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Iran leads Islamic world in microelectronics science, ranks among world's top 16.

Iran has emerged as the leading scientific producer in microelectronics among Islamic countries, securing first place across most major branches of the field while climbing into the ranks of the world’s top scientific powers in the sector.


According to the latest data released by the Islamic World Science Citation and Monitoring Institute (ISC), Iran ranks first among 57 Islamic countries in five out of six major subfields of microelectronics technology.


Globally, the country currently holds a position between 12th and 16th place in scientific production in the field, the report said.


Microelectronics technology encompasses a wide range of specialized areas, including integrated circuits, semiconductor devices, superconducting components, polymer-based components, emerging devices, and microsystems.


Iran has shown particularly strong performance in advanced and emerging technologies, according to the report.


In the field of emerging electronic components alone — considered one of the most sophisticated and rapidly evolving branches of microelectronics — Iranian researchers have produced around 5,000 scientific papers over the past two decades, it added.


ISC President Mohammad Mehdi Alavian-Mehr said Iran’s rapid scientific growth in microelectronics reflects decades of sustained research investment and academic development.

He also noted that Iran’s indexed scientific publications have witnessed dramatic growth over the past four decades.


“In 1980, Iran had only around 300 papers indexed in international scientific databases, but that figure has now reached nearly 80,000,” he said.


The announcement also comes amid broader evidence of Iran’s expanding scientific influence on the global stage.


According to newly published ISC figures, Iran currently ranks first among the world’s 20 leading scientific producers in publication efficiency, generating more internationally indexed scientific papers per research dollar than any other major scientific nation.


Alavian-Mehr said the data demonstrates the ability of Iranian researchers to achieve significant scientific output despite limited financial resources and infrastructural constraints.


Iran has also strengthened its standing in the production of highly cited papers, improving from eighth place in 2023 to sixth place in 2025 among the world’s top scientific producers.


The report shows that 15.9 percent of Iran’s scientific publications in 2025 were placed among the world’s top 10 percent most-cited papers, compared with 14.1 percent two years earlier.


“Among the world’s top 20 scientific producers, Iran was the only country to improve by two positions in this indicator during the reviewed period,” Alavian-Mehr said.


The latest findings point to the growing international visibility and academic impact of Iranian science, particularly in highly competitive and strategic technological fields such as microelectronics.

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UAE paid Colombian mercenaries to help Sudan militants commit genocide.

The United Arab Emirates paid Colombian mercenaries to help Sudan’s militant group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), massacre thousands of civilians in the northeastern African country, a report says.

The BBC released the report on Saturday, citing an investigation by the Conflict Insights Group (CIG) that collected data from tracking the mobile phones of the Colombian mercenaries.

CIG director Justin Lynch told the BBC that the investigation by the security analysis organization is "the first research where we can prove UAE involvement with certainty" in the Sudan conflict.

"We are making public what governments have long known - that there is a direct link between Abu Dhabi and the RSF," he added.

The RSF, which has been fighting the Sudanese army over the past few years, currently controls large swathes of the country’s southwestern territories, including most of the region of Darfur.

The militants captured el-Fasher on October 26, 2025, with reports saying they massacred thousands of civilians who failed to flee the city.

A UN fact-finding mission found that RSF actions in el-Fasher show “hallmarks of genocide” against the Zaghawa and Fur communities.

CIG tracked the mobile phones of over 50 Colombian mercenaries present in Sudan between April 2025 and January 2026.

It found that the Colombian mercenaries were stationed at several regional staging areas, such as an Emirati military training site in Ghayathi, Abu Dhabi, before travelling to Sudan.

Operating as drone pilots, artillerymen, and instructors in a brigade known as the Desert Wolves, the Colombian mercenaries are employed by a UAE-based company with ties to senior Emirati government officials, according to the CIG research.

Lynch said, "The scale of atrocities and siege in el-Fasher wouldn't have happened without the drone operations the mercenaries provided.”

Despite denials by the UAE, several reports have suggested that the Persian Gulf Arab country supports RSF militants in Sudan in a bid to get access to gold and secure control over Red Sea shipping lanes, as well as agricultural land.

