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🖊️ Muhammad Isah Ramat Gaza, Palestine –  A Jordanian mobile bakery is offering critical food relief to Palestinians in Gaza, producing hundreds of thousands of loaves of bread weekly as Israel’s ongoing blockade severely restricts aid deliveries. Despite a dire shortage of flour and the shutdown of most bakeries in the region, the Jordanian facility remains one of the few still operational. In just the past week, it produced approximately 390,000 loaves, operating 19 hours daily to meet the escalating needs of nearly 2 million people. Deployed to Gaza in December, the bakery has the capacity to bake around 3,500 loaves per hour, or about 75,000 each day. It is part of Jordan’s wider humanitarian initiative, which also includes medical assistance. Working in partnership with World Central Kitchen, an international aid organization, the bakery’s bread is distributed to families across Gaza, including those in hard-to-reach areas. The organization has reaffirmed its comm...

By Muhammad Isah Ramat United Nations Headquarters, New York  In a powerful address to the United Nations Security Council today, Secretary-General António Guterres issued a stark warning about the escalating crisis in the Middle East, declaring that the long-standing goal of a two-State solution between Israel and Palestine is nearing the point of no return. Speaking at a ministerial-level meeting convened by France and focused on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, the Secretary-General underscored the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, the growing instability in the West Bank, and the pressing need for coordinated international action. “The region is undergoing fundamental shifts, marked by violence and volatility but also opportunity and potential,” Guterres said. “But today, the promise of a two-State solution is at risk of dwindling to the point of disappearance.” Citing the devastating toll since the collapse of the March 18 ceas...

A Venezuelan man, Andry José Hernández Romero, has been wrongfully deported to El Salvador after US immigration officers misinterpreted his tattoos as gang affiliations. Hernández, who has a tattoo of a crown on each wrist with the words “Mom” and “Dad,” was detained and placed on a plane to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. However, the tattoos were in reference to the annual El Día de los Reyes Magos (Three Kings Day), a widely celebrated festival in the Spanish-speaking world, rather than any criminal group. US authorities have been aggressively enforcing deportation policies under increased scrutiny, leading to errors such as this case. In their haste, officials misinterpreted not only religious symbols but also dedications to deceased grandparents and references to Spanish football clubs. Family members of those deported have been left searching for their loved ones through videos posted by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who has embraced receiving detainees from the...