Tag: Middle East
heightened security ahead of Al Jazeera journalist’s funeral
After the official ceremony yesterday Thursday in Ramallah, it is at the beginning of the afternoon in East Jerusalem that the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian-American journalist killed…
prison sentence confirmed for the leader of the main opposition party
In Turkey, the Court of Cassation approved on Thursday the sentence of four years and 11 months in prison of a leading opponent. Canan Kaftancioglu, representative of the main opposition…
Israel asks for a review of the bullet, the Arab countries an independent investigation
At the UN, Arab countries have called for an “independent international investigation” Calls for a transparent investigation grew yesterday following the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. At the…
Palestinians evicted from their homes by Israeli forces
In the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, below the Old City, Israeli forces arrived early on Tuesday May 11 to evacuate residents from an apartment building. Bulldozers then razed it, leaving…
Nasrallah targets Israel, his supporters want electricity
In Lebanon, the last straight line before the general elections this Sunday as Lebanon is going through a historic economic crisis. Despite massive protests in 2019, the old sectarian parties…
Masafer Yatta settlement project violates ‘international law’ for Palestinians
Israel is set to convene a committee this week to announce the construction of 4,000 new homes for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, in violation of international law.…
Israel’s chief rabbi calls on his followers to bring their weapons to the synagogue
The manhunt for the two terrorists who carried out the attack in Elad, an ultra-Orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv, continues. Police say the two men from Jenin in the northern…
Israeli court gives green light for expulsion of around 1,000 Palestinians
In Masafer Yatta, in the south of the occupied West Bank, in the hills near Hebron, a dozen Palestinian villages and about a thousand people can be evicted at any…
Nearly 600 Palestinians detained in Israel without charges
Israeli rights NGO HaMoked released a report on Monday (May 2) with this new figure: In May, Israel detained 604 people without charge or trial, almost all of them Palestinians,…
around sixty prisoners released as part of an unprecedented amnesty
Syrian authorities have released around 60 detainees since Sunday May 1, under a new amnesty decree considered the most comprehensive since the start of the conflict in 2011. Syrian President…