Official statistics from Spain’s Secretary of State for Trade show that Sánchez’s government approved $1.54 million in dual-use exports to Iran during 2024 and the first half of 2025. The shipments included detonators, explosives of types A, B, and E, chemical reagents, control software, and high-precision machine tools such as computer numerical control lathes, milling machines, and machining centers. Nearly 70 percent of these items went to state-linked or public Iranian companies. Almost the entire $1.54 million value consisted of category two machine tools designed for precision manufacturing in missile and drone production.

The pattern runs deeper and longer. Since Sánchez took office in 2018, Spain has authorized roughly $7 million in dual-use technologies with military and nuclear-adjacent applications for Tehran. In 2024 alone, machinery exports topped $80 million. That year, Spain also shipped $27.5 million in industrial furnaces and $16.4 million in valves, equipment that Iran’s defense sector can readily repurpose. Total Spanish defense-related exports to Iran reached $198.72 million.

Les démolitions doivent permettre de faire de la place pour le «Jardin du Roi», projet d’extension du complexe archéologique et touristique de la Cité de David, géré par l’association Elad, organisation nationaliste vouée à renforcer la présence juive dans les quartiers arabes de Jérusalem-Est. L’importance et l’intérêt de ce site archéologique sont avérés, mais Elad affirme qu’il est situé sur l’ancienne cité du roi David, ce qui est loin de faire l’objet d’un consensus parmi les archéologues.
 
«Il y a très peu de découvertes archéologiques à al-Boustan donc» les membres d’Elad se servent de passages bibliques mentionnant un jardin du roi à Jérusalem pour dire «qu’il se trouvait probablement là où se situe al-Boustan aujourd’hui», dit Yonatan Mizrahi, de l’ONG israélienne anti-colonisation La Paix Maintenant. Pour le député arabe israélien Ahmed Tibi, l’objectif est une «judaïsation de Silwan». Après le 7-Octobre, les autorités israéliennes «ont estimé qu’elles pouvaient tout se permettre», a-t-il dit à l’AFP.

«Détruire des maisons et nous déplacer, c’est un crime de guerre. Nous n’avons nulle part où aller», ajoute cet homme de 64 ans, dont la maison a été démolie en 2024. L’AFP n’a pas obtenu de réponse de la municipalité à une requête sur le sujet. Des milliers de maisons à Jérusalem-Est sont construites sans permis de construire, quasi impossibles à obtenir pour les Palestiniens.

D'après le dernier recensement, Silwan abritait environ 700 Juifs, et ils sont réputés pour leur robustesse. Il faut être résilient pour vivre à Silwan, si près du cœur du conflit israélo-palestinien. La sensibilité qui règne dans ce quartier a été mise en évidence lorsque le magazine In Jerusalem a demandé aux habitants de décrire leur quotidien dans la Cité de David, mais ces derniers ne sont autorisés à s'adresser aux médias qu'avec l'accord de l'association de quartier.

avi scharf @avischarf
 
@MarineTraffic @planet Per information obtained by Haaretz, four shipments of stolen Ukrainian grain have already been unloaded in Israel this year. Another suspected ship - PANORMITIS - arrived at Haifa Bay this morning and is waiting its turn to enter the port
https://t.co/BlginkiZB0

Speaking in Qatar on Feb. 26 [2012], at an Arab League conference, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas resumed the Palestinian attack on the historical Jewish connection to Jerusalem. This diplomatic strategy began with his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, who questioned whether the Temple ever existed at the end of the July 2000 Camp David summit: “There is nothing there.” Then U.S. President Bill Clinton was stunned. Arafat then asserted that Solomon’s Temple was in Nablus, not in Jerusalem. Two years later in leading pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat, Arafat continued: “They found not a single stone proving the Temple was there …”
 
A month after Camp David, Abbas himself continued with Arafat’s ideological position on the Temple in an Israeli-Arab weekly, adding: “… they claim that 2,000 years ago they had a temple. I challenge the claim that this is so.” In fact, many of the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, who are perceived as moderate in the West, also began repeating this same theme. Nabil Shaath spoke to al-Ayyam and spoke about the Israeli claim that “its fictitious temple” once stood in Jerusalem.
 
Chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, also declared: “For Islam, there never was a Temple at al-Quds, but a ‘distant mosque.’” Yasser Abd Rabbo told Le Monde, in September 2000, “There was no archaeological evidence that the Temple ever existed on the Temple Mount.” He added during an appearance on Palestinian television, broadcast on March 16, 2010, that Israel was planning to build “the false Temple” in order “to fulfill a legend.”
 
Now [2012], Abbas is once again renewing this line of attack in Qatar, challenging whether there was any proof of Jewish historical claims. “Despite all the enormous capabilities that the occupation authorities made available to the extremists who engage in never-ending digging [and] threaten to make al-Aqsa look less significant and vindicate the Israeli narrative, they have failed miserably.” After making this point, he added that the Israeli authorities “were preparing models of what they call the Temple, in order to build it on the ruins of al-Aqsa.”
 
It was noticeable that Abbas could not bring himself to make reference to the Temple as a historical fact, but had to say “what they call the Temple,” which indicated he was not prepared to say it had ever existed. He also adopted the decades-old lie that Israel had a plan to endanger the al-Aqsa mosque.
 
Since Arafat first told Clinton that there never was a Temple, there has been a full-scale effort over the last decade, on the part of the Palestinian leadership, to make this idea of Temple denial take root through programs on Palestinian television, articles in the official Palestinian Authority newspapers, and mosque sermons that aim to deny the historical Jewish connection to Jerusalem. In 2009, Palestinian religious leaders repeatedly declared that no evidence had been found that could prove a historical Jewish connection to Jerusalem or that the Temple had ever existed.
 
