Category: 2. Middle East

Israeli police were deploying near the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday ahead of an annual event marking Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem, held this year under the shadow of the war in Gaza.

Jerusalem Day, or “Yom Yerushalayim” in Hebrew, commemorates what Israel considers the reunification of the city under its authority in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Every year, thousands of Israeli nationalists, many of them religious Jews, march through the streets of Jerusalem and its annexed Old…

Palestinian rescuers said an Israeli strike at dawn on Monday killed 13 people at a Gaza City school, as Israel presses ahead with what it has described as a renewed push to destroy Hamas.

“Civil defence crews in Gaza City retrieved 13 martyrs and 21 injured from inside Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood, after the Israeli occupation forces targeted it at dawn today,” Gaza’s civil defence agency wrote on Telegram.

Israel has stepped up its offensive this month, aiming for…

Rescuers said an Israeli strike on Monday killed at least 20 people at a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, as Israel steps up what it calls an offensive to destroy Hamas.

The intensified violence, after a nearly three-month blockade of humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip, has sharpened international condemnation of Israel.

World leaders meeting in Madrid at the weekend called for an end to the “inhumane” and “senseless” war, while humanitarian organisations said the trickle of…

Rescuers said devastating Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 52 people on Monday, 33 of them in a school turned shelter.

The civil defence agency said many of the casualties at the school in Gaza City were children, while the Israeli military said the site was housing “key terrorists”.

Israel has stepped up a renewed offensive to destroy Hamas, drawing international condemnation as aid trickles in following a nearly three-month blockade that has sparked severe food and medical…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to bring back all hostages, “living and dead”, as Gaza rescuers said Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people in the war-battered Palestinian enclave.

Netanyahu’s remarks came amid confusion about the fate of a proposed 70-day ceasefire that was to see the release of 10 Israeli hostages alongside more Palestinian prisoners.

Israel has in recent weeks expanded its offensive in the Gaza Strip, drawing international condemnation as aid…

US President Donald Trump on Sunday described the latest negotiations between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s nuclear program as “very, very good.”

Speaking on the tarmac at Morristown airport before boarding Air Force One, Trump hailed “real progress, serious progress” following a fifth round of nuclear talks, which wrapped up in Rome on Friday.

The Oman-mediated talks, which began in April, are the highest-level contact between the countries since the United States quit a landmark 2015…

Alaa al-Najjar was tending to wounded children at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip when the news came through: the home where her own 10 children were staying had been bombed in an Israeli air strike.

The paediatrician, with no means of transport, ran from the Nasser Hospital to the family house in the city of Khan Yunis, a relative told AFP, only to be met with every parent’s worst nightmare.

“When she saw the charred bodies, she started screaming and crying,” said Ali al-Najjar, the…

Spain’s foreign minister insisted Sunday that the two-state solution is the only alternative to conflict between Israel and Palestine and is pushing for concrete measures to advance it at an international meeting in Madrid, Anadolu reports.

“What’s the alternative? Kill all the Palestinians? Send them, I don’t know where—to the moon?” Jose Manuel Albares said in a speech ahead of the meeting.

Madrid is hosting a group of 20 countries—foreign…

UK opposition leader Kemi Badenoch has claimed that Israel is fighting a “proxy war on behalf of the UK” in Gaza, drawing parallels between the conflict and Ukraine’s war against Russia, Anadolu reports.

In an interview with Sky News’ Trevor Phillips on Sunday, Badenoch made the controversial statement while defending Israel’s ongoing genocidal attacks on Gaza.

The comments come amid mounting international criticism of Israel’s actions and a sharp diplomatic fallout.

Badenoch…

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz held talks with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and his delegation in Ankara on Sunday to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral economic cooperation, Anadolu reports.

“During our meeting, we held comprehensive consultations on deepening our economic cooperation in the new period. We evaluated the steps to be jointly taken toward financial and economic reforms and increasing prosperity in Syria,” Yilmaz said in a statement…