Category: 2. Middle East

The Cairo Criminal Court has extended the inclusion of 11 individuals on the list of “terrorists” for an additional five years.

The decision, issued by the Second Circuit of the Badr Criminal Court headed by Judge Wagdy Mohamed Abdel Moneim, included Mahmoud Mohamed Fathy Badr, Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Rahman Abdel Hadi, Ali Al-Sayed Ahmed Mohamed Battikh, Mohamed Abdel Rahman Morsi Ramadan, Mohamed Abu Huraira Mohamed Abdel Rahman, Khaled Ahmed Ahmed Abu Shadi,…

Standing in the rubble of what used to be his home, Palestinian farmer Haitham Dababseh cleared stones to make space for a tent after Israeli army bulldozers destroyed his village in the occupied West Bank.

Residents of Khallet al-Dabaa and other hamlets in the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta region have for years contended with violence from Israeli settlers and repeated demolitions.

But the bulldozers that descended on Khallet al-Dabaa on Monday carried out “the biggest demolition we’ve ever had”,…

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians eat only one meal every two or three days amid a crippling Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said yesterday.

“More than 66,000 children in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition,” UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna told Al-Ghad TV in an interview.

Since 2 March, Israel has kept Gaza’s crossings completely sealed, banning the entry of food, water, medical and…

The sound of Chinese fighter jets roared over the Egyptian pyramids and could echo across the Middle East, as Beijing wrapped up military drills with Cairo, Reuters reports.

On Monday, China’s military released videos of its fast jets, helicopters and transport planes flying high above the Sahara and hailing inaugural joint air force exercises with Egypt as “a signal of deepening military ties and shifting alliances.”

The joint exercises with one of the…

A US F/A-18 fighter jet was lost in the Red Sea yesterday after veering off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, marking the second such incident within about a week.

Two US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the aircraft failed to come to a proper stop after landing on the carrier. One of them confirmed that the pilots ejected before the plane fell into the water and were rescued by a recovery helicopter.

The US Navy has not…

Hamas said one of its commanders was killed in an Israeli strike on the south Lebanon city of Sidon on Wednesday, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the dawn strike killed one person.

Hamas named him as Khaled Ahmed al-Ahmed and said he was on his way to pray.

“As we mourn our heroic martyr, we pledge to God Almighty, and then to our people and our nation, to continue on the path of resistance,” the Palestinian…

A climate scientist who works as an advisor for Saudi Arabia’s NEOM megacity project has warned that its construction could alter local environments and weather patterns, amid a broader series of controversies surrounding the kingdom’s flagship project.

According to the Financial Times, Donald Wuebbles – an expert in atmospheric physics and chemistry, as well as a professor at the University of Illinois, who is a paid adviser to NEOM – told the paper that…

US President Donald Trump’s administration may deport migrants to Libya for the first time this week, three US officials said yesterday according to Reuters, as part of his immigration crackdown and despite Washington’s past condemnation of Libya’s harsh treatment of detainees.

Two of the officials said the US military could fly the migrants to the North African country today, but stressed that plans could still change.

The Pentagon referred queries to the…

São Paulo – The Latin Palestinian Forum, in partnership with Mesquita Brasil, hosted a significant cultural and academic evening yesterday featuring renowned Palestinian historian Nur Masalha, who delivered a compelling lecture on the history of Palestine. The event marked the launch of the Portuguese edition of his latest book, “Palestine Across the Millennia.”

Held at the iconic Mesquita Brasil, the event drew a large and diverse audience, including…

With the lights kept on 24 hours a day and allowed outside for just 30 minutes a few times a week, a French couple held in Iran since May 2022 on Wednesday marked three years of incarceration in the Islamic republic, with no immediate prospect of an end to their ordeal.

Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, held on spying charges they vehemently deny, are jailed in extremely tough conditions and feeling increasingly hopeless, according to their families.

They are among a number of Europeans still…