Category: 2. Middle East

The United Nations has received permission from Israel for about 100 more emergency aid trucks to enter Gaza, though the first supplies to have entered in weeks remained under Israeli control, a spokesperson said today, according to Reuters.

International humanitarian experts have warned of looming famine in the Palestinian enclave of 2.3 million people and the growing outcry has pushed Israel to lift an 11-week total blockade on aid supplies.

“We have…

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group’s “chief negotiator” for any future talks after a decision to disband.

A spokesman for the Kurdish group, blacklisted as a “terrorist” organisation by Ankara and its Western allies, told AFP in an interview on Monday that Turkey has not yet provided guarantees for a peace process, and expressed objection to exiling PKK members.

In recent months, the PKK has…

The mother of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah announced on Tuesday that she was returning to a full hunger strike to protest against her son’s lengthy imprisonment in Egypt.

Laila Soueif, 69, eased her strike in March after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he had “pressed” for Fattah’s release in a call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

She began consuming 300 calories a day through a liquid nutritional supplement but still went without food.

With her son still…

As part of the US-led African Lion 2025 military exercises, Morocco is hosting the Israel’s Golani Brigade, the same unit held responsible for the paramedics’ massacre in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, in which 15 paramedics, UN workers, and rescue personnel were killed.

The appearance of Israeli Golani Brigade soldiers in Morocco has provoked anger among activists on social media.

Images circulated online show the soldiers posing for a group photo at the…

King’s College, Cambridge, has become the first Oxbridge institution to commit to wholly divest millions from the arms industry as well as companies complicit in the illegal occupation of Palestine by the end of the calendar year, the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign reported today.

The announcement was made in an email to all students by Provost Dr Gillian Tett after a vote by the Governing Body last night. It follows almost a year of sustained campaigning from…

Hamas has called for legal action against Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who affirmed his government’s efforts to destroy the Gaza Strip and force its residents to leave.

In a statement issued yesterday, the Palestinian resistance movement said Smotrich’s “unequivocal admission” that Israel commits massacres against the Palestinians in Gaza in order to force them to leave is a “clear and new admission of Israel’s commission of the…

Hamas has described the Israeli Special Forces’ covert operation in Khan Yunis and their attempt to abduct a leader in the Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din Brigades, Ahmed Kamel Sarhan, as evidence of yet another failure by Israel.

Hamas said in a statement the Israeli special force entered into the area disguised as displaced women to abduct Sarhan and used his wife and child as human shields to withdraw from the area after their operation failed, which is a “blatant…

Britain and Iran summoned each other’s diplomats in London and Tehran yesterday after British authorities charged three Iranian nationals under a national security law following a major counter-terrorism investigation, Reuters reported.

Britain said it had summoned Iranian Ambassador Seyed Ali Mousavi to appear at its Foreign Office, while Iran summoned the British charge d’affaires in Tehran over the arrests of its nationals, calling the accusations “false claims”.

The three men…