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Today marks three years since Israel killed veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. An Israeli sniper shot her in the head in broad daylight as she was walking up a street in full press gear with her colleagues in Jenin, in an area where there was no crossfire.

BREAKING: Hamas transferred Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander to the Red Cross. He will soon be delivered to the IDF

The other HUGE news out of this Trump presser is him saying that Washington may ease sanctions on Syria. That comes in the face of quite a few hawks around him who have been advising against it. “We may take them off of Syria, because we want to give them a fresh start.”

Hostage Edan Alexander is seen being handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross in Khan Younis a short while ago, in an image broadcast by Al Jazeera.

Mohammed al Bardawil, a young witness to the March 23 attack on medics in Gaza, was killed on Saturday when an Israeli gunboat fired on Rafah beach. His father Saeed asked our colleague Bilal Shbair today for a photo of his son when he interviewed them together for our report.

Hugely important. The sanctions have disfigured the economy, causing significant harm to people across the country. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/…

It’s also worth asking, “Which sanctions regime are we talking about?” Sanctions on Syria date back to 1979. I can name at least four or five different sanctions regimes currently enforced by the U.S. on Syria. Sanctions on Syria as a whole? Sectoral sanctions? Sanctions on HTS

“There were fireworks over Damascus, and people danced in the streets.” Jubilation in Syria as Trump unexpectedly lifts the sanctions that had been the chief impediment to recovery after the fall of Assad. By Louisa Loveluck & Zakaria Zakaria washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/…

Good news: SWIFT codes have been given to Syrian public and private banks in preparation for their entry into the global SWIFT system.

Finance Minister Smotrich: We are destroying everything that remains in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

The Assad regime made Syria an informant state. Neighbours and colleagues reported on each other in every district and workplace: what they said, where they went, who came for dinner. With the dictatorship gone, our story on what happened next. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/…

The health ministry has released a new 1,000-page document with the names, ages and other info, of 52,959 Palestinians killed in Gaza. For the first 100 pages (over 5,000 names), the age is listed at 5 years or younger. The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)

NEW -- Department of State spokesman to تلفزيون سوريا: - US "lifted" sanctions on #Syria "to give stability & security a chance" - #Trump will "issue executive orders to lift sanctions" - #Syria's gov't is "acting rationally"; we had "a good impression" from meeting President Sharaa.

Neighbors and colleagues reported on each other everywhere. Now, Syrians are shadowed by the question of who among them had contributed to the regime’s tyranny. wapo.st/44E0tjs

Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t. By Aric Toler and Riley Mellen nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/…

New: With 2 million Gazans on the brink of famine, the US and Israel have backed a new scheme, the Gaza Humanitarian Fund set to launch Monday. But internal documents obtained by WaPo show its planners anticipated back in November that the project would be a tough sell...🧵

Syrian Network for Human Rights, after 14 years of tireless work, opens its offices in Damascus. All the best to you Fadel Abdul Ghany and your colleagues Syrian Network

Trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa at the UN Security Council today: "My patients were 6 year olds with shrapnel in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women whose pelvises had been obliterated, and their foetuses cut in two while still in the womb.”

“Those who lived often awoke to find their entire families gone,” he says. “I wonder if any member of this Council has ever met a 5yr old child who no longer wants to live.” In 2 weeks, he treated 13 children who had been shot in the head or chest.

A Palestinian woman sifting through the rubble, gathering scraps of flour mixed with dirt to feed her hungry children... a scene that epitomizes the scale of the famine in Gaza.