Category: 2. Middle East

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 48 people on Monday, including 21 at a seafront rest area, as fresh calls grew for a ceasefire in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.

The swift resolution of Israel’s 12-day war with Iran has revived hopes for a halt to the fighting in Gaza, where more than 20 months of combat have created dire humanitarian conditions for the population of more than two million.

US President Donald Trump has recently urged Israel to “make the…

Pro-Palestine campaigners on Monday held a demonstration outside the Wimbledon Championships to protest Barclays’ sponsorship of the annual tennis tournament, Anadolu reports.

Dozens of protesters assembled near Centre Court in response to a call from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Europe’s largest pro-Palestine advocacy group.

Other organizations, including War on Want and Campaign Against Arms Trade, also participated, all calling to “boycott Barclays.”

The 138th Wimbledon…

A parliamentary committee in the Israeli Knesset voted on Monday to advance the impeachment of Arab lawmaker Ayman Odeh over his welcome of the release of Palestinian detainees, Anadolu reports.

According to Israel’s Channel 12, lawmakers in the Knesset House Committee voted 12-2 in favor of the impeachment of Odeh, head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash).

Supporters of the motion included members from the Israeli opposition parties,…

BEIRUT — The Israeli military launched a fresh round of strikes in southern Lebanon on Monday following a weekend of intense bombardment despite a fragile ceasefire that ended the 13-month war between Israel and Lebanon last November.

A suspected Israeli drone strike hit the outskirts of the town of Ramya in the Bint Jbeil district early Monday, the state-run National News Agency reported. The Israeli military has not commented yet.

Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes were flying at a medium…

Militants from the PKK will begin laying down their weapons at a disarmament ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan in early July, the Kurdish media outlet Rudaw reported on Monday.

The move comes just six weeks after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced it was ending more than four decades of guerrilla warfare in a conflict that claimed over 40,000 lives.

Turkey’s Kurdish minority is hoping the PKK’s decision will pave the way for a political settlement with Ankara that will herald a new…

A French court on Monday sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqi Kurds to seven to eight years in jail over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying would-be asylum seekers from France to England in 2022.

France and Britain have vowed to crack down on people smugglers who heap migrants on flimsy dinghies to make the dangerous Channel crossing in exchange for thousands of dollars.

In the latest such case to go to court in France, a small boat departed France early on December 14, 2022, carrying…