Category: Middle East

Amid ongoing deadly hostilities in Gaza, the enclave’s farmers face the increasingly difficult challenge of finding safe land to grow their crops. Satellite images published…

View More Gaza: Only three per cent of cropland available to grow food

Humanitarian workers have reached Palestinian families who had been trapped for days by Israeli settlers in Qusra village in the northern West Bank, the UN…

View More Qusra siege eases as UN reaches trapped families, but crisis deepens in Gaza

Another day of violence unfolded in Gaza on Sunday as fresh Israeli attacks left several Palestinian civilians injured. Meanwhile, the bodies of two civilians, including…

View More Israeli Attacks in Gaza Leave Several Palestinians Injured; Bodies of Two Civilians Recovered

Communities in Syria are clearing rubble and rebuilding neighbourhoods and livelihoods torn down in the more than a decade of conflict and crisis in the…

View More First Person: Syrians lead efforts to clear rubble and rebuild lives

Jerusalem: A Palestinian family in the Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood of Occupied Jerusalem was forced to demolish three of its own homes on Thursday following demolition…

View More Forced to Become Their Own Demolition Crew: Jerusalem Family Tears Down Three Homes

New satellite assessments show the destruction of buildings in Gaza has climbed by nearly 10 per cent since October’s faltering ceasefire between Hamas and Israeli…

View More Gaza: Destruction of buildings rises by nearly 10 per cent since ceasefire

A strike on a merchant ship off the southern coast of Yemen that reportedly killed several seafarers on Tuesday threatens to reignite deep concerns about…

View More Deadly attack on Red Sea ship adds to global supply chain uncertainty

A 67-year-old Palestinian prisoner, Ata Hassan Attiya Rmeilat, also known as Abu Rmeileh, has been sentenced to 42 months in prison by an Israeli military…

View More 67-Year-Old Palestinian Prisoner Sentenced to 42 Months Despite Deteriorating Health

Gaza: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has questioned Israeli claims about famine in Gaza, accusing Israel of selectively presenting UNICEF data to downplay the severity of…

View More Euro-Med Monitor Calls Israeli Claims on Gaza Famine Misleading

Israeli forces fired 455 projectiles into south Lebanon and breached Lebanese airspace 97 times between Friday and Sunday, the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the country…

View More Lebanon: UN peacekeepers count hundreds of Israeli strikes and incursions in a single weekend