Joe Gill

5 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin |Joe Gill

Abdul Kareem, a religious preacher in Sanaa, believes that Yemen has been on the right side of history over the past year and a half. He praised the decision of the Houthis, who rule large swathes of northwestern Yemen, including the capital, to militarily respond to Israel’s war on Gaza. “We didn’t stop the Israeli aggression, but we posed a big threat,” Abdul Kareem told Middle East Eye.

6 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill

Prominent health workers have written to the BBC expressing "profound outrage" over its decision to delay the broadcast of a new film about doctors working in Gaza, which they say is "censorship by omission". The documentary, Gaza: Medics Under Fire, was ready to broadcast in February but was pulled because of a scandal that erupted over another BBC documentary on children in Gaza, entitled How to Survive a Warzone.

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Joe Gill

Independent MP Shockat Adam has criticised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for claiming "most of what he says is not right" after Adam asked whether the UK will "acknowledge that ethnic cleansing is underway" and end its military cooperation with Israel. Adam, the MP for Leicester South and a member of the parliamentary Independent Alliance group, put the questions to Starmer on Wednesday during Prime Minister's Questions in parliament.

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Joe Gill

British Conservative MP Bob Blackman has shared an X post by India's ruling party celebrating New Delhi's attacks on Pakistan that reportedly killed dozens of civilians. Blackman, MP for the London constituency of Harrow East, also shared a video of explosions in Gaza which purported to be a video of Pakistan during India's attacks. India said on Wednesday that it carried out "precision strikes" on "terrorist camps" across nine sites in Pakistan, as its neighbour promised to retaliate.

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill

Reform, Nigel Farage’s populist right-wing party, has just swept local elections across the UK, while the Labour party - only 10 months after winning a majority in a general election - suffered its worst results in many decades. “They’ve gone back on everything they said they would do for the working class,” said a female voter speaking to the BBC after Reform also defeated Labour in the Runcorn and Helsby byelection on 1 May by just six votes.