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...

A member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards navy serving as a military adviser in Syria was killed in a suspected Israeli strike on Friday, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported. Other Iranian media reports said Colonel Reza Zarei was killed along with two fighters from Lebanon's Iran-backed...

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...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of asylum seekers in Europe reached a seven-year high last year, with more than 1.1 million people applying for international protection in 2023, most of them Syrian nationals, the European Union said Wednesday. The increase in asylum seekers and other migrants is...

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...

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkish drone strikes in northeastern Syria on Wednesday killed at least three members of a local Christian force and wounded others, including civilians, a Kurdish official and a Syrian opposition war monitor said. Also on Wednesday, reported Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus,...

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...

A Syrian human rights organization has warned the families of detainees and disappeared people against fraud attempts carried out by some "death brokers" who claim that they can release their relatives from the notorious Saydnaya military prison north of Damascus. The Nophotozone...

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 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...

The UN relief chief stressed Tuesday that nearly 17 million people in Syria need humanitarian assistance. "A staggering 16.7 million people now require humanitarian assistance – nearly three-quarters of the population and the highest number of people in need since the start of the crisis,"...