Category: 3. Middle East

The United States, under Israeli pressure, has been preventing senior foreign diplomats to the Palestinian Authority from accessing the American military center in southern Israel that coordinates operations in Gaza and oversees the cease-fire,…

Israel said on Thursday Hamas “will be disarmed” as part of the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza, after a top leader from the Palestinian Islamist movement suggested a weapons freeze.

The ceasefire, in effect since October 10, halted the war that…

JERUSALEM, Dec 11 (Reuters) – A new report by Amnesty International has ​found that Palestinian militant group Hamas ​committed crimes against humanity during its attack on southern Israel on October ⁠7, 2023 and against hostages it took…

Ghana has deported three Israeli nationals who arrived in the country on Wednesday in what appears to be a tit-for-tat move over the alleged mistreatment of Ghanaian nationals at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel.

Seven Ghanaians,…

Dec 11 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is ​planning to appoint an ​American two-star general to command the International ⁠Stabilization Force in Gaza, Axios reported on Thursday, citing two U.S. officials and two Israeli…

By Haseeb Alwazeer

GAZA, Dec 11 (Reuters) – As winter bites in Gaza, displaced Palestinians set out every day to homes destroyed ​by Israel. There they rip out iron rods from the ​walls and use them to prop up their flimsy tents or sell to…

TAIPEI/JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Taiwan’s high-profile Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu made a previously unpublicized visit to Israel recently, three sources familiar with the trip told Reuters, at a time when Taiwan is looking to…

Several Israeli settler activists crossed into the Gaza Strip Wednesday night in an attempt to plant trees as a precursor to establishing new Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territory. The activists were detained by IDF…

TAIPEI/JERUSALEM, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s high-profile Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu made a previously unpublicised visit to Israel recently, three sources ​familiar with the trip told Reuters, at a time when Taiwan ​is looking to…

By Marianna Parraga and Jonathan Saul

HOUSTON/LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – More than 30 U.S.-sanctioned oil vessels doing business in Venezuela could face ​punishment by Washington after the Coast Guard seized a supertanker ​carrying Venezuelan…