Category: 2. Middle East

A Sudanese monitor accused the army Tuesday of carrying out one of the deadliest air strikes in the country’s nearly two-year war on a rebel-held town in the western region of Darfur.

The Emergency Lawyers, a group of volunteer legal professionals, said “hundreds of civilians” were killed in an “indiscriminate air strike on Tora market in North Darfur”, while two residents who took part in burial operations said they had counted 270 bodies.

AFP could not independently verify a toll or reach…

Israel on Tuesday said it had killed an Al Jazeera employee in the Gaza Strip, accusing the journalist, Hussam Shabat, of being a “sniper terrorist” for Hamas.

The Qatar-based network said Shabat was killed Monday in an Israeli strike on his vehicle in northern Gaza, in an attack that media watchdog Reporters without Borders (RSF) condemned as part of a “massacre of journalists” in the Palestinian territory.

A joint statement from the Israeli military and Shin Bet internal security agency said…

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land,” was released from Israeli custody on Tuesday, one day after he was assaulted by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and detained by Israeli forces. 

“After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family,” Yuval Abraham, Ballal’s Israeli co-director, wrote in a post on X.

What happened: On Monday night,…

Israel’s president said on Tuesday he was shocked that the issue of hostages being held by Palestinian militants in Gaza was no longer a top priority in the country, days after criticising the government’s war policy.

“I am quite shocked how suddenly the issue of the hostages is no longer at the top of the priority list and at the top of the news,” Isaac Herzog said in a video issued by his office, adding it was important to keep working towards “bringing the hostages home, down to the last…