The US carried out "self-defense strikes" against Houthi targets in Yemen, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Monday. On March 4 "at 8 p.m. (Sanaa time), CENTCOM forces conducted self-defense strikes against two anti-ship cruise missiles that presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels...

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday expressed concern over the "appalling" situation in Gaza, saying children in the northern part of the strip are dying of starvation.  "Severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food...

Syria is poised to come in from the cold at the UN’s nuclear watchdog, with the agency’s boss travelling to Damascus this month. Rafael Grossi revealed he was invited by Syria’s government in order to “re-establish a meaningful, constructive dialogue”. His talks on “remaining issues from...

A Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial meeting on Sunday called for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. The foreign ministers of the 6-nation bloc along with Egypt, Jordan and Morocco met in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Sunday. A statement issued following the meeting...

It has now been more than one month since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered an interim ruling calling on Israel to take measures to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza.  The provisional measures were announced on 26 January, weeks after South Africa had taken Israel to the...

At least 14 Palestinians, including six children, were killed on Sunday in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. “In a devastating airstrike carried out by Israeli warplanes last night, a three-story house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip was...

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli soldiers conducted a raid on the town of Kafr Ni'ma, west of Ramallah, in the West Bank. During the raid, 16-year-old Muhammed Murad ad-Diq was...

At least 17 Palestinians were killed in attacks by the Israeli army on three houses in central and northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian official news agency, WAFA, said warplanes targeted two houses in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, which killed at least 15 Palestinians and left...

The  Israeli  military has approached some  Palestinians  in the northern Gaza Strip and asked them to coordinate future aid entry to sidestep the Hamas-run government and UN agencies.  Middle East Eye has learned that representatives of at least two families in Gaza...

At least 104 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded when Israeli forces fired on people at an aid convoy in Gaza City’s al-Rasheed Street on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, calling the incident a "massacre". Residents of Gaza City had gathered seeking food, with...

More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 70,000 others injured in Israel’s deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said Thursday. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said at least 79 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in the...

Several Palestinians were killed and injured when Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid south of Gaza City on Thursday, according to witnesses. Hundreds of Palestinians were waiting to receive aid near Dowar al-Nablusi, south of Gaza City when they came under...

The number of children who have died from malnutrition and dehydration at hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip has risen to six, the Gaza Health Ministry announced Wednesday. The latest deaths were of two children at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, said the ministry. It came hours after...

Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed two people and injured 14 others, Lebanon’s National News Agency said Wednesday. “Israeli warplanes carried out raids in three sorties on the towns of Seddiqine and Kafra, resulting in the deaths of two people from Kafra and 14 injuries,” the...

A new government in Palestine should take "full responsibility and action" both in West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Wednesday. "Maybe the current government which resigned was not seen or heard for such responsibility," Riyad al-Maliki told a...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said Wednesday it is still unable to safely deliver humanitarian aid to the northern Gaza Strip amid Israeli fire. We “have been unable to reach northern Gaza and increasingly parts of southern Gaza, safely,” UNRWA said in a statement. “Aid...

The UN on Tuesday pointed to the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, saying that none of its humanitarian aid convoys had reached northern Gaza since Jan. 23. UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) “colleagues remind us that none of our humanitarian convoys have been able to reach...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday participated in an airdrop of humanitarian aid on the Gaza Strip, according to the military. The move is the second by the monarch as official media had earlier shared a video of him during a relief airdrop operation to Gaza on Feb 11. "Six C130...

Yemen’s Houthis on Tuesday dismissed Israeli allegations that they had targeted submarine communications cables in the Red Sea. Hebrew-language financial daily Globes reported that four underwater communications cables between Saudi Arabia and Djibouti have been taken out of commission due...

Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza has made it increasingly difficult to sell Israeli dates in the European market in the run-up to the holy month of Ramadan, according to Israeli media reports.  About a third of annual date exports by Israeli producers occur during the month of Ramadan but...