Category: 2. Middle East

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 22 people, including at least six children, were killed in Israeli strikes in the Palestinian territory on Wednesday.

Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said one strike killed 10 members of the same family sheltering in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis, while another on the Al-Shati camp near Gaza City left 10 dead and more than 30 wounded.

The victims in Al-Shati were from two families, he added.

Asked for comment, the Israeli military said it was looking into…

As well as being optimistic about the future of his war-ravaged country, Rami Al Ali has other reasons to be upbeat: he is about to become the first Syrian fashion designer to show his work at Paris Haute Couture Week.

The invitation to appear on the world’s most prestigious fashion stage is a huge endorsement for the 53-year-old from the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor who turned to design after a childhood admiring his architect father’s drawings.

Now, following years of dressing A-listers from…

Six mariners have been rescued after a deadly attack on a cargo ship that sank off rebel-held Yemen, an EU maritime force said Wednesday, as the search continued for the rest of the crew.

The Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier, was badly damaged in the attack in the Red Sea that started on Monday and continued into Tuesday.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels have not claimed responsibility for the attack, which came after they boarded and sank the Magic Seas on Sunday, their first…

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for invoking the so-called “Morag Axis” in southern Gaza as an obstacle to reaching a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal with Hamas, Anadolu reports.

Lapid’s remarks followed Israeli media reports that Netanyahu’s insistence on maintaining a military presence in the Morag Corridor – linking the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis – was the sole remaining obstacle…

The Israeli army said Wednesday that its forces launched “special, targeted” operations into southern Lebanon, despite a ceasefire agreement.

A military statement said that troops from its 91st Division began what it called “special, targeted operations” to dismantle Hezbollah’s fighters and military infrastructure in the region.

The army claimed that the operations were launched after identifying Hezbollah weaponry and underground storage sites in…

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) warned Tuesday that tens of thousands of pregnant and breastfeeding women in Gaza are facing severe hunger, with devastating consequences for newborns.

UNFPA’s Arab States Regional Office said on X that 50,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women “haven’t eaten for days.”

“Babies are born too soon, too small,” the agency wrote, noting that malnutrition among mothers is preventing them from breastfeeding, while baby formula…

Europe’s former top diplomat on Wednesday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, calling it a move by an “alleged war criminal” for his “largest arms supplier.”

“An alleged war criminal wanted by the international justice proposes for the Nobel Peace Prize his largest supplier of weapons, and with which he is causing the greatest ethnic cleansing in the region…

An Israeli advocacy group has filed a petition with the Supreme Court demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be declared unfit for office, citing violations of conflict-of-interest obligations and undermining the rule of law, local media said on Wednesday, cited by Anadolu Agency.

The petition was submitted by the non-governmental organization “Democratic Fortress.”

It accuses Netanyahu of breaching the conflict-of-interest arrangement tied to his role…

The Israeli military claimed Wednesday that it had assassinated a senior Hezbollah military figure in a drone strike in southern Lebanon.

A military statement said that it had targeted the town of Babliyeh in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, “eliminating the Head of Firepower of the Zahrani sector in Hezbollah’s Badr Unit, Hussein Ali Muzhir.”

The army claimed that Muzhir “had been involved in coordinating rocket fire toward Israeli territory and had recently…