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Middle East and Africa

Evacuation of Gaza City would be unsafe and unfeasible: Red Cross chief

An evacuation would provoke a massive population displacement that no other area in the Gaza Strip is equipped to absorb, amid severe shortages of food, shelter, and medical supplies, Spoljaric said.

1 day ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel army says Gaza City now 'a dangerous combat zone'

The UN estimates that nearly a million people currently live in Gaza governorate, which includes Gaza City and its surroundings in the north of the territory. ...

2 days ago
Middle East and Africa

Trump holds Gaza policy meeting with Tony Blair and Jared Kushner

Trump, top White House officials, Blair and Kushner discussed the hostage crisis, plans to escalate food aid deliveries, post-war plans and more, the official told Reuters. ...

3 days ago

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Indonesia presses Islamic nations to stop Israel’s expansionist agenda

Indonesia has called on Islamic nations to unite and “use all their power and available resources” to stop Israel from fully occupying the Gaza Strip and entrenching itself further in the West Bank, during an emergency Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday.

5 days ago
Middle East and Africa

Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital

Gaza's civil defense agency said five journalists were among at least 20 people killed Monday when Israeli strikes hit a hospital in the south, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing regret over the "tragic mishap".

5 days ago
Middle East and Africa

Norway wealth fund divests from Caterpillar over Gaza 'rights violations'

Fuelled by Norway's vast energy revenues, the fund is the world's biggest, with a value of nearly $2 trillion and investments in more than 8,600 companies across the globe.

5 days ago
Middle East and Africa

Israeli strikes in Yemen's capital kill six, Huthis say

The Huthi-run Saba news agency reported six people killed and 86 wounded in the Israeli raid, with more than 20 in critical condition, citing the health ministry.

6 days ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel pounds Gaza City suburbs, vows to press on with offensive

Israeli planes and tanks pounded the eastern and northern outskirts of Gaza City overnight Saturday to Sunday, destroying buildings and homes, residents said, as Israeli leaders vowed to press on with a planned offensive on the city.

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

Palestinians despair after UN declares famine in Gaza

Desperate Palestinians clutching pots and plastic buckets scrambled for rice at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, a day after the United Nations declared a famine in the war-battered territory.

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

UN declares famine in Gaza, first ever in Middle East

UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said the famine was entirely preventable, saying food could not get through to the Palestinian territory "because of systematic obstruction by Israel".

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

Netanyahu escalates attack on Australia's Albanese

Diplomatic ties between Australia and Israel have soured since Albanese's centre-left Labor government last week announced it would conditionally recognize Palestinian statehood, following similar moves by France, Britain and Canada. 

1 week ago
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Indonesia makes second aid airdrop over Gaza

An Indonesian Military (TNI) humanitarian mission dropped 10 tonnes of aid of food and other basic necessities over Gaza on Aug. 19, marking the second airdrop of humanitarian support in the war-torn enclave.

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel to call up 50,000 reservists before Gaza City offensive

The call-up notices could be sent in the coming days, with reservists to report for duty in September, the military official said.

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel-France row flares over Macron's move to recognize Palestinian state

A row between Israel and France over Paris's plan to recognize a Palestinian state next month escalated to crisis level on Tuesday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused President Emmanuel Macron of fomenting "antisemitism".

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

Netanyahu says 'weak' Australian PM abandoned Jewish community

Netanyahu's comment followed Israel's revocation of the visas of Australian diplomats to the Palestinian Authority on Monday, after a decision by Canberra to recognise a Palestinian state and cancel the visa of an Israeli lawmaker.

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

Hamas accepts new Gaza truce plan

Mediators Egypt and Qatar, backed by the United States, have struggled to secure a lasting truce in the conflict, which has triggered a dire humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

Hamas accepts new Gaza truce plan: Hamas official

Hamas has accepted a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a senior member from the group said Monday, after a fresh diplomatic push to end more than 22 months of war.

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

Iranians struggle with GPS disruption after Israel war

"For weeks I have been unable to work," said Fooladi, who uses Iran's homegrown ride-hailing app Snapp to find customers. "Most of the time was wasted wandering around aimlessly," the 35-year-old Iranian driver added. 

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

Mass rally in Tel Aviv calls for end to Gaza war, hostage deal

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Sunday evening in Tel Aviv to call for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of hostages, one of the largest demonstrations in Israel since the start of the fighting in October 2023.

1 week ago
Middle East and Africa

US suspends visas for Gazans after far-right influencer posts

Loomer's target was the US-based charity HEAL Palestine, which said last week it had helped 11 critically wounded Gazan children, as well as their caregivers and siblings, arrive safely in the US for medical treatment.

2 weeks ago
Middle East and Africa

Israeli military prepares to relocate residents to southern Gaza, spokesperson says

Gaza residents will be provided with tents and other shelter equipment starting from Sunday ahead of relocating them from combat zones to the south of the enclave "to ensure their safety," the Israeli military said on Saturday.

2 weeks ago
Middle East and Africa

At least 1,760 Gazans killed while seeking aid since late May: UN

The Israeli military said its troops were working to "dismantle Hamas military capabilities", adding its forces were taking precautions "to mitigate civilian harm".

2 weeks ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel in talks to resettle Gaza Palestinians in South Sudan, sources say

The plan, if carried further, would envisage people moving from an enclave shattered by almost two years of war with Israel to a nation in the heart of Africa riven by years of political and ethnically-driven violence.

2 weeks ago
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Indonesia rejects Netanyahu’s Greater Israel vision

First emerging in the 19th century as a Zionist, messianic vision of Israel’s borders, the term Greater Israel according to traditional texts referred the totality of area stretching from “the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates”, or present-day Gaza, West Bank, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

2 weeks ago
Middle East and Africa

Indonesia sends fourth health task force to besieged Gaza

The team departed Jakarta on Thursday and will be deployed in El Arish, Egypt, and Rafah, Gaza, to treat Palestinians injured in Israeli attacks.

2 weeks ago
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Indonesian crew abandoned off Mozambique waters without food, denied freedom

Nine Indonesian and three Pakistani crew members have been abandoned aboard a ship after the shipowner prevented them from disembarking or transferring to another ship.

2 weeks ago
Middle East and Africa

Turned back from Gaza, aid shipments languish in warehouses, on roadsides

Boxes of Gaza-bound aid turned back by Israel on Sunday languished atop a truck and flatbed trailer parked meters from its border with Egypt, as exasperated drivers and UN officials criticized delays in sending food and medicine to the enclave.

2 weeks ago
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Indonesia to air-drop aid as starvation spirals in Gaza

Indonesia has deployed the Garuda Merah Putih II team on its second humanitarian mission to Gaza, this time to air-drop aid packages using two Hercules transport aircraft over 12 days to help starving Palestinians as Israel maintains its blockade on the territory.

2 weeks ago
Middle East and Africa

New Zealand prime minister says Netanyahu has 'lost the plot'

Luxon told reporters that the lack of humanitarian assistance, the forceful displacement of people and the annexation of Gaza were utterly appalling and that Netanyahu had gone way too far. 

2 weeks ago
Middle East and Africa

Taking Gaza City will be a difficult, costly for Israel

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out his vision of victory in Gaza following 22 months of war --- with the military ordered to attack the last remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza City and the central camps further south.

2 weeks ago

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