Iran citizen held in France over pro-Palestine comments returns home
Release of Mahdieh Esfandiari comes a week after Iran released two French citizens held on espionage charges.

Release of Mahdieh Esfandiari comes a week after Iran released two French citizens held on espionage charges.




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Attacks come as Palestinian groups meet mediators from Egypt, Turkiye and Qatar in Cairo to discuss fragile ‘ceasefire’.
Israel is destroying the Status Quo to establish full control over Muslim and Christian religious life at holy sites.

Israeli forces fired tear gas towards a group of children trying to walk to school in the occupied West Bank.
Head of defence college asked military official to ensure government took ownership of ban, emails reveal.
A 70-boat flotilla sets sail from Spain, aiming to break Israel’s naval blockade on Gaza amid history of interceptions.
Israel’s far-right security minister storms mosque compound with protection, drawing condemnation from Palestinians.

Standing by a map, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describes how six countries wanted to strangle us’.
Israel has approved 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians are terrified they will lose their land.

Israel says it has reprimanded Spain’s top diplomat in Tel Aviv over the blowing up of an effigy of its Prime Minister.

Opinion polls indicate opposition to ending war against Iran.