Category: 2. Middle East

Several people suffered burns and other injuries Sunday in the US state of Colorado in what the FBI called a “targeted terror attack” against demonstrators seeking the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

Police in the city of Boulder said a man was taken into custody. They were more cautious in presuming a possible motive for the attack, which multiple sources said was committed against members of the Jewish community during a peaceful gathering.

Local media cited eyewitnesses describing…

British foreign minister David Lammy said on Sunday that Morocco’s autonomy plan for the territory of Western Sahara was the “most credible” solution to the decades-long dispute, reversing London’s long-standing position.

Western Sahara, a mineral-rich former Spanish colony, is largely controlled by Morocco but has been claimed in its entirety for decades by the pro-independence Polisario Front, which is backed by Algeria.

Morocco has been campaigning for broad support for its autonomy plan…

The Barbados government is again being urged to sever diplomatic relations with Israel in protest of the killing of civilians in Gaza.

The appeal was made during a solidarity rally held outside the United States Embassy in Wildey, St Michael, on Saturday.

The demonstration, organised by a coalition of advocacy groups, also marked the fifth anniversary of the death of African American George Floyd under the knee of a white police officer in the United States.

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The West has already lost its credibility by giving Israel free rein, said Francesca Albanese, a UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, in response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement: “If we abandon Gaza … we kill our own credibility in the rest of the world,” Anadolu reports.

Albanese wrote on X on Saturday: “Tragically, it’s already done: the West has sacrificed its credibility…

Egypt unveiled plans on Sunday to build a desert city that will see about 7% of Egypt’s annual Nile River quota rerouted from fertile delta land to pass by upscale glass-fronted housing units and eventually a large agricultural project, Reuters reports.

Egypt, facing mounting water shortages, power constraints, and a deepening economic crisis, wants the development to help increase the value of state assets and boost land prices through “non-traditional,…

Gaza City is facing an unprecedented water crisis as supplies fell below 25% of the minimum requirement, local authorities warned on Sunday, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, Gaza Municipality said that 75% of the city’s water wells have been destroyed by the Israeli army since October 2023.

The remaining water wells operate for a few hours daily with a limited amount of fuel due to the Israeli blockade and closure of the territory’s border crossings, it…

An Arab-Islamic ministerial delegation held a virtual meeting on Sunday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Israel barred the group from visiting the West Bank city of Ramallah, Anadolu reports.

Addressing a press conference following the meeting, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that the meeting with Abbas aimed to “push for a just and comprehensive peace.”

“We want peace and are working for it,” he said. “Israel, however, is doing everything on the ground…

Iraq and Lebanon issued a joint call on Sunday to rescue the besieged Gaza Strip, which continues to suffer under an Israeli genocidal war ongoing for over 20 months, Anadolu reports.

The plea came during a joint press conference in Baghdad between Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and visiting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.

Sudani expressed Iraq’s full support for political consensus within Lebanon and condemned the “ongoing aggression by the…

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas called on the UN on Sunday to form an independent international commission to investigate Israeli killings of civilians seeking humanitarian aid in the enclave, Anadolu reports.

At least 35 civilians were killed and over 150 others injured when Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians seeking aid in al-Mawasi, west of Rafah city in southern Gaza, early Sunday.

“This massacre confirms the fascist nature of the (Israeli) occupation and its criminal…