France, Germany, and Italy called for the European Union to set up a special sanctions scheme to target Hamas as EU foreign ministers met on Monday to consider possible next steps in response to the Middle East crisis. Among the possible measures up for discussion at the meeting are a crackdown on Hamas’s finances … Read more
A team of more than 2,200 Journalists and Media Communication Workers have signed a statement that calls for an immediate end to the killing of journalists in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon. The international journalism community are also urging governments to protect all media workers from any threats that they may be victim to, while covering … Read more
Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Dief Tel Aviv: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Thursday, December 14, announced a cash reward for the Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Dief, who are allegedly considered to be responsible for the October 7 attacks on Israel. Media reports said that the Israelis dropped leaflets in Gaza … Read more
The United Nations refugee chief warned that the Gaza conflict could spur more displacement in the wider region as UN officials, politicians and aid groups gathered in Geneva on Wednesday to seek solutions to a global displacement crisis. A record 114 million people around the world have been driven from their homes, including about … Read more
Washington: A US official said Israel has informed Washington that they have started “carefully testing out” flooding some of Gaza’s tunnels with seawater “on a limited basis” to test the ability to degrade the Hamas militant group’s underground network on a larger scale. The official told CNN on Tuesday that the Israelis were still unsure … Read more
Jean-Loup Samaan, a senior research fellow at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore and a former adviser with the French defence ministry and NATO, described the past 15 years as “the collapse of the Oslo process”, as the election of Hamas in Gaza and the increase in Israeli settlements in the … Read more
Puma has announced that it will end its sponsorship of Israel’s national football team next year after the sportswear company was accused of support supporting Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Puma is the world’s third-biggest sportswear company, overshadowed by Adidas and Nike. According to an internal memo, the company will no longer be providing … Read more
A group of left-wing Israeli organizations submitted a letter to United States President Joe Biden on Tuesday, asking that he encourage Israel to discontinue military actions in the Gaza Strip and continue administering aid. The letter, which begins by condemning the October 7 massacre committed by Hamas but neglects to use the word “terrorist,” … Read more
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov demanded the release of hostages held in Gaza in telephone calls on Sunday and Monday with Hamas and other Palestinian factions, the Russian foreign ministry said. The statement followed a series of meetings and calls between President Vladimir Putin and Middle East leaders in the past week. The … Read more
National Unity MK Matan Kahana discussed the contentious issue of admitting Palestinian laborers from Judea and Samaria in an interview on 103FM Tuesday morning. Kahana acknowledged the complexity of the matter, stating, “It is clear that in times of war, our priority is to protect ourselves as effectively as possible.” He also expressed the … Read more
