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Top adviser to Israeli PM resigns

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In a letter to Netanyahu, Dermer stated that he had promised his family to serve only two years in office, the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

Dermer, a former Israeli ambassador to the US, was one of Netanyahu’s senior envoys in laying the groundwork for the US-sponsored normalization agreements known as Abraham Accords and played a major role in countering the Iranian nuclear program.

In February, he was asked by Netanyahu to lead Israel’s negotiating team for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage swap deal with Hamas.

US plans ‘temporary housing’ in Gaza behind Israeli lines: The Atlantic

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The US and Israeli officials working on the plan termed them as “Alternate Safe Communities”. Palestinians would be screened for “anti-Hamas” sentiment before being granted entry into the compounds.

The proposal was discussed in an email by US Lieutenant General Patrick Frank, who is heading the civil-military coordination centre overseeing the Gaza ceasefire, which has been marred by regular Israeli violations.

In an email reported by The Atlantic, Frank said that each settlement should include a medical centre, a school, an administrative building, and temporary housing for about 25,000 people. But the Atlantic reported that the plan is constantly shifting, and the number of occupants slated to live in the developments changes “almost by the day”.

“A team of US, UK, and Israeli military officials working on the project has already revised the intended occupancy of each community down to about 6,000, from an original estimate of 25,000,” the Atlantic reported.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor, Jared Kushner, publicly floated the idea of the US and its partners reconstructing parts of Gaza occupied by Israeli troops, while leaving the war-ravaged enclave’s core, which is governed by Hamas, destroyed.

The idea of dividing Gaza has plenty of pitfalls, but in recent weeks, two Arab diplomats familiar with the US peace plan said they were taking the US push seriously.

The Financial Times reported that the proposed plans have alarmed Arab states and European countries as potentially being the first step in a permanent occupation of a portion of Gaza.

According to the Atlantic, less than two percent of Gaza’s two million-strong population lives behind the so-called yellow line. This barrier is supposed to be temporary.

Trump’s 20-point peace plan envisions Israel eventually withdrawing all of its troops from Gaza with the exception of a small security perimeter. Israeli troops are supposed to move out as an Arab peacekeeping force enters. Eventually, that force is envisioned to hand security over to a “reformed” Palestinian Authority.

The US plan provides no timeline for Israel’s withdrawal.

At its core, the plan would require Palestinians in central Gaza to willingly accept living under territory controlled by Israeli troops.

The plan also needs money. The Trump administration has not pledged any US sovereign funds for Gaza’s reconstruction. Trump says he wants Persian Gulf states to invest.

The Atlantic reported that a senior administration official said at least one pilot city would be built in southern Gaza near Rafah, which is home to the enclave’s border with Egypt.

Of course, one of many elephants in the room is Palestinian ownership of the land on which the sites will be built. The Gaza Strip has a formal land registry. The registry was run by Hamas but followed the basic institutional framework of the Palestinian Authority’s system.

Israel has reduced most of Gaza to rubble. The United Nations estimates that the enclave’s reconstruction will cost roughly $70bn. In the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, the government and settlers have seized swaths of Palestinian land and evicted thousands of Palestinian families from their homes.

The Atlantic said that Israel’s Shin Bet would scan applicants to live in the housing complexes. One criterion would not only be whether an individual had ties to Hamas, but their wider family’s ties to the group.

Hamas has governed Gaza since 2007. After winning Palestinian legislative elections, it clashed with secular rival Fatah, which exercises limited control of the occupied West Bank through the Palestinian Authority.

According to The Atlantic, a US-based engineering and consulting firm that works with the US military, Tetra Tech Solutions, has already been awarded a State Department contract to clear unexploded ordinance and rubble from the site of the first Alternate Safe Community.

 

Istanbul’s jailed mayor charged with 142 offences that could total 2,000 years in jail

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The indictment filed on Tuesday, which runs to nearly 4,000 pages, charges the popular opposition figure who was arrested on 19 March with offences including running a criminal organisation, bribery, embezzlement, money laundering, extortion and tender rigging.

