Category: 2. Middle East

Israeli settlers reportedly attacked three foreign activists in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank today, according to Safa.

The attack took place in the village of Susiya while the activists were documenting incidents of settlers harassing Palestinian shepherds and farmers. According to eyewitnesses, the settlers beat the activists during the filming of the assault.

Three international Palestine solidarity activists were injured…

UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has called for the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza and for putting in place a ruling authority over the enclave which doesn’t include Hamas in order to restore calm.

“First, getting the hostages out, we need calm in Gaza, and we need an authority that’s not Hamas that controls Gaza,” he told Fox News network.

Earlier  this week, the Emirati minister met with the Deputy President of the…

US envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, has informed mediators that Washington does not intend to force Israel to end the war on Gaza, in light of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to do so, the Times of Israel reported citing two Arab officials.

According to the Israeli paper, Qatari and Egyptian mediators had hoped the US would pressure Israel to end its military assault on the enclave, especially after President Donald Trump and several of…

Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to at least 15 Palestinian vehicles in villages near the cities of Nablus and Salfit in the occupied West Bank, local sources told Anadolu today.

According to the sources, a group of illegal settlers also attacked a well belonging to the city of Nablus.

They warned that illegal settlers may be attempting to seize control of the well, which supplies water to surrounding villages, amid repeated assaults on the area.

Eyewitnesses…

Journalist Ahmed Anwar Al-Helu and his brother Mohammed were killed yesterday evening in an Israeli air strike on the northwestern part of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information centre reports.

The Government Media Office (GMO) condemned Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists, calling on the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and all press organisations around the world to condemn…

The Council of Europe on Friday said Gaza was suffering from a “deliberate starvation”, and warned that Israel was sowing “the seeds for the next Hamas” in the territory.

“The time for a moral reckoning over the treatment of Palestinians has come — and it is long overdue,” said Dora Bakoyannis, rapporteur for the Middle East at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

The 46-member Council of Europe works to safeguard human rights and democracy.

“No cause, no matter how just or…

Leader of the Houthi group in Yemen, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, yesterday criticised US President Donald Trump’s visit to several Gulf states amid Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

“The Israeli enemy is a partner in all American financial and political gains from the Arab regimes… The Americans take money from the Arabs and generously provide the Israelis with weapons and cash,” Al-Houthi said, according to the group’s Al-Masirah TV channel.

Israeli strikes destroyed 85% of Gaza Municipality’s vehicles. [Mohammed Asad/MiddleEastMonitor]

Israeli strikes destroyed 85% of Gaza Municipality’s vehicles. [Mohammed Asad/MiddleEastMonitor]

Israeli strikes destroyed 85% of Gaza Municipality’s vehicles. [Mohammed Asad/MiddleEastMonitor]

The Palestinian Civil Defence Authority in the Gaza Strip has said its crews cannot respond to the sheer number of reported attacks…

Newly declassified documents have revealed that Western intelligence services secretly collaborated with Israel’s Mossad in the 1970s, providing critical intelligence that enabled the assassination of Palestinian activists across Europe, without any parliamentary oversight or democratic scrutiny. The revelation has fuelled concerns that similar clandestine intelligence-sharing arrangements are likely facilitating Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza…

Three Palestinians have died in Israeli custody, human rights organisations announced yesterday after receiving confirmation from the Israeli occupation authorities, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

In a joint statement, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association confirmed the death of Ayman Abdul Hadi Qdeih, 56, Bilal Talal Salama, 24, and…