Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday called for cooperation with Saudi Arabia to face the “repeated insults” made by US President Donald Trump, Arabi 21 reported. Zarif wrote on Twitter: “The US President [Donald] Trump has repeatedly insulted the Saudis through saying they are unable to sustain [themselves] for two weeks without his […]
Israeli Squatters Busted Stealing Olives from Palestinian Farm
Palestinian farmers are only given four days to tend to hundreds of trees and harvest their crops, while settlers are free to access the land at their will A group of settlers have been filmed stealing olives from Palestinian farms near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. In the video, the pair can be […]
Israeli Police question PM Netanyahu over Corruption, Blackmai for 12th Time
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is today being questioned for the 12th time over two cases of corruption. Today’s questioning is related to two cases dubbed Case 1000 and Case 2000 respectively. In Case 1000, Netanyahu stands accused of accepting lavish gifts from two influential businessmen in return for favourable legislation and personal favours. In […]
Miss Iraq: Death Threats target Women Media Activists after Miss Baghad was Assassinated
Iraqi fashion model and media activist, Shaimaa Qasem, holder of the title of Miss Iraq in 2015, yesterday said that she had received “death threats.” Qasem, who held the title of Miss Iraq in 2015, posted a short live video on Facebook’s Instagram, revealing that she had received a message read “your turn is coming.” […]
Israel Doubles its Construction of Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine in 2018
Construction rates for Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank more than doubled in the second quarter of 2018. According to data published by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Israel began constructing 794 new dwellings in the occupied West Bank in the second quarter of 2018. This figure is more than double that […]
Palestinian Schools & Clinics at Risk if Trump Cuts not Made Up: UNRWA
A UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees said schools and health centres are at risk if it is unable to plug a $185 million funding gap needed to keep operating until the end of the year, the agency’s head said on Monday, Reuters reports. “Currently we have money in the bank … will last I […]
Jared Kushner is Wrong: Collective Punishment of Palestinians will not Lead to Peace
By Bill Law @BillLaw49 | – Last week, exactly 25 years after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accord, Jared Kushner commented on the punitive measures that his father-in-law, the President of the United States, had taken against the Palestinian people. “There were,” said Kushner, “too many false realities that were created — that people […]
Syrian Extremist Militias Reject Turkey-Russia Agreement, Will Attack Syrian Troops
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that Syrian armed factions have rejected an agreement reached by Turkey and Russia on setting up a demilitarised zone between the armed opposition and Syrian government troops in Idlib as of 15 October. The Observatory said in a statement that the factions of Religious Guards Ansar Al-Tawheed, […]
Quality of Life dropping in Military-Ruled Egypt, Inequality Rising: UN Report
The UN Development Programme has ranked Egypt 115th of 189 countries in its annual Human Development Index (HDI), four places below its ranking last year. The index, which has recorded governmental progress in human development since 1990, takes into account three main indicators: income per capita calculated in US dollars, average life expectancy, and markers […]

