Category: 2. Middle East

Israel said Monday that it will give a 60-day ultimatum for the Palestinian group Hamas to disarm, threatening to resume war if the Palestinian group fails to comply, Anadolu reports.

Hamas “will have to give up all…

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir “stepped on prisoners’ heads” at Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank last Friday, a Palestinian rights group said Monday, Anadolu reports.

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Dr. Tariq Lubani, an emergency physician and medical director of Glia International, has rejected claims by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) alleging that hospitals in Gaza are being used in violation of international…

In another sign of growing concern over Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land, former US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has revealed that she held a meeting with Bethlehem’s mayor,…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that reaching an agreement with Iran remains difficult due to the ideological leadership structure in Tehran but emphasized Washington’s willingness to pursue…

The European Union on Monday called on Israel to reverse its recent decision to register large areas of the West Bank as “state property,” recalling that annexation is illegal, Anadolu reports.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) started a military drill in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, a day before a second round of indirect nuclear negotiations with the United States, Anadolu reports.

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Director Emin Alper used the premiere of his film Kurtulus at the Berlin Film Festival to draw attention to the war in Gaza, declaring that “genocide is taking place in Gaza” despite earlier warnings from festival…

Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has reaffirmed Helsinki’s support for a two-state solution after meeting Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Jerusalem, Anadolu reports.

“I reaffirmed Finland’s…