AOC Calls to Release Gaza Hospital Director Hussam Abu Safiya

Key Events July 10, 2026 RECAP: Iranian foreign minister to travel to Oman for diplomatic talks Fire breaks out at mini-refinery in western Iran, Tasnim says Pakistan's Sharif speaks to Iranian president, reaffirms Islamabad's role as mediator Prominent New York rabbi visits Palestinian West Bank village and condemns settler violence as a 'moral emergency' July 10, 2026 Updates Last to first Last to first First to last Haaretz July 11, 2026 Copy the link This liveblog has ended Click here for more updates. Haaretz July 10, 2026 Copy the link CNN: Satellite images indicate Iran may be rebuilding suspected nuclear sites Haaretz July 10, 2026 Copy the link RECAP: Iranian foreign minister to travel to Oman for diplomatic talks Here are Friday's latest updates: ■ Iranian ‌Foreign Minister ⁠Abbas Araghchi will ⁠travel to Oman on Saturday as ‌the head ‌of a diplomatic delegation for talks on bilateral relations ⁠and regional developments, Iran's ⁠official news agency IRNA ‌reported. ■ The U.S. Treasury Department issued sanctions against Dubai-based Iranian financial facilitator Ali Ansari , who they say "oversees a sprawling global network of assets benefitting Iran's leader" and "other regime elites." ■ Germany's Bundesrat , the upper house of parliament , backed a bill to criminalize the denial of Israel's right to exist , a motion that constitutional experts say could jeopardize freedom of expression. ■ Prominent New York Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove , who criticized New York's Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander, made a notable visit to the West Bank village of Umm al Kheir alongside left-wing Israeli organization Rabbis for Human Rights . ■ Iran's ⁠top ‌negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ‌said that Tehran was ⁠ready for " all-out defence" ⁠if Washington betrayed last month's memorandum of understanding, and the war would never ‌end with Iran's ‌surrender. ■ President Donald Trump wrote on X that Iran has "asked us to continue 'talks,'" but that the United States has declared "the Cease Fire is OVER." ■ Israeli police arrested the grand mufti of Jerusalem , Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, after he finished delivering a sermon and leading Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque . He was released shortly after, after being given a one-week ban from the mosque. Reuters July 10, 2026 Copy the link Iran's Araghchi to travel to Oman on Saturday for talks on Hormuz Strait, IRNA says Iranian ‌Foreign Minister ⁠Abbas Araghchi will ⁠travel to Oman on Saturday as the head ‌of a diplomatic delegation for talks on bilateral relations ⁠and regional developments, particularly the ‌situation ⁠in ‌the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's ⁠official news agency IRNA ‌reported on Friday. Ben Samuels July 10, 2026 Copy the link AOC calls to release Gaza hospital Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on Israel to "release pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been held without charge for 18 months and now faces an imminent threat to his life from torture." She added that Israel must "end the targeting of health workers and the inhumane treatment of Palestinians in arbitrary detention." AOC's comments come after top U.S. Democratic lawmakers urged Israeli authorities to release the Gaza hospital director, who has been held without charge since his arrest in late 2024 in "life-threatening danger," according to his lawyer. They are calling on the United States to halt aid to Israel so long as Israel does not facilitate his release. Close Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, at the hospital before his arrest, 2024. Credit: Stringer/Reuters Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, at the hospital before his arrest, 2024. Credit: Stringer/Reuters Ben Samuels July 10, 2026 Copy the link U.S. Treasury Department sanctions top Iranian financier The U.S. Treasury Department issued sanctions against Dubai-based Iranian financial facilitator Ali Ansari, who they say "oversees a sprawling global network of assets benefitting Iran's leader" and "other regime elites." "Ansari has effectively institutionalized large‑scale embezzlement within the Iranian regime, diverting publicly funded wealth into an extensive overseas portfolio of real estate and commercial holdings to enrich himself, regime elites," and "the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)," the Office of Foreign Assets Control said. OFAC