News about Yasser Arafat

John McCarthy has been spotted in the Royal Box at Wimbledon with his former girlfriend Jill Morrell. The journalist, 67, became known worldwide in 1986, when he was taken hostage by Islamic jihadists in Beirut and held in brutal captivity for more than five years. His then-girlfriend Jill campaigned tirelessly to ensure his plight was not forgotten back home. The couple had been together for around three years when John went to Beirut on a two-month posting as a journalist with the WTN news agency. He was kidnapped on his way to Beirut airport and a flight home. Jill became a public figure due to her ceaseless campaigning, and although John was eventually freed, the couple's relationship sadly floundered four years after he'd returned. However, while the two may no longer be a couple, their joint sighting at the All England Club today suggests they are friends.

The decision from the three nations comes more than seven months into the devastating Gaza war and after Hamas' deadly October 7 terror attack. Ireland, Norway and Spain said they would formally recognise the State of Palestine on May 28, bringing the number of UN countries that do to 146. Israel strongly opposes the move, arguing that it amounts to 'rewarding terrorism' after the Palestinian terror group Hamas launched its unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel which sparked the bloodiest ever Gaza war. But Hamas welcomed the decision and urged other countries to follow suit.

Israeli forces shot and killed the son of a leader of Hamas in the West Bank in an early-morning raid on Friday. Muhammad Rasoul Daraghmeh was killed in the city of Tubas during a shootout with Israeli soldiers after they allegedly discovered automatic weapons in his car. A second man also travelling in the car was also reportedly killed in the clashes.

With the center-right Social Democrats and center-left Social Democrats alternating their positions for years, the Chega chief, a former trainee priest who later became a tough-talking football commentator, disrupted what had long been a two-horse election in Portugal, with the center-right Social Democrats and center-left Social Democrats alternating their positions for years. The Social Democrat-led Democratic Alliance (AD) won only by a slim margin, and is now poised to rule without a majority if it is not included in government. "One thing is for certain tonight, the two-party system in Portugal is finished," Ventura said on Sunday, adding that his party is "at ease to be part of a government." Chega became the third biggest party in the 230-seat National Assembly, quadrupling its parliamentary representation to 48 lawmakers, implying that the AD, which will gain just 79 seats, will only be allowed to pass laws with far-right support.

Sir Keir Starmer's landslide victory in Rochdale last night, which was another major change in his career. He is back in the big time after 18 years to the day, when he embraced Sir Jimmy Savile and embarrassed himself as he licked pretend milk out of actress Rula Lenska's hand. As the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages, Mr Galloway has won one of the most tumultuous by-elections in recent times by mainly attacking Muslim voters and being pro-Palestine. His only real goals seemed to be to return a maternity hospital and a Primark. Rochdale is the seventh parliamentary victory for the constituency-hopping politician. He has been married four times and had six children in those four decades. A king of choosing sides, often with a lot of controversies, is more likely to support President Putin's Russia and the Ayatollahs' Iran than those leading Britain. When Sergei Skripal was poisoned with Novichok in Salisbury, Galloway, Galloway, went on television to say that Russia should be on the 'bottom of the list' of suspects. He has worked for Labour, Independent Labour, Respect, and now the Workers Party of the United Kingdom, whose campaign literature has proclaimed that the fedora-hatted firebrand was a mentor to Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Yasser Arafat. Galloway's tour to Iraq's murderous tyrant Saddam Hussein in the 1990s sparked a lot of people, but he never claimed that his remarks were directed to the Iraqi civilians. And though Hussein and the rest of his comrades are dead, Galloway is still alive and kicking. 'George is important again,' one supporter said today.'

As Israeli police opened fire at two criminals who rammed a car into a checkpoint, a three-year-old Palestinian child was shot and killed in the West Bank this evening. At a checkpoint near the Palestinian village of Biddu, the young girl was riding her bike when a white van behind ploughed into two Israeli police officers. Israeli officers pursued and fired into the vehicle, killing two criminals inside and mistakenly killing the child, who was declared dead by Israeli rescue services.

As the capital heaves with last-minute Christmas shoppers, Oxford Street came to a halt today with one thousand pro-Palestinian demonstrators marching in the capital with placards reading, 'no shopping while bombs are falling.' Protesters waved flags and balloons while calling for a ceasefire in one of London's busiest areas, according to footage shared on X, which has previously known as Twitter. 'Killing children isn't self-defense,' the show's banners read. Gazans are free Palestine and 'Stop genocide.' The normalization of Israel has come to an end. Israel's investments have been withheld from the country.'

Pro-Palestinian protestors demonstrated outside the home of the Israeli ambassador to the UK this evening, chanting 'From the river to the sea' and 'shame on you!' Hundreds of people descended on Tzipi Hotovely and yelled 'decolonise' and 'ceasefire now,' with passing cars honking their horns in support. "Many of you have seen the ambassador of Israel and concluded that she is not a very nice individual," a man with a megaphone said.

TER HITCHENS: If the leaders of Hamas appeared at the White House in a few years, do not be concerned. It's unbelievable, but Yasser Arafat and Gerry Adams were both welcomed once more. The Clinton White House's utterly cynical decision to welcome Adams was one of the most surprising and abrupt political betrayals I have ever seen in my life. The massive British Embassy in Washington unexpectedly found itself excluded from its normal privileged treatment. Protesters were largely dismissed, but it was a stammered protest. Its fame had been formally and insultingly diminished. Yes, a'special relationship' exists. Well, Israel might be interested. President Biden's apparently solid public support for the Jewish State might appear reassuring

DOMINIC LAWSON (Diminik): Headlines matter. A lot. And the one on BBC News Online published this week about a Jew-hunting crowd at a Dagestan airport, which amazed me. 'Anti-Israel demonstrators storms Dagestan airport in Russia,' the newspaper said.' However, the crowd was not naming 'Israel' as their intended victim.' As the news story below revealed, one passenger said he was allowed to go after rioters told him: "We are not touching non-Jews today." In fact, there is a small, ancient Jewish congregation in Dagestan, some of whom may have been on the plane that had just landed at Makhachachachachachachachachacha Airport. If so, they may have been put in jeopardy from the rioters.

TER HITCHENS: The UN is generally seen as an enemy in Israel, and evidence shows that the UN sees the same way about Israel as it does the Jewish state. The United Nations General Assembly is particularly known for walloping Jerusalem over hostile resolutions. The Assembly once passed number 3379, the most controversial of which claimed that Zionism, the movement that promotes the establishment of a Jewish state, was itself nationalism. Really?

The Israel Defense Forces denied allegations by a Palestinian humanitarian group that said Israel had warned the people of Gaza to evacuate a large hospital (inset) and five schools ahead of a potential airstrike. The Palestinian Red Crescent issued a 'urgent note' announcing that Israeli authorities had warned Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza (left) and requested the hospital's immediate evacuation.' Some of the 12,000 refugees families are believed to have taken refuge in Al-Quds Hospital, according to footage shared on social media. It comes after a blast at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza killed between 100 and 300 people (right).

Following the revelation of her turbulent past, Nejwa Ali (left), 36, who joined the US Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2019 and spent time as an asylum officer, was placed on leave on Wednesday. It was also revealed that she had previously served as a spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, led by Yasser Arafat, a US terrorist group. In one recent post, Ali shared a disturbing image featuring paragliders armed with AK-47s with the caption 'Free Palestine ,' glorifying the terrorists responsible for killing over 1,400 in Israel