France is Ripe for an Islamist Takeover | Catherine Perez-Shakdam

As violent unrest grips France, Catherine Perez-Shakdam explains why Palestinian flags and keffiyehs have become such a prominent feature of the protests — and warns that an Islamist-left alliance is increasingly testing the French state’s resilience.

The IDF says an internal Hamas document shows the group planned to plant explosives beside displaced-persons camps in Gaza, using panic and confusion to help operatives escape as Israeli troops approached.

The UN’s World Food Programme is cutting aid to half a million people in Gaza because of a funding shortfall, leaving around 1.1 million Palestinians still receiving food or cash assistance.

Israeli police have arrested ten people in the West Bank over violent settler attacks on an American photographer, a French mayor and a convoy of European diplomats.

Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov is in Iran for talks aimed at preventing a return to full-scale war between Tehran and Washington, as tensions continue around the Strait of Hormuz.

And Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems has won a 235-million-dollar contract to supply precision-guided rockets and artillery launchers to an unnamed European country.

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