Category: 2. Middle East

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Friday that the UK will evacuate children who need urgent medical aid in Gaza, Anadolu reports.

“The UK will pull every lever we have to get food and lifesaving support to Palestinians, and we will evacuate children who need urgent medical assistance,” Starmer wrote on X, reaffirming that they will bring them to the UK for specialist medical treatment.

He called the “appalling scenes” in Gaza…

Israeli officers have admitted Friday to spoiling food, water and medical supplies that were packed in more than 1,000 aid trucks at the Kerem Shalom crossing that were left to rot after their distribution into the Gaza Strip was blocked, Anadolu reports.

According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, the aid trucks were carrying tens of thousands of humanitarian parcels. They had been left for weeks under the sun at the crossing without being distributed,…

The UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) said Friday that mass famine in the Gaza Strip is “constructed and deliberate.”

It said the Israeli- and US-backed aid distribution mechanism, known as the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” or GHF, serves “military and political objectives.”

“A constructed and deliberate mass starvation. Today, more children died, their bodies emaciated by hunger,” it said in a statement.

It stressed that “the flawed…

By John Irish and Michel Rose

PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that France would become the first Western member of the United Nations Security Council to recognise a Palestinian state in September has caused diplomatic ructions from the Middle East through Europe to Washington.

But it did not come out of the blue.

When Macron visited the Egyptian town of Al-Arish on the border with Gaza in April, he was struck by the mounting humanitarian crisis and made clear on his…

Another Palestinian infant died Friday at the Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, after her frail body succumbed to hunger, a medical source told Anadolu.

She was left to face famine without milk under Israel’s suffocating blockade.

The source said Zeinab Abu Halib, just a few months old, died from malnutrition resulting from Israel’s starvation policy.

Zeinab appeared in a disturbing photo taken shortly before her death, with her skin clinging to her…

US Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded the US end support for Israel’s “illegal war” in the Gaza Strip, with mass starvation and civilian casualties, Anadolu reports.

“After 21 months of brutal war, the Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza is entering a new and terrible phase. America and the world cannot continue to look away. We must reckon with what is being done with our taxpayer money, our weapons and the support of our government.

“More than…

MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday that recognising the State of Palestine before it is established could be counterproductive.

“I am very much in favour of the State of Palestine but I am not in favour of recognising it prior to establishing it,” Meloni told Italian daily La Repubblica.

“If something that doesn’t exist is recognised on paper, the problem could appear to be solved when it isn’t,” Meloni added.

France’s decision to recognise a Palestinian…

Fired by France’s imminent recognition of Palestinian statehood, UN members meet next week to breathe life into the push for a two-state solution as Israel, expected to be absent, presses its war in Gaza.

Days before the July 28-30 conference on fostering Israeli and Palestinian states living peacefully side-by-side to be co-chaired by Riyadh and Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would formally recognize the State of Palestine in September.

His declaration “will…