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<article data-history-node-id="448781" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-arrests-31-people-linked-us-israel-sabotage-networks-report-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-arrests-31-people-linked-us-israel-sabotage-networks-report-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran arrests 31 people linked to 'US-Israel sabotage networks', report says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 31 people linked to four networks backed by the US and Israel have been arrested in Iran on charges of fomenting unrest and carrying out acts of sabotage, Iran's Press TV reported.</p> <p>Iran's&nbsp;Intelligence Ministry, which made the arrests in southern Kerman province, said the suspects in Sirjan county were organised into networks to “lure teenagers and young people” and had prepared “large quantities of Molotov cocktails” to “damage urban surveillance cameras in preparation for street unrest and acts of sabotage”.</p> <p>The ministry also accused the groups of “violence and destruction” during the January nationwide protests.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Party leader Kemi Badenoch tells the BBC that she wants to see "people who work harder" not getting punished for doing so.

<article data-history-node-id="448783" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-settlers-continue-campaign-detentions-and-attacks-west" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-settlers-continue-campaign-detentions-and-attacks-west" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces, settlers continue campaign of detentions and attacks in West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Several Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces, while settlers continued attacks on Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank since Saturday evening, according to reports.</p> <p>* Israeli forces detained three Palestinian farmers and seized a truck loaded with bananas in the Ras al-Ahmar area, southeast of Tubas, according to Mutaz Basharat, the Tubas governorate official in charge of the Jordan Valley file, Wafa reported.</p> <p>*Israeli settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers, attacked Palestinian homes on Saturday evening in the Wadi al-Hasin and Harat Jaber areas of Hebron’s Old City, south of the occupied West Bank. The assailants shouted threats and insults and used obscene language, Wafa reported. Israeli forces also fired live ammunition toward Palestinian homes in the area.</p> <p>*Israeli settlers attacked and wounded a 27-year-old Palestinian man in the village of Usarin, south of Nablus. Medical sources told Wafa that the injured man was transferred to a hospital for treatment.</p> <p>*Israeli forces launched an arrest campaign in the village of Burqa, in the Nablus district, north of the West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.</p> <p>*Israeli forces raided the homes of Palestinian residents of the town of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, while settlers attacked a home near Najah Hospital, north of Nablus city, according to Al Jazeera.</p> <p>*Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces during a raid on Deir Jarir village, east of Ramallah.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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