“Oct 7 2023”

The reasons not to return are clear for Rachel Amar, an evacuee from the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona where, only hours before Binyamin Netanyahu announced the ceasefire in Lebanon, a Hezbollah rocket hit a bus station.

Sitting in one of Tel Aviv’s finest beachfront hotels as she weighed the news of Israel’s truce and the prospect of returning home, Amar had doubts. “What are we doing here? This agreement doesn’t give us security,” she said. “We are so close [to Lebanon]. I keep imagining October 7 will happen to us — it’s a matter of luck that it didn’t.”

US President Joe Biden has announced a ceasefire deal to end 13 months of fighting between Israel and with Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia supported by Iran.

In a joint statement, the US and France said the agreement would cease fighting in Lebanon and “secure Israel from the threat of Hezbollah and other terrorist organisations”.

This is what we know about the ceasefire deal from official briefings and media reports.

Ceasfire deal between Israel and Hezbollah. Can't see how this is anything but short-term mission accomplished for Netanyahu – project strength, degrade Hezbollah, deter Iran, avoid getting bogged down in southern Lebanon, wait for Jan 20th https://t.co/FZ0CYAmV5B

— Ben O'Hara-Byrne (@Ben_oharabyrne) November 26, 2024

President Biden announces that a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon will begin at 4 a.m. local time on Wednesday. He says this is "designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities" across the Israel-Lebanon border, and details a 60-day plan to draw down the… pic.twitter.com/cdDBpMYWzo

— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 26, 2024

A ceasefire in Lebanon will be announced at 10 p.m. by the United States and France, according to Lebanese channel Al Jadeed.

Presidents Biden and Macron will announce the deal during the night, with the alleged agreement set to take effect at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

This comes after several days of strained last-minute negotiation, in which Israel pushed for the removal of France as guarantor of the security situation in Lebanon, citing current diplomatic tensions between France and Israel.

OTTAWA — The woman arrested over the weekend in connection with an incident at a downtown Ottawa anti-Israel protest last week is a long-serving public servant with experience at a number of government agencies.

The woman arrested in Ottawa today is the head of PYM Ottawa (Palestinian Youth Movement) Sarah Wazzi Moukahal.

It hasn't been a good week for the Hamas activists in Ottawa. pic.twitter.com/QzZlUWPZMr

— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) November 24, 2024

A local rabbi is speaking out after he says police asked him to leave the site of a pro-Palestinian protest in downtown Montreal, saying his presence was a provocation.

Adam Scheier, the head of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, said Sunday he was asked to move away from an area where protesters were marching downtown, for fear that his presence, as a person wearing a Jewish skullcap or kippah, could provoke violence. Neither Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante nor the Montreal police have commented on the event.

It’s an injustice, to be sure, but one can’t help feeling a sense of schadenfreude at the rabbi getting a taste of the shiny new Trudeaupia he has helped to foster.

— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) November 25, 2024

Palestinian leaders have a long history of cracking down on their political rivals and opponents. For the past three decades, leaders of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have systematically targeted political activists, journalists, social media users, students, professors and human rights activists as part of an ongoing campaign to silence critics and deter others from speaking out against the lack of democracy and freedom of speech.

Quick question: Of all the injustices, outrages, and human rights violations going on worldwide, which country is the worst?

Three people were arrested after pro-Palestinian, anti-NATO protesters smashed windows, clashed with police officers, and set vehicles ablaze on Friday evening.

The protest coincided with the arrival of approximately 300 delegates from NATO member states and partner countries attending a high-level summit, running from Nov. 22 to 25 in Montreal, focused on Ukraine, climate change, and the alliance’s future. The protest also came as the second day of the wave of student-wide pro-Palestinian protests across Montreal.

This is Trudeau’s Canada

We don’t have to live like this

Deport them all. pic.twitter.com/tmRmcLdQQr

— Tw0st (@Tw0st_) November 23, 2024

An Ontario court has sided with media commentators who suggested the Canadian Union of Postal Workers was a terrorist sympathizer for participating in a protest a decade ago in Ottawa that featured a Hamas flag.

“Their belief that CUPW supports Hamas, a terrorist organisation, is, in my view, honestly held based on proven facts. It does not have to be a reasonable belief. But it must be an honest one,” concluded Justice Graeme Mew of the Superior Court of Ontario.

Winning hearts and minds to support that strike may be harder than it looks.