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Can you buy a country?

The debate over Greenland revives a question that has shaped America’s rise for more than two centuries.

When US President Donald Trump revived the idea of buying Greenland – and refused to rule out stronger measures if Denmark declined – the reaction across Europe was swift and indignant. The proposal was framed as an anachronism: a throwback to imperial horse-trading that modern international politics had supposedly outgrown.


But the outrage obscures an uncomfortable historical reality. The United States was not only forged through revolution and war; it was also built through transactions – large-scale territorial purchases concluded at moments when the balance of power left the seller with limited options. From continental expanses to strategic islands, Washington has repeatedly expanded its reach by writing checks backed by leverage.

If the idea of buying land now sounds jarring, it is worth recalling that some of the largest such deals helped shape the United States into the country we know today. To understand why the Greenland debate resonates so strongly, we should revisit the major acquisitions that redrew the American map.


Louisiana: The biggest purchase
French explorers ventured into the Mississippi Valley in the late 17th century, claiming new territories and naming this vast expanse Louisiana after King Louis XIV. In 1718, they established New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi, gradually populating the colony not just with French settlers but also through policies enacted by Louis that granted freedom to children born of unions between white settlers and black slaves. Still, the population remained sparse. The region’s bad climate and complex relationships with Native Americans made settlement difficult.


As a result, France didn’t particularly value this territory, despite its huge size: French Louisiana encompassed not just modern-day Louisiana but, either partially or wholly, the modern states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico, and even parts of Canada. Despite this, however, it was hard to find a Frenchman beyond New Orleans.


In 1763, following the Seven Years’ War, France ceded Louisiana to Spain. The Spanish administration didn’t oppress the French settlers and managed the colony quite competently. However, much of this enormous land remained largely uninhabited aside from the Native Americans. The total number of settlers, including black slaves, amounted to several tens of thousands of people.


By the early 19th century, Europe saw many changes. Napoleon regained control of Louisiana, aiming to revive France’s overseas empire. However, this ambition crumbled when his attempt to restore French rule in Haiti failed. A force sent by Napoleon was decimated by black rebels and succumbed to tropical diseases.

Against this backdrop, Napoleon quickly realized that he could not hold onto Louisiana, and the English or Americans would easily seize it. As for the US, it had mixed feelings about Louisiana; controlling the mouth of the Mississippi was crucial, but Americans were also wary of potential French aggression. Finally, US President Thomas Jefferson initiated negotiations with France for the purchase of Louisiana.


Napoleon saw this as a big opportunity. He recognized that he could get real money by selling the territory which France didn’t really need and couldn’t control.


Jefferson and the American side initially aimed to purchase only New Orleans and its surrounding areas, offering $10 million. However, the French surprised their American counterparts: they asked for $15 million, but as part of the deal, offered vast territories stretching up to Canada. However, beyond New Orleans, the French essentially sold the freedom to claim land inhabited by the Native Americans. The French had very little control over this vast territory, and the Native Americans didn’t even understand what the sale entailed. In fact, aside from the Native Americans, the vast territory was inhabited by only about 60,000 settlers, including black slaves.


Regardless, the deal was concluded, and America’s territory effectively doubled overnight. Robert Livingston, one of the Founding Fathers and then US ambassador to France, famously declared, “We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives… From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank.”

Florida: In Louisiana’s footsteps
In the case of Louisiana, both parties were pleased with the agreement. However, when it came to Florida, the seller wasn’t particularly thrilled.


Spain had discovered Florida in 1513. At that time, however, Spain didn’t see much value in this territory, and early colonization efforts were sluggish; it was mainly used as a military outpost. In the 18th century, Britain seized Florida from Spain, but during the American War of Independence, Spain regained control of its former colony. Similar to the situation with France and Louisiana, however, formal ownership did not equate to actual authority.


Meanwhile, American settlers flooded into Florida. Conflicts smoldered at the border; American settlers encroached upon Spanish lands, turning Florida into a constant battleground involving the US, the Native Americans, and occasionally the British. Spain struggled to respond effectively to these incursions. Furthermore, between 1807 and 1814, Spain was embroiled in a grueling war against Napoleon, during which the French temporarily occupied mainland Spain.


