Category: 2. Middle East

More than 6,000 aid trucks carrying essential food and supplies are stuck in Jordan and Egypt, unable to reach Gaza due to Israeli restrictions, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Saturday, Anadolu reports.

“At UNRWA, we have the equivalent of 6,000 trucks in Jordan & Egypt waiting for the green light to get into Gaza,” said agency chief Philippe Lazzarini.

He added that “airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are…

The United Nations and NGOs are warning of an imminent famine in the Gaza Strip — a designation based on strict criteria and scientific evidence.

But the difficulty of getting to the most affected areas in the Palestinian territory, besieged by Israel, means there are huge challenges in gathering the required data.

– What is a famine? –

The internationally-agreed definition for famine is outlined by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an initiative of 21 organisations and…

An Israeli drone strike killed one person on Saturday in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district, according to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA), Anadolu reports.

NNA reported that the fatality occurred when an Israeli drone targeted a vehicle on the Al-Tuwairi road, but the identity of the victim was not immediately disclosed.

Cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon escalated into a full-scale war in September 2024. A ceasefire was reached…

At least 59,733 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Saturday, Anadolu reports.

A ministry statement said that 57 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 512 people were injured, taking the number of injuries to 144,477 in the Israeli onslaught.

“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli fire killed 25 people on Saturday in the Palestinian territory devastated by more than 21 months of war.

Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP the dead included nine people killed in three separate air strikes in Gaza City.

Eleven people were killed in four separate strikes near the southern city of Khan Yunis, while two were killed in a drone strike in Nuseirat refugee camp, he added.

Bassal said three people were killed by Israeli gunfire while…

More than 100,000 children in the Gaza Strip, including 40,000 infants aged under 1, are facing imminent death due to the complete lack of baby formula and nutritional supplements, the Government Media Office in Gaza warned on Saturday, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, the office described the situation as an unfolding “massacre in slow motion,” accusing Israel of deliberately starving Gaza’s youngest population through its continued blockade and closure of…

Britain is working with Jordan to deliver emergency aid into Gaza by air, as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer comes under mounting pressure to formally recognize the Palestinian state, Anadolu reports.

A British military planning and logistics team has been deployed to assist Jordan with aid airdrops into the besieged enclave, the BBC reported Saturday.

The move follows Israel’s decision to allow foreign countries to carry out airdrops in response to deepening…

The Syrian Civil Defense announced Saturday that it successfully evacuated 300 civilians from the country’s southern province of Suwayda to the capital Damascus amid ongoing security concerns in the area, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, the Civil Defense said that the fifth humanitarian convoy completed the evacuation late Friday via the Busra al-Sham crossing.

The convoy included approximately 300 people, in addition to 20 wounded individuals and the bodies…

(Reuters) -Syrian and Israeli officials agreed to meet again after no final accord was reached in U.S.-mediated talks in Paris on de-escalating the conflict in southern Syria, state-run Ekhbariya TV reported on Saturday, citing a diplomatic source.

The source described the dialogue as “honest and responsible”, in the first confirmation from the Syrian side that talks had taken place.

On Friday, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack said officials from both countries spoke about de-escalating the situation in…

Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq on Saturday rejected recent US claims that Hamas has stolen humanitarian aid in Gaza, Anadolu reports.

In an official statement, Rishq said: “The allegations about Hamas stealing aid are politically motivated and baseless.”

An unreported US Agency for International Development (USAID) study examined 156 cases of lost or stolen aid between October 2023 and May 2025, and found no evidence of the Palestinian group Hamas…