Category: 2. Middle East

Rights groups on Tuesday urged judges to halt Britain’s supply of fighter jet parts to Israel amid the war in Gaza, as they took the government to court and accused it of breaking international law.

Supported by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and others, the Palestinian rights association Al-Haq is seeking a court order to stop the government’s export of UK-made components for Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets.

Israel has used the US warplanes to devastating effect in Gaza and the West…

Gaza rescuers said Israeli strikes in the vicinity of a hospital in the south of the Palestinian territory killed at least 28 people Tuesday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the military would enter Gaza “with full force” in the coming days.

A day earlier, the release of 21-year-old US-Israeli Edan Alexander, who had been in Hamas captivity since their October 2023 attack on Israel, offered a brief pause in the fighting.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 28 people…

The US Senate’s top Democrat announced Tuesday he would hold up all Justice Department political appointees in protest over President Donald Trump’s acceptance of a $400 million luxury plane as a gift from Qatar.

The Gulf state’s royal family has offered to donate a 747-8 jumbo jet as Trump awaits the delayed delivery of two new presidential planes from Boeing.

But the move raises huge constitutional and ethical questions — as well as security concerns about using an aircraft donated by a…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military will enter Gaza “with full force” in the coming days, despite ongoing ceasefire efforts and the release of a US-Israeli hostage from the war-ravaged territory.

“In the very coming days, we are going in with full force to complete the operation,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying in a statement from his office on Tuesday.

“Completing the operation means defeating Hamas. It means destroying Hamas,” Netanyahu said.

“There will be no…

Gaza’s Ministry of Interior and National Security announced today that it is mourning Brigadier General Ahmed Al-Qudra, chief of the anti-narcotics police and member of the police command council, after he was assassinated in an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis early this morning, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

In a statement, the Interior Ministry said Al-Qudra had remained dedicated to his job throughout the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza and…

Amnesty International has called on German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to cancel his planned meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, citing the Israeli prime minister’s role in war crimes and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

“Steinmeier’s visit is definitely not appropriate,” said Katja Muller-Fahlbusch, a Middle East expert at Amnesty International’s German branch, in an interview with Anadolu.

“His planned meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

A Saudi-American summit opened in the capital Riyadh today in the presence of US President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, according to Saudi media.

Al-Ikhbariya TV said the official summit is taking place at the Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh, during which new agreements between the two countries will be signed.

Trump was welcomed by Bin Salman at the royal palace and given an official reception.

At the ceremony, Trump and Bin Salman welcomed…