Category: 2. Middle East

Rescuers said an Israeli strike on Monday killed at least 20 people at a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, as Israel steps up what it calls an offensive to destroy Hamas.

The intensified violence, after a nearly three-month blockade of humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip, has sharpened international condemnation of Israel.

World leaders meeting in Madrid at the weekend called for an end to the “inhumane” and “senseless” war, while humanitarian organisations said the trickle of…

Rescuers said devastating Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 52 people on Monday, 33 of them in a school turned shelter.

The civil defence agency said many of the casualties at the school in Gaza City were children, while the Israeli military said the site was housing “key terrorists”.

Israel has stepped up a renewed offensive to destroy Hamas, drawing international condemnation as aid trickles in following a nearly three-month blockade that has sparked severe food and medical…

US President Donald Trump on Sunday described the latest negotiations between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s nuclear program as “very, very good.”

Speaking on the tarmac at Morristown airport before boarding Air Force One, Trump hailed “real progress, serious progress” following a fifth round of nuclear talks, which wrapped up in Rome on Friday.

The Oman-mediated talks, which began in April, are the highest-level contact between the countries since the United States quit a landmark 2015…

Alaa al-Najjar was tending to wounded children at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip when the news came through: the home where her own 10 children were staying had been bombed in an Israeli air strike.

The paediatrician, with no means of transport, ran from the Nasser Hospital to the family house in the city of Khan Yunis, a relative told AFP, only to be met with every parent’s worst nightmare.

“When she saw the charred bodies, she started screaming and crying,” said Ali al-Najjar, the…

Spain’s foreign minister insisted Sunday that the two-state solution is the only alternative to conflict between Israel and Palestine and is pushing for concrete measures to advance it at an international meeting in Madrid, Anadolu reports.

“What’s the alternative? Kill all the Palestinians? Send them, I don’t know where—to the moon?” Jose Manuel Albares said in a speech ahead of the meeting.

Madrid is hosting a group of 20 countries—foreign…

UK opposition leader Kemi Badenoch has claimed that Israel is fighting a “proxy war on behalf of the UK” in Gaza, drawing parallels between the conflict and Ukraine’s war against Russia, Anadolu reports.

In an interview with Sky News’ Trevor Phillips on Sunday, Badenoch made the controversial statement while defending Israel’s ongoing genocidal attacks on Gaza.

The comments come amid mounting international criticism of Israel’s actions and a sharp diplomatic fallout.

Badenoch…

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz held talks with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and his delegation in Ankara on Sunday to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral economic cooperation, Anadolu reports.

“During our meeting, we held comprehensive consultations on deepening our economic cooperation in the new period. We evaluated the steps to be jointly taken toward financial and economic reforms and increasing prosperity in Syria,” Yilmaz said in a statement…

The UN World Food Program (WFP) called Sunday for a “sustained, and daily” flow of humanitarian aid into the Israel-besieged Gaza Strip amid famine fears in the war-torn Palestinian territory, Anadolu reports.

“Families in Gaza remain on the brink of starvation. Letting aid in is the first step – we need a sustained, daily flow of trucks,” the UN agency said in a statement.

“We also need the ability to move and distribute aid inside Gaza safely and…

At least 14 Palestinians were injured, and eight others detained in Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, medics said, Anadolu reports.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said a young Palestinian was run over by a military jeep in the town of Bruqin, west of the northern city of Salfit, and was hospitalized for medical attention.

Medics treated another Palestinian in the field after being assaulted by Israeli soldiers, the organization…

Germany’s deputy foreign minister on Sunday warned about Gaza’s deteriorating humanitarian crisis, calling for an immediate ceasefire and diplomatic solution to end the ongoing conflict, Anadolu reports.

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains unbearable,” Florian Hahn said in a statement, ahead of his meeting with counterparts in Madrid to discuss the latest developments.

Hahn emphasized that ending the war in Gaza and creating a path for diplomatic efforts toward a political…