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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
A new private-equity fund started by Jared Kushner is reportedly planning to invest money from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in Israeli businesses, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Affinity Partners, a new private-equity fund [ More … ]
Amid Middle East summit, U.S. allies, including Israel, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, and even Saudi Arabia that did not join the meeting have showed limited support for Ukraine. “In this war, Egypt is not — and [ More … ]
Leaders of Egypt, Israel and the United Arab Emirates have met in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for talks on the economic impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the growing influence of [ More … ]
Egyptian officials on Sunday pushed for calm between Israel and Hamas and called to adhere to a ceasefire in place since the war in May. The Egyptian efforts came a day after Hamas launched rockets [ More … ]
Palestinian factions have condemned Tuesday’s meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Benny Gantz, near Tel Aviv, Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian officials said the meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz dwelt on [ More … ]
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