[Salon] Fwd: MEE: "Live: Israel kills or wounds average of 11 children in Lebanon daily over past week Meanwhile, Vance says US and Iran are 'very close' to a deal despite fragile truce 2 minutes ago Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have killed two Kurdish activists in the west of the country who went into hiding following anti-government protests in January, two rights groups said on Friday. Iranian media confirmed the incident, which took place on Thursday, but said that the men were armed, had been instigators of "riots", and were killed by security forces when they opened fire from their hideout in the western province of Kermanshah. Brothers Meisam Visi and Mojtaba Visi, adherents of the Yarsan faith, had been living in hiding after the January protests, the Norway-based Hengaw rights group said. The Yarsan faith is a fusion of other religions and beliefs that dates back to the 15th century. The brothers were shot dead by IRGC forces who surrounded their hideout earl...

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5/29/26

Israel kills or wounds average of 11 children in Lebanon daily over past week

Meanwhile, Vance says US and Iran are 'very close' to a deal despite fragile truce

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have killed two Kurdish activists in the west of the country who went into hiding following anti-government protests in January, two rights groups said on Friday.

Iranian media confirmed the incident, which took place on Thursday, but said that the men were armed, had been instigators of "riots", and were killed by security forces when they opened fire from their hideout in the western province of Kermanshah.

Brothers Meisam Visi and Mojtaba Visi, adherents of the Yarsan faith, had been living in hiding after the January protests, the Norway-based Hengaw rights group said.

The Yarsan faith is a fusion of other religions and beliefs that dates back to the 15th century.

The brothers were shot dead by IRGC forces who surrounded their hideout early on Thursday in a village in the Dalahu district of the province and opened fire "without warning", Hengaw added.

The France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network published a similar report, saying the pair had gone into hiding because of "fear of arrest".

But the Tasnim news agency described them as "two of the main instigators of the January riots in the Kermanshah region", and said they had opened fire on security forces.

"The security forces, acting within their legal mandate and in self-defence, returned fire, resulting in the deaths of the two armed terrorists," it added.

Reporting by AFP

1 hour ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had ordered the army to occupy 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in the latest violation of the October ceasefire.

“At this point, we are fully in control of 60 percent of the territory of the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu said during a conference hosted by the pre-military Ein Prat leadership academy.

“My directive is to get to… 70 percent,” he added.

When audience members shouted in support of full Israeli control over Gaza, Netanyahu replied: “We’re going in order. First 70 percent… we’ll start with that.”

His comments came a day after Defence Minister Israel Katz reiterated Israel’s intention to advance a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza through what he described as a “voluntary emigration” scheme.