Andrew Roth
Benjamin Netanyahu returns to the White Home holding all of the playing cards within the Gaza talks in Washington. Joint assault on Iran have put the Israeli PM in a strong place as he dangles the prospect of a Trump-brokered ceasefire deal.
Netanyahu and Donald Trump have a fancy private relationship – and Trump brazenly vented frustration at him final month throughout efforts to barter a truce with Iran – however the two have appeared in lockstep for the reason that US launched a bombing run towards Iran’s nuclear programme, fulfilling a key objective for Israeli conflict planners.
Netanyahu arrives in Washington in a robust political place, observers have mentioned, probably giving him the diplomatic cowl he would want to finish the conflict in Gaza with out dealing with a revolt from his rightwing supporters that might result in the collapse of his authorities.
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Hours after the Israeli strikes, two missiles have been launched from Yemen in the direction of Israel, the Israeli military mentioned, with Yemen navy spokesman Yehyaa Saree claiming accountability for the assaults.
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The Houthis acknowledged the Israel’s navy airstrikes on ports and amenities they held, however supplied no harm evaluation from the assault.
Their navy spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, claimed its air protection forces “successfully confronted” the Israelis with out providing proof.
“We’re absolutely ready for a sustained and extended confrontation, to confront hostile warplanes and to counter makes an attempt to interrupt the naval blockade imposed by our armed forces on the enemy,” Saree mentioned.
A Houthi soldier mans a machine gun on a car whereas on patrol throughout a protest towards Israel, in Sana’a, Yemen, 04 July 2025. {Photograph}: Yahya Arhab/EPAShare
A French man has been lacking in Iran since mid-June, France’s minister liable for the nation’s residents overseas mentioned on Monday, including that Paris had no particulars on what had occurred to the person.
“It’s a worrying disappearance and we’re in touch with the household,” Laurent Saint-Martin, who can be commerce minister, informed RTL radio.
“It’s worrying as a result of Iran has a deliberate coverage of taking Western hostages,” he added.
French Minister Delegate for Overseas Commerce Laurent Saint-Martin attends a gathering on the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, 02 July 2025. {Photograph}: André Borges/EPA
However Saint-Martin didn’t say particularly that the Iranian authorities have been holding the person, who additionally has German nationality.
French media reported that the person was an 18-year-old who had been on a biking journey within the area however went lacking a couple of days after Israeli planes struck targets in Iran.
Individually, a diplomatic supply mentioned Iran has charged two French nationals – Jacques Paris and Cecile Kohler – with spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service. The 2 have been held in Iran greater than three years in what France has known as state-sponsored hostage taking.
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A US envoy met Lebanese officers in Beirut on Monday to debate a proposed plan to disarm Hezbollah, hours after Israel launched new air strikes and a cross-border floor assault.
The Israeli escalation was seen by Lebanese officers and diplomats as an try to ratchet up strain on Hezbollah, whose chief Naim Qassem mentioned in a televised speech on Sunday that the group nonetheless wanted arms to defend Lebanon from Israel.
US envoy Thomas Barrack’s proposal, delivered to Lebanese officers throughout his final go to on June 19, would see Hezbollah absolutely disarmed inside 4 months in alternate for the withdrawal of Israeli troops occupying a number of posts in south Lebanon and a halt to Israeli air strikes.
Lebanon fashioned a committee to draft a response. Hezbollah was anticipated to supply its personal suggestions to its ally, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, to include right into a counter-proposal being ready in time for Barrack’s Monday go to.
US Ambassador to Turkey and Particular Envoy to Syria Tomas Barrack speaks throughout a information convention following a gathering with the Lebanese parliament speaker in Beirut, Lebanon, 19 June 2025. Barrack is on an official go to to Beirut to satisfy Lebanon’s leaders. {Photograph}: Wael Hamzeh/EPAShare
Israel pronounces seize of members of Iran-backed cell in southern Syria
Israel’s navy mentioned Monday it had apprehended members of an Iran-backed cell in southern Syria, the second such operation it has introduced previously week.
For the reason that December overthrow of Syria’s longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, Israel has carried out lots of of air strikes totally on navy websites and carried out cross-border floor raids.