After the war, Spain was devastated and unable to fend off the Seminole Indians who were raiding the colony. Frustrated by the issues caused by the Seminoles, the Americans occupied most of Florida, claiming that the land had essentially been abandoned.


Spain decided that any gain was better than losing the territory outright. America officially compensated Spain $5 million for the damage resulting from its own invasions. By 1819, Spain had no choice but to cede Florida.

The Virgin Islands: We’ll pay in gold!
The 19th century was the age of colonial empires. But the US acquired the Virgin Islands in the 20th century, during the First World War.


Denmark isn’t the first country that comes to mind when discussing the struggle for control over the Caribbean Sea. But in 1672, the Danish West India Company annexed the small island of St. Thomas, followed shortly by the island of St. John. Denmark may have been an unusual colonizer, but its ambitions were quite ordinary. The Danes established sugar plantations and relied on slave labor. Sugar became the backbone of the Virgin Islands’ economy. However, by the mid-19th century, global market prices plummeted, prompting the Danes to consider getting rid of this asset.

Meanwhile, America was interested in acquiring the port at St. Thomas, but at the time, the deal fell through. The US decided that Alaska was a better investment and purchased it from Russia, which didn’t need the remote northern territory. For Russia, Alaska was far away and hard to defend; plus, the Russians had already reaped some quick profits from it. So the Virgin Islands remained under Danish control until the 20th century.


During WWI, the Americans revisited the idea of acquiring the Virgin Islands. Officially, the US was concerned that Germany might seize Denmark and take over the islands, using them as submarine bases. It sounded more like a pretext, since building a base so close to the US would have been no easy task, and supplying it would’ve been even harder. Regardless, the US decided to acquire the Virgin Islands and Denmark received an offer it couldn’t ignore.


US President Woodrow Wilson sent a clear warning: if Denmark didn’t sell the islands, America would occupy them – of course, merely to prevent them from falling into German hands. To soften the blow, Wilson sweetened the deal with an offer of $25 million in gold, which was about half of Denmark’s annual budget at the time.


Initially, Copenhagen hesitated, especially with the economic significance of the islands growing after the opening of the Panama Canal. But the Americans made it clear that the islands would fall under US control eventually, either the easy way or the hard way. Denmark held a referendum and handed over the islands to the US.


In August 1916, the two sides agreed on the sale. As part of this agreement, the US acknowledged Denmark’s rights to Greenland. By 1917, all formalities were settled, and the islands changed flags. Water Island was sold separately in 1944.


Interestingly, after WWII, the US once again turned its attention to Greenland, seeking to acquire it in the context of the Cold War. Denmark refused, though US military bases were established there. At one point, a strategic bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed above Greenland – a fact the Danish public was wisely kept in the dark about.

In that sense, Donald Trump’s proposals are less unprecedented than they appear. The United States has expanded its territory through purchases for more than two centuries. Sometimes the seller was relieved to dispose of a distant or costly possession; at other times, agreement followed mounting pressure and strategic imbalance. Expansion through transaction was never an exception in American history – it was a recurring method.


Trump’s interest in Greenland fits squarely into that historical pattern. Like his predecessors, he appears drawn to the symbolism of enlarging America’s strategic footprint. Of course, a better idea might be to wait until Denmark finds itself in a crisis and then come out with a bag full of cash.


But the wait may be long, and patience is certainly not Trump’s strong suit.

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Ukraine’s top spy admits to employing prostitutes

Kiev employs prostitutes to gather information from men, Kirill Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR), has said.


In an interview with Ukrainian journalist Ramina Eshakzai published on Tuesday, he was asked if Kiev uses prostitutes to gather information – a practice which the reporter said is common in British intelligence.


”A normal method, isn’t it? Do you know how often men share stories to show how powerful they are, as they say?” Budanov said.


Ukrainian intelligence has been able to receive “several unique pieces of information” from men in relaxed circumstances, he added. “It’s just about things that we couldn’t have found out about at all, in principle.”