The great irony of this new Palestinian version of Jerusalem’s history is that it contradicts the original Islamic tradition. Abu Ja’far Muhammad bin Jarir al-Tabari (839-923 CE) was a leading commentator on the Quran and is known as one of Islam’s greatest historians. In his account of the conquest of Jerusalem by the second caliph, Umar bin al-Khattab, al-Tabari describes him heading toward “the area where the Romans buried the Temple [bayt al-maqdis] at the time of the sons of Israel.”

Channel 13 News poll:  
A Bennett–Lapid union gets 26 seats, one less than when running separately.  
The opposition bloc drops to 52, compared with Netanyahu’s 57.

Aizenberg @Aizenberg55
 
Hamas now admitted itself that Mohamed Manhal Abu Armana, one of it's fake "journalists" was in fact a field commander. How many more examples will it take for the narrative to shift? @pressfreedom when will you begin removing these names? @JohnSimpsonNews @NickKristof HOW MANY? https://t.co/9gvaMfg3NX

Le chef d'état-major de l'armée israélienne, le lieutenant général Eyal Zamir, a lancé lundi un avertissement ferme à ses troupes sur les actes de pillage, affirmant également que l'utilisation des réseaux sociaux pour diffuser des messages «contestables» constituait une «ligne rouge». «Le phénomène de pillage, s'il existe, est honteux et risque de ternir l'image de l'armée israélienne. Si de tels incidents se sont produits, nous enquêterons dessus», a-t-il déclaré devant des officiers, selon un communiqué militaire.

Qatar and the ICC Prosecutor
 
A witness statement raises new questions about the Gulf monarchy and Karim Khan.
 
The trouble isn’t over for Karim Khan. He’s the International Criminal Court prosecutor who requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders in 2024, shortly after learning he had been accused of sexual assault. He took leave in May 2025, and this month the court’s governors voted to advance disciplinary proceedings. Now a witness statement says the Qatari government promised to “look after” Mr. Khan if he moved against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
 
The new witness statement is by a person familiar with that operation who requests anonymity. We’ve reviewed it along with supporting audio recordings. The statement was submitted to the FBI to request an inquiry and is known to several Members of Congress. It suggests the private intelligence operation also sought to target two Americans: Tom Lynch, the senior ICC official who first reported the assault allegation, and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Several ICC officials who became targets have been interviewed by the NCTV, the Dutch counterterror agency, two sources confirm.
 
In recordings, private investigators discuss their intelligence operation’s connection to what seems to be Qatar, which they call the “client country.” In writing, one investigator instructs others to say “client” to describe “Q country.” Two sources familiar with the intelligence operation tell us Qatar was ultimately the client.
 
The witness statement says that a source of Elicius’s had claimed—albeit without providing evidence—that Israel’s Mossad believed Mr. Khan to be a Qatari agent. This led the private intelligence team to discuss the ICC prosecutor.
“I spoke to the client about it,” the intelligence operation’s manager is heard saying in an Aug. 5 recording, “and they weren’t surprised that it had leaked that they were wrapping their arms around him.”
Around “KK”—Karim Khan—a researcher clarified.
 
“It’s not that long that they wrapped their arms around him,” the manager continued, per the recording and the witness statement. “It’s all in the context of issuing the warrant. That was basically the deal. He was like, ‘I want to issue the warrant, but I’m terrified to do it.’ And they said, ‘if you do it, then we’ll look after you.’”
 
The intelligence operation’s manager was asked whether the support came from an individual sheikh or from the Qatari state. He said, “No, it’s the state.”
 
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Situated to the west of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, al-Mawasi is a 10-mile (16km) strip of sandy farmland that stretches along the Mediterranean coast, with dunes and a beach close to the sea, and a scrubby plain further inland. It was first designated in early December last year as a “humanitarian zone” by the Israel Defense Forces, where it was suggested Palestinians could find safety and the provision of international aid in the midst of Israeli military assaults on Gaza’s main urban areas.

COMBIEN d'exemples confirmés, issus des aveux du Hamas, et non d'Israël, faudra-t-il pour que cette histoire soit couverte ? 10 ? 20 ? 30 suffiront-ils pour prouver que le Hamas se faisait passer pour des journalistes par politique ?

“Gazawood”, propagande, complicité : les étiquettes mortelles collées aux journalistes de Gaza
De la diffusion de photomontages à la création d’une plateforme en ligne visant à les discréditer, les journalistes palestiniens à Gaza ne cessent d’être menacés et diffamés depuis le début de l’offensive israélienne dans l’enclave palestinienne en octobre 2023. Des officiels israéliens prennent une part active dans ces campagnes de discrédit qui portent à la fois atteinte à leur légitimité, les exposent au danger quand elles ne sont pas utilisées pour justifier des attaques ciblées sur des reporters.

Qu’est-ce que Media Watch Legal ? Ce site en ligne a été partagé le 2 septembre par le ministre israélien de la Diaspora et de la Lutte contre l’Antisémitisme, Amichai Chikli, dès le lendemain d’une opération d’ampleur de soutien aux journalistes de Gaza coordonnée par RSF et le mouvement citoyen mondial Avaaz. Le site Media Watch Legal a pour but affiché de repérer “les faux reporters”. Une initiative parmi d’autres qui témoigne de l’investissement des différentes autorités israéliennes consacré au terrain médiatique. Une récente enquête menée par les médias indépendants basés en Israël +972 Magazine et Local Call a par exemple révélé l’existence d’une unité secrète du renseignement militaire, intitulée “cellule de légitimation”, visant à trouver spécifiquement des éléments liant les journalistes de Gaza au Hamas.

Freelance
Role: Photojournalist
Type: Collateral damage (Proximity to combatants)
CPJ Status: Listed