Palestinians torn between pride and frustration

Palestinians trapped in the grip of war were caught between feelings of pride and frustration on Friday following the UN’s top court saying Israel must prevent genocide in Gaza.
27 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Attacks on Palestinians: UN court orders Israel to prevent Gaza genocide

The top UN court yesterday ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as the country wages offensive in the Gaza Strip.
26 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Gaza starves as Israel’s offensive expands

In battered, hard-to-reach north Gaza, rare aid deliveries get mobbed by desperate, hungry Palestinians and aid workers report seeing people thin and visibly starving with sunken eyes.
26 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Gaza’s Khan Younis: Israeli tanks batter hospital districts

Israeli tanks bombarded areas around two hospitals in Gaza’s main southern city Khan Younis yesterday, forcing displaced people into a new desperate scramble for safe shelter, residents said.
25 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Nearly all US Democrats back two-state solution

An overwhelming majority of President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats in the Senate on Wednesday backed a statement reiterating US support of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
25 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel hits Khan Younis amid talks on truce

Israel and Hamas have made some progress toward agreement on a 30-day ceasefire in Gaza when Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners would be released, sources told Reuters, as Israel pressed ahead with its assault on Khan Younis, the main city in southern Gaza, yesterday.
24 January 2024, 18:00 PM

KSA prepares to open first alcohol store for diplomats

Saudi Arabia is preparing to open its first alcohol store in the capital Riyadh which will serve exclusively non-Muslim diplomats, according to a source familiar with the plans and a document.
24 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Iraq rebukes US over strikes on Iran-backed groups

Iraq accused the United States of contributing to a “reckless escalation” of violence in the region after American air strikes targeted Iran-backed groups in the country yesterday.
24 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel rejection will embolden extremists: UN chief

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said it was “unacceptable” for Israel’s government to reject a two-state solution to its conflict with the Palestinians, warning that the move would “embolden extremists everywhere.”
24 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Saudi to allow alcohol sale to non-Muslim diplomats

Saudi Arabia plans to allow the sale of alcohol to non-Muslim diplomats for the first time, two sources familiar with the plan told AFP today
24 January 2024, 14:17 PM

Israel suffers worst Gaza losses

Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in Israel’s worst day of losses in Gaza, the military said yesterday, as it claimed to have encircled southern Gaza’s main city in a major ground assault.
23 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel proposes pause in fighting as part of hostage deal: report

Israel has proposed to Hamas via Qatari and Egyptian mediators a pause in fighting of up to two months as part of a deal to free all the hostages being held in Gaza, the US news site Axios reported Monday.
23 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Israeli tanks cut off two hospitals in Gaza

Israeli tanks storming southern Gaza’s main city reached the gates of two hospitals yesterday, cutting residents off from trauma care as the bloodiest fighting of the new year tore through areas sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced.
22 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Israeli plan to destroy Hamas not working

Israel’s plan to destroy Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza is not working and the European Union must pursue efforts to create a “two-state solution” despite Israeli opposition, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said yesterday.
22 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Turkey finds nine bodies after migrant wreck

At least nine bodies have washed ashore on Turkey’s southern coast in the past week, local media reported yesterday, with officials suspecting that most belonged to migrants who went missing in December.
22 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Gaza death toll crosses 25,000

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry yesterday said the death toll in the Palestinian territory breached 25,000 as Israel pushed its southward offensive and renewed bombardment in the north.
21 January 2024, 18:00 PM

‘Israeli Strike’ on Damascus: Iran intel official among 10 killed

Iran yesterday blamed Israel for a strike on Damascus, saying it “reserves the right to respond” after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said four of its members had died.
20 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel presses on in southern Gaza as death toll surges

Israel is pressing its push southwards of the Gaza strip whose health ministry reported a surging death toll.
20 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Aid workers can make little impact

Medical aid workers are only able to help with a tiny fraction of Gaza’s humanitarian needs as conditions there deteriorate following nearly 15 weeks of war, staff from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Friday.
20 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel, US split on 2-state solution

Israel bombarded southern Gaza yesterday after it publicly sparred with its main ally the United States over the creation of a Palestinian state, a step which Washington sees as the only pathway to a lasting peace.
19 January 2024, 18:00 PM