According to Budanov, “a very high percentage” of personnel serving in the HUR are now women.

Ukrainian spies commonly use “entrepreneurial activity, journalism, and sociology” as cover jobs while on assignment, while some work under “full cover,” living double lives in Russia, he said.


Ukraine has increasingly turned to assassination and sabotage in Russia as its forces have been beaten back on the battlefield.



Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has warned that Ukrainian intelligence has increased recruitment efforts within Russia to carry out assassination and sabotage plots. The FSB regularly reports that it has thwarted these types of activities.

Moscow has said Ukraine is morphing into a “terrorist” organization, accusing Kiev of carrying out killings of Russian officers, journalists, and other key figures.

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‘Disappointed’ Westerners increasingly attracted to Russia.

Russia has become an attractive destination for Westerners at odds with their governments’ policies, according to a Swiss outlet Tages-Anzeiger. The country’s ‘shared values’ visa, which started less than a year ago, has been an “astonishing success,” according to the report.


The initiative has since become popular with “Europeans and Americans who have no use for Western liberalism,” according to the article published on Sunday.


Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in August 2024, allowing foreigners who share Russia’s “traditional values” and disagree with the “neoliberal” principles imposed by their governments to apply for residence permits under a simplified procedure. The decree came into force on September 1, 2024.


Putin had previously approved a framework for a state policy to preserve and strengthen traditional Russian spiritual and moral values. Among the values are life, dignity, human rights and freedoms, high moral ideals, strong family values, and priority of spirituality over materialism.

A total of 47 nations are covered by the program, including most EU member states, the US, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland. The residence permit enables its holders to live, work, or start a business in Russia without requiring a language test, specific professional qualifications, or investments.


The program has been popular among people with no prior connections to Russia, who just “don't recognize their countries anymore,” Ilya Belobragin, the CEO of MoveToRussia.com, a private company helping with relocation, told Tages-Anzeiger.


People are moving to Russia because “they've lost faith in the West,” he said. “Many of my clients believe the EU is a sinking ship, and they want to leave as soon as possible.”


The Russian authorities received a total of 1,156 applications from September 2024 to early May 2025, according to the Interior Ministry. Germans topped the list with 224 applications, followed by Latvians (126), Americans (99), and French (95). Dozens of people from Italy, the UK, Estonia, Canada, and Australia have requested the visas as well, the data shows.

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Lasting peace with Ukraine and EU’s loss of sovereignty: key takeaways from Putin’s press event.

The Russian president spoke to reporters while meeting his Belarusian counterpart at Valaam Monastery.

Moscow is prepared to “wait” if Kiev opts to abandon the peace process, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, reiterating that only a long-term, lasting solution is an acceptable end to hostilities, rather than a temporary truce.


The president made the remarks to the media on Friday when he hosted his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, for an informal meeting on Valaam Island, the home of a major Orthodox Christian monastery on Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia.


Here are the key takeaways from Putin’s remarks:


Moscow can wait

The Russian president dismissed comments made by Vladimir Zelensky earlier in the day, when Ukraine’s leader suggested it was not the time for peace talks with Russia and urged the “world” to push for “regime change” in the country instead.


“If the Ukrainian leadership believes it is not the time and waiting is necessary, they are welcome. We are ready to wait,” Putin stated.


Moscow believes that “negotiations are always required and important, especially when they lead to peace,” he added, pointing out that agreements on assorted humanitarian issues, such as exchanging prisoners or returning bodies of fallen soldiers, were positive outcomes of the recent direct Russia-Ukraine negotiations hosted by Türkiye.


Putin questions legitimacy of Ukraine’s leadership


The Russian president also slammed Zelensky’s “regime change” remarks, saying that the Ukrainian leader was in no position to call for that. “Our political regime is grounded in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and our government was formed in full compliance with the basic law. The same cannot be said about Ukraine,” he said.


Zelensky has remained in office beyond the expiration of his term last year, suspending elections on the pretext of martial law. Moscow has repeatedly raised concerns about his legitimacy, suggesting he might not be in a position to sign a peace treaty with Russia.


