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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin
Hamas said on Thursday that it has received US envoy Steve Witkoff's new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza from mediators, and that it was currently studying it.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin
The UAE has summoned the Israeli ambassador in the country and noted to him its condemnations of "provocative practices by Israeli extremists" in Jerusalem, state news agency Wam reported on Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin
Yahya Saree, military spokesperson for Yemen's Houthis, said the group was responsible for an attack on Sunday intercepted by Israel. He said the Houthis fired a "hypersonic" missile towards Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. Sirens sounded across several areas of Israel on Sunday, as Israel intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards Israel. Saree said the attack was successful as it caused the airport to halt operations and Israelis to flee to shelters.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin
Israeli forces are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, according to a new report by the Associated Press (AP). Seven Palestinians spoke to AP about being used as human shields in both Gaza and the occupied West Bank, in a report published on Saturday. Two Israeli military officers also confirmed the practice. “They beat me and told me: ‘You have no other option; do this or we’ll kill you,’” Ayman Abu Hamadan, 36, told AP.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin |Ignacio Cembrero
As the annual ‘African Lion’ military drill kicked off in Morocco last week, troops from various nations were filmed marching across a red carpet, flanked by rows of flags. Near the centre, the blue and white of Israel fluttered - a rare sight on Moroccan soil. The yearly exercise, jointly organised by Rabat and the US Africa Command, brings together 10,000 troops from more than 40 participating countries. It is the third time Israel has taken part in the drill.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin
Five months after the fall of decades of brutal autocracy, Syrians are celebrating once again. There were jubilant scenes as President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the lifting of US sanctions on Syria that had spanned more than 45 years. “All of my family were out in the streets,” Nedal al-Amari, an activist from Daraa, currently residing in Germany, told Middle East Eye.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin |Joe Gill
Donald Trump’s administration declared a ceasefire in Yemen last week due to burning through expensive munitions while failing to establish air superiority over the Houthis, according to the New York Times. Citing Washington officials, a report on Monday stated that the Yemeni group shot down numerous American MQ Reaper drones and fired at naval ships in the Red Sea right up until the moment a truce was agreed.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Lubna Masarwa |Rayhan Uddin
Israel’s cabinet has for the first time voted to take sole responsibility for land registration in Area C of the occupied West Bank, a decision that has been described as effective Israeli annexation of the majority of Palestinian land. Under the 1995 Oslo Agreement, the West Bank was divided into three areas, with the Palestinian Authority (PA) exerting limited control of areas A and B, while Israel took full control of Area C. The latter area forms 60 percent of total land in the territory.
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4 weeks 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.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin
Not content with trying to rename one body of water, Donald Trump may be planning to rename another. Fresh from unilaterally changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the US president has now turned his attention to a naming dispute in the Middle East: the Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf? Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he would make a decision during an upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE on how the US would refer to the sea going forward.
