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Hundreds of ships remain trapped at the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran decides which can pass  MarketWatch

Leqaa Kordia, longest-detained pro-Palestine protester, freed from ICE custody MEE staff on Tue, 03/17/2026 - 15:13 A US immigration judge set her bond at $100,000, despite her not being a flight risk Leqaa Kordia poses for a photo after her release from the Prairieland detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, on 16 March 2026 (Gazamom/X) Off After spending two consecutive Ramadans behind bars, Leqaa Kordia was freed from US immigration detention on Monday, in what her lawyers have described as a "staggering" $100,000 bond. Her legal team said the bond was "nonetheless...paid immediately".  The 33-year-old Palestinian immigrant, whose home is in New Jersey, was released from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, after the Trump administration chose not to challenge what was a third release order by an immigration judge.  It had previously appealed the first and second orders for her release.  "I’m free! I’m free! Finally, after one year," Kordia said as she walked out to a group of waiting supporters, with a Palestinian keffiyeh draped around her shoulders.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “There is a lot of injustice in this place,” she added. “There is a lot of people that shouldn’t be here in the first place.” Kordia's cousin, Hamzah Abushaban, told Middle East Eye on Tuesday that Kordia was in relatively good spirits and already at the mosque for Ramadan prayers by Monday evening.  "It was an extremely emotional day" for me, he said of receiving the call about Kordia's release. Abushaban is based in South Florida. "I had to pull over at a random gas station to process it all, and started crying," he said.  Last month, Kordia had to be hospitalised after fainting, hitting her head, and suffering a seizure. She had never experienced seizures before, her family said. Targeted for Gaza protests: The Palestinian still in US custody Read More » While in hospital for three days, Kordia was chained to the bed before being taken back to the detention centre. Her lawyers also expressed concerns about her weight loss. New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani said on social media that he raised Kordia's case with President Donald Trump during their meeting last month, adding that he is "grateful" for her release after she spoke up for "Palestinian rights".  Of all the arrests linked to pro-Palestine campus protests made by the Trump administration last year, Kordia was the last one still languishing in detention.  "This is a one hundred percent Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian liberation issue because she spoke out against Israel," Abushaban told MEE.  "It's heartbreaking...it's not the America I thought I was born in," he added. During a trial last year in a separate case, American Association of University Professors v Rubio, which sought to challenge Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s alleged “policy of ideological deportation”, US officials revealed that they had relied on the pro-Israel doxxing site Canary Mission to identify students for immigration detention. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Legal status The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) maintains that Kordia did not have lawful status at the time she was arrested in New Jersey on 13 March 2025, and issued a statement the following day, insisting she was "overstaying her expired F-1 student visa", which had been terminated on 26 January 2022 for "lack of attendance". The DHS also cited Kordia's arrest by the New York Police Department in April 2024 during a protest against Israel's war on Gaza, organised by Columbia University students. The police, however, had arrested several students at the time, and Kordia was eventually let go after charges against her were dropped.  She was enrolled at Columbia and had joined the protest as a show of solidarity.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "It is true that at that time she did not have lawful status," Amal Thabateh, a staff attorney at Clear, who is working on Kordia's case, previously told MEE.  US appeals court opens door to re-arrest Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil Read More » She thought she was close to becoming a lawful permanent resident because her US-citizen family had filed for that status on her behalf, Thabateh explained. But after receiving "faulty advice" from a mentor, Kordia voluntarily signed a termination notice, withdrawing from the F-1 visa programme and leaving her entirely out of status.  "We all know based on how other cases have gone, and just routinely [that] this happens all the time where people have losses in status," Thabateh told MEE. "They're in transition periods... and that's quickly solved and fixed." But that wasn't the case in what is now the era of enforcement under US President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown targeting pro-Palestine voices.  "The ways in which the government has criminalised the visa overstay is just another attempt to target Palestinian rights activists," Thabateh said. "The question is not whether overstaying a visa is criminal or a violation, but instead it's whether the ways in which Leqaa has been punished and targeted, whether that is a justification for very innocently following false advice about her immigration status."  Kordia arrived in the US from the occupied West Bank in 2016 on a Palestinian Authority passport, and was initially a visitor before adjusting her status to a student, as she began learning English. She has lost 200 extended family members to Israel's genocide in Gaza.  Thabateh told MEE that Kordia voluntarily went to meet with immigration agents after learning that people who knew her were being questioned about her life, and that agents had also approached her home.  It was during that meeting in Newark, New Jersey, on 13 March, that she was served with a notice to appear in court and then taken to the Texas facility overnight.  Kordia frequently described poor and discriminatory treatment at the Prairieland Detention Facility to her legal team, including inedible food, unsanitary conditions, and no religious accommodations.  US Muslims News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Israel claims it has killed the influential Iranian national security chief Ali Larijani in overnight strikes. If confirmed, Larijani’s death would represent a devastating blow to the regime, and the most senior official to die since Ali Khamenei’s death. Lucy Hough speaks to deputy head of international news, Devika Bhat. Continue reading...

Joe Kent, Trump official with white supremacist ties, resigns over Iran war and blames Israel  The Forward

Video | Inside the Iran War: How US and Israel Goals Differ  NDTV

Trump Says U.S. Does Not ‘Need or Desire’ Help From Allies on Iran  The New York Times

Defence official tells Congress that 47 alleged drug-trafficking vessels have been struck since campaign began.

Conservative Supreme Court judge Sohlberg dismisses 2nd attempt to reverse appointment in as many days; opposition figures claim Netanyahu is trying to 'steal' this year's election The post Elections committee chief rebukes ‘baseless’ Likud challenge to choice of panel’s lawyer appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Trump urges allies to help secure Strait of Hormuz  thv11.com

In Tuesday's crowded congressional primary elections, the pro-Israel lobby's strategy often appears counterintuitive. Here's why it might be part of a larger trend The post What to know about the Illinois primaries, where AIPAC backs a fierce Israel critic appeared first on The Times of Israel.

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Iran blames US, Israel for Hormuz tensions as crisis risks energy supplies  Al Jazeera

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Trump slams ‘weak' former counterterrorism official who resigned over Iran war  NBC 7 San Diego

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US President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at "foolish" NATO over Iran, saying the United States needs no help after allies rebuffed his calls to join efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said most US allies had rejected his push to escort ships through the crucial waterway, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying his country would "never" do so until the situation was calmer. "I think NATO is making a very foolish mistake," Trump told reporters as he hosted Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in the Oval Office.