Category: 2. Middle East

The UN announced the first delivery of fuel into the Gaza Strip in 130 days on Thursday, but said it was far from sufficient to sustain humanitarian operations, Anadolu reports.

Citing the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference that “yesterday, a UN team managed to bring in about 75,000 liters of fuel from Israel into the Gaza Strip. This is the first such provision in 130 days.”

He…

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called on Thursday for the European Union to support Lebanon and hold a European-Arab conference to rebuild the country, Anadolu reports.

Speaking during a meeting with a European delegation in Beirut, Aoun called for the EU “to lift any European sanctions imposed on Lebanon and to work on convening a European-Arab conference to rebuild Lebanon and revive its economy, in parallel with its progress toward full security and military…

Egypt and China signed several memoranda of understanding to deepen financial ties this week, including measures to enable Egyptian businesses to conduct more transactions in yuan.

The deals were announced Thursday during a visit by a senior Chinese delegation to Cairo, where Prime Minister Li Qiang met with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to discuss strengthening bilateral ties.

What happened: The governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, Hassan Abdalla, also met with his Chinese counterpart, Pan…

US firm involved in modelling plans for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, strips executives of leadership roles lamenting the affair as “reputationally very damaging”.

Two top executives at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world’s most powerful management consultancies, have been stripped of their leadership roles following revelations that the company helped model the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, a scheme widely condemned as a…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 30 people on Friday, including 10 who were waiting for aid in the south of the war-ravaged territory.

The latest deaths came as the United Nations said nearly 800 people had been killed trying to access food in Gaza since late May, when Israel began easing a more than two-month blockade on deliveries.

UN human rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said most of the deaths occurred near facilities operated by the US- and…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed 18 people on Friday, including 10 who were waiting for aid in the south of the war-ravaged territory.

The fresh deaths came as the United Nations said nearly 800 people had been killed trying to access food in Gaza since late May, when Israel began easing a more than two-month total blockade on supplies.

UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said most of the deaths occurred near facilities operated by the US- and Israel-backed…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Friday killed at least seven people, including five at a school-turned-shelter in the Palestinian territory’s north.

“Five martyrs and others injured in an Israeli strike on Halima al-Saadia School, which was sheltering displaced persons in Jabalia al-Nazla, northern Gaza,” the agency said in a brief statement.

Nearly all of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once during the more than 21-month war, which has created dire…

Egypt’s mufti, Nazir Ayad, on Thursday condemned a visit to Israel by a group he described as “those promoting themselves as religious figures”, calling it “a cheap political investment using fake clerical robes to beautify the image of a bloody occupying entity”.

In a strongly worded statement, Ayad rejected the delegation’s visit, which came just days after al-Azhar, Egypt’s highest religious body, also voiced condemnation. 

His comments followed…

Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 foreigners since the beginning of 2025, most of whom were convicted in drug-related cases, according to an AFP tally published on Thursday based on official announcements. The figures were described by international human rights organisations as “horrifying”.

The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported that “the death penalty was carried out as a disciplinary punishment against the offenders Khalil Qasim Mohammed Omar and…