Israeli demonstrators kept up their months-old protests against the government's judicial overhaul Saturday for the 25th week in a row, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to press on with the controversial reforms.
The violence in the occupied West Bank “risks spiralling out of control”, according to the United Nations human rights chief who slammed Israel’s use of deadly force in a recent raid on the Jenin refugee camp that killed at least seven Palestinians.
Tel Aviv is seeking to authorize 1,000 new homes for the Eli settlement in the occupied West Bank in response to the shooting that killed four Israeli settlers on Tuesday. It comes a day after an Israeli raid killed seven Palestinians in Jenin, occupied West Bank.
An Israeli drone strike hit a vehicle in the northern West Bank and killed three people in a new escalation of attacks on the occupied Palestinian territory.
Participants at the 20th international meeting on Syria in the Astana format- Tehran, Moscow and Ankara- have stressed their commitment to Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. They have also voiced their firm opposition to Israel’s acts of aggression and airstrikes against the Arab country.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said the West Bank is where the Zionist regime will be brought to its knees. He made the remarks in a meeting with Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, and his accompanying delegation in Tehran on Wednesday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani says Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian is planning to visit the United Arab Emirates as he tours the Persian Gulf Arab countries.
Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, has lauded Tehran’s support for Yemen and its attempts to put an end to the suffering of the Yemeni nation in the face of the Saudi-led war.
Tor Wennesland, the UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, says he is “deeply alarmed by the continuing cycle of violence and appalled by the continued loss of civilian lives”. Four Israeli settlers and two Palestinians have been killed in the recent violence in the occupied West Bank.
The Iranian foreign minister, in a meeting with with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hama, has called for a collective regional mechanism to enhance security of the Persian Gulf.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has told a Hamas delegation in Tehran headed by the movement’s leader Ismail Haniyah that the victories of the Palestinian resistance shows the Israeli regime’s claim about its deterrence power is false.
Riyadh has executed a young man from the Shia-populated Qatif region over allegations of involvement in terrorist activities. Critics see the move as part of a heavy-handed crackdown led by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince against political dissidents.
Saud al-Qahtani, a former senior aide to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a prime suspect in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, has been seen in public in the city of Jeddah, using a walking stick, for the first time since the Saudi journalist's 2018 assassination.
Israel has announced that hoped-for direct Hajj flights to Saudi Arabia would not happen this year, playing down any prospects of an imminent U.S.-mediated normalisation of relations with the kingdom.
Israeli forces have fatally shot another Palestinian youth during an attack on a village located west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. It comes hours after Israeli troops killed five Palestinian people in the Jenin refugee camp.
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates announced on Monday they had resumed diplomatic ties after six years and were reopening respective embassies with immediate effect.
Cairo has lashed out at the latest move by the European Union (EU) to cancel next week’s ministerial meeting with the Arab League over Syria’s readmission to the pan-Arab body. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has denounced the decision as regrettable.
An Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Monday has killed at least five Palestinians and wounded almost 60, with 10 in critical condition.
Israel’s hardline coalition government has approved plans for the construction of thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank. Given the far-right finance minister sweeping powers, Israel is to expedite the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, bypassing measures that have been in place for 27 years.
Brett McGurk, US President Joe Biden’s senior Middle East adviser, has reportedly traveled to Saudi Arabia for talks with Saudi officials that will focus on the administration's efforts to reach a normalization agreement between the kingdom and Tel Aviv, two US officials told Axios.
