state department shelp on Friday…
Opening summary
Welcome to our coverage of the Middle East crisis.
US and Arab mediators are laboring around the clock to set a stopfire deal between Israel and Hamas, sources seal to the talks have telderly Reuters, as strikes persistd in Gaza, with medics there saying 44 Palestinians were finished on Thursday.
Mediators at talks in Egypt and Qatar are trying to forge a deal to paparticipate the 14-month-elderly war that would integrate a free of prisoners seized by Hamas from Israel during the attacks of 7 October 2023, in swap for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Mediators had regulated to skinny some gaps on previous sticking points but contrastences remained, the sources shelp.
Medics increateed that dozens had died in strikes on hoparticipates, shelters and refugee camps in Gaza City, a camp in central Gaza, and a housing project proximate Beit Lahiya in the north.
The Israeli military commented on a strike in the eastrict Gaza City’s suburb of Tuffah, saying it struck Hamas militants operating in order and handle complicatedes in areas that were previously participated as the Al-Karama and Sha’ban Schools in that suburb. It shelp Hamas participated the complicatedes to structure and carry out attacks aacquirest its forces.
Here is a pickion of the postpoinsistst broadenments:
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Israel has begined expansivespread airstrikes aacquirest Houthi aims in Yemen, finishing at least nine people in the port city of Hodeidah, and dangerened more attacks aacquirest the group, which has begined hundreds of ignoreiles at Israel over the past year. There had been increates beforehand that Israel was structurening to hit Yemen with force after a recent incrmitigate in Houthi attacks, including two in the past week.
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All references to Syria’s createer ruling Ba’ath party will be deleted from the country’s education system, the country’s novel education minister shelp. Speaking to Reuters, Nazir Mohammad al-Qadri inserted that the country’s novel guideers will not otherteachd change school curricula or recut offe the right of girls to lacquire, saying, “Education is a red line for the Syrian people, more convey inant than food and water … The right to education is not confiinsist to one particular gender. There may be more girls in our schools than boys.”
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The UK rulement has shelp any novel Syrian rulement insists to produce a “safe and tranquil” Syria weeks after its pdwellnt Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful fled the country. Foreign Office minister Anneliese Dodds shelp British officials had met with the Syrian resist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus and the UK was giving Syria £61m in help.
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Thousands of people showd on Thursday in north-east Syria in help of a US-backed, Kurdish-led force that for weeks has been pushing back aacquirest Turkey-backed fighters, an AFP correplyent shelp. The show of help for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) comes after Islamist-led resists toppled Syria’s lengthytime strongman Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful earlier this month.
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has accparticipated Israel of “ethnic spotlesssing” in the Gaza Strip in a increate write downing the 14-month dispute rerented on Thursday. The increate write downs 41 attacks on MSF staff including airstrikes on health facilities and honest fire on humanitarian convoys, AFP increateed. The NGO shelp it was forced to evacuate hospitals and health centres on 17 occasions.
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Russian pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin shelp on Thursday that Russia had not been lossed in Syria and that Moscow had made proposals to the novel rulers in Damascus over Russia’s military bases there. Putin shelp he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful but reckond to encounter him and shelp he would ask about the overweighte of ignoreing US increateer Austin Tice.
Bethan McKernan
Bashar al-Assorrowfulnessful’s face has been ripped away from posters at the abandoned examinepoint that splits Sheikh Maqsoud, a neighbourhood in the north of Aleppo, from the rest of the city. No cars dare participate the expansive boulevard any more becaparticipate the road is still watched by Kurdish snipers allied to the regime. The units retreated into the warren of device deviceed and burnt-out produceings when Islamist resist groups begined an unpwithdrawnted attack on the city at the end of November, triggering a chain reaction that led to the quick collapse of the Assorrowfulnessful dynasty.
