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June 16, 2026
Activists from the Jewish-Arab grassroots movement Standing Together have founded a political party ahead of Israel's upcoming election. The movement's co-founders, Alon-Lee Green and Rula Daood, will head the newly founded "A Place for Us All" party – Makom Lekulanu – and run as its two top candidates for Knesset in October.
"For years, politics has been conducted separately for Jews and separately for Arabs," Daood tells Haaretz. "We offer a different vision: partnership." The campaign is meant to build on hope – "politics of hope," as Daood calls it – for people who have felt left out of institutionalized politics and lost their belief that the system can bring about actual change.
The hope, she says, stems from the work Standing Together has done over the past decade. "We are not asking the public to believe promises about the future – we ask them to look at what we have already accomplished."
Alongside Green and Daood – who are taking a leave of absence from the movement to run in the election – four other candidates will join them in leading the new party's Knesset slate.
The Gaza Health Ministry said five people were killed and eight wounded by Israeli fire have arrived at hospitals across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.
Since the cease-fire on October 11, a total of 997 people have been killed and 3,152 wounded, according to the ministry, while 784 bodies have been recovered.
Since the start of the war, the ministry says 73,008 people have been killed and 173,260 injured.
Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, and ordered that he remain in detention under Israel's Unlawful Combatants Law, without criminal charges filed against him.
According to his lawyer, Nasser Odeh, Abu Safiya, who has been held in Israel since December 2024, is being kept in solitary confinement at Nafha Prison in harsh conditions and without adequate medical care, according to his lawyer Nasser Odeh.
Physicians for Human Rights–Israel said Abu Safiya was moved to solitary confinement shortly after filing his petition, first transferred from Ketziot Prison to Nafha Prison, and later to Ramon Prison, without explanation or disclosure of reasons for isolation. According to testimonies, his detention has been repeatedly extended without evidence being presented in court, and no indictment has been filed against him or other Gaza detainees held under the same legal framework, including 13 doctors.
The organization called the ruling "a severe moral and legal failure," arguing that judicial review of Gaza detainees has become a largely formal procedure that does not meaningfully assess necessity, even for medical personnel.
Abu Safiya, who continued running Gaza's largest hospital during the war even after his son was killed and parts of the facility were bombed, has become a prominent symbol in international criticism of Israel's detention practices.
The group called for his immediate release, along with other detained doctors.
Iran and the U.S. will start a new round of negotiations on Friday in Switzerland to reach a final agreement after the official start of an interim agreement, Iran's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Minister Abbas Araghchi also warned that any Israeli attack on Lebanon or continued presence on Lebanese territory from now on constituted a violation of the interim agreement with the United States. "In our view, the two parties to this memorandum are the U.S. and Israel on one side, and Iran and Hezbollah on the other," he said.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Ttakht-Ravanchi said top negotiator, Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, will be present for the signing of the interim agreement in Switzerland, according to Tasnim news agency.
He added that nuclear issues will be discussed in the next phase of talks, including enrichment, stockpile, Iran's nuclear needs, according to SNN news.
"The entire Air Force was ready to take off for a broad strike mission in Iran and was stopped an hour before departure," Israeli Air Force commander Omer Tischler wrote in a letter to personnel, saying the planned operation was halted just before launch.
In the letter to air force members, he added, "It is still too early to assess how global developments will affect the security reality, but our mission was and remains to defend the security of Israel."
Metula local council head David Azoulay said interception debris from recent Hezbollah rocket fire fell inside residential yards and homes in the town, writing that there are "disconnected statements by the prime minister and a reality of explosions and interception fragments."
He added, "This kills, does not allow us to sleep, and above all does not allow us to return to a normal routine of life in quiet and peace."
Israeli exporters routinely declare fruit and vegetables grown in illegal settlements in the West Bank and the Syrian Golan Heights as Israeli produce in order to ship them to European markets, according to a new investigation.
The legal non-profit Global Echo reviewed more than 30,000 export documents covering over 6,800 shipments sent abroad between 2017 and 2026. Its report, Importing Occupation, found that about one in six shipments to Europe – and nearly one in five bound for the EU – contained settlement-origin produce, much of it mislabeled as Israeli goods.
Michael Lynk, a Canadian legal academic and former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, described the practice as "systematic concealment," saying settlement produce is "hidden in plain sight, redirected through sham addresses, or mingled with goods from within Israel's recognised borders until legal distinction is dissolved in bureaucratic practice."
The labeling enables exporters to benefit from reduced or zero tariffs reserved for Israeli goods, generating revenue that helps sustain settlements deemed illegal under international law. The report also accuses European importers of "financially sustaining the Israeli settlement enterprise," arguing that EU customs authorities are not doing enough to prevent the practice.
Global Echo said it plans to initiate "legal action to force action on these violations."
The total cumulative toll of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict from March 2 has reached 3,798 killed and 11,781 wounded, according to a statement by the Lebanese Emergency Operations Center of the Public Health Ministry.
An Iranian delegation led by central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati has traveled to Moscow for talks on monetary and banking relations with Russia, according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. The discussions are expected to focus on facilitating financial exchanges, expanding cooperation between the two countries' central banks and developing mechanisms to increase bilateral trade.
Russia remains one of Iran's key economic and political partners as Tehran continues to operate under long-standing Western sanctions. The visit comes as talks on potential U.S. sanctions relief are expected in the coming months, following the planned signing of the U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding.
A small plane crashed on Loop 20 in Laredo, Texas, late on Tuesday night, killing one, with five others hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
According to a Qatari report, the talk of an approaching agreement between Washington and Tehran was accompanied by a media campaign against Qatar.
The funding assistance brings Canada’s total contribution to $500 million for the Palestinian territories.
While the prime minister, Likud, and the coalition bloc are in decline and the opposition gains ground, Netanyahu remains the favorite for suitability as prime minister, according to the poll.