Category: 1. Palestine

London, United Kingdom — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has proudly described a new deal with the European Union spanning defence, security, and trade as a “win-win” pact that puts the nation “back on the world stage”.

But nine years after Britain narrowly voted in favour of leaving the EU, the deal announced on May 19 has prompted a sigh of relief for some and stinging criticism from others, underscoring just how divisive the legacy of Brexit remains in the country.

While…

Russia and Ukraine have launched a wave of drone attacks against each other overnight, even as Moscow claimed it was finalising a peace proposal to end the war.

Ukrainian air force officials said on Tuesday that Russia deployed 60 drones across multiple regions through the night, injuring 10 people. Kyiv’s air defences intercepted 43 of them – 35 were shot down while eight were diverted using electronic warfare systems.

In Dnipropetrovsk, central Ukraine, Governor Serhiy Lysak reported…

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it has started sending limited aid into Gaza, after Israel’s three-month siege. But humanitarian groups have condemned the new process, as politicised and a potential breach of international law.

Ward al-Sheikh Khalil, a young Palestinian girl, spoke to Al Jazeera after surviving an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza city. Video showed her walking among the flames of the fires that broke out. The attack killed over 36 Palestinians, including her mother and siblings.

In 2015, as a civil war was raging in South Sudan, the United Nations Security Council imposed the first set of sanctions on the country, including asset freezes and travel bans on various senior officials. Three years later, after a ceasefire agreement was repeatedly violated, the UNSC mustered the votes to impose a full arms embargo. Fragile peace eventually settled in, but the embargo was kept in place and was extended every year.

The review of the embargo is now coming up on May 29 and…

A controversial aid group engaged by Israel and backed by the United States says it has started operations in southern Gaza as the Israeli military continues its attacks across the enclave with the stated aim of taking over all of Gaza.

This comes as more than 180,000 people were displaced in Gaza in just 10 days between May 15 and May 25, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which bypasses aid distribution…

Paris (Quds News Network)- 300 French-speaking writers, including Alice Zeniter, Leïla Slimani, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Virginie Despentes, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, have signed an open letter calling for sanctions against Israel over the ongoing ‘genocide’ in Gaza.

The headline of the letter, published in French newspaper Libération, reads: “We can no longer be satisfied with the word ‘horror’; today we must name the ‘genocide’ in Gaza”.

The writers are also calling…