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The Cradle is an online news magazine covering West Asian geopolitics from within.
⭕️ The Israeli Knesset approved the 2025 Budget Bill on Tuesday in its second and third readings, with 66 votes in favor and 52 against. The total expenditure budget is set at 755.9 billion Shekels, including a regular budget of 547.4 billion Shekels, and a development budget of 208.5 billion Shekels.
The Ministry of Defense received the largest allocation at 109.8 billion Shekels.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich defended the budget, calling it a “war budget” necessary for Israel’s military and economic resilience.
BREAKING | Sirens sound in the Gaza envelope settlements of Shuva and Alumim.
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Unshaken: In the face of brutal US and UK airstrikes near his workplace in Yemen’s Saada Province, a Yemeni shopkeeper remains composed and unmoved—even as his young child clings to him in fear.
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⭕️ Palestine pulled off a dramatic 2–1 comeback victory over Iraq in their 2026 World Cup qualifier in Jordan on Tuesday night, keeping their qualification hopes alive.
Trailing after Aymen Hussein’s first-half header, Palestine struck back late with Wessam Abou Ali equalizing in the 88th minute before Ameed Mahajneh nodded in the winner deep into stoppage time.
The win, Palestine’s first at this advanced stage of the Asian qualifiers, was especially meaningful for Abou Ali, who called representing Palestine “a gift,” after switching allegiance from Denmark.
The result leaves Palestine fifth in Group B, just ahead of Kuwait.
❗️Sources to Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank:
- “About 21,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced as the occupation continues its operations in the city and camp of Jenin for the 65th day.”
- “More than 4,000 families have been forcibly displaced from the Tulkarem and Nour Shams camps as the occupation continues its operations for the 59th day.”
BREAKING | At least 5 people killed in an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the Najjar family in Jabalia al-Balad, north Gaza.
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❗️Statement from the Dignitaries and Mukhtars of Gaza's Central Governorate:
– "Tomorrow, Wednesday, marches will take place in the Central Governorate, calling on the free world to increase pressure on the Zionist enemy to stop the bloodshed and open the crossings to allow the entry of necessary aid.
– We affirm the legitimacy of these popular demands and fully support them, as they are legitimate rights.
The Central Governorate has always been an inexhaustible revolutionary reservoir of revolutionaries, resistance fighters, and mujahideen. It will never accept the exploitation of our people's rightful demands by parties affiliated with the fifth column or infiltrators.
– The Central Governorate, with its people, mukhtars, and dignitaries, declares openly and unequivocally that it stands with the legitimate and rightful Palestinian resistance."
How Syria's HTS is quietly dismantling the Palestinian cause
Under Ahmad al-Sharaa's direction, Syria’s new Islamist leaders are systematically sidelining Palestinian factions, favoring the US-backed PA, dismantling Iran-linked groups, and reshaping refugee dynamics in alignment with a broader US-backed strategy to neutralize the Palestinian resistance.
⭕️ Earlier today, Hamas issued a statement condemning Israel's airstrike on the village of Koya in Syria's southern Deraa countryside, which killed at least seven civilians.
The movement described the attack as a “fascist escalation” and a war crime that adds to Israel’s bloody record and reveals its broader aggression beyond Gaza and the West Bank.
It praised the resilience of residents in southern Syria for resisting Israeli incursions and called on Arab and Islamic nations to take strong action against Israel’s growing colonial ambitions in the region.
❗️Israeli media reports that Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs and head of the negotiating team, Ron Dermer, will meet with Trump's envoy to the region, Steve Witkoff, this evening.
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BREAKING | Israeli court upholds 6-month detention order for Kamal Adwan Hospital Director Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, who is being isolated and tortured under interrogation following his arrest at gunpoint and classification as an 'unlawful combatant.'
(Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights)
Over 270 Palestinian children killed in one week by Israel in Gaza
Nearly 18,000 children have been killed by Israel in Gaza since the start of the US-sponsored genocide of Palestinians in October 2023
US intel report determines Iran 'not building nuclear weapon'
Tehran says it is 'carefully preparing' its response to a letter from Donald Trump that reportedly gave the Islamic Republic a two-month deadline for reaching a new nuclear deal
❗️Israeli occupation forces open fire on areas east of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.
