Sat 25 October 2025: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Thursday that more than 61 million tons of debris blanket the Gaza Strip as a result of more than two years of Israel’s war. “Entire neighborhoods have been erased, and families search the ruins for water, for shelter,” the UNRWA said on […]
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Fri 24 October 2025: Record numbers of Israelis have left the occupied territories since 2020, with policymakers enjoying little success in stemming the outflow over the past five years. A report released by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has alarmed politicians who fear the impact of a declining Jewish population, according to Middle East Eye. […]
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Fri 24 October 2025: Chairperson of the South African Muslim Network (SAMNET), Dr Faisal Suliman, has raised an alarm over the growing number of Israeli citizens entering South Africa. The organisation has urged the Department of Home Affairs to explain how these applications are being screened and approved. In a letter to Minister Leon Schreiber, […]
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Fri 24 October 2025: The state-linked daily Jomhouri Eslami, which operates under the supervision of a representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, described Hamas’s October 7 attack as a mistake that undermined anti-Israel movements in the region. “Contrary to many analyses and comments, the Al-Aqsa Storm operation was a mistake,” the paper wrote in […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: Hundreds of Jewish public figures worldwide have appealed to the UN and global leaders to impose sanctions on Israel for “unconscionable” acts in the Gaza Strip that amount to genocide, The Guardian reported Wednesday, Anadolu reports. An open letter signed by more than 450 individuals, including former Israeli officials, writers and award-winning artists, […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: The United States is mulling over a proposal to leave Gaza’s territory divided while rebuilding Israel-control areas only and figuring out how to disarm Hamas, a news report says. “The US and Israel are considering a plan that would divide Gaza into separate zones controlled by Israel and Hamas, with reconstruction […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: A UN Population Fund official warns that 11,500 pregnant women are among the one in four Palestinians currently starving in war-devastated Gaza. Andrew Saberton said “starvation is particularly catastrophic” for both mothers and their newborn children, with premature and low birth weight babies now making up about 70 percent of newborns […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Syrian civil defense teams on Tuesday retrieved the remains of 20 people from a mass grave east of the city of Douma in the Damascus countryside, local media said, Anadolu reports. The state-run Al-Ikhbariya channel, citing a civil defense statement, said the remains were found at a site in the Tal al-Sawan […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has condemned the behaviour of Israeli settlers towards Christians in the West Bank, describing the situation as “absolutely unacceptable.” According to Vatican News, Parolin made the remarks during a press conference in Rome, held on the sidelines of a meeting about […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Mine action chief warns that unexploded munitions pose long-term danger as reconstruction begins, with 328 casualties reported in Gaza since October 2023. The UN’s mine action programme chief in the occupied Palestinian territories has said that the organisation is “deeply concerned about the heightened risk” posed by Israeli explosive ordnance in […]
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