Category: 3. Middle East

By Andrew Gray

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union is considering partially suspending Israeli access to funding under its flagship research programme, in what would be the bloc’s first action taken against Israel in response to its actions in…

An Israeli court on Tuesday ordered the release of an illegal settler charged with killing a Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank.

Odeh Mohammad Khalil al-Hathalin, 31, who took part in the making of the…

Surviving Accomarca

The pending amnesty law could erase approximately 156 convictions and more than 600 ongoing investigations, according to human rights organisations.

Not only would it protect military members and police from prosecution, but…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday announced that his country will recognise the state of Palestine by September, unless Israel takes “substantive steps” to end its war on Gaza and commit to a genuine peace process.

A government…

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Wednesday it was concerned about the threat of new strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and that a deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme could be reached through dialogue.

Israel and the United States bombed Iranian…

By Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi

JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel could threaten to annex parts of Gaza to increase pressure on the militant group Hamas, an Israeli minister said on Wednesday, an idea that would deal a blow to Palestinian…

The Israeli army stormed the Handala aid ship, part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, last Saturday as it attempted to reach the Gaza Strip carrying aid for Palestinians facing severe hunger. All 21 activists on…

The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has warned that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call for reoccupying Gaza instead of negotiating with the movement represent an explicit threat to continue the…

As the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem issues a damning report titled “Our Genocide”, concluding that Tel-Aviv’s actions in Gaza constitute a deliberate campaign of annihilation, a group of Israeli public…

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (Reuters) -On the pink walls of Nasser hospital’s child malnutrition ward, cartoon drawings show children running, smiling, and playing with flowers and balloons.

Beneath the pictures, a handful of Gazan mothers watch…