said they targeted key Iranian exchange houses that "move billions of dollars annually on behalf of sanctioned Iranian banks, using layers of shell companies to obscure the regime's illicit financial activity." "Treasury will continue using every tool at its disposal to isolate him and other regime elites from the global financial system," said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. Reuters July 10, 2026 Copy the link Fire breaks out at mini-refinery in western Iran, Tasnim says A ⁠fire ‌broke out on Friday at the ‌Oxin Palayesh mini-refinery in Iran's western Lorestan ⁠province, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The ⁠fire began shortly after 5 p.m. local time and sent a column of thick smoke over part of Poldokhtar, Tasnim ‌said. Firefighters, rescue teams and heavy and ‌light equipment were sent to the site, but the scale of the blaze and the presence of flammable materials made containment difficult and prevented crews from approaching the main seat of the fire in the initial hours, Tasnim added. The semi-official Mehr ⁠news agency earlier cited Lorestan deputy governor as saying no deaths or injuries ‌had been reported and ⁠that the cause of ‌the fire was under investigation. Preliminary reports indicated the fire had likely started in the ⁠raw materials section of the industrial unit and that possible negligence was being considered, though the cause could not ‌be determined conclusively until the fire was extinguished, the deputy governor added. DPA July 10, 2026 Copy the link German parliament backs bill that criminalizes denial of Israel's right to exist Germany's Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, backed a bill to criminalize the denial of Israel's right to exist on Friday, a motion that constitutional experts said could jeopardize freedom of expression. According to the bill, anyone denying Israel's right to exist or calling for its abolition would be punished with a prison sentence of up to five years under the regulation. The bill will be examined by the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, after its summer recess. Close Germany's Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, in Berlin, this month. Credit: AFP/JOHN MACDOUGALL Germany's Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, in Berlin, this month. Credit: AFP/JOHN MACDOUGALL The offence would only apply if it could "encourage a willingness to commit anti-Semitic acts of violence or arbitrary measures." Read the full article Reuters July 10, 2026 Copy the link Pakistan's Sharif speaks to Iranian president, reaffirms Islamabad's role as mediator Pakistan's ‌Prime Minister ‌Shehbaz Sharif said on ⁠Friday he had ⁠spoken with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the ongoing war ‌in the ‌Middle East and reaffirmed Islamabad's readiness to continue its role as a mediator. "We discussed the ⁠evolving regional situation and underscored the ‌imperative of ⁠restraint, ‌dialogue and diplomacy to safeguard the hard-earned ⁠peace gains of recent months," Sharif said ‌in an X post. Ben Samuels July 10, 2026 Copy the link Prominent New York rabbi visits Palestinian West Bank village and condemns settler violence as a 'moral emergency' Prominent New York Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove made a notable visit to the West Bank village of Umm al Kheir alongside left-wing Israeli organization Rabbis for Human Rights. Cosgrove's visit comes days after publishing a piece in the New York Daily News criticizing New York's Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander, for aligning himself with progressive critics of Israel, writing that he made a "deal with the devil," and "called Israel's war against those seeing its destruction a 'genocide' – and pointed to your own Jewishness as the credential to say so." Elliot Cosgrove @ RabbiCosgrove · Follow To be a Zionist is to refuse to turn a blind eye to what is done in the Jewish state's name. To be a Jew is to bear witness. Settler extremism in the West Bank — unchecked, unpoliced, unconscionable — is a moral emergency for Israel and all who love her. Today I traveled to Umm Show more Watch on X 6:50 PM · Jul 10, 2026 197 Reply Copy link Read 117 replies "To be a Zionist is to refuse to turn a blind eye to what is done in the Jewish state's name," he wrote on X from the Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills. "To be a Jew is to bear witness. Settler extremism in the West Bank – unchecked, unpoliced, unconscionable – is a moral emergency for Israel and all who love her."