Category: 2. Middle East

Algerian authorities have recovered the Sedrata ship, which has been stranded in Belgium’s Antwerp for three years.

The Algerian Maritime Transport Group explained in a statement that the maritime vessel; stranded due to technical issues, has obtained all certificates of conformity from relevant authorities and subsequently was allowed to leave.  

“This result was achieved through concerted efforts and a consensus between the Ministry of Transport and the…

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Pahani was given a hero’s welcome on his return to Tehran Monday by supporters after winning the top prize at the Cannes film festival, footage posted on social media showed.

After being banned from leaving Iran for years, forced to make films underground and enduring spells in prison, Panahi attended the French festival in person and sensationally walked away with the Palme d’Or for his latest movie “It Was Just an Accident”.

With some fans concerned that Panahi could…

Bakeries in southern Gaza supported by the UN World Food Program (WFP) ceased operations Sunday, just three days after resuming limited production due to a critical shortage of flour, according to a local bakery owner, Anadolu agency reported.

These bakeries reopened on Thursday following a nearly two-month closure to provide bread to residents of southern Gaza.

The facilities quickly ran out of the limited flour shipments that were recently allowed in, as Israel…

At least 20 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured on Sunday evening when an Israeli air strike struck a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, according to local health authorities. 

The attack occurred in the Daraj neighbourhood, where the school had been serving as a refuge for civilians fleeing ongoing hostilities. 

Medical sources reported that the air strike hit the school while many of the displaced were sleeping, leading to significant…

Swiss authorities are weighing whether to launch a legal investigation into the activities of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US-backed organisation that plans to oversee aid distribution in Gaza.

The move comes after a Swiss non-governmental organisation (NGO) filed a formal request on Sunday for an inquiry into the foundation’s aid distribution plans. 

The United Nations has criticised the initiative, saying it is “neither impartial or neutral,…

Jake Wood, the CEO of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has announced his resignation, saying current conditions make it impossible to deliver aid to Gaza without violating basic humanitarian principles—something he refuses to do.

In his resignation statement, Wood said that the current circumstances make it impossible to deliver humanitarian aid without compromising “the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I…

Crowds of Israelis streamed through Jerusalem’s Old City, where some scuffled with residents and hurled insults at Palestinians, as annual celebrations of Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem took place on Monday.

Jerusalem Day, as the celebrations are known, commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority east Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Israel considers all of Jerusalem, including the annexed east, its indivisible capital. The international community does not recognise…