Mideast News Stories
WFP warns of new displacement of Palestinians in Gaza
The World Food Program (WFP) warned that Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip will be forced to flee again in search of shelter, food and water.The United Nations (UN) Program...
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Israel’s war on Gaza live: Fierce clashes as Israeli troops invade Jabalia
Fierce clashes in Jabalia in north Gaza as Israel sends troops and tanks back in to the area. The ground assault follows a night of intense air raids in the area. At least 300,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah, according to the United Nations, as Israel expands its offensive in the southern city and...
photo: AP / Ariel Schalit
Israel orders new evacuations in Rafah after UN votes in favor of Palestine's membership
JERUSALEM, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Israel ordered new evacuations on Saturday in Gaza's southern city of Rafah as it prepared to escalate its military operation, a day after the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution endorsing the Palestinian request for full UN membership. LOOMING CRISIS More than 1...
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US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law
The Biden administration has said that Israel's use of US-supplied weapons may have violated international humanitarian law during its military operation in Gaza, in its strongest criticism to date of Israel. But the administration stopped short of a definitive assessment, saying that due to the...
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Heavy fighting in Gaza’s Rafah keeps aid crossings closed, sends 100,000 civilians fleeing
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and caused over 100,000 people to flee north, a United Nations official said Friday. Israel’s plans...
photo: AP / Fatima Shbair
Tunisia: The migration trap
Sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants fleeing northwards away from war, conflict and corrupt governments are ending up trapped in Tunisia, unable to move on to Europe or return home. Across Tunisia, signs of growing hostility towards these arrivals are apparent.Keep reading list of 4 itemslist 1...
photo: AP / Francisco Seco, File
Iran’s Khamenei urges people to vote in parliamentary run-off amid apathy
Iranians are voting in a run-off for the remaining seats in Parliament after conservative candidates dominated the elections in March. Shortly after polling stations opened on Friday, state TV showed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casting his vote.Keep reading list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Low...
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Israel strikes Rafah as talks yield no breakthrough
SMOKE billows from a building which caught fire after fresh Israeli attacks in the Zaytoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, on Thursday.—AFP CAIRO: Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thurs­day, Palestinian residents said, after President Joe Biden said the United States would...
photo: AP / Ismael Abu Dayyah
Sudan’s paramilitary RSF accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Darfur
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias killed “at least thousands of people” in West Darfur state, an international rights group has said, in what it called apparent “crimes against humanity” and “genocide”. In a report published on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...
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Give or take a few bombs, US complicity in genocide remains ‘ironclad’
On Wednesday, May 8, United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin became the first senior administration official to publicly confirm that the US government has uncharacteristically paused a weapons shipment to Israel. Over the past seven months, the Israeli military has killed some 35,000...
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