Category: 2. Middle East

EuroPal Forum has formally addressed a letter to members of the UK Cabinet, raising grave concerns over Israel’s latest military escalation in Gaza. The current operation, codenamed Operation Gideon’s Chariots, has already resulted in catastrophic civilian loss and mass displacement. 

Since the beginning of this week, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed, including entire families who were wiped out in Israeli airstrikes on residential homes. The…

Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn is set to introduce a parliamentary Bill on 4 June calling for an independent public inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Tabled under the Ten Minute Rule—a parliamentary mechanism that allows MPs to propose new legislation in a short speech lasting up to ten minutes — the bill seeks to examine UK political, military and economic support for Israel since October 2023.

Corbyn confirmed the move in a…

Israeli tanks stormed the courtyards of Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, north of Gaza, early today, amid intensive gunfire, burning tents used as outpatient clinics and injuring several medical employees and volunteers, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

“Israeli tanks targeted, for the second time, the hospital’s specialised surgery department at exactly 2:00am on Thursday,” Rafat Al-Majdalawi, director general of the Al-Awda Health and Community…

The Higher Committee for Tribal Affairs in Gaza yesterday warned of an Israeli plan to use local gangs to steal humanitarian aid which is being allowed to enter the enclave for the first time in 11 weeks.

In an official statement, the committee said the Israeli occupation is preventing any “attempt to protect” aid that is supposed to enter Gaza, in order to carry out a “malicious plan” aimed at “fostering chaos and theft through criminal groups working…

Spain’s parliament on Tuesday passed a non-binding motion calling on the government to impose an arms embargo on Israel in response to its military operations in Gaza.

The motion, introduced by the leftist Sumar alliance, part of the ruling coalition, along with opposition parties Podemos and the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), was approved by a vote of 176-171, El Pais reported.

The conservative People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox voted against…

At a currency exchange in Damascus, Anas al-Shammaa is one of many Syrians hopeful that promised relief from Western sanctions will help revive their country’s economy after years of war and isolation.

“We were totally cut off from the world,” said Shammaa, 45, who has been running the exchange shop since 2008.

With the lifting of sanctions, “we hope that the Syrian economy will start to recover both gradually and quickly”, he told AFP.

Syria’s economy plunged into crisis during the years of…

The Israeli army issued an evacuation warning on Thursday for 14 neighbourhoods of northern Gaza, as it pressed a renewed offensive that has drawn international condemnation.

The warning came hours after the United Nations said it had collected and begun distributing around 90 truckloads of aid in Gaza, the first such delivery since Israel imposed a total blockade on the territory on March 2.

Under global pressure for an end to the blockade and the violence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

Plumes of smoke rose Thursday over the northern Gaza Strip where Israel’s military urged civilians to evacuate, as rescuers said Israeli strikes across the territory killed more than 50 people.

The latest evacuation warning for parts of Gaza City and neighbouring areas came hours after the United Nations said it had begun distributing around 90 truckloads of aid in Gaza — the first such delivery since Israel imposed a total blockade on March 2.

Under global pressure to lift the blockade and…