Category: 2. Middle East

Israel deported six more international activists from a Gaza-bound aid ship on Thursday, Anadolu reports.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry published photos of the six activists at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on its X account and later aboard the plane.

The Israeli rights organization and legal center Adalah earlier identified the six activists as Mark van Rennes from the Netherlands, Suayb Ordu from Turkiye, Yasemin Acar from Germany, Thiago Avila from Brazil,…

Israeli Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf resigned on Thursday over the government’s failure to pass a law exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said, Anadolu reports.

Goldknopf is a member of the Agudat Yisrael Party, which, together with the Degel HaTorah Party, forms the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) alliance that represents the ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredi.

“The premier had been warned that if no progress had…

After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun’s iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set to move to the new Grand Egyptian Museum near the Giza Pyramids.

Visitors have just days left to see the boy king’s world-famous gold funerary mask before it joins more than 5,000 artefacts from his tomb at the GEM, a $1-billion megaproject opening on July 3.

“Only 26 objects from the Tutankhamun collection, including the golden mask and two coffins, remain here in…

US President Donald Trump called Thursday on ally Israel not to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, saying a deal remained close if Tehran compromises.

Trump acknowledged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was considering a strike, which he said could spark a “massive conflict” — leading to a US decision to draw down embassy staff in the region.

“We are fairly close to a pretty good agreement,” Trump told reporters.

Asked about his discussions with Netanyahu, Trump said: “I don’t want…

An Iraqi militia commander said Thursday the United States would be “humiliated” if it attacks Iran, even as Baghdad sought to convey that embassies in the country are safe amid rising tensions with Iran.

What happened: Abu Ala al-Walai, leader of the Iran-backed Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada militia, said in a post on the social platform X early Thursday morning that the United States would be “humiliated” in the event of a war.

“If war breaks out, hundreds of martyrs will be on the…

Serbia’s deputy parliament speaker on Thursday called for an immediate halt to the country’s arms exports to Israel, Anadolu reports.

Edin Djerlek told parliament that the Israeli army is “carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, in one of the most brutal ways the modern world remembers – by heartlessly starving and killing innocent civilians, mostly women and children,” according to the Fonet News Agency.

He said his Justice and…

The UN General Assembly will vote Thursday on demanding an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza a week after the United States used its veto to stop a similar push in the Security Council.

Like the text blocked by Washington to protect its Israeli allies, the draft resolution before the General Assembly calls for “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.”

It also demands “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages” seized during the unprecedented Hamas attack inside Israel…

The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and urging nations to take “all measures necessary” to place pressure on Israel.

Following the United States’ veto of a similar push in the Security Council last week, the General Assembly adopted the non-binding resolution by a vote of 149-12, with 19 abstentions.

The text demands “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, as well as “the immediate and unconditional release of…