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100,000 dead: What we know about Gaza's true death toll

Haaretz - 20:20 Jun 26, 2025

The death toll in Gaza, as reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry, understates the true scale of the crisis, researchers say. Hunger, disease, and Israeli gunfire at food distribution centers have made the war in the Strip one of the bloodiest of the 21st century
Ofra Keidar laid to rest days after Israeli army recovered her body from Gaza

Haaretz - 20:11 Jun 26, 2025

Keidar, was murdered on Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7 and her body taken to Gaza, was buried alongside Shay Levinson, whose body was also retrieved earlier this week

Tags: Gaza
Riyadh's demands could be a roadblock for Netanyahu, even if Hamas accepts Witkoff's Gaza plan

Haaretz - 19:44 Jun 26, 2025

While U.S. officials believe Hamas will accept a Witkoff-brokered cease-fire deal that would lead to the end of the war in Gaza, the Trump administration's plans to expand the Abraham Accords could hinge on Saudi Arabia demanding an unambiguous commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state

Tags: Gaza Hamas
Despite Netanyahu's delusions, Israel is not a world power

Haaretz - 19:40 Jun 26, 2025

When Prime Minister Netanyahu, acquiescing to President Trump's cease-fire, declared that the war against Iran placed Israel 'in the first rank of the world's major powers,' he demonstrated not only hubris but the same lethal mistake that led to October 7

Tags: Israel
Scolding, mocking, smothering: Trump is giving Netanyahu the whiplash of his life

Haaretz - 19:16 Jun 26, 2025

Faster than those Israeli fighter jets Trump forced Netanyahu to recall mid-air, the president has changed his tune and is vowing to help 'save Bibi' from himself

Tags: Trump Netanyahu
Pentagon leaders defend success of U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear sites

Haaretz - 18:49 Jun 26, 2025

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth scolded reporters for 'breathlessly' focusing on assessments that Tehran's program was only set back by a few months, and said he had no indication that Iran had moved uranium ahead of the attack

Tags: Iran
Neglected by Israel, Christian Arabs are building a new Nazareth – in Cyprus

Haaretz - 18:04 Jun 26, 2025

The life of the Christians in Israel has become intolerable – their beloved city of Nazareth is collapsing, criminals demand protection money, the state is neglecting them. They're relocating to Cyprus, but long for home

Tags: Nazareth Cyprus Israel
German court to decide who is the rightful heir to the world's oldest Reform congregation

Haaretz - 17:48 Jun 26, 2025

Leaders of the Israelite Temple Congregation in Hamburg announced on Thursday their decision to file a lawsuit against the city for refusing to grant them status as a religious entity, blocking their access to government funding and denying them the right to rebuild their historical synagogue
She protested for the Israeli hostages every day. She won't get to see them return

Haaretz - 17:41 Jun 26, 2025

Even in the midst of the war with Iran, Naomi Shaanan reported to the Be'er Sheva intersection, sign in hand. A day after she was killed by an Iranian missile strike on the city, dozens of activists gathered to call to free the hostages
Israeli basketball players Ben Saraf, Danny Wolf drafted by Brooklyn Nets

Haaretz - 17:30 Jun 26, 2025

Speaking with Haaretz, Saraf said he 'didn't sleep all night' ■ Both players were selected by Brooklyn in back-to-back picks toward the end of the first round
Ballerinas, dragons, aliens and salt: what to watch (and avoid) at Israeli cinemas right now

Haaretz - 17:04 Jun 26, 2025

After closing during the war with Iran, Israeli cinemas are back (and so are flights, where films are available - if miniature screens are your thing). From pirouetting assassins to a fire-breathing children's classic-in-the-making and an understated British gem, here's what's worth seeing

Tags: Israeli
Top Israeli lawyer: Trump's call to cancel Netanyahu trial perhaps criminal if PM involved

Haaretz - 16:51 Jun 26, 2025

'If Trump's post happened at Netanyahu's request, then this is criminal behavior on the prime minister's behalf,' said the head of the Israeli Bar Association

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'We're not tiring': Serbian students to hold mass anti-government protests over the weekend

Haaretz - 16:47 Jun 26, 2025

A historic student-led uprising prepares to confront President Vučić's regime on Serbia's most symbolic date, with national elections looming. 'This regime has caused so much suffering and so much damage to our society that I felt like it couldn't go on,' says one activist
Budapest Pride will go ahead in a legal 'gray zone' as Orbán tries to ban annual LGBTQ parade

Haaretz - 16:29 Jun 26, 2025

Budapest's mayor and city officials are organizing the 30th Pride parade as a 'municipal event' in an attempt to circumvent a federal ban against Pride passed in March – the extension of a years-long campaign waged by Viktor Orbán's government against LGBTQ rights in Hungary

Tags: LGBTQ
Rashida Tlaib's dangerous romance with the Islamic Republic – and its vilification of Israel

Haaretz - 16:16 Jun 26, 2025

According to U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and her ideological allies on the left, Israel was the rogue state in this conflict. Such silence regarding Iran's behavior likely stems from a romanticized view of the Islamic Republic

Tags: Israel Islamic Republic
Western official: Iran may still have a large number of nuclear enrichment centrifuges

Haaretz - 15:43 Jun 26, 2025

Despite 12 days of aerial strikes, the Islamic Republic has the material, means and lack of oversight to work on a nuclear bomb, a Western official tells Haaretz – to some extent, Iran believes they won this round of fighting

Tags: Western Iran
'Yes, Israel demonstrated its power. But strategically, the war in Iran was a mistake'

Haaretz - 15:40 Jun 26, 2025

What fuels Iranian hostility toward Israel? How does Khamenei continue to maintain control, even over his opponents? And why would assassinating him be a terrible mistake? A conversation with Iranian-born author and commentator Hooman Majd

Tags: Israel
Families of Israeli hostages urge Netanyahu to channel Iran achievements into Gaza deal

Haaretz - 15:36 Jun 26, 2025

'No mother should bury her child so that another mother can see hers alive again,' prominent hostage mother Einav Zangauker said, 'There's another way'
There is only one way to end the Gaza war and prevent future bloodbaths

Haaretz - 15:21 Jun 26, 2025

Fueled by the Iran cease-fire, speculation about Netanyahu ending the Gaza war, and calling elections, is rising in Israel. But without an end to the broader conflict, another lethal eruption of violence is guaranteed

Tags: Gaza
NATO's major defense budget boost could fuel further surge in Israeli arms exports to Europe

Haaretz - 15:14 Jun 26, 2025

As NATO commits to raising military budgets amid Russia's war in Ukraine, Israel's Elbit Systems leverages expanded production, partnerships, and direct sales across Europe to capture rising demand, driving a 106% sales increase in three years

Tags: Europe

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