Israeli forces kill 69 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 69 people on Thursday, including 15 in a strike on a school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war nearing its 22nd month...
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Profiting from genocide
WAR is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc., Amazon, International Business Machine Corporation, Caterpillar Inc., Microsoft Corporation and...
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel鈥檚 鈥榞enocide鈥�
The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has released a report on corporations aiding Israel in carrying out its genocidal war on Gaza and displacing Palestinians, in breach of international law, reports Aljazeera...
Gaza war lucrative for many: UN report
Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza continues because it is lucrative for many big corporations, according to a new report released by聽 United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights, Francesca Albanese, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Francesca Albanese, reports Al Jazeera.
Iran suspends cooperation with IAEA
Iran formally suspended its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog on Wednesday, in the wake of unprecedented Israeli and US strikes on the Islamic republic鈥檚 nuclear sites.
Trump dismantles Syria sanctions
President Donald Trump on Monday formally dismantled US sanctions against Syria, hoping to reintegrate the war-battered country into the global economy as Israel eyes ties with its new leadership...
Gaza鈥檚 hunger games
ISRAEL鈥橲 weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of General Efra铆n R铆os Montt, the famine in southern Sudan that left a quarter of a million dead 鈥� I walked past the frail and skeletal corpses of families lining roadsides 鈥� and later...
Israeli forces kill 34 in Gaza as ceasefire momentum builds
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed 34 people on Monday, including 11 waiting for aid, as momentum built behind a ceasefire push for the war-ravaged Palestinian territory...
Israel eyes peace accords with Syria, Lebanon
Israel said Monday it is 鈥榠nterested鈥� in striking peace agreements with neighbouring Lebanon and Syria, a potentially historic shift in the region after decades of war and animosity...
Israeli forces kill 23 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes and gunfire killed 23 people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory on Sunday, including at least three children...
Iran questions Israel鈥檚 commitment to ceasefire
Iran on Sunday said it was not convinced Israel would abide by a ceasefire that ended their 12-day war this week...
Netanyahu 鈥榤ust go鈥�: ex-Israeli PM Bennett
Israel鈥檚 prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu must leave office, his predecessor Naftali Bennett has told a televised interview, refusing to say whether he intends to challenge the country鈥檚 longest-serving leader in an election...
Let guns fall silent
THE Middle East has once again come dangerously close to disaster. For twelve tense days, the world watched anxiously as Iran and Israel exchanged deadly attacks. Their actions have dragged both nations and their allies into a cycle of fear, destruction and high-risk brinkmanship. The damage went beyond lives lost and buildings destroyed. It shook the stability of the...
6 Israelis held for attacking soldiers in West Bank
Six Israelis were detained for assaulting soldiers near a town in the occupied West Bank where clashes with Palestinians erupted earlier this week, the military said on Saturday...
Huthi rebels fire missile at Israel
Yemen鈥檚 Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they fired a ballistic missile towards Israel on Saturday, in response to Israel鈥檚 conduct towards Palestinians during the Gaza war...
Israeli strike kills 1 in South Lebanon
An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed one person on Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah...
Trump threatens to bomb Iran again
US president Donald Trump said Friday he had saved Iran鈥檚 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from assassination and lashed out at the supreme leader for ingratitude, declaring he would order more bombing if the country tried to pursue nuclear weapons...
Israeli forces kill 62 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said that Israeli forces killed at least 62 people on Friday, including 10 who were waiting for aid in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
Israeli strikes kill 1 in Lebanon
Lebanon鈥檚 health ministry said a woman was killed and 21 other people were wounded in Israeli strikes Friday in the country鈥檚 south, as Israel鈥檚 military said some raids targeted Hezbollah sites.
Iran says not resuming nuclear talks with US
Iran on Thursday denied it is set to resume nuclear talks with the United States after the end of a 12-day war with Israel, and accused Washington of exaggerating the impact of US strikes.
Trump 鈥榚xaggerated鈥� impact of US strikes on nuclear sites: Khamenei
Iran鈥檚 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday said US president Donald Trump 鈥榚xaggerated鈥� the impact of US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, in his first appearance since a ceasefire in the war with Israel took hold.
Iran thanks Bangladesh for solidarity during Israeli aggression聽
Iran embassy in Dhaka has expressed its deep appreciation to the government and people of Bangladesh for their strong expressions of solidarity following the recent escalation of hostilities in the Middle East...
26 arrested in Iran over collaborating with Israel
Iran鈥檚 intelligence services have arrested 26 people, accusing them of collaborating with Israel, state media Fars news agency reported, days after a ceasefire between the two countries was announced...
Oil rebounds as markets track Iran-Israel ceasefire
Oil prices recovered as stock markets diverged Wednesday while traders assessed whether the Israel-Iran ceasefire would endure...
US, Iran to hold nuclear talks next week: Trump
US president Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States would hold nuclear talks with Iran next week, teasing the possibility of a deal even after boasting that recent US strikes had crippled the Islamic republic鈥檚 atomic programme.
How Netanyahu, AIPAC outsourced Israel鈥檚 war to Trump
UNLIKE Russia鈥檚 quarrel with Kyiv or China鈥檚 claim to Taiwan, Washington鈥檚 war with Iran is not rooted in a national dispute with the US. It is a project subcontracted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his lobby group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Donald Trump 鈥� a president addicted to flattery and drama 鈥� puffed by grandiose...
Bangladesh鈥檚 path to security
THE recent convulsions between Iran and Israel 鈥� ignited, as these things often are, by the US cruise missile on Iranian nuclear facilities, a surgical strike that ripped through the fragile fabric of peace 鈥� had all the makings of a regional conflagration, a firestorm that could have consumed us all. And yet, here we are, breathing a tentative sigh of relief, as both sides...
Iran lawmakers back suspending cooperation with UN atomic energy watchdog
Iranian lawmakers voted on Wednesday in favour of suspending cooperation with the United Nations鈥� atomic energy watchdog, state TV said, after a 12-day war that saw Israeli and US strikes on the country鈥檚 nuclear sites.
Trump sees 鈥榩rogress鈥� on Gaza ceasefire
US president Donald Trump said on Wednesday that 鈥榞reat progress鈥� was being made to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza as a new ceasefire push began more than 20 months since the start of the conflict...
Iran to hold state funerals Saturday for top commanders, scientists killed in Israel war
Iran will hold on Saturday state funerals for senior military commanders and top scientists killed during the country鈥檚 12-day war with Israel, official media said...