Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ by supplying weapons to various parties involved in the conflict, a United Nations panel has said./ The supply of weapons "perpetuates the conflict" and has prolonged the suffering of the Yemeni people, ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ The UN experts investigated a coalition air strike on a bus carrying children in August 2018 The UK, US, France and Iran may be complicit in possible war crimes in Yemen over their support for parties to the conflict there, UN experts say. ...
30PM [Updated: Tue Sep 3, 2019 02:30PM ]/ A first responder searches for bodies of victims from under the rubble of a destroyed building in Dhamar District, south of the country’s capital Sana’a, on September 1, 2019, after it is hit by an air strike of the Saudi-led coalition. (Photo by AFP)/ ...
Mohammed Hajjaj said his relatives were killed when a shelter for displaced families was struck/ More than 80 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, most of them in Gaza City, local hospitals said. Women and children were among at least 20 who died when a ...
President Macron announces that France formally recognises state of Palestine/ France has formally recognised a Palestinian state, becoming the latest in a wave of countries to take the step. Speaking at the UN in New York, President Emmanuel Macron said "the time for peace has come" and that ...
Starmer says UK recognises Palestinian state/ Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK's recognition of a Palestinian state, in what represents a significant change in government policy. In a video statement on X, the prime minister said: "In the face of the growing horror in the Middle East we are ...
Abdel Aziz Majarmeh is grieving his 13-year-old son/ Abdel Aziz Majarmeh was standing next to his 13-year-old son, Islam, as he was shot dead by Israeli forces this month at the entrance to Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank. "My son fell to the ground, and then I heard the sound of a ...
Demonstrations have been held in Portugal demanding a ceasefire in Gaza/ Portugal says it will recognise a Palestinian state on Sunday, making it the latest Western nation preparing to shift policy as the war in the Gaza Strip shows no sign of stopping. The foreign ministry made the announcement ...
Shurafi says "even an animal" could not survive in the so-called humanitarian zone/ As Israel continues its operation to fully occupy Gaza City, displaced Palestinians in the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone" in southern Gaza say conditions are worsening as the areas fills up with ever more ...
The US says the resolution does not go far enough in condemning Hamas/ The US has for the sixth time vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would have demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages. US deputy Middle East envoy ...
Two Israeli military personnel have been shot dead near a border crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan, the Israeli military and medics say. The two men were identified as reservist Lieutenant Colonel Yitzhak Harosh, 68, and Sergeant Oran Hershko, 20. The Israeli military ...
Israeli aircraft carried out strikes along Gaza City's Mediterranean coast on Thursday/ The situation in Gaza City is "nothing short of cataclysmic", a UN official has told the BBC, as Israeli tanks and troops continue to advance on the third day of a ground offensive. Olga Cherevko, a ...
Smotrich said the "demolition phase" of Gaza had been done/ Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said the Gaza Strip could be a "real estate bonanza" and that he is in talks with the US about dividing up the territory after the war - an idea previously condemned ...