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Nine EU members have called on the European Commission to assess how trade in goods and services linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory can be aligned with international law, Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot announced on Thursday, Anadolu reports.

Prevot said on X that the request follows the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) recent advisory opinion, which underlined that third…

Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP) in collaboration with the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration filed an “unprecedented” court application in Barbados on Thursday charging Israel with genocide and crimes against humanity for its continuing killing, starvation and displacement of the Palestinian people.

A statement by the litigants said their application includes: a declaration that the State of Israel is committing genocide; that it is…

The damage was hard to comprehend for many at Israel’s Soroka Hospital as staff took stock of the wreckage after a strike by an Iranian ballistic missile on Thursday left part of the facility in ruins.

The strike in the southern city of Beersheba caused extensive damage to the hospital’s entrance hall and several departments, including the ophthalmology unit on the third floor of the surgical building.

The explosion shattered windows, hurling glass across the hospital, brought ceilings…

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he will decide whether to join Israel’s strikes on Iran within the next two weeks as there is still a “substantial” chance of negotiations to end the conflict.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt read out a message from Trump, saying there had been “a lot of speculation” about whether the United States would be “directly involved” in the conflict.

“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place…