The state news agency, Anadolu, reported that prosecutors would be asking for prison sentences that could amount to up to 2,430 years behind bars if he is found guilty.

Turkey’s opposition leader stated that the charges were intended to prevent İmamoğlu running for president in the 2028 election.

“This case is not legal, it is entirely political. Its purpose is to stop the Republican People’s party (CHP), which came first in the last local elections, and to block its presidential candidate,” Özgür Özel wrote on X.

The arrest of İmamoğlu, the main political rival of Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was met with outrage from the CHP and prompted demonstrations across Turkey. It was the country’s worst street unrest since 2013.

İmamoğlu faces allegations that include espionage and faking his university degree, which could lead to him being banned from running for president.

According to the indictment, which names 402 suspects, İmamoğlu allegedly headed a crime network over which he exerted his influence “like an octopus”.

In an address to parliament on Tuesday, Özel stated that İmamoğlu would be the party’s candidate in the next presidential vote.

“Can someone be both an electoral fraudster, hold a forged decree and be a thief, a terrorist and a spy all at the same time?” he said before the indictment was released.

“If you accused an innocent person of just one of these crimes, it would be a great injustice. But when you put all of them on one person, it’s a major crime … But his only crime is running for the presidency of this country,” he added.

Also in the indictment, prosecutors said they had filed papers with Turkey’s top appeals court against the CHP, which observers said could pave the way for the party’s closure.

In a separate statement, the Istanbul prosecutor’s office confirmed it had informed the court about certain irregularities but denied reports it was seeking to have the party shut down.

The CHP has been under increasing pressure since it won control of Turkey’s largest cities in local elections in March 2024. Sixteen of its mayors have since been jailed.

An Ankara court dismissed a case in October challenging the legitimacy of the outcome of the party’s 2023 leadership primary, saying there was no legal basis for removing the current leadership from office.

The move could have unseated Özel, who is facing a number of lawsuits including one for insulting the president.

 

Report accuses Israel of ‘systematic’ torture of Gazans

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Israeli Jail Prison

Researchers and lawyers at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) interviewed men and women from the Gaza Strip who had been released from Israeli detention. The detainees gave accounts of rape, forced stripping, filming of abuse, sexual assault using objects and dogs and psychological humiliation.

“I wished for death every moment,” said a 42-year-old mother who was detained while crossing an Israeli checkpoint in northern Gaza in November 2024.

She told the PCHR she endured repeated rapes and physical abuse that continued for days.

The former prisoner described being stripped, electrocuted, beaten and filmed while naked.

“They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully,” she continued.

“I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded.”

She added: “I could hear a camera so I believe they were filming me.”

Another man, a 35-year-old father arrested at Al Shifa Hospital in March 2024, told PCHR that he was raped by a dog inside Sde Teiman military camp after weeks of humiliation, stripping and threats.

He said soldiers brought detainees to an area away from cameras and set dogs on them.

“The dog did it deliberately, knowing exactly what it was doing, and inserted its penis into my anus, while the soldiers kept beating and torturing us and spraying pepper spray in our faces.”

The assault left him with a head wound requiring seven stitches, along with bruises, fractures to his limbs and a rib fracture.

“I suffered a severe psychological breakdown and deep humiliation. I lost control because I could never have imagined experiencing such a thing,” he added.

Sde Teiman military detention centre has become notorious for torture after a video leaked in August 2024 showing Israeli soldiers violently assaulting a Palestinian detainee from Gaza, including anal rape.

According to the indictment, the man was taken to the hospital with broken ribs, a punctured lung and severe rectal injuries.

Five soldiers were charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm, yet none of them are being held in custody or placed under legal restrictions, Israeli media reported.

Meanwhile, Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi, the military advocate general who leaked the footage, has since been arrested on allegations that include fraud, breach of trust, abuse of office, obstruction of justice, and the unlawful disclosure of official information.

Another former detainee, a 41-year-old man held while displaced at Kamal Adwan Hospital in late 2023, recounted 22 months of sexual torture, including threats to assault his wife.

He told PCHR that a soldier raped him with a wooden stick while he was tied and blindfolded.