In an announcement, the navy mentioned troops “accomplished an in a single day operation to apprehend a cell that was operated by the Iranian Quds Pressure within the Tel Kudna space of southern Syria.”
The Quds Pressure is the overseas operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Israel fought an unprecedented 12-day conflict towards its arch-foe Iran final month.
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The principles of the establishments that outline our lives bend like reeds with regards to Israel – a lot that the entire world order is on the snapping point.
Israel’s conflict in Gaza is chipping away at a lot of what we – in the USA but in addition internationally – had agreed upon as acceptable, from the foundations governing our freedom of speech to the very legal guidelines of armed battle. It appears no exaggeration to say that the muse of the worldwide order of the final 77 years is threatened by this transformation within the obligations governing our authorized and political obligations to one another.
We’re ignoring the collapse of the worldwide system that has outlined our lives for generations at our personal collective peril
This collapse started with the liberal world’s lack of resolve to rein in Israel’s conflict in Gaza. It escalated when nobody lifted a finger to cease hospitals being bombed. It expanded when mass hunger grew to become a weapon of conflict. And it’s peaking at a time when whole conflict is now not seen as a human abhorrence however is as a substitute the deliberate coverage of the state of Israel.
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Practically 450,000 Afghans have returned from Iran for the reason that begin of June, the United Nations’ migration company mentioned on Monday, after Tehran ordered these with out documentation to go away by July 6.
In late Could, Iran mentioned undocumented Afghans should go away the nation by July 6, probably impacting 4 million individuals out of the round six million Afghans Tehran says stay within the nation.
Numbers of individuals crossing the border have surged since mid-June, with some days seeing round 40,000 individuals crossing at Islam Qala in western Herat province, UN businesses have mentioned.
From June 1 to July 5, 449,218 Afghans returned from Iran, a spokesman for the Worldwide Group for Migration informed AFP on Monday, including that the whole for the 12 months up to now was 906,326.
Males unpack the belongings of a household that has simply arrived from the Iranian border after being deported, and is trying to find a spot to sleep for the evening, as they haven’t any connections within the province, on July 5, 2025, within the village of Andisha, Guzara district, Herat province. {Photograph}: Getty ImagesShare
Israel’s navy launched airstrikes early Monday concentrating on ports and amenities held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, with the rebels responding with missile hearth concentrating on Israel.
The assaults got here after an assault Sunday concentrating on a Liberian-flagged ship within the Purple Sea that caught hearth and took on water, later forcing its crew to desert the vessel.
Suspicion for the assault on the Greek-owned bulk provider Magic Seas instantly fell on the Houthis, significantly as a safety agency mentioned bomb-carrying drone boats appeared to hit the ship after it was focused by small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. The rebels’ media reported on the assault however didn’t declare it. It could take them hours and even days earlier than they acknowledge an assault.
A renewed Houthi marketing campaign towards delivery might once more attract US and Western forces to the world, significantly after President Donald Trump focused the rebels in a significant airstrike marketing campaign.
The Liberian-flagged bulk provider Magic Seas is seen in Ambelakia Bay, Salamis Island, Greece, Aug. 9, 2022. {Photograph}: Nektarios Papadakis/APShare
The assembly between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will happen within the night US time. What have each leaders mentioned a few potential ceasefire deal?
Earlier than departing for Washington on Sunday, Netanyahu praised the cooperation with the US for bringing a “large victory over our shared enemy.” He struck a optimistic observe on a ceasefire for Gaza, saying he was working “to attain the deal beneath dialogue, on the phrases we agreed to.”
Requested on Friday how assured he was a ceasefire deal would come collectively, Trump informed reporters: “I’m very optimistic – however , look, it adjustments from each day.”
On Sunday night, he appeared to slender his expectation, telling reporters that he thought an settlement associated to the remaining hostages could be reached within the coming week. He additionally mentioned one of many issues he anticipated to debate with Netanyahu “might be a everlasting cope with Iran.”
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu throughout his first go to to Kibbutz Nir Oz for the reason that 7 October, 2023 assault by Hamas militants. {Photograph}: Léo Corrêa/APShare
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A Russian overseas ministry assertion mentioned its minister Sergei Lavrov had issued a brand new denunciation of Israeli and US strikes on Iran final month, “together with the bombing of nuclear power infrastructure beneath safeguards of the Worldwide Atomic Power Company”.
