Category: 3. Middle East

Two Israeli lawmakers chanted slogans demanding recognition of Palestinian statehood and denouncing the Gaza genocide during US President Donald Trump’s speech to the Knesset on Monday, Anadolu reports.

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“Cigars and champagne, who cares about that?” US President Donald Trump urged Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial in three corruption cases. In one case, Netanyahu’s accused of…

Indonesia on Monday denied reports that President Prabowo Subianto will visit Israel after completing his trip to Egypt, Anadolu reports.

The Indonesian Foreign Ministry “firmly” stated that Prabowo will not visit…

Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah on Monday to await the release of some 2,000 political prisoners and forcibly disappeared people who were taken by Israel from the West Bank, which it occupies, and Gaza, which it has waged war on…

While Israelis celebrated the return of captives from Gaza, Israel warned Palestinian families against holding celebrations over the return of prisoners – some who had been held for decades. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh explains.

Nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli detention on Monday under the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire agreement, Anadolu reports.

The Hamas-run Prisoners’ Media Office said buses carrying freed…

United States President Donald Trump had the time of his life on Monday at the Israeli Knesset, where he was welcomed as “the president of peace”. His captive audience showered him with applause, laughs and too many standing ovations to…

Israeli air strikes on Gaza may have halted, and a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas is ongoing, but tucked behind the headlines, tensions are brewing in Gaza between Hamas and armed groups.

On Sunday, clashes erupted between an armed…

China has accused the United States of “double standards” after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose an additional 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods in response to Beijing’s curbs on exports of rare earth minerals.

China says its…

The Union of Jewish Students (UJS), which is delivering at least 600 anti-Semitism awareness training sessions for university staff across the UK, is facing scrutiny after a video resurfaced showing its then-president…