This fuzziness is not new of course. The securitisation of global economic networks stretches back decades with the United States wielding tools including dollar weaponisation and trade sanctions, as well as using capital for geopolitical gains. China’s past economic coercion of Australia and Vietnam is simply a borrowed play by a different team. Unsurprisingly, as … Read more
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) in close partnership with American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera), has announced the successful delivery of 400 tonnes of food aid for the people of Gaza, specifically intended for the northern Gaza Strip. The delivery and distribution of life-saving food aid to feed around 120,000 people, aligns with … Read more
Tel Aviv: Thousands of Israelis protested in 70 locations on Saturday, May 4, demanding the release of hostages in Gaza Strip and calling for early elections. It is organized by Change Generation, a movement established following the October 7, 2023, attack, to demand the release of hostages and a change in Israel’s leadership, Times of … Read more
The political tension around the ever-growing pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses will likely be the focus of this week’s Sunday news shows. Two notable instances of violence breaking out at campuses amid the protests occurred Tuesday at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), when both the New York Police Department (NYPD) … Read more
Photo: UNRWA/X At least 37 Palestinian children on average lose their mother every single day in Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israel and Hamas war on October 7, 2023. Taking to X on Friday, May 3, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that the Israeli forces continues to target women in … Read more
A senior Palestinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Palestinian prisoner associations said on Thursday, blaming Israel for his death. The associations said in a joint statement that Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopedics at Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, had been detained by Israeli … Read more
Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has reportedly increased arrests of citizens for criticising Israel on social media in recent months due to its ongoing military onslaught against Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. Saudi Arabia is a country known for its strict stance on free speech and political expression, often detaining individuals, sometimes … Read more
Egypt’s eighth annual Aswan International Women Film Festival took place from April 20 to 25. This year’s focus was on the resilience of women, with Egypt’s economic turmoil and the war in neighboring Gaza as a backdrop. Cairo-based photojournalist Hamada Elrasam captured scenes around the festival in Aswan, Egypt’s southernmost city known as the country’s … Read more
Settlements and National Missions Minister Orit Strock complained that the government was “throwing the [war effort] in the trash to save 22 or 33” of the 133 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza in an interview with Army Radio on Wednesday. Strock insisted that her party “very much” wants to bring the hostages … Read more
Former President Trump made unfounded claims Tuesday that pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University contained “paid agitators” as nationwide college campus protests escalate. Hundreds of New York Police Department officers, many with batons and in riot gear, cleared Columbia University’s protest encampments on Tuesday evening, including arresting students who occupied a campus building. Trump claimed in a Fox … Read more