It got here throughout Lavrov’s talks in Rio de Janeiro with Abbas Araqchi, his Iranian counterpart, whom he met on the BRICS summit. Lavrov restated Moscow’s supply to assist resolve disputes round Tehran’s nuclear programme, the Russian overseas ministry mentioned.
Russia’s overseas minister Sergei Lavrov attends the BRICS summit. {Photograph}: Ricardo Moraes/ReutersShare
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In a joint assertion from the opening of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, the leaders of the BRICS group of creating nations known as assaults towards Iran’s “civilian infrastructure and peaceable nuclear amenities” a “violation of worldwide regulation”.
The group expressed “grave concern” for the Palestinian individuals over Israeli assaults on Gaza, and condemned what the joint assertion known as a “terrorist assault” in India-administered Kashmir.
The group voiced its help for Ethiopia and Iran to hitch the World Commerce Group, whereas calling to urgently restore its potential to resolve commerce disputes.
Russia’s overseas minister Sergey Lavrov, UAE’s President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, China’s Premier Li Qiang, Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed, Egypt’s prime minister Mostafa Madbouly, and Iran’s overseas minister Abbas Araghchi pose on the Brics Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. {Photograph}: Wagner Meier/Getty ImagesShare
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Andrew Roth
Benjamin Netanyahu returns to the White Home holding all of the playing cards within the Gaza talks in Washington. Joint assault on Iran have put the Israeli PM in a strong place as he dangles the prospect of a Trump-brokered ceasefire deal.
Netanyahu and Donald Trump have a fancy private relationship – and Trump brazenly vented frustration at him final month throughout efforts to barter a truce with Iran – however the two have appeared in lockstep for the reason that US launched a bombing run towards Iran’s nuclear programme, fulfilling a key objective for Israeli conflict planners.
Netanyahu arrives in Washington in a robust political place, observers have mentioned, probably giving him the diplomatic cowl he would want to finish the conflict in Gaza with out dealing with a revolt from his rightwing supporters that might result in the collapse of his authorities.
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Hi there and welcome to the Guardian’s persevering with protection of the disaster within the Center East.
Donald Trump has mentioned there’s a good probability a Gaza hostage launch and ceasefire deal could possibly be reached with the Hamas this week, as he prepares to satisfy with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday on the White Home.
Trump informed reporters earlier than departing for Washington on Sunday that such a deal meant “fairly a couple of hostages” could possibly be launched.
Here’s what has occurred up to now:
Donald Trump will host Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington DC on Monday because the US president seeks once more to dealer a peace deal in Gaza and the Israeli prime minister takes a victory lap via the Oval Workplace after a joint navy marketing campaign towards Iran and a collection of profitable strikes towards Tehran and its proxies within the Center East.
The primary session of oblique Hamas-Israel ceasefire talks in Qatar ended inconclusively, two Palestinian sources acquainted with the matter mentioned early on Monday, including that the Israeli delegation didn’t have a adequate mandate to succeed in an settlement with Hamas. The talks resumed on Sunday, forward of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s third go to to the White Home.
Israeli warplanes launched a wave of strikes in Gaza on Sunday, killing at the very least 38 Palestinians, in response to hospital officers, as talks over a ceasefire within the devastated territory reached a important level. Officers at Nasser hospital within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis mentioned 18 individuals have been killed by strikes in al-Mawasi, a close-by coastal space that’s crowded with tented encampments of these displaced by preventing elsewhere.
Israel has continued to launch waves of airstrikes in Gaza, hours after Hamas mentioned it was prepared to start out talks “instantly” on a US-sponsored proposal for a 60-day ceasefire. The announcement by the militant Islamist organisation elevated hopes {that a} deal could also be accomplished inside days to pause the killing in Gaza and presumably finish the close to 21-month battle.
Israel has attacked Houthi targets in three Yemeni ports and an influence plant, the Israeli navy mentioned early on Monday, marking the primary Israeli assault on Yemen in nearly a month. The strikes on Hodeidah, Ras Isa and Salif ports, and Ras Qantib energy plant have been resulting from repeated Houthi assaults on Israel, the navy added.
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