A World Food Programme (WFP) worker has died while in detention in Houthi-controlled northern Yemen, according to the UN agency. The WFP said the man was one of seven Yemeni…
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UK: Saudi PhD student freed after being jailed over posts, activists say
A Saudi PhD student at the University of Leeds has been released from prison in Saudi Arabia after her sentence over critical social media activity was reduced, activists have said.…
USA: Trump says no right of return for Palestinians under Gaza plan
US President Donald Trump has said the two million Palestinians who would be resettled in neighbouring countries under his plan to take over and rebuild the Gaza Strip would have…
USA: Trump says US is ‘committed to buying and owning Gaza’
President Donald Trump has said he is “committed to buying and owning” the Gaza Strip and relocating the two million Palestinians living there, despite global condemnation of the plan he…
Lebanon: Israeli air strike kills six in eastern Lebanon amid fragile ceasefire
An Israeli air raid has killed six people and wounded two in eastern Lebanon amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that a drone targeted the…
Palestine: Israel kills eight-month-pregnant woman in occupied West Bank raid
The Israeli military has expanded its assaults in the occupied West Bank, killing an eight-month-pregnant woman during a raid at the Palestinian territory’s Nur Shams refugee camp. The troops opened…
Palestine: Hostages freed and prisoners released in latest ceasefire exchange
Hamas has freed three Israeli hostages in Gaza, while Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the latest exchange as part of an internationally brokered ceasefire deal. The three hostages –…
Saudi Arabia: Kingdom slams Netanyahu’s suggestion it should host Palestinian state
Saudi Arabia has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suggestion that the kingdom’s land be used to establish a Palestinian state. In a statement on Sunday, the Saudi Foreign Ministry…
Palestine: Trump says Israel will hand over Gaza to US after fighting ends
US President Donald Trump has restated a vision in which the US would take over Gaza, after officials in his administration appeared to contradict his earlier comments. “The Gaza Strip…
USA: Palestinian Americans react to Trump’s Gaza comments
Palestinian-Americans across the US have expressed outrage at Donald Trump’s proposal for the US to “take over” Gaza, a place many of them still consider home. “Our right of return,…