Category: 2. Middle East

The Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration filed an “urgent” application in the Barbados Supreme Court on Thursday accusing Israel of genocide and crimes against humanity. 

Barbados, a signatory to the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Geneva Conventions, is treaty bound to prosecute individuals for genocide regardless of where the crime was committed. 

In their affidavit, the Caribbean Movement for Peace and…

The former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Rezaei, said on Thursday that all enriched nuclear materials had been moved to secure locations.

In comments reported by the Iranian Fars news agency, Rezaei stressed that Iran’s nuclear facilities were well fortified against any potential attack.

“The most the United States can do is target the Fordow facility,” he said, “but even that cannot be penetrated by bombs.”

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Dozens of US military aircraft are no longer on the tarmac at a major US base in Qatar, satellite images show — a possible move to shield them from eventual Iranian air strikes, as Washington weighs whether to intervene in Tehran’s conflict with Israel.

Between June 5 and 19, nearly all of the aircraft visible at the Al Udeid base are no longer anywhere in plain sight, according to images published by Planet Labs PBC and analyzed by AFP.

Nearly 40 military aircraft — including transport…

Fourteen military cargo planes from the US and Germany, loaded with equipment and supplies to support the army, arrived in Israel amid its conflict with Iran, the Israeli defense ministry said Thursday, Anadolu reports.

The ministry said in a statement that the planes are part of the air and sea bridges it has been operating since the start of the Israeli attack against Iran on June 13.

It added that the shipment is to support the army’s “operational…

Nine EU members have called on the European Commission to assess how trade in goods and services linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory can be aligned with international law, Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot announced on Thursday, Anadolu reports.

Prevot said on X that the request follows the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) recent advisory opinion, which underlined that third…

Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP) in collaboration with the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration filed an “unprecedented” court application in Barbados on Thursday charging Israel with genocide and crimes against humanity for its continuing killing, starvation and displacement of the Palestinian people.

A statement by the litigants said their application includes: a declaration that the State of Israel is committing genocide; that it is…

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he will decide whether to join Israel’s strikes on Iran within the next two weeks as there is still a “substantial” chance of negotiations to end the conflict.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt read out a message from Trump, saying there had been “a lot of speculation” about whether the United States would be “directly involved” in the conflict.

“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place…

The damage was hard to comprehend for many at Israel’s Soroka Hospital as staff took stock of the wreckage after a strike by an Iranian ballistic missile on Thursday left part of the facility in ruins.

The strike in the southern city of Beersheba caused extensive damage to the hospital’s entrance hall and several departments, including the ophthalmology unit on the third floor of the surgical building.

The explosion shattered windows, hurling glass across the hospital, brought ceilings…

The UN human rights chief warned Thursday that the intensifying military exchanges between Israel and Iran are causing grave harm to civilians and risk destabilizing the entire region, Anadolu reports.

“The wide-scale, continuing attacks by Israel across Iran, and the missile and drone strikes launched in response by Iran, are inflicting severe human rights and humanitarian impacts on civilians, and risk setting the whole region ablaze,” Volker Turk said in a…