Category: 2. Middle East

  • Gaza security thwarts dangerous spy plot and arrests field agent – Middle East Monitor

    Gaza security thwarts dangerous spy plot and arrests field agent – Middle East Monitor

    Security sources in Gaza revealed that the Resistance Security Unit succeeded in arresting a dangerous agent involved in carrying out espionage missions for the Israeli army inside the areas destroyed by bombardment.

    According to the sources, the agent, identified as (M.T.), was involved in sensitive field operations. These operations included planting surveillance and listening devices in key locations previously targeted by Israeli airstrikes, which had…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • Presidents of UAE and Turkiye witness signing of agreements to strengthen ties

    Presidents of UAE and Turkiye witness signing of agreements to strengthen ties

    UK foreign secretary suggests Israeli minister could face sanctions over Gaza camp plans


    LONDON: The UK foreign secretary has suggested that Israel’s defense minister could be sanctioned over plans to relocate Gaza’s population into a camp in the south of the territory.


    Israel Katz told Israeli media last week that he wanted to establish what he described as a “humanitarian city” amid the ruins of Rafah to…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel build own bomb shelters

    Unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel build own bomb shelters

    BEERSHEBA, Israel: When the sirens wail in the southern Israeli desert to herald an incoming missile, Ahmad Abu Ganima’s family scrambles outside. Down some dirt-hewn steps, one by one, they squeeze through the window of a minibus buried under 10 feet of dirt.

    Abu Ganima, a mechanic, got the cast-off bus from his employer after it was stripped for parts. He buried it in his yard to create an ad-hoc bomb shelter for his family. Abu Ganima is part of Israel’s 300,000-strong Bedouin…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • UN expert on Palestinians says US sanctions are a ‘violation’ of immunity

    UN expert on Palestinians says US sanctions are a ‘violation’ of immunity

    EU refusal to suspend Israel agreement a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’: Amnesty chief


    LONDON: The EU’s refusal to suspend its association agreement with Israel is a “cruel and unlawful betrayal” of European values, the head of Amnesty International has said.


    Agnes Callamard’s statement came after the bloc decided against suspending the agreement, dashing hopes that the EU would take a unified stand against…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Children in Gaza lose limbs daily as humanitarian situation worsens – Middle East Monitor

    Children in Gaza lose limbs daily as humanitarian situation worsens – Middle East Monitor

    The International Protection Group revealed on Tuesday alarming figures highlighting the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip.

    According to the group, around 10 children lose one or both legs each day as a result of ongoing military attacks.

    The group stated that over 40,000 children in Gaza have been wounded in war-related incidents, while 1,580 medical personnel have been killed. In addition, 467 humanitarian aid workers have also…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • US hopeful of quick ‘deescalation’ after Syria ‘misunderstanding’

    US hopeful of quick ‘deescalation’ after Syria ‘misunderstanding’

    WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Washington hoped within hours to ease tensions in Syria, as he voiced concern over violence that has included Israeli strikes on its war-torn neighbor.
    “In the next few hours, we hope to see some real progress to end what you’ve been seeing over the last couple of hours,” Rubio told reporters in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump nodded.
    Rubio blamed “historic longtime rivalries” for the clashes in the…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • UN chief condemns Israel strikes on Syria: spokesman

    UN chief condemns Israel strikes on Syria: spokesman

    UK foreign secretary suggests Israeli minister could be sanctioned over Gaza camp plans


    LONDON: The UK foreign secretary has suggested that Israel’s defense minister could be sanctioned over plans to relocate Gaza’s population into a camp in the south of the territory.


    Israel Katz told Israeli media last week that he wanted to establish what he described as a “humanitarian city” amid the ruins of Rafah to…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • US military says Yemeni force seized Iranian arms shipment bound for Houthis

    US military says Yemeni force seized Iranian arms shipment bound for Houthis

    DUBAI: The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a post on X on Wednesday that a military group known as the Yemeni National Resistance Forces (NRF) seized a ‘massive’ Iranian weapons shipment bound for Houthi militants.
    The NRF is an anti-Houthi force in Yemen led by Tarek Saleh, nephew of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and is not formally part of the internationally recognized government.

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • EU refusal to suspend Israel agreement a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’: Amnesty chief

    EU refusal to suspend Israel agreement a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’: Amnesty chief

    Starvation among kids in Gaza reaches record levels, humanitarian chiefs tell UN Security Council


    NEW YORK: Children in Gaza are suffering from the worst starvation rates since the war between Israel and Hamas began in October 2023, aid officials told the UN Security Council on Wednesday, in a devastating assessment of the conditions young Palestinians in the territory face as they try to survive.


    “Starvation rates…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • UK foreign secretary suggests Israeli minister could face sanctions over Gaza camp plans

    UK foreign secretary suggests Israeli minister could face sanctions over Gaza camp plans

    EU refusal to suspend Israel agreement a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’: Amnesty chief


    LONDON: The EU’s refusal to suspend its association agreement with Israel is a “cruel and unlawful betrayal” of European values, the head of Amnesty International has said.


    Agnes Callamard’s statement came after the bloc decided against suspending the agreement, dashing hopes that the EU would take a unified stand against…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com