Category: 2. Middle East

Cries of grief echoed across southern Gaza’s Nasser Hospital Monday as dozens came to mourn Hossam Wafi, after the father of six was killed while attempting to get supplies to feed his family.

His mother, Nahla Wafi, sobbed uncontrollably over her son, who was among 31 people killed by Israeli fire while trying to reach a food distribution site the previous day, according to the Palestinian territory’s civil defence agency.

“He went to get food for his daughters — and came back dead,” said…

An unprecedented campaign of incitement has been launched by supporters of Israel against Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg following her announcement that she would take part of the Freedom Flotilla aiming to break the naval blockade on Gaza.

This development highlights the growing hostility towards international voices supporting Gaza.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham posted an article about Thunberg’s participation in the flotilla saying:…

Iran said Monday it will not accept a nuclear agreement that deprives it of what it called “peaceful activities”, a reference to uranium enrichment, as it pressed the United States for guarantees it would drop sanctions.

Uranium enrichment has remained a key point of contention between the foes in talks to seal a nuclear deal, ongoing since April, with Iran defending what it says is its pursuit of a civil nuclear programme but with the US side calling it a “red line”.

Speaking in Cairo, where…

Israeli forces on Monday blocked an international media tour in the occupied West Bank, preventing journalists from entering the village of Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra who decried worsening Israeli violence.

Adra’s film “No Other Land” chronicles the forced displacement of Palestinians by Israeli troops and settlers in Masafer Yatta, an area in the southern West Bank that Israel declared a restricted military zone in the 1980s.

Journalists from AFP and other international…

Australian Doctor Ahmed Abu Sweid said that several people shot by Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning at an aid distribution point in Rafah, southern Gaza, had been hit by bullets in the head and chest.

Dr Abu Sweid, who is volunteering in the emergency department at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, said: “We have only been here for a few days, and the level of trauma I have seen here is unlike anything I have witnessed before.”

“Today,…

Hamas slammed a new directive by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to ban the call to prayer in mosques in Israel, calling it a dangerous escalation and a blatant provocation of Muslims’s feelings.

In a statement released yesterday, Hamas warned of the dangerous repercussions of Ben-Gvir’s actions, stressing that this measure is part of a series of escalating violations against Palestinians.

“We strongly reject these occupation policies and…

British surgeon Victoria Rose described the catastrophic situation at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis as “a real massacre” following an Israeli army attack on an aid distribution point in Rafah.

Rose, who is volunteering in the emergency department at the complex, said: “This morning, Sunday, there was shooting at a food distribution centre run by the Gaza Humanity Organisation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.”

She explained that a large number of the…

Egypt will host a meeting between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, today, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

According to the statement, Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelaty, will hold separate meetings with Araghchi, followed by another Grossi, after which the three officials will meet together.

On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson…

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) completely demolished the Noura Al-Kaabi Dialysis Hospital yesterday evening, the only medical facility providing kidney dialysis in northern Gaza, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

The hospital had served dozens of patients from the areas of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Umm Al-Nasr village. Before its destruction, the hospital had already suffered repeated Israeli strikes, which damaged nearly all of its…