Category: 2. Middle East

Hamas yesterday warned the Palestinian Authority of the repercussions of its security forces’ behaviour on the Palestinian national and social fabric.

This came after a young man was killed by PA security forces in the Far’a refugee camp in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank yesterday.

In a statement Hamas mourned Rami Zahran and called for a unified national stance against these “unpatriotic practices”.

According to field testimonies, PA forces…

Seventeen Palestinian children, accompanied by their families, returned to the Gaza Strip yesterday after completing their treatment in hospitals in Jordan.

The children passed through the King Hussein border crossing between Jordan and Palestine as part of the Jordanian Medical Corridor initiative launched by the kingdom to provide urgent medical aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

The children had arrived in Jordan on 4 March as part of the first medical evacuation…

Israeli occupation forces yesterday killed 28 Palestinians in a strike that targeted the Gaza European Hospital east of Khan Yunis under the pretext of targeting Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, Israeli media reported.

The Health Ministry and Civil Defence in Gaza said in separate statements that the Israeli bombing killed 34 Palestinians – six inside the European Hospital and 28 in an adjacent house belonging to the Al-Afghani family – as a result of fire belts…

Gaza rescuers said at least 80 people were killed in Israeli bombardment across the Palestinian territory on Wednesday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US envoy Steve Witkoff about the release of hostages.

Negotiations for the release of the captives held in Gaza have been ongoing, with the latest talks taking place in the Qatari capital Doha, where US President Donald Trump was visiting on Wednesday.

Netanyahu’s office said the premier had discussed with Witkoff and…

Gaza rescuers said at least 29 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff over the release of hostages.

Negotiations for the release of the remaining hostages have been ongoing, with the latest talks taking place in the Qatari capital Doha, where US President Donald Trump landed on Wednesday.

Netanyahu’s office said the premier had discussed with Witkoff and his negotiating team “the issue of the…

Gaza rescuers said at least 29 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday as negotiations took place in Qatar for the release of hostages still held in the war-battered territory.

“At least 25 martyrs were killed and dozens wounded” in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, while another four people were killed in a strike on the southern city of Khan Yunis, civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

Mohammad Awad, an emergency doctor in north Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital, told AFP that…

Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport will resume operations today, the airport’s General Director Khaled Al-Shayef said yesterday.

The announcement came after a visit by the prime minister, the first deputy prime minister, and the minister of transport and public works to the airport to inspect the damage caused by a series of Israeli air strikes earlier this month.

“The technical and engineering teams completed the development work according to the…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee on Sunday that Tel Aviv is “destroying more and more houses [in Gaza] so the Palestinians will have nowhere to return,” according to quotes from the session leaked to the media.

“The only obvious result will be Gazans choosing to emigrate outside of the Strip,” Netanyahu continued, adding that Israel’s “main problem is finding countries to…

US President Donald Trump said yesterday that Yemen’s Houthis are tough fighters but have agreed to stop targeting American ships.

Speaking during the Saudi–US Investment Forum in Riyadh, Trump said: “We’ve launched more than 1,100 strikes against the Houthis. They’re tough, they’re fighters, but they agreed to stop targeting US ships.”

He added that the United States had not intended to strike the Houthis, but their attacks on vessels — and…