Category: 2. Middle East

Israeli occupation forces have set fire to several Palestinian homes in Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarm, in the northern occupied West Bank, Palestinian media outlets reported on Sunday. 

Local sources said the Israeli occupation forces burnt several homes in the Manshiyya neighbourhood of the refugee camp, amid a tight siege and ongoing aggression for the 162nd consecutive day. 

According to the sources, Israeli military vehicles and infantry units…

(Reuters) -The Israeli military is attacking Houthi targets in Yemen’s Hodeidah port, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement on Monday.

Katz said the army is “forcefully countering any attempt to restore the terror infrastructure previously attacked”.

Since Israel’s war in Gaza against the Palestinian militant group Hamas began in October 2023, the Iran-aligned Houthis have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea in what they say are acts of solidarity with the…

US envoy Tom Barrack arrived in Lebanon on Sunday to follow up on the implementation of the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.

The US envoy is scheduled to meet with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and a number of officials to discuss “regional developments”.

He will also discuss the US proposal which he had presented last June, which includes the disarmament of Hezbollah and the Israeli army withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

However, Beirut did not…

Syrian authorities on Monday evacuated Bedouin families from the Druze-majority city of Sweida, after a ceasefire in the southern province halted bloody clashes between the communities, an AFP correspondent and official media said.

An AFP correspondent outside the devastated provincial capital saw a convoy including buses enter Sweida and then exit again carrying civilians.

They evacuees, including women and children, were headed for reception centres in neighbouring Daraa province and to the…

Seventeen Sudanese internally displaced persons (IDPs) have died in the desert while traveling from the border town of Tina in North Darfur State to Ad-Dabba in Northern State, the Humanitarian Aid Commission in Northern State said. 

Humanitarian Aid Commissioner in the Northern State, Abdul Rahman Ali Khairi, announced the death of the 17 IDPs after losing their way in the desert while the remaining survivors including 10 women and 13 children were transferred…

At the main hospital in south Syria’s Sweida city, dozens of bodies are still waiting to be identified as the death count of days of sectarian clashes continues to rise.

“We have handed 361 bodies over to family members, but we still have 97 unidentified corpses,” a forensic medicine official at facility said on condition of anonymity.

Clashes erupted on July 13 in Syria’s Druze-majority province of Sweida between local fighters and Sunni Bedouin, spiralling and drawing in government forces,…

Dozens of Israeli settlers began on Sunday extensive excavation work in an illegal outpost built on Palestinian lands south of the town of Aqraba, southeast of Nablus. 

The Al-Baidar Organisation for the Defence of Bedouin Rights said in a statement, the excavation was carried out in a historic archaeological site located on Mount Qarqafah under the Israeli occupation forces’ protection; explaining that the excavation is part of the Israeli systematic…

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran could withhold security commitments if European states invoke a U.N. mechanism to reimpose international sanctions on the Islamic Republic, a member of Iran’s parliamentary national security commission said on Monday, according to Borna news.

“We have many tools in our disposition. We can withhold our commitment to security in the region, Persian Gulf and Hormuz Strait as well as other maritime areas,” Abbas Moqtadaei said in reference to Tehran’s potential…

Palestinian factions condemned on Sunday Israel’s “war of starvation and genocide” against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, and held Tel Aviv and the United States responsible.  

The Israeli aggression has gone beyond bombing and destruction to include a stifling blockade and the deliberate denial of the entry of food and medical aid into Gaza, the factions said in a joint press statement. 

They accused the Israeli occupation government led…

Libya’s eastern authorities recently expelled a senior European delegation in a move analysts say was meant to send a message: the unrecognised administration backed by military leader Khalifa Haftar cannot be ignored.

On July 8, an EU commissioner and ministers from Greece, Italy and Malta were in Libya to discuss irregular migration from the North African country.

Their visit was divided in two, as is Libya, which is still grappling with the aftermath of the armed conflict and political…