Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:9 a.m.: Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar meets with Beirut governor Marwan Abboud and the city's municipal council.Updates on the Gaza cease-fire and international reactions to Israeli settlement plans.Israeli soldiers deploying inside the besieged Palestinian territory, Aug. 19, 2025. (Credit: Jack Guez/AFP) Israel advances plans to occupy Gaza, create settlements bisecting West Bank: Israel ordered the evacuation of Jabaliya and Gaza City’s outskirts, again defying international and domestic outcry against further military expansion, after its defense minister greenlit a plan calling up 60,000 reservists to storm Gaza’s center to capture the remaining third of the territory not under Israeli...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:9 a.m.: Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar meets with Beirut governor Marwan Abboud and the city's municipal council.Updates on the Gaza cease-fire and international reactions to Israeli settlement plans.Israeli soldiers deploying inside the besieged Palestinian territory, Aug. 19, 2025. (Credit: Jack Guez/AFP) Israel advances plans to occupy Gaza, create settlements bisecting West Bank: Israel ordered the evacuation of Jabaliya and Gaza City’s outskirts, again defying international and domestic outcry against further military expansion, after its defense minister greenlit a plan calling up 60,000 reservists to storm Gaza’s center to capture the remaining third of the territory not under...
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