United Nations agencies have urged an urgent increase in funding to deal with the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Lebanon as the Israeli military continues its attacks against the Middle Eastern country.
The UK Foreign Office has imposed sanctions against seven organisations that support illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank, but held back from penalising two extremist members of the Israeli government as the former foreign secretary David Cameron had been planning.
The Joe Biden administration has told Israel to take immediate measures to address the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip or risk cutting off access to key US military assistance.
Officials from the US main humanitarian agency attend daily meetings on an Israeli military site that also hosts a notorious prison for Palestinians where torture reportedly runs rampant, the Guardian has reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told US President Joe Biden that he intends to strike only military targets in Iran when Tel Aviv retaliates for the latest Tehran's missile barrage, The Washington Post has claimed.
The situation for children in the Gaza Strip is "worsening" with each passing day, with growing food, water, and medicine shortages compounded by ongoing Israeli attacks and severe restrictions on humanitarian aid, a UNICEF spokesperson has warned.
At least 400,000 children in Lebanon have been displaced in the past three weeks, a top official with the UN children’s agency has stated, warning of a “lost generation” in the small country grappling with multiple crises and now in the middle of war.
Beirut has submitted a formal complaint to the United Nations Security Council against Israel's repeated attacks against the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
The Iranian delegation participating in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly in Geneva has called for the expulsion of Israel from the union and the trial of the Zionist officials at the Nuremberg Court, citing the ongoing crimes of Tel Aviv in West Asia.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has expressed support for UNIFIL troops in southern Lebanon following a series of Israeli attacks on the UN peacekeeping force.
The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions against Iranian individuals and organisations after Tehran's missile attack on Israel on Oct. 1, Britain's Foreign Office announced on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in order to starve out hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes, according to a report.
An Israeli air raid on tents for displaced Palestinians inside a hospital complex in the Gaza Strip has killed at least four people and wounded more than 70, many of them critically, as Israel’s genocide in the besieged enclave continues.
James Stavridis, a former NATO Chief Admiral, joined the Cats Roundtable radio show to weigh in on the impact of extreme conflict in the Middle East. The former leader warned that the rising tensions in the region “could […] shut down oil coming out of the Middle East".
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that any attacks against the UN peacekeepers “may constitute a war crime”, his spokesperson said after Israeli tanks burst through the gates of a peacekeeping base in southern Lebanon.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a phone conversation with his French counterpart, has stated Tehran will support any proposal aimed at restoring peace to the region, calling on the European states to compel the Israeli regime to end its genocidal wars in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
Four Israeli soldiers have been killed and more than 60 people injured in a Hezbollah drone attack on an army base south of Haifa, the Israeli military confirmed.
The United States is dispatching an advanced anti-missile system to Israel, the Pentagon has announced. It comes as President Joe Biden’s administration continues to provide ironclad support for Israel as its top ally amid mounting tensions with Iran.
In a joint press conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Baghdad, Iranian top diplomat Seyed Abbas Araghchi emphasized the readiness of the Islamic Republic for any scenario, whether conflict or peace.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the United Nations to evacuate troops in its UNIFIL peacekeeping force from combat areas in Lebanon. At least five UN peacekeepers have been wounded in recent days by Israeli soldiers.
The European Union has announced it is deeply concerned about draft Israeli legislation that would ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in the occupied territories and likely scale back aid distribution across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
Forty countries whose soldiers serve as United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon say they “strongly condemn” recent attacks on peacekeepers by Israel, in a joint statement released on Saturday.
