Middle East Star

27/10/2024

For the ICTR, demonstrating that someone has committed incitement to genocide does not necessarily require showing that their speech directly led a person to carry out genocidal acts.

Despite the US government's incessant claims that it is working to secure a ceasefire, the genocide that has unfolded in Gaza over the past year has been a joint US-Israeli endeavour.

21/10/2024

"Israel is starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, bombing entire neighborhoods out of existence, burning displaced children in tents, and destroying hospitals. It is brutally terrorizing the whole population to push them out of their homeland."

Jordan's deputy prime minister has lashed out at Israel over its massive offensive in northern Gaza, describing is as "inhumane.".

21/10/2024

Earlier Gaza health officials reported the Israeli army had surrounded the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya while army tanks opened fire.

Displaced Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip were terrorized on Saturday night as Israeli warplanes swooped on a residential area in a northern Gaza town, carrying out a full scale ...

17/10/2024

The clash took place in a building that the Israeli soldiers suspected may be housing militants.

Rookie Israeli soldiers on Wednesday achieved what the Israeli military establishment has been trying to do for more than a year.

17/10/2024

Over the past year, Israel has united around several assumptions: firstly, that the massacre of 7 October had no context whatever, occurring solely because of what they percieved to be the innate bloodthirstiness and cruelty of Palestinians in Gaza.

The 7 October Hamas attack overwhelmed Israel and utterly changed its face.

13/10/2024

"I have been unable to sleep due to the sound of explosions. It's terrible throughout the day and night, with only hours between attacks. You never know where the next one will land or if you'll survive."

The increasing violence between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has put thousands of migrant laborers, including many Nepalis, at risk.

13/10/2024

"Despite this barbarity, the world oligarchy that dominates Western governments, the media, and international organizations, supposed defenders of human rights, hide the true dimension of the suffering and destruction of the Palestinian people."

The Central American country of Nicaragua is set to break off diplomatic relations with Israel, describing the Israeli government as "fascist" amd "genocide.".

31/07/2024

"While Haniyah is not militarily significant, he is in charge of the group's international relations and was the key interlocutor with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on the hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza."

In an extraordinary move, Israel on Wednesday assassinated one of Hamas's most moderate leaders, and the chief negotiator in the hostage talks, Ismail Haniyeh.

31/07/2024

According to prosecutor Tom Little, Choudary became "the caretaker emir" of ALM after its leader, Omar Bakri Mohammed, was jailed in Lebanon in 2014.

British-Pakistani preacher Anjem Choudary has been sentenced to life in prison for directing a terrorist organisation, Al Jazeera reported.

31/07/2024

U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States carried out an airstrike in Musayib, in Babil province, but did not provide more details on the location.

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday carried out a strike in Iraq in self-defense, U.S. officials told Reuters, as regional tensions rose a

20/07/2024

In its advisory opinion, the ICJ concluded that Israel's continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful and that it is under an obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence "as rapidly as possible".

The UN International Court of Justice on Friday declared the continued Israeli presence in the Palestinian territories is unlawful.

20/07/2024

Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam said the Israeli strikes hit civilian targets, oil tanks and a power station. He claimed that the attack was aimed at increasing the "suffering of the people of Yemen" and pressuring it to stop its support of Gaza.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Saturday that IDF fighter jets hit military targets of the Houthi terrorists in Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to

17/06/2024

Separately, on Sunday night the Israeli cabinet decided it would impose measures against countries that have indicated they will recognise Palestinian statehood.

There have been extraordinary developments in Israel in the past 24 hours.

16/06/2024

"According to the information we have at this point one of the engineering vehicles in the convoy was involved in an explosion that was apparently caused by explosive devices planted in the area or as a result of anti-tank missile fire."

The Israeli military announced nine deaths on Saturday in one of the deadliest days since hostilities broke out eight months ago.

16/06/2024

It should be noted neither Israel or Hamas are mentioned in Friday's statement, however it comes at a time when the international court has been coming under fire from Israeli leaders and members of the U.S. Congress.

Ninety-three countries, including U.S. allies France, Germany, the UK, Canada and Australia, have thrown their support behind the International Criminal Court.

16/06/2024

Developed in consultation with the government of Israel and Palestinian communities, Minderoo says SafeGates aims to mitigate the risk of a major starvation event impacting up to 1 million people.

The philanthropic arm of Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest's organization is to press for the development of an ambitious initiative to fast track aid into Gaza.

09/06/2024

They were taken during a massacre and it took a massacre to rescue them.

09/06/2024

Israel Foreign Minister Israel Katz welcomed what he called the important decision made International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors demandi