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The official said that the Gaza agreement is a phased agreement which must be implemented by stages. Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.(photo credit: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed)ByREUTERSJULY 31, 2026 10:51Updated: JULY 31, 2026 11:06 If Israel does not approve and endorse the Board of Peace’s disarmament deal with Hamas, the terror group will refuse to implement it, a Hamas official told Reuters on Friday. The official said …

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The airstrikes came hours after Trump warned Washington would be “hitting them hard.” JNS Staff (July 30, 2026 / JNS)  The U.S. military launched what it described as a “heavy wave of strikes” against Iranian targets on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump warned Washington would be “hitting them hard” in response to Tehran’s recent attacks on American forces. U.S. Central Command said the “powerful response,” which lasted for some two hours, hit dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites across the Islamic Republic. According to CENTCOM, it struck military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and …

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The pact, which the terrorist group has yet to confirm accepting, “is a critical step toward Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian ‌government,” the U.S. president and Board of Peace chair said. Mike Wagenheim (July 30, 2026 / JNS)  U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the Board of Peace, which he chairs, reached an agreement with Hamas for the complete disarmament ‌of the terrorist groups that rule and control the Gaza Strip. Trump said that it was a “major milestone in the implementation” of his 20-point plan to bring an end to the Israel-Hamas war and …

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Hamas representatives reportedly met with IRGC officials on a recent visit to Iran for the funeral of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, per Axios.  (FILE PHOTO) Members of security forces look on during a funeral procession held for IRGC Navy Chief Alireza Tangsiri, alongside other senior naval commanders and their families who were killed in US-Israeli strikes in late March, on April 1, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.(photo credit: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFFJULY 31, 2026 07:36Updated: JULY 31, 2026 07:47 Officials from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) urged Hamas delegation members not to sign Thursday’s disarmament deal, Axios reported on Friday, citing a source familiar with the …

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Iranian poet leads chants of ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America,’ threatens Trump’s life, as mourners declare fealty to new leader and urge revenge; 3 of Khamenei’s sons appear, but not Mojtaba By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell5 July 2026, 2:27 pm Masoud, Meysam, and Mostafa Khamenei, sons of the slain Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pay their respects to their father at a funeral ceremony at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, July 5, 2026; Iranian poet Mohammad Rasouli leads chants of ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America,’ as he threatens Trump’s life in his address. …

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When Washington says “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” it means something far broader than enrichment percentages Iranian missiles are displayed at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC) Aerospace Force Museum in Tehran, Iran.(photo credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA/REUTERS)ByAJ JAFFJUNE 8, 2026 10:30Updated: JUNE 8, 2026 10:34 The most carefully chosen sentence in American foreign policy is the one Washington has repeated reflexively since the first night of this war. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.” Read in isolation, the line sounds like a routine “non-proliferation commitment”, the kind every administration has made about Tehran’s enrichment since 2003. It is not that statement. The phrasing is deliberate. …

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With framework risking drawn-out nuclear talks and questionable freedom of action, Jerusalem left with little to do but reach clear terms with DC on handling future threats By Nava Freiberg Follow27 May 2026, 1:18 pm Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) meets with Defense Minister Israel Katz (L) and IDF chief of staff Eyal Zamir at the Kiriya in Tel Aviv on May 26, 2026 (Maayan Toaf/GPO) As Washington appeared closer than ever this weekend to an agreement with Iran — and as reported details of the emerging framework ricocheted through the media — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to reassure an increasingly uneasy public …

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By Agencies and ToI StaffToday, 10:32 am Iranian army soldiers stand in front of a picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during a pro-regime rally in Tehran, Iran, on April 29, 2026. (AFP) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei says on his Telegram channel that Gulf powers will no longer be a shield for United States bases and the US will no longer have a safe haven in the region, as Tehran and Washington discuss a framework to end their three-month-old war. Several US bases in the Middle East were attacked by Iran during the war. His statement comes hours after …

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Strikes were ‘tit-for-tat’ for Iranian attacks on kingdom; UAE, which similarly struck Islamic Republic before and after truce, said to have coordinated at least one attack with Israel By Reuters and Lazar Berman FollowToday, 12:37 am US President Donald Trump stands with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on his visit to the White House, in Washington, November 18, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said. The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that …

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“Working with all sides to turn commitment into concrete actions,” the high representative for Gaza tweeted. May. 6, 2026 JNS Staff ( May 6, 2026 / JNS )  High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov said he held a “positive and substantive discussion” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Participants in the meeting “reaffirmed our commitment to the full implementation” of U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for the Strip, the Board of Peace official wrote in a post on X. “Working with all sides to turn commitment into concrete actions. This will require decisions for …

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