Middle East

Middle East

‘Everyone is hungry’

Gazans waited again Tuesday in their hundreds for food to fall from the sky at beaches in the famine-stalked north, a day after nearly 20 died trying to get to parachutes carrying aid.

21h ago

Defying UNSC, Israel steps up assault on Gaza

Israeli forces yesterday stepped up assault on Gaza defying a ceasefire demand by UN Security Council.

21h ago

No let-up in Gaza attacks despite UN resolution

Israeli troops battled Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip yesterday, with no sign of a let-up in the offensive despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an “immediate ceasefire”.

1d ago

Barred from North Gaza aid deliveries: UNRWA

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has said that Israel had definitively barred it from making aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest.

2d ago

UNSC adopts resolution for Gaza ceasefire

The United Nations Security Council demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas yesterday as Israeli forces carried out new airstrikes in Gaza and laid siege to two hospitals.

2d ago

SUDAN CONFLICT / 150 families risk their lives to feed each other

Sameh Makki’s soup kitchen is barely 100 metres from the market, but it can take two hours to make the journey through Sudan’s war-torn streets, often through hails of bullets.

3d ago

RED SEA CRISIS / China-owned tanker hit by Houthi missile

A Chinese-owned oil tanker was attacked off Yemen Saturday by ballistic missiles fired by Houthi rebels, who have intensified strikes on Red Sea shipping, the US military said.

3d ago

Big gaps exist with Israel in truce talks: Hamas

Deep differences exist between Hamas and Israel in negotiations for a Gaza truce, an official from the Palestinian group with knowledge of the talks said.

3d ago

Israel besieges 2 more Gaza hospitals

Israeli forces besieged two more Gaza hospitals yesterday, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire and forcing the evacuation from one hospital of most patients and displaced people sheltering there, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

3d ago

Strikes on houthi facilities: US says it was self-defense

US forces conducted self-defense strikes against three Houthi underground weapons storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, US Central Command (Centcom) said on Friday.

4d ago

Blocked aid for Gaza a moral outrage

A long line of blocked relief trucks on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip where people face starvation is a moral outrage, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a visit to the Rafah crossing yesterday.

4d ago

More land crossings into Gaza can prevent famine

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that only an expansion of land crossings into Gaza could help prevent famine in the densely populated Palestinian enclave.

5d ago

Gaza Ceasefire: US moves draft resolution at UN

The United States has circulated for the first time a draft UN resolution calling for an “immediate” ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, as warnings grow of famine in besieged Gaza.

6d ago

35pc of Gaza’s buildings destroyed or damaged

Satellite images analysed by the United Nations Satellite Centre show that 35 percent of the Gaza Strip’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged in the Israel offensive in the Palestinian enclave.

6d ago

Blinken in ME as famine looms in Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked on a Middle East mission yesterday as strain showed in the relationship between President Joe Biden’s administration and the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

1w ago

Rafah displaced shiver as rain lashes tent camp

Torrential rains lashed a tent camp for displaced people in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, where frightened Palestinian children can no longer distinguish between thunder and Israeli bombardment.

1w ago

Why more non-Muslims are participating in Ramadan

In the Middle East, you can't escape Ramadan, so it's not unusual for non-Muslims to take part in the Muslim holy month there. It's a different story in Christian-majority countries, but that may now be changing

1w ago

Israeli limits on Gaza aid may be ‘war crime’

Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid for Gaza may amount to a starvation tactic that could be a war crime, the United Nations human rights chief said yesterday.

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