Premature baby girl rescued from her dead mother's womb dies in Gaza after 5 days in an incubator apnews.com/article/gaza-i…

Egypt sends delegation to Israel, its latest effort to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas

Via Sam Magdy Bassem Mroue باسم مروه David Rising

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The United Nations has called for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” into the mass graves uncovered at two of Gaza’s major hospitals that had been raided by Israeli troops.

Satellite photos show new port construction in Gaza Strip for US-led aid operation (from The Associated Press’s Julia Frankel and I) apnews.com/article/eb8a70…

Kurdish separatists and water issues loom large in long-awaited Erdogan visit to Iraq
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Israeli strikes on Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials in Gaza said, as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to its close ally

Via Sam Magdy & Mohammad Jahjouh

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Flights divert around western Iran as one report claims explosions heard near Isfahan apnews.com/article/iran-i…

In other news, because we all needed this:

Police officer rescues cat clinging to flooded car during unprecedented rainstorm that hit Dubai apnews.com/video/floods-d…

Lebanon’s interior minister alleged that the mysterious killing of a Hezbollah-linked money changer in a villa in a quiet mountain resort town was likely the work of Israeli operatives.

The killing was like something out of an international spy thriller.

Via Bassem Mroue باسم مروه Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

Amnesty International said Wednesday it has documented widespread abuses, including torture and deprivation of medical care, in detention facilities holding thousands of suspected Islamic State members and their relatives in northeast Syria apnews.com/article/syria-…

Biden to host Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Washington as Mideast tensions soar, raising more questions about US troop presence in Iraq

Via Matt Lee Qassim Abdul-Zahra

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The shadow war between Israel and Iran has been exposed. What happens next?

All eyes are now on whether Israel chooses to take further military action, while Washington seeks diplomatic measuresinstead to ease regional tensions.

The Associated Press

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BREAKING: Israel says Iran launched a number of drones toward it that will take hours to arrive apnews.com/article/strait…

Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday

Via Jon Gambrell | جون

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Prominent surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta says he was denied entry to Germany for a pro-Palestinian conference

Via Jack B. Jeffery and Geir Moulson
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Chaldean patriarch returns to Baghdad after nine months of self-imposed exile amid political dispute apnews.com/article/iraq-c…

How this story came to be
-I wake up on my off day
-I learn that my mom is on her way to the south for Eid
-I scream at her to come back because I’m concerned
-I realize there is no changing her mind
-I ask her to take pictures
-I end up writing the story