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Israeli jets pummel Gaza from north to south killing dozens
Nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed in one week by Israel’s renewed war against the Gaza Strip
❗️The Israeli army said that of the two rockets launched from central Gaza, only one was intercepted by the Air Force, while the other fell in the Zimra area.
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🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces announced that it targeted US warships in the Red Sea, including the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier, with its missile, UAV, and naval forces.
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❗️Statement by Hamas:
"The decision to return to war was premeditated by Netanyahu, aimed at sabotaging the agreement and submitting to Ben Gvir's blackmail.
Netanyahu bears full responsibility for derailing the agreement. The international community and mediators must pressure him to halt the aggression and return to the negotiation track.
The resistance is doing everything in its power to keep the Israeli captives alive, but the random Zionist bombings are putting their lives in danger.
Netanyahu is lying to the families of the captives when he claims that the military option can bring them back alive.
Every time the occupation has tried to retrieve its captives by force, it has brought them back in coffins."
❗️Israeli army announces that 19 year old Sergeant Yosef Chaim Zvi Serlin spontaneously collapsed and died after training in the Upper Galilee.
The army has launched an investigation to find out what happened.
❗️Gaza Municipality spokesman to Al Jazeera:
- “Gaza City is suffering from the accumulation of more than 175,000 tons of waste.”
- “The [Israeli] occupation continues to prevent us from transporting the waste to the main landfill east of Gaza City.”
- “We are forced to collect waste in random and unsanitary landfills between the city's neighborhoods.”
BREAKING | Palestinian Red Crescent:
"The [Israeli] occupation forces brutally assaulted an ambulance crew in Al-Fawwar refugee camp in Hebron, destroyed the vehicle, and expelled them from the area."
⭕️ Hundreds of Palestinians in north Gaza’s Beit Lahia and Jabalia gathered to protest Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and demand an end to the genocide.
During the demonstrations, chants directed against Hamas were documented, calling on the movement to concede power to an international committee. This prompted the Fatah movement to release a statement urging Hamas to answer the call of those protesting, “disengage from its regional and external ties,” and “stop using the Palestinian people and cause for unrelated goals.”
Israeli and anti-Hamas media quickly jumped at the opportunity to exploit the protests to push the narrative that Hamas is to blame for the Palestinian people’s suffering in Gaza—despite Israel having dropped over 100,000 tons of explosives on the territory, according to the Government Media Office—and argue that Israel's 'military pressure' on the strip is yielding results.
❗️Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri:
– "We have done what is necessary to build a capability dozens of times greater than 'Operation True Promise 2.'
– Our rate of growth is far faster than the enemy's pace in addressing its weaknesses.
– The enemy will undoubtedly remain behind in the balance of power."
❗️Thousands protest in front of the Israeli Knesset in occupied Jerusalem, demanding the government complete the prisoner exchange agreement with the Palestinian resistance.
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⭕️ Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a cache of precision-guided missiles stored in one of its many underground missile facilities, known as "missile cities," in a demonstration of its growing military capabilities.
The IRGC’s Aerospace Force showcased a range of ballistic and cruise missiles, including the “Kheibarshekan,” “Haj Qasem,” “Emad,” “Sejjil,” “Qadr-H,” and the “Paveh” cruise missile.
Syria's de facto government receives list of US demands for 'sanctions relief': Report
Washington's outreach to Damascus occurred just days after government-led sectarian massacres in Syria's coastal regions
❗️Deraa Governorate reports 350 Syrian families displaced from the village of Koya to shelters due to the Israeli attack.
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❗️Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by a military bulldozer, head towards a besieged house in Deir Ghazaleh, occupied West Bank.
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❗️A young Palestinian man was shot by Israeli occupation forces after they stormed the town of Deir Ghazaleh, east of Jenin, occupied West Bank.
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❗️The Governor of Deraa, Syria:
○ "Repeated violations and incursions by the Israeli occupation army into Syrian territory prompted a group of locals to clash with a military force attempting to infiltrate the town of Kuwaya."