Habib Siddiqui

  Two more Palestinians have been killed by  Israeli attacks  on Gaza, raising the death toll to 356 since the ceasefire went into effect, the enclave’s Health Ministry says. Israeli forces have launched a campaign of arrests at dawn during an incursion into the village of Mas’ha in the occupied West Bank, and intensified drone operations over Jenin. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation strongly condemned the assault by Israeli forces in the Damascus countryside two days ago that killed 13 people. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza  has killed at least 70,100 Palestinians and wounded 170,965 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks and about 200 were taken captive.

  Elliot Abrams, U.S. special envoy to Venezuela during Trump’s first term, said in a recent Foreign Affairs article that the president’s advisors should promptly persuade him that the point of no return has already been passed in Venezuela, and that the only possible outcomes are that either Trump or Maduro will win the contest that is now well underway.  Forthrightly titled, “How To Topple Maduro,” Abrams calls for doing more than blowing up “narco-trafficking boats” (i.e. Caribbean fishing vessels), though he does not go so far as to advocate the deployment of U.S. ground troops in the South American nation. To read this article, log in  here  or subscribe  here . If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access  here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.

  Guinea-Bissau’s deposed president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has arrived in Senegal, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed, a day after a   group of military officers   in Guinea-Bissau seized power in a coup. Senegal’s Foreign Ministry said in a  statement  on Thursday night that Embalo had arrived in Senegal after authorities engaged with actors in Guinea-Bissau to try to secure his release. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3 What was behind the coup in Guinea-Bissau days after the election? list 2 of 3 Guinea-Bissau coup: What happened, why it matters, what happens next? list 3 of 3 Guinea-Bissau coup “doesn’t come as a surprise” end of list Embalo reached Senegal on board an aircraft chartered by the Senegalese government, it said. “The government of the Republic of Senegal reaffirms its readiness to work alongside ECOWAS, the African Union and all relevant partners, with a view to supporting dialogue, stability and the rapi...

  As soon as Mohammed al-Banna heard that   Israeli   forces had withdrawn from eastern Gaza City in early August, he made his way there.  His father, Jehad al-Banna, had last been seen heading towards their home in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood. The neighbourhood had been classified as a dangerous zone, where Israeli forces had forcibly expelled residents and bombed anything that moved.  Jehad, who was taking temporary shelter elsewhere in Gaza City, decided to return to the area on 3 July, which was the last time the family saw him.  “Despite our attempts to stop him, he insisted on going to check on our home because of how deeply attached he was to it,” Mohammed told Middle East Eye.  New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on  Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked and other MEE newsletters “He left and never came back,” he said.  The  Palestinian  teenager tried to call his fat...

Observers condemn Israeli army’s killing of two Palestinian men in northern West Bank as ‘shocking crime’. Israeli soldiers during the deadly raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, November 27, 2025 [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters] By  Al Jazeera Staff Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two Palestinian men during a raid in  the occupied West Bank  city of Jenin as the pair attempted to surrender to the military, according to video footage and witness accounts from the scene. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh said journalists in Jenin reported on Thursday that the two men had “pulled their shirts up, showing that they were unarmed” before the military ordered them to go back into a building that they had been holed up in. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3 Israel’s systematic campaign to expel West Bank Palestinians list 2 of 3 Amnesty warns ‘genocide not over’ as Israel strikes across Gaza list 3 of 3 US teen Mohammed Ibrahim released from Israeli prison after nine month...