Category: 1. Palestine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met United States President Donald Trump at the White House, with the two leaders repeating their controversial proposal to forcibly transfer thousands of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip.

Trump and Netanyahu met for dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on Monday as indirect talks in Qatar between Israel and Hamas on US-backed proposals for a 60-day ceasefire to end the 21-month Gaza war appeared to gather some momentum.

Netanyahu told…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- After 21 months of relentless Israeli genocide, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are crammed into a fraction of their land, living with “less personal space than detainees at Guantanamo,” according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Euro-Med Monitor said that “each person in Gaza now has just 24 m² – about the space of a Guantanamo cell. But these aren’t prisoners. They’re civilians trapped in tents, rubble, and…

The global economy is on edge as United States President Donald Trump’s July 9 deadline looms for the imposition of double-digit tariffs on most trading partners.

On Monday, Trump announced tariffs on 14 countries, ranging from 25 to 40 percent. The targeted countries include close US allies like Japan and South Korea, as well as Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Tunisia, South Africa, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Indonesia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

And with only a few…

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun received American diplomat Thomas Barrack in Beirut on Monday and gave him the Lebanese state’s reply to a proposal from the United States about disarming Hezbollah.

Barrack, ambassador to Turkiye and special envoy for Syria, said Lebanon’s response was “something spectacular” and that he was “unbelievably satisfied” by the reply, which has not been made public as of yet.

The visit comes amid continued Israeli attacks on alleged Hezbollah targets…

Trio charged with assault and other offences after incident at restaurant in Melbourne.

Three people have been charged with assault and other offences allegedly committed during a pro-Palestinian protest at an Israeli-owned restaurant in Melbourne, Australia.

A 50-year-old man and two women, aged 48 and 28, were charged with assault, affray, riotous behaviour and criminal damage, Victoria Police said on Tuesday.

Police allege that several people were involved in an altercation in which chairs…

Washington (Quds News Network)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is working with the US to find countries that will accept Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza, pushing Trump’s controversial Gaza “take over” plan.

Fielding questions from reporters before their White House dinner, Trump was asked whether his plan to “take over” Gaza and forcibly expel the Strip’s population is still on the table.

Trump asked Netanyahu to answer the…

As torrential rains slammed central parts of the US state of Texas and the death toll from the resulting floods grew into the dozens over the weekend, rumours started to spread online about a sliver of good news.

Two girls had allegedly been found alive in a tree near Comfort, Texas.

Louis Amestoy, editor of The Kerr County Lead, was sceptical, but the messages he was getting about the miraculous rescue would not stop, he said. A ground report on social media from a volunteer seemed to…

Roman Starovoit was found dead near his car in the Moscow region hours after President Vladimir Putin dismissed him.

Russia’s top criminal investigation agency is probing the death of Roman Starovoit, a former transport minister whose body was found with a gunshot wound near his car, hours after President Vladimir Putin dismissed him from his post.

Authorities on Monday said the 53-year-old politician’s body was discovered near a Tesla vehicle abandoned near a park in the Moscow region,…

The Hague (Quds News Network)- A group of 48 countries has expressed “deep concern” over the United States’ recent sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC), condemning all threats and attacks directed at the court’s judges and staff. The sanctions were imposed after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an earlier investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan.

“We stand with the court and are determined to…

India and Pakistan went to war in May this year. The military clashes have ceased, but the narrative battle continues.

In this series, a first of its kind on Al Jazeera, journalist Sreenivasan Jain interviews leading voices from both sides of the border and examines what India’s new normal – which Pakistan calls a new “abnormal” – means for both countries.

In this…