Dozens of Palestinians have been wounded by live fire and taken to hospital due to the violent Israeli incursion in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. The deadly Israeli operation has prompted reaction from [ More … ]
On the eve of Blinken’s Middle East tour, Israel carried out drone strikes on an Iranian factory. The attack comes amid growing tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and its continued supply of weapons to Russia, [ More … ]
As heavily armed Israeli soldiers stormed the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, at least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed and about 20 wounded. The Palestinian Ministry of [ More … ]
Palestine Islamic Resistance Movement has strongly denied, in a statement issued Monday, Haaretz’s media reports about Hamas-Turkish relations. A senior Hamas official on Monday strongly denied Israeli claims that Turkey has imposed restrictions on leaders [ More … ]
A senior Israeli official has criticized the extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, for storming Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday morning. The senior Israeli official said Itamar Ben-Gvir’s storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque had “destroyed the [ More … ]
Sisi has asked the US to pressure Ethiopia to reach an agreement with Egypt on the Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington. Meanwhile, [ More … ]
A new report on Israeli apartheid has recently been launched by a Palestinian coalition of human rights organizations, notably the Al-Haq organization amid an escalating Israeli crackdown on Palestinian human rights and advocacy work. The [ More … ]
Israel’s Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir agree to legalise controversial evacuated settlement outposts in the West Bank Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised his far-right ally Itamar Ben Gvir that the West Bank illegal settler [ More … ]
Egyptian geckos have invaded Israel, devoured crops, and threatened the ecological balance in Wadi Araba Israeli Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) says it is seeking help from residents of Wadi Araba following an invasion of [ More … ]
Gunfire from the positions of Israeli forces was likely responsible for the death of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, says US security coordinator. However, there was no definitive conclusion on the origin of the bullet, the [ More … ]
Qatar is most likely to host the upcoming talks between Iran and the US, mediated by the European Union, to close the remaining gaps in efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal. This comes amid [ More … ]
The Israeli government has reportedly approved ‘a special program to strengthen economic relations with Egypt’, reported INSS. Citing Ofir Winter, a researcher, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) reported that the Israeli government last [ More … ]
An estimated 25,000 far-right Israeli ultra-nationalists, some chanting “Death to Arabs”, marched through the Muslim quarter of occupied Jerusalem yesterday in a now annual event seen as a major threat to the status quo in [ More … ]
On the Nakba Day anniversary, known in Israel as the Independence Day, an Israeli orchestra has reportedly performed at pyramids in Egypt, amid a boom in the Israeli-Egyptian economic ties. An Israeli orchestra performed near [ More … ]
Israeli forces have shot Shireen Abu Akleh in the head while she was on assignment in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces on Wednesday 11 May 2022 shot dead Al Jazeera’s journalist Shireen [ More … ]
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