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Jordan faces difficult balancing act amid row over role in downing Iranian drones

Jordania se ha encontrado atrapada en el punto de mira de la confrontación entre Irán e Israel, enfrentándose a la ira pública tanto en casa como en la región por su papel en el derribo de docenas de drones iraníes que apuntaban al territorio israelí el sábado por la noche.

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Iran warns it will strike again with greater force if Israel or US retaliate

Tehran has warned it will strike again with greater force if Israel or the US retaliate for the Iranian strike on Israel that used more than 300 drones and missiles on Saturday night.

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Middle East crisis live: Israel says aid trucks have entered Gaza after US official warns famine has begun

The first trucks carrying food aid have entered Gaza through the newly opened northern crossing point on Thursday, the military has said, as Israel stepped up supplies following mounting pressure to ease the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.

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Hamas says it does not have 40 hostages who fit criteria for deal with Israel

The Palestinian militant group Hamas has indicated it does not have 40 captives who are still alive who meet the “humanitarian” criteria for a proposed hostages-for-prisoners ceasefire agreement with Israel.

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Netanyahu making a ‘mistake’ on Gaza, says Biden, as he urges Israel to push for ceasefire

US president Joe Biden has said prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach on Gaza was a “mistake” and urged Israel to call for a ceasefire, in an interview that aired on Tuesday.

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Unrwa vital to avert starvation in Gaza, says agency official

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees must remain “the backbone of any humanitarian response” for the 2 million people in Gaza if mass starvation is to be avoided, the Unrwa director of planning, Sam Rose, says.

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No progress made at Cairo ceasefire talks, says Hamas, as Israel pulls troops out of southern Gaza – as it happened

A Hamas official told Reuters on Monday that no progress was made at a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo also attended by delegations from Israel, Qatar and the United States.

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Israel to reopen Erez crossing into Gaza after Biden sounds warning over protecting civilians

The announcement was made hours after a warning from US president Joe Biden that future US support for Israel would depend on it taking concrete action to protect civilians and aid workers.

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‘I will never join the army’: ultra-Orthodox Jews vow to defy Israeli court orders

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‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets