‘Become Our Land’: Smotrich’s Annexation Drive Tests Gaza Ceasefire And International Law

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Israel to occupy and effectively annex around 60% of the Gaza Strip and to annex Lebanese territory up to Israel’s current military deployment lines, remarks that, read alongside reported buffer-zone plans, amount to an explicit push to convert military control into permanent territorial dominion.

TURKEY: Istanbul Prosecutor Files Indictment Against Netanyahu, 34 Others Over Gaza Aid Flotilla Attack.

ISTANBUL — In a dramatic escalation of legal and political pressure against Israeli leadership, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed a sweeping 35-defendant indictment that seeks to hold…

ANALYSIS PAKISTAN-IRAN-US: Inside The Islamabad Implosion: Why 21 Hours Of US-Iran Talks Collapsed, And What Comes Next.

ISLAMABAD, TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - For 21 hours, the world watched Islamabad. Delegations from Washington and Tehran, led respectively by Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf,…

GAZA: We Have No Blueprint For Survival – Six Months Into Gaza Ceasefire, The Killing Never Stopped.

GAZA CITY / GENEVA – The ceasefire was supposed to mark the beginning of the end. Six months ago, on 10 October 2025, a US‑brokered truce halted two years of…

WEST BANK: Forced To Destroy Their Own Homes: The Hidden Cruelty Of Israel’s “Self-Demolition” Policy In East Jerusalem.

EAST JERUSALEM — On a crisp April morning in the Ras al-Amud neighbourhood of Silwan, the sound of sledgehammers and crowbars echoed not from Israeli bulldozers, but from the hands…

LEBANON: Escalation By Design: How Israel’s Lebanon Offensive And Hezbollah’s Retaliation Are Undermining A Fragile Ceasefire.

BEIRUT/TEL AVIV — A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Lebanon as Israeli military operations intensify, met with a sophisticated and sustained campaign of retaliatory strikes by Hezbollah. This brutal exchange,…

PAKISTAN: The Islamabad Brink: How Iran Forced A Halt To Beirut Strikes And What It Reveals About A Ceasefire On The Edge.

ISLAMABAD / BEIRUT — As dawn breaks over a locked-down Islamabad on Friday, the world's attention is fixed on a single question: will a historic, high-stakes negotiation between the United…

JERUSALEM: Al-Aqsa Reopens After 40 Days, But Closure, Crackdowns And “New Realities” Persist Under Occupation.

OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, OPT, April 9, 2026 - After forty days of unprecedented closure, the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque reopened at dawn on Thursday, allowing around 3,000 Palestinian worshippers to…

PAKISTAN: Pakistan Condemns Israeli Aggression Against Lebanon In ‘Strongest Terms’, Says It Undermines Peace Efforts.

BEIRUT/ISLAMABAD — The ink had barely dried on a historic, last-minute ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran when the skies over Beirut filled with the thunder of Israeli…

IRAN: Ceasefire Or Calculated Pause? Iran, U.S. And Israel On The Brink As Distrust Deepens Amid Escalating Violence.

TEHRAN, WASHINGTON, TEL-AVIV - After 40 days of intense warfare that had reshaped the geopolitical and military balance across West Asia, a fragile two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United…

IRAN: From The Brink Of Annihilation To A Fragile Truce – FM Araghchi Says Iran Will Cease Defensive Strikes If Unprovoked Attacks Are Halted.

TEHRAN/ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON — In the early hours of Wednesday, a deafening silence fell over the skies of the Middle East, not as a gesture of peace, but as the exhausted inhale…

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