Category: 2. Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to present a proposal to the Security and Political Cabinet for the gradual annexation of parts of the Gaza Strip, in an effort to retain Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich within the ruling coalition, according to Haaretz on Monday evening.

The plan would give Hamas a limited number of days to accept a ceasefire agreement. If Hamas refuses, Israel would begin annexing parts of Gaza step by step.

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Dubai International Airport welcomed a record 46 million passengers in the first half of this year, authorities said on Tuesday, despite disruptions due to the Iran-Israel war

The facility marked its busiest first half on record with a 2.3 percent year-on-year growth, Dubai Airports said in a statement, “despite temporary regional airspace disruptions in May and June”.

During the 12-day Iran-Israel war, airlines cancelled flights to many Middle East destinations as some governments closed…

By Deniz Uyar, Monica Naime and Pola Grzanka

July 29 (Reuters) – The fighters in military-style uniforms pointed their rifles at the three unarmed men and ordered them out onto a sunny balcony, before barking at them to pause. “One minute. You want to film them?” one of the attackers asked his comrade.

The unfolding horror, which was already being filmed by one gunman on his cellphone, was delayed for a few moments to allow a second fighter to start capturing the events.

“Let’s go! Throw…

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch government will summon Israel’s ambassador to the Netherlands to denounce the “unbearable and indefensable” situation in Gaza and has imposed travel bans on two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, it said in a letter published late on Monday.

Israeli government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will no longer be allowed to enter the Netherlands, which accuses them of repeatedly inciting violence against Palestinians and calling for an “ethnic…

Saudi Arabia will not normalize relations with Israel unless a Palestinian state is established and the war in Gaza ends, the kingdom’s foreign minister said Monday, signaling Riyadh’s clearest stance yet linking recognition to progress on a two-state solution, Anadolu reports.

Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan made the remarks at a news briefing with his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot in New York, following a high-level international conference…

CAIRO/ATHENS (Reuters) -Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had rescued 10 seafarers from the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C which they attacked and sank in the Red Sea earlier this month.

The Liberia-flagged Eternity C was the second ship to sink off Yemen this month after repeated attacks by Houthi militants with sea drones and rocket-propelled grenades. Another Greek-operated vessel, the Magic Seas, had gone down days earlier.

The strikes on the two vessels marked a…

By Lili Bayer

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s executive body recommended on Monday curbing Israeli access to its flagship research funding programme after calls from EU countries to increase pressure on Israel to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Multiple EU countries said last week that Israel was not living up to its commitments under an agreement with the European Union on increasing aid supplies to Gaza and asked the European Commission to put concrete options on the…

TURNBERRY, Scotland (Reuters) -President Donald Trump warned on Monday that he would order fresh U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities should Tehran try to restart facilities that the United States bombed last month.

Trump issued the threat as he held talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his Turnberry golf resort on the western coast of Scotland.

Iran, which denies seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, has insisted it will not give up domestic uranium enrichment despite the…

By Andrew MacAskill and Andrea Shalal

TURNBERRY, Scotland (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday the number one priority in Gaza was getting people fed, because “you have a lot of starving people”, adding that he was not going to take a position on Palestinian statehood at the moment.

Trump, speaking alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, said the United States had provided $60 million for humanitarian aid, and other nations…