Category: 2. Middle East

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) confirmed Tuesday it has ended its participation in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) amid intense criticism about its operations, Anadolu reports.

The company said in a statement that it agreed in October 2024 to provide “pro bono support to help establish an aid organization intended to operate alongside multilateral efforts to deliver humanitarian support to Gaza.”

“Unapproved follow-on work relating to Gaza lacked…

Iran’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Tehran will respond to a recent US proposal on the Iranian nuclear program “in the coming days,” Anadolu reports.

“The US proposal contains many ambiguities and questions,” Abbas Araghchi said during a book signing event in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

“Many issues in this proposal are unclear,” he added in statements carried by Iranian media.

Araghchi, who leads Iran’s negotiating team in the…

Israel has escalated its incitement to assassinate senior officials in the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, both inside and outside the Gaza Strip.

Avi Ashkenazi, a military correspondent for the right-wing Maariv newspaper said, after Israel had officially confirmed the successful elimination of Al-Qassam Brigades Commander Mohammed Sinwar and Rafah Brigade Commander Mohammed Shabaneh by bombing a tunnel in Khan Yunis, the Israeli occupation army, the…

UN experts yesterday called for the protection of a ship operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which departed from Italy on Sunday carrying food, medical supplies, and baby items bound for Gaza, Anadolu reported.

“Aid is desperately needed for the people of Gaza to forestall annihilation, and this initiative is a symbolic and powerful effort to deliver it,” the experts said in a joint statement. “Israel should remember that the world is watching…

A British doctor who has visited the besieged Gaza Strip three times since 7 October, 2023, said her third visit was by far the worst where a large number of children arrived at the hospital with amputated limbs every day, the Times reported.

“First there’s the six-year-old girl whose left cheek and shoulder were amputated, then the two-year-old girl, the infant, the three-year-old orphan boy, the four-year-old boy, and the eleven-year-old boy who lost all…

The Israeli occupation army has intensified its use of quadcopter drones as tools of psychological intimidation, surveillance, and direct killing of Palestinians in Gaza, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has reported.

Multiple incidents have been documented in which quadcopters were used “to broadcast eerie, distressing sounds deliberately intended to incite panic among civilians,” the rights group explained. In other cases, “quadcopters entered crowded…