Category: 3. Middle East

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher has demanded that Israel provide evidence for its accusationsthat staff with the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs were affiliated with…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel is discussing “alternative options” with the US to retrieve hostages held in the Gaza Strip and to end Hamas’ rule, Anadolu reports.

“Together with our U.S. allies, we…

Thailand has declared martial law in eight districts after deadly cross-border clashes with Cambodia forced over 130,000 civilians to flee. At least 16 people have been killed since clashes tied to a territorial dispute erupted Thursday….

Lebanese activist Georges Abdallah arrived in Beirut on Friday after spending 41 years in French prisons, following his conviction in the 1980s over the assassination of an Israeli and an American diplomat and charges…

More than 200 lawmakers in the United Kingdom have called on the British government to recognise a Palestinian state, as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to take concrete action amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

Some 221 MPs from across…

Israeli forces are targeting Palestinians in Gaza in specific areas, “almost like a game of target practice,” according to a British doctor who recently returned from the besieged enclave, Anadolu reports.

In an…

European leaders on Friday welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that France will formally recognize Palestine as a state, calling it a significant step toward achieving peace in the Middle East,…

A group of Indian Muslim groups, Islamic scholars, and civil society groups are calling on New Delhi and the global community to “take decisive action against the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” urging the South Asian…

The social media giant follows Alphabet, Google’s parent company, which made a similar decision in November.

Meta will suspend political and social issue advertising on its platforms in the European Union starting in October.

Facebook and…