Middle East Eye

Middle East Eye (MEE) is a digital news platform that reports on happenings in the Middle East and is referenced by well-known media outlets. According to its website, MEE is an independently funded news organization that started in February 2014, with the goal of being the leading source for news related to the region. The editor of MEE is David Hearst, who previously served as the chief foreign leader writer for the British newspaper The Guardian.

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Bolivia ambassador concerned over Israel’s ‘colonialism and genocidal actions’

1 day ago | middleeasteye.net | Sondos Asem

Bolivian ambassador to the Netherlands, Roberto Calzadilla Sarmiento, spoke to Middle East Eye on 30 April outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) following hearings into Israel's humanitarian obligations in occupied Palestine. In an interview with MEE news editor Sondos Asem, Sarmiento said the court must reaffirm the obligations of Israel as an occupying power in Palestine.
Namibian official Gladice Pickering says world 'must hold Israel accountable'

1 day ago | middleeasteye.net | Sondos Asem

Gladice Pickering, the Executive Director to Namibia's Ministry of Justice, urged the world to hold Israel accountable for its occupation of the West Bank and its war and blockade of Gaza. Pickering was speaking in The Hague, during hearings at the International Court of Justice over Israel's obligations to allow aid into Gaza and Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, to operate freely in the besieged strip.
'The wheel of justice turns slowly': Palestine ambassador to the Netherlands

1 day ago | middleeasteye.net | Sondos Asem

The International Court of Justice on 28 April 2025 began hearings into Israel's obligations towards the presence and activities of the UN, other international organisations and third states in occupied Palestine. Following the proceedings, Middle East Eye News Editor Sondos Asem spoke to Ammar Hijazi, the Palestinian ambassador to international organisations in The Hague and to the Netherlands. Hijazi had spoken to the court that day on the dire situation in Gaza under Israel's complete siege.
Turkey stands against forced displacement in Gaza, says deputy foreign minister

1 day ago | middleeasteye.net | Sondos Asem

Nuh Yilmaz, the Turkish deputy foreign affairs minister, said the country is his government is "doing its best" to pressure an end to Israel’s ban on Gaza aid enforced since 2 March.
Rights groups say Starmer's migration comments risk reigniting far-right riots

1 day ago | middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst

Rights groups say Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s comments about curbing migration to the UK risk sparking a fresh wave of riots targeting mosques and asylum hotels this summer. In a speech, which politicians and rights groups say recalled rightwing politician's Enoch Powell’s notorious “rivers of blood” speech, Starmer defended Labour's plans to curb net migration to the UK.
Rights groups call on UK to end all arms sales to Israel as court case begins

2 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Areeb Ullah

Rights groups and charities gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday to support a legal challenge against the UK government's continuing export of F-35 fighter jet parts for use by Israel. Holding Palestinian flags and signs calling on the government to “stop arming Israel”, dozens of campaigners joined the lawyers leading the case to demand an end to all UK arms exports to the country.
From AI to weapons, Trump's Gulf visit looks to swap politics for business

2 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Sean Mathews |John Rees

US President Donald Trump is setting up shop in the oil-rich Gulf. His wares are high-tech weaponry, AI chips and nuclear technology. Because Trump's focus will be on business deals when he arrives in the Gulf on Tuesday, his visit is being framed as economic, above geopolitical. But Trump's transactional approach to foreign policy also underscores a deeper truth about the current world order. His visit will start on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, followed by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
BBC accused of 'political censorship' over failure to release Gaza medics documentary

2 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Oscar Rickett

The BBC has been accused of "political censorship" as it faces increasing pressure to broadcast a film it commissioned about Palestinian doctors working in Gaza. Over 600 prominent figures from the arts and media, including British film director Mike Leigh, Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and Lindsey Hilsum, the international editor of Channel 4 News, have signed an open letter calling on the corporation to release Gaza: Medics Under Fire, which has been ready for broadcast since February.
Pakistani military says UK engines powered Israeli drones used by India

2 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla

British-made engines powered Israeli drones that India launched into Pakistani airspace last week, according to reports by the Pakistani media citing the country's military. Pakistani and international media circulated a photo late last week of an intact engine taken from a drone downed by the Pakistani military. The engine has visible manufacturer markings, which reveal it was produced by UK-based company UAV Engines Ltd.
Why US liberals refuse to acknowledge that Trump is a homegrown dictator

2 days ago | middleeasteye.net | John Rees |Hamid Dabashi

Liberal imperialists, who would have been delighted with either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris as president in the last US election, are now up in arms, mourning the global embarrassment Donald Trump has caused them on the pages of The New York Times and beyond. Trump is too obvious, too crass, too vulgar an imperialist. Their first instinct is to disown him as an anomaly. He looks like a Latin American dictator, an African despot, an Oriental tyrant, or a Russian czar.