Category: 2. Middle East

Israeli Defence Minister, Israel Katz, has reaffirmed that Israel will continue to block the entry of critical humanitarian supplies such as food, medicine, fuel and cooking oil into Gaza, despite mounting international criticism from medical aid groups.

“Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza,” Katz said in a statement yesterday. “And blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with…

Hamas accused Israel on Thursday of using starvation as a “weapon of war” after Defence Minister, Israel Katz, acknowledged that Tel Aviv was blocking food and aid into the enclave to pressure the Resistance group, Anadolu Agency reports.

On Wednesday, Katz said that Israel’s policy is to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza as “one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population.”

“Katz’s…

Clashes between Sudanese paramilitaries and the army have killed at least 57 civilians in the besieged Darfur city of El-Fasher, medical and activist sources said Thursday, with civilians fearing a looming bloodbath as fighters close in.

The local resistance committee, a grassroots aid group, said the civilians were killed on Wednesday in clashes following an artillery attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the army since April 2023.

The violence came just days…

Already worn down by years of political turmoil and economic hardships, Libyans are now facing a sharp deterioration in their purchasing power after a sudden devaluation of the Libyan dinar.

Experts have said the national currency’s exchange rate decline came as a consequence of ballooning public expenditures by the country’s rival governments in recent years.

Libya has Africa’s most abundant hydrocarbon reserves, but it is struggling to recover from years of conflict after the 2011…

Clashes between Sudanese paramilitaries and the regular army have killed at least 57 civilians in the besieged Darfur city of El-Fasher, a medical source and a volunteer aid group said Thursday.

The local resistance committee, a grassroots aid group, said the civilians were killed on Wednesday in clashes and shelling of the city by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army since April 2023.

The violence came just days after the RSF killed more than 400 people in attacks on…

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on Wednesday, threatened to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enrol international students if it does not hand over detailed records on some international students, Anadolu Agency reports.

“Harvard bending the knee to anti-Semitism—driven by its spineless leadership—fuels a cesspool of extremist riots and threatens our national security,” said DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, in a statement.

“With…

At least 62 Sudanese civilians were killed and 75 others were wounded in artillery shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Al-Fashir, the capital city of North Darfur State in western Sudan, the army said on Thursday. Seventeen women and 15 children were among the victims in the “indiscriminate” shelling that targeted the city yesterday.

According to the Sudanese Army, its troops responded to the RSF attacks on the city, killing 70 rebels,…

Members of the British Jewish community have warned that “Israel’s soul is being ripped out” by the genocidal military campaign in Gaza, an onslaught they say that is fundamentally at odds with Jewish values and is causing immense suffering while failing to achieve its stated goal of returning Israeli captives.

In a powerful open letter published in the Financial Times, 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a historically pro-Israel body,…