The detainee said the pain and terror were so severe that “From sheer anguish I lost consciousness for minutes, until a female officer came and forced them to stop beating me.”

PCHR also interviewed an 18-year-old who had previously been detained and was arrested again near a humanitarian aid distribution site this year.

He described soldiers forcing him and others to kneel while assaulting them with a bottle.

The man added that this was done repeatedly, including in group assaults.

“They violated our dignity and destroyed our spirits and our hope for life. I had wanted to continue my education; now I am lost after what happened to me,” he stated.

PCHR, whose investigators have documented extensive sexual violence against Palestinian women and men detained across Gaza over the past two years, said the accounts “do not reflect isolated incidents but constitute a systematic policy” carried out in Israel’s genocide.

Under the ceasefire agreed in October, Israel released 1,700 Palestinian detainees from Gaza who had been held indefinitely without charge or trial.

Yet the scale of Israel’s detentions remain enormous. Even after the mass release, at least 1,000 Palestinians from Gaza are still being held under the same conditions, with many more in prisons and military camps sealed off from international monitors, including the International Committee of the Red Cross.

A recent Guardian investigation found that Israel is keeping dozens of detainees from Gaza in total isolation inside an underground jail where they never see daylight, survive on inadequate food and are cut off entirely from news of their families.

Israeli leaders and far right figures have warned that reports of sexual torture in Israeli prisons have gravely damaged Tel Aviv’s global image.

“The incident in Sde Teiman caused immense damage to the image of the state of Israel and the IDF [Israel Defense Forces],” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in November, adding, “This is perhaps the most severe public relations attack that the state of Israel has experienced since its establishment.”

IRGC intelligence organization dismantles U.S.-Israeli spy network

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IRGC

According to the statement, the network was neutralized following several stages of surveillance, intelligence monitoring, and operational measures.

The IRGC said the dismantled group had been directed by the United States and the Zionist regime to disrupt public security during the latter half of autumn 2025.

“The Zionist regime, acting as America’s proxy in the region, has turned to destabilizing Iran’s internal security after its humiliating failure in the 12-day war,” the statement read.

“To compensate for its military defeat, it had organized a network of deceived and treacherous elements to conduct subversive activities in the country.”

The IRGC confirmed that the operation was carried out simultaneously in several provinces, during which multiple affiliated cells connected to the Zionist regime were identified and arrested.

Convicted killer of cardiologist executed in Iran

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Iran Prison

The sentence was implemented in a public square in the provincial capital before sunrise, following approval from the Chief of the Judiciary and at the request of the victim’s family.

According to the provincial judiciary, the killer had shot Dr. Davoudi dead on the night of November 11, 2024, while the physician was returning home.

The case was reviewed by Branch One of the Criminal Court of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, where experts confirmed the perpetrator’s mental competence at the time of the crime.

The death sentence was later upheld by Branch 20 of the Supreme Court.

Prosecutor Seyyed Vahid Mousavian stated that the execution served as a message to those who threaten public security, warning that “the safety of the people is the Judiciary’s red line.”

He added that the convict had shared a video of his crime on social media and had threatened others, but was swiftly apprehended and brought to justice.

The murder of this popular specialist doctor had deeply shaken the medical community and public opinion in Iran.

Russia claims thwarted Ukrainian-UK plot to hijack missile-carrying jet

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Russia, which launched its full-scale offensive against Ukraine in 2022, regularly accuses Kyiv and its European allies of brazen sabotage operations on its soil, often without providing evidence.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had “uncovered and thwarted an operation by the… Ukrainian Ministry of Defence and its British supervisors to steal a Russian MiG-31 high-altitude supersonic fighter jet, which carries the Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched missile”.

It accused Kyiv of trying to “recruit Russian pilots” by promising them $3 million and citizenship of a Western country.

Kyiv planned to have the plane flown towards a NATO base in Constanta on the Black Sea, where it would have been “shot down” by air-defences, the FSB added.

The security services announced it had “thwarted the plans of the Ukrainian and British services to organise the large-scale provocation.”

