Pakistan, Somalia, Israel-Palestine.
Today's three stories you should know.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, was today sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case related to the alleged leaking of state secrets. A close ally and former foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, was handed the same sentence. Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari, a spokesperson for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, told Al Jazeera that the party intended to challenge the verdict, calling the trial “a sham.” Khan was prime minister from August 2018 to April 2022 before being removed in a vote of confidence. He was jailed four months later accused of a host of offences.
More from Al Jazeera here.
Somalia
The Indian navy has rescued two vessels that had been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, freeing 19 Pakistani crewmembers. The incident is the latest in a recent string of attacks after years of piracy being largely dormant in the waters off Somalia. Piracy was rampant from 2008 until 2012 before dropping off dramatically after several international navies stepped up patrols in the area.
More from BBC here.
Israel-Palestine
There are so many developments today - from Israeli forces storming a hospital disguised as medical staff to kill three unarmed Palestinian fighters, to Hamas considering another potential ceasefire proposal, to the United Nations warning of a “rapidly deteriorating” humanitarian situation in Gaza - it’s hard to know what to highlight. But the Guardian today published an astonishing piece of journalism which, drawing on satellite data and open-source intelligence, forensically details how entire neighborhoods in Gaza have been wiped from the map. The report says some experts have described what is happening as “domicide.”
More from the Guardian here.