Category: 2. Middle East

Farmers in the Jordan Valley and northern West Bank are suffering heavy losses as a result of Israeli-imposed closures on Palestinian cities and crossings, combined with ongoing policies of land confiscation, forced displacement, and annexation in the region. These restrictions have severely disrupted the agricultural season and added to the growing challenges faced by farmers in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The agricultural sector in the northern West…

A powerful American bunker-busting bomb is the only weapon capable of destroying Iran’s deeply buried nuclear facilities, making it President Donald Trump’s weapon of choice if he chooses to militarily back Israel.

The GBU-57, a 30,000-pound (13,607 kg) warhead capable of penetrating 200 feet (61 meters) underground before exploding, is missing from Israel’s arsenal despite its stated goal of preventing Iran from building a nuclear bomb.

– Why this bomb? –

In less than a week, the Israeli army…

A member of the provocative Irish rap group Kneecap, charged with a terror offence for allegedly showing support for Hezbollah, was due to appear in a London court Wednesday.

Liam O’Hanna, 27, known by his stage name Mo Chara, was charged in May after being accused of displaying a Hezbollah flag during a London concert last November. He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

The Iran-backed Lebanese force Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas are banned in the UK and it…

Russia said on Tuesday that Israel’s attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran are pushing the world toward a “nuclear catastrophe,” Anadolu reports.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the escalation between Iran and Israel, saying the ongoing strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities are “illegal from the point of view of international law.”

The statement added that the strikes would also “create unacceptable threats to international…

An Arab town in northern Israel paid a heavy price for the ongoing air war between Iran and Israel when a ballistic missile slammed into a home there, killing four people and upending life in the small community.

Hundreds of sobbing residents crowded the narrow streets of Tamra on Tuesday to watch as the wooden coffins adorned with colourful wreaths were carried to the town’s cemetery.

To some, the Iranian strike highlighted the unequal protections afforded Israel’s Arab minority, while to…

President Donald Trump faces potentially the hardest choice of his time in the White House, as he weighs up whether the United States should join Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran.

Trump fueled speculation about a US intervention as he dashed back from a G7 summit in Canada, warning Tuesday that the United States could kill Iran’s supreme leader, but would not “for now.”

The choice is a monumental one for a president who has vowed throughout both his first and second terms in the Oval…

Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani on Tuesday spoke over the phone and discussed the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, bilateral relations, and regional issues, said Turkiye’s Communications Directorate, Anadolu reports.

Erdogan said Turkiye has been engaging in intense diplomatic contacts on the conflict that began after Israel’s attack on Iran.

He underlined that Ankara will continue its…