Syrian President Says Dialogues with Israel Have Reached Results
Medical staff at al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City reported an Israeli drone strike near the hospital, Al Jazeera reports . According to hospital sources, many people were injured.
The same channel reports that, since this morning, Israeli attacks have killed 14 Palestinians. The majority, nine, were killed in Gaza City.
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist detained in March of this year by US immigration services for leading the pro-Palestinian protests that occupied the Columbia University campus, faces a new deportation order.
Khalil, of Palestinian and Algerian descent and whose status in the United States was legal, was released months later after a judge ruled that the justification for his detention—that he had jeopardized Washington's foreign policy of combating anti-Semitism—was invalid.
Now, an immigration judge has ordered his deportation for allegedly omitting information on his application for a residency card, Reuters reports, citing court documents.
Benjamin Netanyahu published a video this morning criticizing the conspiracy theories that have emerged in recent days regarding the death of Charlie Kirk, a political ally of Donald Trump. The Israeli prime minister begins by quoting Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, who reportedly said, "The bigger the lie, the faster it spreads." He continues: "Someone invented the great, monstrous lie that Israel had anything to do with the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk. This is crazy. This is false. This is outrageous."
Netanyahu heaps praise on Kirk, calling the conservative influencer a "great man" who "deserves honor, not lies." But the video ends with a very clear suggestion about who is fueling "these disgusting rumors"—"perhaps out of obsession, perhaps with Qatari funding." The Israeli prime minister finds himself embroiled in a political scandal after some of his closest advisors were accused of receiving payments from Doha.
Charlie Kirk was a great man. He deserves honor – not lies. pic.twitter.com/NwEN4B2q7w
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 18, 2025
A group of young Palestinians are leaving the West Bank for the first time and arriving in Portugal this week to perform a show based on real stories of violence and death in the Jenin Refugee Camp, under Israeli military occupation.
“15, 16 years old — Stories of children who never grow up” is the title of the show, produced by The Freedom Theatre, based in Jenin, in the West Bank, which between the 19th and 27th of this month will tour the stages of four Portuguese cities — Leiria, Coimbra, Porto and Lisbon.
The US president is reportedly growing increasingly frustrated with the Israeli prime minister for insisting on a military approach that forces Hamas to surrender, rather than aligning with his negotiating approach. Donald Trump's breaking point was the attacks ordered by Benjamin Netanyahu against Qatar last week.
"[Netanyahu] is screwing me," Trump reportedly said during a meeting with his senior advisers about how to respond to the attacks, according to US officials who told the Wall Street Journal . However, experts and people close to both leaders told the US newspaper that, despite his frustration, Trump is unlikely to publicly withdraw his support for Netanyahu.
Ahmed al-Sharaa defined the security pact between Syria and Israel as "a necessity" and that negotiations to seal it could yield results "in the coming days." An agreement between the two countries aims to halt the airstrikes and the incursion of Israeli troops into southern Syria, which have been felt since Assad's fall, and to ensure that the region is monitored by the United Nations, Syria's interim president stated, as quoted by Reuters .
The news agency had reported that the United States was pressuring Syria to reach an agreement before the United Nations General Assembly, which takes place next week. However, al-Sharaa denied being under any pressure.
The Syrian Foreign Minister is expected to be in Washington today to negotiate the lifting of all sanctions imposed on Syria — it will be the first trip by a Syrian diplomatic leader to the United States in 25 years, according to Axios , which reported the information.
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Observador continues to follow developments in the Middle East in this liveblog, focusing on the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. You can relive Wednesday's events in this other live article, which we have now archived.
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