Category: 2. Middle East

Israel’s military offensive on Gaza is resulting in the death of one woman every hour, UN Women has estimated

The UN agency that advances women’s rights reported that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war. Among the victims are thousands of mothers, leaving behind children, families, and devastated communities.

The agency stated that conditions in Gaza have worsened significantly since the collapse of the…

Washington admitted pressing countries to receive Gaza evacuees ‘voluntarily’, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday.

He confirmed that the United States has contacted several countries to encourage them to take in Palestinians who have, in his words, “voluntarily” left Gaza to escape Israel’s war.

This comes as Israel intensifies its military campaign across the Gaza Strip, ordering further evacuations and expanding operations aimed at…

Lufthansa Group and Italian ITA airways announced on Tuesday the extension of their suspension of flights to and from Tel Aviv until 8 June.

The decision follows nearly two weeks of disrupted air travel to and from Israel, driven by risks associated with missile attacks by the Yemen’s Houthi group (Ansar Allah), primarily targeting Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.

In a statement published on its official website, the German airline said: “Due to the current…

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas met in Beirut on Wednesday and backed placing all weapons under Lebanese state control, as they discussed efforts to disarm armed groups in Palestinian refugee camps.

A joint statement from the Lebanese presidency said the two leaders shared the “belief that the era of weapons outside Lebanese state control has ended” and backed the principle that arms should be held exclusively by the state.

Abbas’s three-day trip is his first…

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was in Beirut on Wednesday for talks expected to include the disarmament of Palestinian refugee camps as Lebanon seeks to impose its authority on all its territory.

It is Abbas’s first visit since 2017 to Lebanon, which hosts hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, 222,000 of them in overcrowded camps beyond the control of the Lebanese authorities.

State media images showed Abbas arriving at the presidential palace and meeting President Joseph…

Gaza has witnessed 326 deaths caused by hunger and medicine shortages, along with over 300 miscarriages, during an 80-day full blockade imposed by the Israeli occupation, according to medical sources in the Gaza Strip.

The sources explained that within this 80-day period of complete closure, 58 deaths were directly caused by malnutrition, while a further 242 people—mostly elderly—died due to the lack of food and essential medicine. In addition, 26 kidney…

Israel, on Tuesday, continued its new military assault on the Gaza Strip, despite mounting international criticism, DPA reported.

At least 85 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes, according to health officials.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials reported that dozens of aid trucks had been allowed into the territory.

Although humanitarian aid began arriving in Gaza two days ago, the supplies urgently needed by the local population have still not reached them,…

Israel has reached its lowest level of international standing ever, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday.

The newspaper quoted a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official as warning that the country is facing ‘a real tsunami that will only worsen’, describing the situation as ‘the worst we have ever been in’.”

The caution came in a detailed report published by the paper that outlined a series of international measures recently taken against Israel over…

Hamas, the Palestinian resistance group, accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday of using a ceasefire and hostage swap Israeli delegation in Doha to mislead the international community, saying the team lacks authority to make binding decisions.

“We consider the continued presence of the Zionist delegation in Doha — despite its clear lack of authority to reach an agreement—a blatant attempt by (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu…