- LONDON: A weeklong humanitarian pause in Gaza provided some respite for Palestinians in the beleaguered enclave. But the situation remains overwhelmingly bleak and, after the resumption of combat on Friday, potentially catastrophic. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel on Thursday...
- ATHENS: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Spanish-American philosopher’s George Santayana’s poignant quote is still relevant nearly a century after he wrote it as the list of full-blown and low-intensity conflicts worldwide grows longer every year. The unprecedented violence seen in t...
- LONDON: Japan allocated $65,677 to Jordan’s Medical Aid for Palestinians on Monday to boost the quality of services at the medical center in the Hitten Palestinian refugee camp, Jordan News Agency reported. JMAP received the funding to purchase equipment for the camp’s medical facility, inclu...
- HODEIDA: Israeli ships are a “legitimate target,” the Houthi militia warned on Monday, after their seizure of an Israel-linked cargo vessel opened a new dimension in the Gaza war. Sunday’s capture of the Galaxy Leader and its 25 international crew came days after the Iran-backed Houthis threat...
- GAZA: Five hostages of Hamas are free, offering some hope to the families of more than 200 others snatched in southern Israel during the militants’ deadly rampage on Oct. 7. But the families of those still in captivity have questions, such as why progress has been so slow, why some and not oth...
- CHICAGO: The scale of humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip has reached unprecedented levels as Israeli airstrikes continue to lay waste to large swaths of the territory, according to Juliette Touma, director of communications for the UN Relief and Works Agency. During an appearance on the...
- DUBAI: The well-known saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” could not be more true than in the case of diagnosis and treatment of many forms of cancer. Like every year, October is being marked around the world with breast cancer awareness campaigns, which highlight the...
- CHICAGO: A former White House envoy to the Middle East has blamed Iran for the upsurge of violence in the region, while warning that there can be no peace until Hamas is “uprooted.” Jason Greenblatt, who served under Donald Trump as the inaugural Special Representative for...
- JERUSALEM: The Israeli military on Wednesday has denied involvement in an explosion that killed hundreds of people at a Gaza City hospital and that the blast was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, has blamed the blast on Israel. ...
- LONDON: The Council for Arab-British Understanding has urged British politicians not to condone “collective punishment” meted out by Israeli forces to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and to be careful with rhetoric over the conflict for fear of further inflaming the situation. “Any action tha...
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