Middle East
Rafah displaced shiver as rain lashes tent camp
Torrential rains lashed a tent camp for displaced people in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, where frightened Palestinian children can no longer distinguish between thunder and Israeli bombardment.
Blinken in ME as famine looms in Gaza
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked on a Middle East mission yesterday as strain showed in the relationship between President Joe Biden’s administration and the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Why more non-Muslims are participating in Ramadan
In the Middle East, you can't escape Ramadan, so it's not unusual for non-Muslims to take part in the Muslim holy month there. It's a different story in Christian-majority countries, but that may now be changing
Israel hits Hezbollah arms depots in Syria
Israeli raids hit warehouses storing weapons for the Lebanese Hezbollah group in Syria yesterday, a war monitor said, as a Syrian military source said air defences had intercepted several missiles.
Hopes growing for Gaza ceasefire
Efforts to hammer out a temporary truce in Gaza intensified yesterday after months of offensive that have devastated the Palestinian territory and pushed hundreds of thousands to the brink of famine.
Israeli limits on Gaza aid may be ‘war crime’
Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid for Gaza may amount to a starvation tactic that could be a war crime, the United Nations human rights chief said yesterday.
‘Mass death’ imminent in Gaza
Food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already far exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food into areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said yesterday.
Drop Rafah invasion plan ‘in name of humanity’
The head of the World Health Organisation appealed to Israel “in the name of humanity” not to launch an assault on Rafah, where most of Gaza’s population is sheltering.
Israeli PM vows to invade Gaza’s Rafah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to send ground forces into Gaza’s southern Rafah city despite international fears for the fate of Palestinian civilians sheltering there.
21 dead in bus collision with tanker in Afghanistan: provincial official
Twenty-one people were killed and 11 injured in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Sunday when a bus collided with a tanker and a motorbike, a provincial official said
Gaza truce efforts revived as first sea aid unloaded
Efforts towards a truce in the Israel-Hamas war appeared to rekindle yesterday after a new proposal from the Palestinian militant group which also called for more aid into Gaza, where the first food shipment by sea reached shore.
Netanyahu okays plan for Rafah ground assault
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office yesterday said he had approved the military’s plan for an operation in Rafah, where most of war-battered Gaza’s population has sought refuge.
Aid efforts intensify for famine-stalked Gaza
Efforts yesterday grew to get more aid into the war-devastated Gaza Strip, where the UN warns of famine and desperate residents have stormed relief shipments.
UN warehouse struck amid race for Gaza aid
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said one of its warehouses in war-ravaged Gaza was hit yesterday, amid mounting efforts to bring food to the besieged Palestinian territory.
First aid ship sails to Gaza as famine looms
A Spanish charity ship taking food aid to Gaza left the Mediterranean island of Cyprus yesterday in hopes of opening a maritime corridor to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
No Ramadan relief for Palestinians in Gaza
The first day of Ramadan arrived yesterday like others for Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza: stalked by famine and disease, shivering in tents and threatened by bombs more than five months into Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory.
No Gaza truce in sight on eve of Ramadan
Deadly fighting raged in Gaza yesterday between Israeli forces and Hamas, with no truce in sight as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan neared and a dire humanitarian crisis gripped the besieged Palestinian territory.
Ramadan to begin in Saudi Arabia tomorrow
Tomorrow will mark the first day of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia after the crescent moon was sighted in the country this evening
