Category: 2. Middle East

Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejected accusations brought by Britain following the weekend arrest of seven Iranians in two separate counter-terrorism operations, state media reported today according to Reuters.

Four of the detained Iranians were suspected of plotting to target specific premises, while the three others were suspected of involvement in foreign power threat activity, according to British police, who extended their detention until Saturday for…

Hamas denied US President Donald Trump’s accusations that it seizes aid sent to the Gaza Strip, describing his statements as a “strange repetition of the lies” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which seeks to justify the crime of starving Palestinians.

The movement said in a statement that “US President Donald Trump’s statements accusing Hamas of controlling humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip are nothing but a strange echoing…

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced yesterday that he intends to impose a ban on wearing the hijab in universities.

Retailleau told RMC television that he wants to ban the hijab in universities, claiming “there is an Islamism that is incompatible with traditional Islamic beliefs.”

“I would like to see this happen because I recognise that there is a form of Islamism that does not reflect traditional Muslim faith. In my opinion, these are…

Egyptian parliamentarian Mustafa Bakri said that the Israeli raids on Yemen, as well as the American-British bombing campaign, “aimed to destroy Yemen and its civilisation,” stressing his rejection of them despite his “disagreements” with the Houthis.

Bakri added in a post on X on Monday that the Israeli, American and British raids “aimed to kill our people and destroy Yemen,” warning: “The Yemeni people are capable of putting an end to the…

The UN’s human rights chief told AFP Wednesday that Israel’s plan for an expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip represented “a very dangerous moment” for civilians there.

“What we see is only more destruction, more hatred, more dehumanisation,” said Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, during a visit to Copenhagen for a UN meeting.

“It’s a very dangerous moment for civilians,” he added, criticising the Israeli plan for an expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip.

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Gaza’s civil defence agency said Wednesday that Israeli bombardment killed at least 26 people, 15 of them in a strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.

Israel has drawn international condemnation over its plans to expand its military offensive in the Palestinian territory, ravaged by 19 months of war. Israel’s far-right finance minister called Tuesday for Gaza to be “entirely destroyed”.

“Our teams retrieved 15 martyrs and 10 injured individuals after Israeli occupation…

The Turkish intelligence has seized 1,300 booby-trapped pagers intended for Lebanon, identical to those used in the attack in the country in September, Turkiye’s Sabah newspaper reported.

According to the report, a few days after the Mossad bombing of pagers in Lebanon, another 1,300 pagers were seized in Istanbul airport en route to Lebanon.

According to the report, the Turkish Intelligence Organisation (MIT) received information about the pager shipment…

There is no point in holding any ceasefire talks with Israel as it continues “the hunger and extermination war”, Bassem Naim, member of Hamas’s political bureau said yesterday.

He called on the international community to pressure the Israeli occupation government to stop the “crime of hunger, thirst and killing” practiced against Palestinians.

“There is no sense in engaging in talks or considering new ceasefire proposals as long as the hunger and…

Israel’s military demolished a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Monday, as part of an increased campaign to displace Palestinians and make way for incoming Jewish settlers.

According to Oscar winner Basel Adra – a Palestinian filmmaker, journalist, and activist from the area – on Monday morning the Israeli occupation’s military bulldozers stormed the Palestinian bedouin village of Khalet Al-Dab in the occupied West Bank area of Masafer…