Category: 2. Middle East

It took five hours of queuing at a community kitchen in Gaza’s Nuseirat District for displaced grandmother, Um Mohammad Al-Talalqa, to get one meal to feed her hungry children and grandchildren, Reuters reports.

But finding food may be about to get even tougher: Gaza’s community kitchens — lifelines for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians after 18 months of war — may soon have no more meals to provide.

Multiple aid groups told Reuters that dozens of…

The Israeli military said Tuesday it had foiled an attempt Monday night to smuggle 10 assault rifles into Israel from Egypt using a drone.

A statement issued by the Israeli military said that the drone was identified crossing the Egyptian border into Israel and intercepted in the air by troops of the Border Defense Corps’ Caracal Battalion, part of the southern Israel command. The troops recovered the debris of the downed drone, which was found to have carried 10 M16 rifles and…

A group of Syrian-American Jews prayed in a synagogue in Damascus on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported, the latest such visit following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

The trip comes after local community leader Bakhour Chamntoub said unknown assailants broke into and desecrated the tomb of a 17th-century rabbi in Damascus last week.

Visiting Rabbi Henry Hamra led prayers at the Faranj synagogue in Damascus’s Old City.

His father Yusuf Hamra was reportedly the last rabbi to…

The head of Israel’s domestic intelligence service announced his resignation on Monday, saying he would step down on 15 June, six weeks after Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, tried to oust him, Reuters reports.

“After 35 years of service, in order to allow for an orderly process of appointing a permanent successor and a professional handover, I will end my role on June 15, 2025,” Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar, said in remarks released by the security…

Since October 2024, Israel has carried out a “live-streamed genocide” which states have “watched on as if powerless”, Amnesty International said in its Annual Report today.

In “The State of the World’s Human Rights”, the rights group said: “2024 will be remembered for how Israel’s military occupation grew ever more brazen and deadly, for the way the USA, Germany and a handful of other European states supported Israel; the way the USA, under the…

The Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday that “a new inferno has been unleashed on Gaza” following the restart of war in the Palestinian territory, the Palestinian Information Centre has reported.

“Gaza is experiencing and enduring death, injury, multiple displacements, amputations, separation, disappearance, starvation and denial of aid and dignity on a massive scale,” said Pierre Krahenbuhl in his speech at the…

King Mohammed VI has sent a message of congratulations to Abdelilah Benkirane after he was re-elected as secretary-general of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) during the party’s ninth national congress.

In his letter, the king expressed his good wishes to Benkirane, commending the renewed trust placed in him and encouraging him to continue his leadership with a strong sense of responsibility. The monarch also urged the party to play a constructive role…

The Mayor of the city of Haifa in northern Israel has banned a Palestinian singer from performing in municipal events after she described the city as being in Palestine.

On Saturday, 31-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, Lina Makoul, advertised on her Instagram account her performance at the Fattoush Bar in downtown Haifa, referring to the city as “Haifa, PAL [Palestine]”.

Her invitation was condemned by some figures on Hebrew social media, such as…

A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet fell into the Red Sea after sliding off the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman during a towing operation, the Navy has confirmed.

In an official statement, the Navy said: “The F/A-18E was actively under tow in the hangar bay when the move crew lost control of the aircraft. The aircraft and tow tractor were lost overboard.”

“Sailors towing the aircraft took immediate action to move clear of the aircraft before it…