Category: 2. Middle East

Nael Barghouti, the world’s longest-serving political prisoner, has described the Israeli occupation’s prisons as “graveyards” and condemned the world’s “disgraceful” silence about the Palestinians’ endless suffering.

In a statement issued yesterday, 65-year-old Barghouti, who was freed in February as part of a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel, said the world’s overwhelming attention when it comes to the release of Israeli captives…

A court in Mauritania yesterday sentenced former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to 15 years in prison on corruption charges, according to an Anadolu correspondent.

The ruling was issued during a session dedicated to announcing the verdict in the “Decade of Corruption” case, referring to Ould Abdel Aziz’s ten-year rule, in which he and several of his senior officials were charged.

The court also ordered the dissolution of the Al-Rahma Charity…

The Israeli military intensified its airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, leaving more than 100 Palestinians killed even as ceasefire talks resumed in Qatar.

What happened: The Palestinian Quds News Network cited medical sources saying that 115 Palestinians, mostly women and children, had been killed since dawn on Thursday in a wave of Israeli attacks on residential areas and displaced camps.

The total casualties include at least 61 people killed in a series of strikes in Khan Younis,…

Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation army fire in the West Bank today amid rising escalation in the occupied territory, security sources said.

The four lost their lives when Israeli occupation forces besieged and opened fire on a house in the town of Tammun, south of Tubas in northwestern West Bank, the sources told the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Israeli forces seized the bodies of the four Palestinians, the sources said.

Meanwhile,…

Israeli troops killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Tammun Thursday, in a raid the military described as targeting buildings suspected of being used to plan terror attacks.

“The occupation forces killed five young men after besieging a house in the centre of the village,” Tammun mayor Samir Qteishat told AFP.

“The (Israeli) army took four bodies, and we found a fifth martyr, the charred body, after the (Israeli) forces left,” he added.

The Israeli military meanwhile…

Another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza today, bringing to 216 the number of media personnel killed since October 2023, local authorities said.

Hassan Sammour, an anchor for Al-Aqsa Voice Radio, and his family were killed in the pre-dawn strike that hit eastern Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, the government media office said in a statement.

The media office denounced Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists and called on…