Category: 2. Middle East

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not discuss London’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state unless Israel takes a number of steps to improve life for Palestinians, Reuters reports.

Starmer said on Tuesday that Britain was prepared to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations General Assembly in response to growing public anger over the images of starving children in…

To avert looming famine, the “trickle” of aid currently entering the Gaza Strip must reach vastly greater proportions, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday as a new food security alert revealed the worst conditions since the start of the conflict, Anadolu reports.

“The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Alert confirms what we have feared: Gaza is on the brink of famine,” Guterres said in response to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase…

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain announced on Tuesday it was prepared to recognise a Palestinian state in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the “appalling situation” in Gaza and meets other conditions.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision follows in the footsteps of France, after President Emmanuel Macron confirmed his country’s intention to pursue recognition of a Palestinian state and to encourage other partners to do the same.

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emma Farge

(Reuters) -Palestinian health authorities say Israel’s ground and air campaign against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 60,000 people, with nearly a third of the dead under the age of 18.

After a two-month ceasefire earlier this year, Israel resumed an all-out air and ground campaign against Hamas in March. Palestinian health officials say more than 8,500 have been killed since then.

The war began on Oct. 7, 2023 when Hamas militants…

Arab countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt joined calls Tuesday for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.

Seventeen countries plus the European Union and Arab League threw their weight behind a seven-page text agreed at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.

“In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its…

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar summoned the Dutch ambassador on Tuesday over her country’s travel ban on two far-right Israeli government ministers, local media said, Anadolu reports.

On Monday, the Netherlands declared Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir persona non grata over their repeated calls for ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s public broadcaster KAN said Saar summoned Dutch Ambassador Mireille Schuurman for a…

The UK announced Tuesday that it would recognize Palestine in September unless Israel takes “substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza,” Anadolu reports.

“I can confirm the UK will recognize the state of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly in September, unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, agree to a ceasefire and commit to a long-term sustainable peace, reviving the…

Spain’s foreign minister on Tuesday strongly defended a two-state solution for Palestine, urging the international community to choose between continued bloodshed or immediate action to implement the only viable path to peace in the Middle East, Anadolu reports.

Speaking to CNN, Jose Manuel Albares emphasized that the two-state solution is not a foreign imposition but the product of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians themselves.

“It was not Spain…

Two leading German human rights groups have accused Israel of “committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and “deliberately” starving them to death, Anadolu reports.

“We also come to the conclusion that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip through its warfare,” Julia Durchow, secretary general of the German branch of Amnesty International, told a news conference in…