Category: 2. Middle East

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A Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli army forces in the occupied West Bank Monday evening, local media said.

A 14-year-old boy was shot and held by Israeli forces in the town of Sinjil, northeast of Ramallah, but succumbed to his injuries, the official news agency Wafa reported.

Journalist Mohammad Ghafri, a resident of the village, told Anadolu that the child happened to be there near the northern entrance of Sinjil when he was shot by Israeli…

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned Monday what it described as Israeli “aid concentration sites” in Gaza, calling them “killing zones” after reports of Israeli army killing Palestinians and many injured while seeking humanitarian aid, Anadolu reports.

“These ‘aid’ concentration sites – in which a handful of desperate people are given starvation rations as a cruel publicity stunt designed to deflect attention from Israel’s…

Egypt and Iran announced plans on Monday to initiate a regular track for political consultations, signaling a willingness to strengthen bilateral relations and coordinate on regional issues, Anadolu reports.

The announcement was made during a joint press conference in Cairo on Monday, where Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, discussed a wide range of bilateral and regional issues.

Abdelatty said Cairo and Tehran…

In a rare coordinated intervention, 55 former Swiss diplomats have signed an open letter addressed to Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, urging Switzerland to take a stronger and more public stance on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to align its policy with international law, Anadolu reports.

The letter, seen by Anadolu on Monday, criticized what the signatories describe as Bern’s “unacceptable discretion” in the face of alleged Israeli war crimes.

The…

French prosecutors Monday were probing a terror motive after a man who had posted racist videos shot dead his Tunisian neighbour and badly wounded a Turkish man in the south of the country.

The shooting late Saturday in Puget-sur-Argens in the southern region of Var came after a Malian man was stabbed to death in April in a mosque, also in southern France, as concern grows over hate crimes against Muslims.

The shooting was initially investigated by regional prosecutors as a suspected murder…

A former US State Department spokesman said Israel “without a doubt” committed war crimes in Gaza, marking a significant departure from his previous official position during the Biden administration, Anadolu reports.

Matthew Miller, who served as State Department spokesman under President Joe Biden, made the comments during an interview with Sky News’ Trump 100 podcast that aired Monday.

Asked directly if there is a genocide in Gaza, where Israel has killed…