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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
Basem Farajallah speaks with his sister in Gaza every day. She is diabetic and surviving on scraps of bread. He has 80 family members still alive in Gaza - but 40 others have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023, including 25 who were wiped out in a single strike. Farajallah emphasised that he is not alone. He is the co-founder of the UK Gaza Community, a group of some 350 British Palestinians with relatives in Gaza.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
The Israeli authorities are deporting two international activists who were documenting settler violence against Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank. Swedish citizen Susanne Bjork and Irish citizen Deirdre Murphy were arrested on 31 May in the village of Khallet al-Daba, where they had been filming settler attacks against its Palestinian residents.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
Al Jazeera has reported that the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn has reached 38. Of that figure, 27 people were killed in northern Gaza.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
The family of disappeared Egyptian poet Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi have issued a plea to the Emirati government for his release, as he marks 145 days of solitary confinement at an unknown location in the country. Qaradawi was arrested in Lebanon in January, and extradited to the UAE over a video he posted to social media while visiting Syria, in which he expressed critical views of the Egyptian, Emirati and Saudi authorities.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
The Israeli military has issued a statement on Telegram claiming it has no knowledge of the deadly attack at an aid distribution point in Rafah early on Sunday. Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians gathered at two aid distribution points run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Gaza City and Rafah, killing at least 35 people.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
Hala Sabbah’s team has spent weeks trying to source a bag of flour in Gaza. “We’re not finding flour - or at least clean flour. It’s all infested or mixed with sand,” she told Middle East Eye, speaking from London. Sabbah works with a Palestinian-led mutual aid group, coordinating with local volunteers who purchase and distribute supplies in Gaza, using funds raised through the project.
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4 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
Israel has blocked the entry of a delegation of Arab foreign ministers planning to hold a meeting in the Palestinian administrative capital of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Israeli media is reporting. The Israeli authorities refused entry to the delegation, which included ministers from Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, on the grounds that they intended to participate in “a provocative meeting” to discuss promoting the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
The UN has said it has no information on whether the Gaza Humanitarian Foundtion (GHF) aid distributions in the territory have actually taken place. The newly formed US-backed foundation released images of aid distribution from its hubs in the Strip on Tuesday. But Unrwa spokesperson Juliette Touma told reporters that UN agencies do not “have any information” about aid deliveries by the GHF into Gaza.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has condemned Israel's "abhorrent" attacks on civilian targets in Gaza, including yesterday's deadly attack on a school which killed 33 people. "The expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza targeting civilian infrastructure, among them a school that served as a shelter for displaced Palestinian families, killing civilians, including children, is abhorrent," von der Leyen said, according to an EU readout of the call.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
The Israeli military has issued forced expulsion orders for residents for large areas of northern Gaza, including Beit Lahiya and Jabalia refugee camp. An army spokesperon warned that the areas are now "considered dangerous combat zones," as the Israeli army is set to "significantly expand its military activity in the areas”.