Russia seeks lasting peace with Ukraine

Putin reiterated Moscow’s longstanding position that the settlement of the conflict with Kiev should result in a “long-term, lasting peace” rather than a temporary ceasefire. The solution must address issues related to broader European security, Putin said, adding that the same position had been articulated by a high-ranking Ukrainian official during the recent talks in Istanbul.


“The Ukrainian delegation expressed the idea that it probably makes sense to talk about the security of both Russia and Ukraine in the context of pan-European security. One of the leaders of the Ukrainian delegation expressed this idea. And in general, we believe that this is correct; we share this stance,” Putin said.


EU has no sovereignty


Asked about the recent “shameful” one-sided trade deal imposed by the US on the EU, Putin described the current situation as long in coming for the bloc, which had been frequently described in private by top officials as “an economic giant but a political midget.”


“It was clear that the European Union, Europe, did not have that much sovereignty. Today it has become obvious that it does not exist at all. And this is immediately followed – in the critical situation that has developed – by economic losses,” the Russian president said. Reinforcing Russia’s own sovereignty is among the goals of the military operation against Ukraine.

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Syria counting on Russian support in push for ‘domestic unity’

Damascus is eager to restore “proper” ties with Moscow, jeopardized following last year’s ouster of former President Bashar Assad.

Syria is seeking Russia’s support in its efforts to restore unity in the country after continued outbreaks of sectarian violence, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani has said during a visit to Moscow.


The situation in Syria has remained volatile since the ouster of longtime President Bashar Assad by a coalition led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) late last year. Assad, a close ally of Moscow, was replaced by HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. Despite the removal of Assad, who along with his family received political asylum in Moscow, Russia has pledged to continue supporting Syria.


Speaking alongside his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Thursday, al-Shaibani acknowledged Syria is facing “challenges and threats” but described it as “an opportunity to build a united, strong Syria.”


“Relations between the Russian and Syrian peoples are of a historical nature,” he said, as cited by TASS. “Today we are representing a new Syria... We are currently working to ensure the reunification of the people in Syria. And, of course, we are interested in Russia being there with us on this path.”

He added that Damascus is “interested in establishing proper interaction and relations” with Russia “based on cooperation and mutual respect.”


Lavrov said Moscow is closely following Syria’s transition and will assist Damascus in stabilizing the country.


“We sincerely wish that the Syrian people, with whom we have long-standing friendship, cope with the challenges and fully normalize the situation,” he stated. He also expressed hope that Syrian President al-Sharaa will attend the upcoming Russia-Arab League summit in October.


Syria remains deeply fractured by sectarian tensions and armed groups. Since Assad’s ouster, Islamist factions have reportedly targeted minority communities, including Alawites, Christians, and Druze. Earlier this month, clashes erupted between Druze militias, Bedouin tribes, and government forces in Sweida province. Complicating matters is Israel, self-styled protector of the Druze, which after Assad’s fall invaded the buffer zone near the occupied Golan Heights, claiming it was to block hostile actors from its borders. Earlier this month it resumed airstrikes on Syria, including attacks on the Defense Ministry in Damascus.

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Melania ‘likes’ Putin – Trump

US First Lady Melania Trump “likes” Russian President Vladimir Putin, but is disappointed over the continuation of the Ukraine conflict, President Donald Trump has said. Moscow is willing to negotiate but has maintained that any talks must address the root causes of the conflict.


Since assuming office this year, Trump has said he respects both Russia and Putin and wants to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict. In recent weeks, however, he has increasingly expressed frustration over a lack of progress in the peace process and has threatened Moscow with more sanctions.


In Tuesday’s episode of Pod Force One, the US president said: “We know Putin and she [Melania] likes him,” adding that he “got along with him very well.”


However, Trump noted that shortly after his recent conversation with the Russian president, Melania had commented it was “too bad they just bombed Kiev.”


On Tuesday, Trump cut his 50-day deadline for Moscow and Kiev to reach a peace deal to just 10 days, warning of sweeping sanctions targeting Russia's trading partners if no agreement is reached. Russian officials have rejected the US president's ultimatums.