State media published an FSB video showing a Russian soldier, face concealed, saying that he had received an email from a Ukrainian intelligence agent trying to recruit him for the plot.

In retaliation, the FSB noted Russian forces had hit a Ukrainian military intelligence centre and airfield in the Kyiv and Khmelnitsky regions.

Throughout its almost four-year Ukraine offensive, Russia has been hit with sabotage attacks — usually on its rail network — and regularly hands out heavy jail sentences to those accused of treason.

In August 2023, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot defected to Ukraine after flying into Ukraine in an operation led by Kyiv’s security services.

His crew members were unaware of his intentions and were killed as they tried to escape, both Kyiv and Moscow had said at the time.

The pilot, Maxim Kuzminov, was found dead in Spain in February 2024.

 

Iranian president orders investigation after Ahvaz youth dies following self-immolation

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Masoud Pezeshkian

Baledi, who suffered burns over 70% of his body, was admitted to hospital in Ahvaz last week. Despite intensive medical treatment, he succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday, local authorities confirmed.

Following the incident, President Pezeshkian instructed the interior minister to convey his condolences to Baledi’s family and to take immediate steps to provide support and comfort to them.

The president also demanded a rapid and thorough investigation into the circumstances of the case and the prompt accountability of those responsible, with measures to prevent similar incidents in the future.

The public prosecutor of Khuzestan Province announced that the judicial system has opened a formal inquiry into the matter.

The mayor and the municipal enforcement officer in Ahvaz have been detained as part of the investigation.

The incident has drawn widespread attention in Iran.

Iranian commander highlights enhanced combat readiness in naval islands

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Naaz Islands in Persian Gulf

During an inspection of the Nazeat Islands, part of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, General Abdollahi emphasized that Iranian forces are fully prepared to confront any threats to protect the country’s maritime and territorial borders.

Visiting all operational units, General Abdollahi noted that substantial upgrades have been made across the islands, with new equipment and capabilities enhancing the operational readiness and symmetrical combat strength of the IRGC Navy.

Months after a conflict between Iran and the US-Israeli alliance ended in a ceasefire, he praised the personnel for their high motivation and skills, describing them as a key factor in the forces’ effectiveness.

“The Nazeat Islands belong to Iran, and security is firmly established across all islands and coastal areas,” he said.

General Abdollahi specifically highlighted readiness along the strategic Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.

He added that the continuous modernization of equipment, combined with highly motivated personnel, has made the naval forces stronger than ever before.

Official says Iran to launch 3 remote-sensing satellites soon

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Iran satellite

Hassan Salarieh said that according to schedule, the three Iranian satellites — Zafar, Paya, and the second model of Kosar — will all be launched simultaneously in  winter, less than a month and a half from now.

All three satellites are designed for remote sensing and will undertake key missions in land resource management, environmental monitoring, and the development of Iran’s space economy.

The Kosar satellite, developed by a private knowledge-based company in Iran, symbolizes the speed and high readiness of the private sector within Iran’s space ecosystem.

Remarkably, the upgraded version has been prepared for launch in less than a year after the first model’s deployment.The most significant feature of Kosar is its ability to capture images with a resolution of about four meters, making it a valuable tool for high-precision applications such as smart agriculture, environmental observation, and urban mapping. The 50-kilogram satellite will be placed in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of approximately 500 kilometers.

Paya is another Iranian remote-sensing satellite designed for environmental monitoring, natural resource management, and the collection of practical data for land management. It can capture color images with a resolution of about 10 meters and black-and-white images with a resolution of up to 5 meters.

The third satellite to be launched in winter, Zafar, developed by Iran University of Science and Technology, is a remote-sensing and imaging project designed to capture images of the Earth’s surface with a resolution between 16 and 26 meters. This level of precision enables accurate monitoring of surface changes, making it an effective tool for resource management, environmental protection, and land-use planning.

Officials say the simultaneous launch of these three satellites in early winter, using a foreign launch vehicle, marks an acceleration in the country’s space activities and highlights the growing collaboration between Iran’s public and private sectors in the space domain.

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