Hezbollah/Israel: ‘A violent and dangerous conversation’ [plus podcast]
Michael Safi
The Guardian / July 24, 2024
Michael Safi reported in Lebanon for three years, and all his life has been visiting family who live there. He recently returned to cover the impact of the Hezbollah-Israel conflict.
While it gets less coverage than it might if Israel’s assault on Gaza were...
Scores killed in Israeli attacks, medics say, after IDF orders evacuation of Gaza humanitarian...
Ruth Michaelson & Malak A Tantesh
The Guardian / July 23, 2024
Hundreds also wounded in assault on parts of Khan Younis, including area designated a humanitarian zone by IDF.
The Israeli military has launched a fresh attack on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, killing at least 70...
Who is Israel targeting in its attacks on the West Bank ?
Al-Jazeera / July 23, 2024
Israel plays up the threat of ‘terrorism’ in the occupied West Bank to justify collective punishment, Palestinians say.
The Israeli army killed three Palestinian military commanders – including one from Hamas’s Qassam Brigades and two from Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – and a mother...
[arrest warrants] US joins more than 60 other states, entities set to weigh in...
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / July 23, 2024
Biden administration has been considering for weeks how to voice opposition against ICC's potential arrest warrants for Israeli officials.
The US is set to weigh in on the International Criminal Court’s intention to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along...
Pro-Palestine orgs and lawmakers react to Biden dropping out
Michael Arria
Mondoweiss / July 23, 2023
In the wake of Joe Biden's historic decision to step down, Palestine solidarity groups highlighting his complicity in the Gaza genocide and calling on Kamala Harris to embrace a permanent ceasefire and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
In the wake...
Netanyahu is in Washington at a fraught time for Israel and the US. What...
Ellen Knickmeyer , Ashraf Khalil & Farnoush Amiri
AP / July 23, 2024
WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week is looming as a fraught one between the two allies, coming at a moment of extreme political flux in the United States, and wariness among American...
WHO warns polio spreading across Gaza as Israel vaccinates its troops
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / July 23, 2024
Health officials say outbreak could ‘spill over’ into other territories if not controlled.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the spread of polio across the Gaza Strip and possibly further afield as a result of collapsing sanitation in the...
China challenges West on Gaza by offering Palestinians a new platform
Rayhan Uddin & Lubna Masarwa
Middle East Eye / July 23, 2024
Beijing's hosting of reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah is latest example of growing influence in the Middle East, say analysts.
As 14 Palestinian leaders lined up for a photograph in Beijing on Tuesday, they each made sure to shake...
As Trump’s star rises, Netanyahu tries to rekindle old bond on US visit
Justin Salhani
Al-Jazeera / July 23, 2024
The Israeli premier and allies view a second Trump presidency as allowing them ‘to fulfil their agenda’, analysts say.
In 2021, former United States President Donald Trump told Israeli journalist Barak Ravid that his relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu had suffered after the Israeli...
HRW: Israel – detainees face inhumane treatment
Human Rights Watch / July 23, 2024
Degrading photos circulated; acts amount to war crimes.
Jerusalem – Israeli forces have been publishing degrading photographs and videos of detained Palestinians, including children, a form of inhumane treatment and an outrage on their personal dignity that amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said...
