The declaration puts the United States at odds with virtually all countries and UN Security Council resolutions The United States no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, Secretary of State [ More … ]
Middle East Observer has exclusively obtained a video clip that shows a UAE vessel while fishing in Somali territorial waters. Though the video clip that the Middle East Observer (MEO) is not professionally recorded, it shows a [ More … ]
Israeli rights group Adalah released a statement on Wednesday, calling Israel’s ban on residents of the Palestinian majority town of Umm al-Fahm in Israel from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem “illegal” and “irrational.” [ More … ]
Around 47,000 Sudanese citizens thought to be illegal residents in Saudi Arabia have been leaving various cities in the Kingdom and returning to Khartoum, the Organisation of Sudanese Expatriates Affairs (OSEA) has said. Speaking at [ More … ]
Construction began on Tuesday for the first new illegal Israeli settlement to be built in the occupied West Bank in 25 years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced. “Work has begun, as I promised, on [ More … ]
Qatar’s foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani called on the UK to condemn the blockade imposed on the Gulf state, after landing in London on Monday. Qatar’s foreign minister arrived in London on Monday, [ More … ]
Israeli authorities are advancing plans to expand an illegal settlement west of Salfit in the central occupied West Bank, to be built on tens of dunams of private Palestinian land, local sources said. According to [ More … ]
Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry visited Amman on Tuesday and met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II for bilateral talks. He also delivered a message from Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to the Jordanian king. Shoukry [ More … ]
Turkey issued a fourth condemnation on Israel’s settlement projects in less than two weeks on Feb. 7, the day Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı pays Ankara’s first ministerial visit to Tel Aviv in [ More … ]
The Egyptian military regime is using a law that was repealed 89 years ago to prosecute Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa and 493 others on charges that could lead to the penalty, according to a human [ More … ]
Plan to transplant illegal West Bank settlement of Amona to nearby Palestinian land angers Washington Washington opposes Israel’s plan to move the outpost of Amona to land that belongs to Palestinians who were forced by [ More … ]
The Israeli government has issued tenders for the construction of 323 new housing units for Jewish settlers in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli media reported Wednesday, according to Anadolu Agency. According to Israeli Radio, the [ More … ]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Israeli government to stop its settlement policy to make way for a two-state solution in the Middle East, according to Anadolu Agency. The settlements are “in flagrant [ More … ]
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry condemned on Thursday the Israeli government’s decision to build hundreds of housing units in illegal settlements in East Jerusalem. The ministry slammed Israel’s continuous building of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory [ More … ]
A Palestinian car hit an Israeli army vehicle causing it to overturn on Route 60, in the Gush Etzion section of the West Bank. A Palestinian civilian was evacuated for critical injuries after his car [ More … ]
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