RIYADH: Nearly every Gazan is living in poverty as the Israel-Hamas war continues to have a “devastating impact” on the Palestinian economy, according to the World Bank. An analysis by the organization sets out how the economic consequences of the conflict have spread beyond Gaza and into the West Bank, with widespread unemployment and underemployment combined with inflation…
Republican US House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would soon address a joint meeting of Congress amid heightened tensions with President Joe Biden over the Israeli leader’s handling of the war in Gaza. Delivering a keynote speech at the Israeli embassy’s annual Independence Day reception, Johnson, the top congressional…
Norway, Spain and Ireland are formally recognizing Palestine as a state, the countries’ leaders said on Wednesday. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said: “There cannot be peace in the Middle East if there is no recognition.” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez also announced that the country’s council of ministers would recognize an independent Palestinian…
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces thrust deeper into Jabalia in northern Gaza on Tuesday, striking a hospital and destroying residential areas with tank and air bombardments, residents said, while Israeli airstrikes killed at least five people in Rafah in the south.Simultaneous Israeli assaults on the northern and southern edges of the Gaza Strip this month have…
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has warned of dire consequences as a result of Israel escalating its activities in the Gaza Strip. During talks with his Jordanian and Iraqi counterparts, Ayman Al-Safadi and Fuad Hussein, he also said there would be negative repercussions for the security and stability of the whole region. The discussion in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was publicly challenged about post-war plans for the Gaza Strip on Wednesday by his own defense chief, who vowed to oppose any long-term military rule by Israel over the ravaged Palestinian enclave.The televised statement by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant marked the most vocal dissent from within Israel’s top echelon against…
Waibhav Anil Kale belonged to the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles Regiment and had taken retirement two years ago to join the organisation A retired Indian Army officer working for the United Nations (UN) in Gaza has been killed while travelling in a vehicle to a hospital in the Khan Younis area from the Rafah region….
Videos circulated on social media showed protesters throwing supplies from the trucks on to the ground Israeli protesters blocked aid trucks headed for Gaza on Monday, strewing food packages on the road in the latest in a series of incidents that have come as Israel has pledged to allow uninterrupted humanitarian supplies into the besieged…
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognising it as qualified to join and recommending the U.N. Security Council “reconsider the matter favourably”, Reuters reported. The assembly adopted a resolution with 143 votes in favor and 9 against, while 25 countries abstained. It…
CAIRO: Talks aimed at agreeing the terms of a truce in the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza resumed in Cairo Wednesday “with all sides present,” Egyptian media reported.“Truce negotiations have resumed in Cairo today with all sides present,” Egypt’s AlQahera News, which is close to the intelligence services, reported, citing a “senior…
