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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a halt to aid deliveries to northern Gaza after far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to quit the coalition, citing unverified claims that Hamas was looting humanitarian supplies.

Smotrich reportedly made the ultimatum during a cabinet meeting, referencing a widely circulated video on social media showing armed men atop aid trucks. Although the footage was quickly seized upon by pro-government…

Slovenia has announced that it will take joint action with like-minded countries if the European Union does not take concrete steps within the next two weeks to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, which has been under a deadly Israeli assault for the past 21 months.

Speaking to journalists on the side-lines of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob criticised some EU member states for prioritising…

One week after the US strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, there is no consensus as to how effective they were.

With those strikes, Washington joined Israel’s bombardments of Iran’s nuclear programme in the 12-day conflict launched on June 13.

Israel said its campaign was aimed at ending Iran’s nuclear programme, which Tehran insists is for civilian purposes but which Washington and other powers insist is aimed at acquiring atomic weapons.

Here is an overview of the different positions on…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday filed a formal request with the Jerusalem District Court to postpone his upcoming testimony in his criminal trial by two weeks citing “diplomatic, national and security issues of the first order,”.

The request, submitted by Netanyahu’s attorney, Amit Hadad, claimed that in the wake of the war on Iran, as well as “additional regional and international developments”, the prime minister must devote all…

Director of UNRWA Affairs in the West Bank, Roland Friedrich warned Thursday that the region has not truly enjoyed any “truce,” as the Israeli occupation army has been destroying dozens of buildings over the past 12 days.

Friedrich explained that the Israeli occupation forces continue to demolish homes and buildings in the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams refugee camps, depriving many families of a minimum level of dignity, who could not salvage any of their…

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday branded a controversial Israel- and US-backed food distribution effort in Gaza as “slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid”, calling for it to be ended.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which began operating last month and has largely replaced established humanitarian organisations, “is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies”, MSF said in a…