China on Wednesday hosts a litany of Arab dignitaries and diplomats ahead of a forum Beijing hopes will deepen ties with the region and present a 鈥榗ommon voice鈥� on the conflict between Israel and Hamas...
WHILE statements that 鈥楴o one is above the law鈥� are repeated in the United States over the trials of former president Donald Trump, can the same be said internationally? By analogy, chief prosecutor Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court said 鈥榶es鈥� when he...
Israel launched devastating air strikes on Gaza early on Thursday while also saying it is ready to resume stalled talks on a truce and hostage release deal with Hamas to...
THE International Criminal Court this week made the first truly historic move since its establishment in 2002, with its chief prosecutor recommending arrest warrants against two top Israeli officials, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant, and three prominent Hamas leaders...
THERE is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel鈥檚 war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, 鈥榓bsurd and false鈥� and a 鈥榙istortion of reality.鈥�...
North Gaza鈥檚 last two functioning hospitals, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan, are barely operational, doctors and the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday with the Israel-Hamas war now in its eighth month...
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top...
UNLESS you are the victim of a moral narrow-mindedness (and there seems to be an epidemic of this defect nowadays), it should be obvious to you that Israel has descended into barbarism. Why barbarism? Because in Israel, cruel, murderous, and otherwise criminal behaviour has become state policy...
Women and children make up at least 56 per cent of the thousands killed in the Gaza war, the UN said on Tuesday, amid controversy over the toll based on numbers from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza...
Israel鈥檚 military operation in Rafah has set truce negotiations with Hamas 鈥榖ackward鈥�, mediator Qatar said on Tuesday, adding that talks have reached...
Israel battled Hamas in Gaza on Monday, including in far-southern Rafah, despite US warnings against a full-scale invasion of the crowded city and...
Israel struck Gaza on Sunday and troops were battling militants in several areas of the Hamas-run territory, where the health ministry said that...
Gazans are feeling the toll of seven months of war, with women bearing the brunt as hospitals face overcrowding and shortages, says a doctor who just left the southern city of Rafah...
Talks to reach a Gaza truce resumed on Sunday, a Hamas source said, but public disagreement between the Islamist movement and Israel intensified over...
Hamas said it was considering in a 鈥榩ositive spirit鈥� a proposed truce and hostage release deal with Israel as the bloodiest ever Gaza war claimed more...
Turkey said on Thursday that it was suspending all trade with Israel until it allows aid to enter Gaza unhindered during its offensive against Hamas in the territory.....
The United Nations said on Thursday that Gaza鈥檚 post-war reconstruction would require an international effort unseen since the aftermath of World War II, estimating it could cost up to $40 billion.....
Iran announced on Thursday sanctions on several American and British individuals and entities for supporting Israel in its war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas...
Police tore down a protest encampment at the University of Texas on Wednesday, arresting more than a dozen people, as unrest over Israel鈥檚 war against Hamas in Gaza simmered on the United States campuses...
US top diplomat Antony Blinken said on Monday he was 鈥榟opeful鈥� Hamas would accept the latest proposal for a long-sought Gaza truce and hostage release deal as negotiators from the Palestinian group were due in Egypt...
Diplomatic efforts intensified on Sunday to reach a long sought-after truce and hostage-release deal in Gaza, as Hamas said it would travel to mediator Egypt to deliver its response to Israel鈥檚 latest proposal...
Saudi Arabia on Sunday called for regional 鈥榮tability鈥�, warning of the effects of the on-going Israel-Hamas war on global economic sentiment at the start of a...
Hamas鈥檚 armed wing released video on Saturday of two men held hostage in Gaza who are seen alive and urging Israeli authorities to strike a deal for the release of all the remaining captives.....
Hamas said it was studying on Saturday the latest Israeli counterproposal regarding a potential ceasefire in Gaza, a day after media reports said...
Criticism of Qatar over its role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas has prompted a rare pushback by the Gulf state against its...
The Israel-Hamas war entered its 200th day on Tuesday with fears mounting of an Israeli invasion in the overcrowded south of the besieged Gaza Strip amid calls for hostages to be freed...
Israel鈥檚 military intelligence chief has resigned after taking responsibility for failures leading to the Hamas attack on October 7, the military said on Monday, as Israel carried out more shelling in war-battered Gaza overnight...
THROUGHOUT history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of 鈥榯he Others.鈥� The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by supporting their empire鈥檚 predatory policies with slanted coverage...
OVER more than a century of aggressively pursuing a process of de-Arabisation of Palestine before and after the creation of the state of Israel for the settlement of foreign Jews, Israel has become the most powerful country in the Middle East...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Palestinians to unite amid Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza following hours-long talks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in...