Category: 2. Middle East

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -A six-week-old infant and three other children have died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours,local health officials said, with malnutrition and starvation now killing Palestinians faster than at any point in the 21-month war.

The infant died at a hospital ward in northern Gaza, the health officials said, naming him as Yousef al-Safadi. The teenager, 13-year-old Abdulhamid al-Ghalban, died in a hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis. The…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -All options are on the table if Israel does not deliver on its pledges to facilitate humanitarian aid in Gaza, the European Union’s top diplomat said on Tuesday.

“The killing of civilians seeking aid in Gaza is indefensible,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote in a post on X, adding that she spoke with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar “to recall our understanding on aid flow and made clear that IDF must stop killing people at distribution points.”

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The head of Gaza’s largest hospital on Tuesday said 21 children have died due to malnutrition and starvation in the Palestinian territory in the past three days, amid a devastating assault by Israeli forces.

Gaza’s population of more than two million people is facing severe shortages of food and other essentials, with residents frequently killed as they try to collect humanitarian aid at a handful of distribution points.

“Twenty-one children have died due to malnutrition and starvation in…

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DUBAI (Reuters) – The intelligence unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has warned Iranian citizens of an increase in recruitment attempts by enemy intelligence agencies, state media reported on Tuesday.

Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, which was able to assassinate numerous military commanders and nuclear scientists in its 12-day air war on Iran last month, Iran is ever more concerned about infiltration…

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, has described the situation in Gaza as “horrific”, saying that such levels of starvation have not been witnessed in modern history.

In remarks made to the press on Monday, Fakhri stated that Israel has been blocking aid from entering Gaza for more than 20 months.

He also noted that Israel is attacking the United Nations and defying the Security Council, adding that Israel’s attack on the UN is…

By Olivia Le Poidevin

GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the U.N. Palestinian Refugee Agency said on Tuesday that its staff, as well as doctors and humanitarian workers, were fainting on duty in Gaza due to hunger and exhaustion.

UNRWA said it had received dozens of emergency messages from its staff describing grave conditions and exhaustion in the enclave, where Israel has been fighting a war against Hamas since October, 2023.

“No one is spared: caretakers in Gaza are also in need of care….

An Egyptian court has removed the name of political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah from the country’s terrorist list.

In its ruling, the court stated it had reviewed Decision No. 3 of 2025, related to Criminal Case No. 1781 of 2019 (State Security Prosecution), and decided to remove Alaa Ahmed Seif El-Islam Abdel Fattah from the list. The decision was based on investigations indicating he is no longer engaged in any activity linked to the banned Muslim Brotherhood…

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News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

Yair Golan, head of the Democratic Party, has stated in an interview with the Shefa program that Jews are carrying out “massacres” against Palestinians in the West Bank on a regular and systematic basis. 

Golan, whose statements were reported by the Hebrew Kan channel, confirmed that such acts are now being committed by Jews, unlike in the past. He criticised the Israeli authorities for failing to respond and for not arresting any attackers, pointing out…

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Tuesday that there was no basis to expect miracles from a proposed third round of direct Russian-Ukrainian peace talks, and declined to give any time frame for a potential agreement to end the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Kyiv has sent Moscow an offer to hold another round of peace talks in Turkey this week, and that he wants to speed up negotiations for a ceasefire.

“There is no reason to expect any breakthroughs in…