Category: 2. Middle East

By Julien Pretot

DIEULEFIT, France (Reuters) -Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists waved flags and unfurled banners on Wednesday as the Tour de France peloton rode through Dieulefit, a southeastern French town honoured as a “Town of the Just” for sheltering Jewish people during World War Two.

A house was draped with Palestinian flags and protesters waved dozens more by the roadside. Cries of “Free Palestine” echoed through the town, as the riders cycled through. One banner read “Affamer c’est…

ANKARA — Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler met Wednesday with Saddam Hifter, commander of the Libyan National Army’s ground forces, as contacts deepen between Ankara and Benghazi, which hosts a rival administration to the Ankara-backed government in Tripoli.

What happened: Guler and Hifter met in Istanbul on the sidelines of IDEF25, a major annual defense fair, a senior Turkish Defense Ministry official told journalists Wednesday. The official did not elaborate further.

Hifter is the…

The World Health Organization’s chief warned Wednesday of widespread starvation in Gaza, saying food deliveries into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory were “far below what is needed for the survival of the population”.

“A large proportion of the population of Gaza is starving. I don’t know what you would call it other than mass starvation — and it’s man-made,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.

His statement added his voice to those of 111 aid organisations and rights groups,…

Limited amounts of flour aid were distributed on Wednesday, July 23, to Palestinians struggling with hunger in the Gaza Strip under Israeli attacks, Anadolu reports.

Palestinians received the limited bags of flour provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) at a distribution point in the city of Khan Younis.

According to the World Food Program (WFP), one-third of Gaza’s population has not eaten for several days due to the ongoing Israeli blockade on the…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -An anti-government activist in her 70s has been placed under investigation on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, police said on Wednesday.

The suspect is accused of having expressed her intent to kill Netanyahu and sought assistance from other activists to obtain weapons and gather information about the prime minister’s security arrangements, police said.

The National Unit for Serious and International Crime Investigations and…

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Iran has agreed to allow a technical team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog to visit in the coming weeks to discuss “a new modality” on relations between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Tehran, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Wednesday.

“The delegation will come to Iran to discuss the modality, not to go to the (nuclear) sites,” he told reporters during a visit to New York.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols, Editing by Bhargav…

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News Source: www.al-monitor.com

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -The Al-Shaer family went to bed hungry at their home in Gaza City. An Israeli airstrike killed them in their sleep.

The family – freelance journalist Wala al-Jaabari, her husband and their five children – were among more than 100 people killed in 24 hours of Israeli strikes or gunfire, according to health officials.

Their corpses lay in white shrouds outside their bombed home on Wednesday with their names scribbled in pen. Blood seeped through the…

Israel and Ukraine said Wednesday they had agreed to start talks on countering the “threat” posed by Iran, in a sign of deepening ties between the two countries.

Both see Iran, a close ally of Russia, as a malign actor on the world stage.

Israel has long accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons, an allegation it denies, while Ukraine is regularly attacked from Russia by Iranian-designed drones.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga described Iran as an “existential threat” to global…

(Corrects to say the death tally is for the full year, and not “since July 17”)

(Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it is seeing a deadly surge in malnutrition in Gaza, which has led to 21 deaths in children under five years of age in 2025.

(Reporting by Christy Santhosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)