Earlier this month, The Times published a report suggesting that Melania Trump’s role in shaping her husband’s decisions could be underestimated. While Trump has insisted that his wife simply wants to see an end to the bloodshed, the outlet pointed to her influence as a possible factor behind his shifting stance on the Ukraine conflict.


Melania, 55, was born in Soviet-era Slovenia – now a staunch supporter of Kiev, the outlet pointed out, adding that her deep interest in the conflict reflects that background.


US lawmaker Don Bacon echoed that view in an interview this month, saying the first lady could deserve credit for Trump’s apparent turn against Russia.


“His position on Ukraine has clearly evolved,” Bacon said, noting that he wouldn’t be surprised if Melania played a “quiet but important part in that.”

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Medvedev tells Trump ‘Russia isn’t Israel or Iran’

The former Russian president warned the US leader against issuing threats and ultimatums when dealing with Moscow.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has told US President Donald Trump that Russia is neither Israel nor Iran, and that every one of his threats is another step towards a potential conflict.


The US president on Monday issued a more extreme ultimatum to Russia, demanding that Moscow reach a ceasefire with Kiev within “10 or 12 days.” Earlier this month, Trump threatened sweeping secondary sanctions against Russia's trade partners unless a deal was reached by autumn.


Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, said that Trump was “playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10…”


In a post on X on Monday, he suggested Trump should remember two things: first, that “Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran,” and, second, that every new ultimatum constitutes a threat and a step toward hostilities between Russia and the US.


“Don’t go down the Sleepy Joe [Biden] road!” he wrote.

During his election campaign last year, Trump repeatedly criticized his predecessor Joe Biden’s handling of the Ukraine conflict, warning that US policy under the former administration had brought the world to the brink of “World War III.”

While Trump has re-engaged Russia diplomatically and pushed for Kiev to enter direct peace talks with Moscow, he has increasingly expressed impatience with the pace of negotiations. Earlier this month, after issuing his initial ultimatum, the president resumed US military aid to Ukraine through NATO.


Russia has long condemned the US-led military bloc’s arms supplies to Ukraine, arguing they make Kiev’s Western sponsors party to the conflict, which Moscow sees as a proxy war.


Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that although Russia is essentially fighting a war against the entire West on its own, it will not back down from its key security demand in the conflict.


“No dragging Ukraine into NATO, no NATO expansion at all,” the top diplomat said on Monday. “It has already expanded right up to our borders.”

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Over 1,000 rabbis accuse Israel of weaponizing hunger.

More than 1,000 rabbis from around the world have accused Israel of weaponizing hunger in Gaza and urged West Jerusalem to allow aid into the enclave.


According to UN Palestinian refugee agency chief Philippe Lazzarini, around 90,000 women and children are suffering from malnutrition in what relief groups describe as a man-made famine caused by the Israeli blockade.


Rabbis and Jewish scholars from the US, UK, EU, and Israel signed an open letter declaring that the Jewish people “face a grave moral crisis.”


“The severe limitation placed on humanitarian relief in Gaza, and the policy of withholding food, water, and medical supplies from a needy civilian population, contradict essential values of Judaism as we understand it,” the letter reads.


The rabbis called on Israel to allow “extensive humanitarian aid” while preventing diversion to Hamas and demanded that Israel “work urgently by all routes possible to bring home all the hostages and end the fighting.”

The letter, published on Friday, surpassed 1,000 signatures by early Monday. Jonathan Wittenberg, a UK-based rabbi, told the Jewish Chronicle last week that he was leading a campaign to break through “the callous indifference to starvation” and appeal to “the moral reputation not just of Israel, but of Judaism itself.”


Israel has blamed poor international coordination and Hamas, which it accuses of stealing food and attacking distribution points. Israeli officials argue that the armed group is using the “famine narrative” as leverage in hostage talks.


West Jerusalem has pledged to “improve the humanitarian response,” resuming food airdrops and implementing “tactical pauses” over the weekend to allow more than 100 trucks to deliver supplies to Gaza. Lazzarini, however, dismissed the measures as “a smokescreen,” accusing Israel of “whitewashing its image.” He insisted that Israel should instead unblock access for 6,000 aid trucks waiting to enter the enclave.

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