Tag: Middle East
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…
the fear of a devaluation of the pound causes a gold rush
In Egypt, the fear of a further devaluation of the pound caused a veritable gold rush. The gram of 21-carat gold broke the record in Egypt by approaching the equivalent…
Briton detained in Iraq for possession of ‘antique’ fragments
A Briton was arrested at the end of March at Baghdad airport with fragments of pottery, considered in Iraq as antiques. He has since been in pre-trial detention, his family…
High tensions after the death of an Israeli and a Palestinian in the West Bank
After fresh clashes on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, an Israeli was fatally injured Friday evening (April 29) at the entrance to a settlement in the West…
Erdogan signs Turkish-Saudi reconciliation by visiting Riyadh
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is going to Riyadh on Thursday April 28 on an official visit, for the first time since the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi…
the Hashemite Kingdom on a crest line in its relations with Israel
Relations between the Hashemite Kingdom and Israel continue to deteriorate. In question, the clashes on the esplanade of the Mosques in Jerusalem for a week now. King Abdallah II of…