Category: 2. Middle East

Ten per cent of Gaza’s Palestinian population has been killed, injured, disappeared, or detained as a result of the genocide committed in the Strip by Israel since 7 October 2023, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reported yesterday.

The Geneva-based monitor published an infographic marking 600 days since the beginning of what it described as an ongoing genocide carried out by Israel over the past 20 months.

Infographic| Over the past 19 months of…

Palestinian militant group Hamas on Thursday said it was examining a new deal proposed by a US envoy, as rescuers said at least 44 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip.

Negotiations on a ceasefire to end 18 months of devastating war have yet to yield a breakthrough since Israel resumed operations in the war-ravaged territory in March after a brief truce.

But US envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism on Wednesday, saying he expected to propose a plan soon.

Hamas later said…

The White House said Thursday Israel had “signed off” on a new Gaza ceasefire proposal submitted to Hamas, but the Palestinian militant group said the deal failed to satisfy its demands.

Negotiations to end more than 19 months of war have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough, with Israel resuming operations in Gaza in March after a brief truce.

The White House said President Donald Trump and US envoy Steve Witkoff had “submitted a ceasefire proposal to Hamas that Israel backed”.

“Israel…

US President Donald Trump will soon declare Syria a state that doesn’t sponsor terrorism, US envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack said today.

Barrack, who arrived in Damascus today, said Trump’s goal is to empower Syria’s current government.

Earlier this month, the US president ordered the lifting of sanctions on Syria.

The US envoy met with Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, the state news agency SANA said, without giving details about the content of the…

Cities and towns across the West Bank witnessed a wide-scale escalation by Israeli occupation forces overnight and into this morning. The escalation involved simultaneous raids, house searches, and arrests, accompanied by armed clashes and injuries among Palestinians, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

Local sources reported that occupation forces blew up the home of martyr Jaafar Muna in the city of Nablus after surrounding it and evacuating the…

Protesters in Israel yesterday stormed the headquarters of the ruling Likud Party in Tel Aviv in protest against the delay in agreeing a captive release deal.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth, dozens of Israeli demonstrators broke into Metzudat Ze’ev, which houses the headquarters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party, and chained themselves outside his office in protest, to mark 600 days since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

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The United States’ new envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, called for a non-aggression agreement between Syria and Israel in remarks to Saudi channel Al Arabiya on Thursday.

Syria and Israel have technically been at war since 1948, with Israel taking the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967.

Since the ouster in December of former president Bashar al-Assad, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes and multiple incursions into Syria.

Barrack, who inaugurated the US ambassador’s residence in…

“You can’t call it ‘intolerable’, yet do nothing,” more than 300 stars, celebrities and public figures say in a letter to UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, urging him to end Britains’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

“The world is watching and history will not forget. The children of Gaza cannot wait another minute,” they continue, asking the prime minister: “what will you choose? Complicity in war crimes, or the…