If you have visited Gaza after 2007, you social media will be scrutinized by US visa authorities. Indian scholar Badar Khan Suri was arrested by the Donald Trump administration because of his alleged Hamas connection. His wife’s father was a former Hamas adviser, and they met in Gaza in 2011 when Suri went to Gaza […]
Representative image (Picture credit: ANI) GAZA CITY: At least 64 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Friday morning and the number of casualties continues to rise, according to medical sources quoted by Al Jazeera.The United Nations’ World Food Programme has issued an urgent warning, saying that “Gaza needs food now” as […]
JERUSALEM: Israel said Wednesday it would keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, where a relentless military offensive has turned the Palestinian territory into a “mass grave”, a medical charity reported.Air and ground attacks resumed across the Gaza Strip from March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas that had largely halted hostilities in the […]
Reference Photo (AP) JERUSALEM: Israel‘s defence minister said Wednesday that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria indefinitely, remarks that could further complicate talks with Hamas over a ceasefire and hostage release. Israeli forces have taken over more than half of Gaza in a renewed campaign to pressure […]
The Maldives has officially banned Israeli passport holders from entering the country, a decision formalized by President Mohamed Muizzu this week. This action, prompted by the ongoing conflict in Gaza, reflects the government’s condemnation of Israel’s actions against Palestinians. While the ban’s impact on dual nationals remains unclear, it underscores the Maldives’ stance as a […]
Emmanuel Macron- File Photo (AP) PARIS: France’s President Emmanuel Macron told Israel’s leader during a phone call Tuesday that the suffering of Gazan civilians “must end” and that only a ceasefire in Gaza could free remaining Israeli hostages.“The ordeal the civilian populations of Gaza are going through must end,” Macron posted on X after the […]
An anti-Israel protest in Dhaka (AP) Bangladesh’s interim government announced on Sunday it has reintroduced the “except Israel” inscription on the country’s passports, formally debarring its citizens from travelling to the Jewish state.“We issued the letter to the passport and immigration department on April 7,” Nilima Afroze, deputy secretary of the Bangladesh home ministry, told […]
Israel announced on Saturday that it would expand “rapidly” across much of Gazahad after completing building a new security corridor cutting off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza, reported news agency Associated Press. The corridor, called Morag, is named after a former Jewish settlement located between Rafah and Khan Younis. It […]
When Yona Schnitzer, a marketing writer from Tel Aviv, attended the traditional Passover Seder meal last year, he said a special prayer for the return of all of the hostages still being held by Palestinian militants in Gaza. He had thought their freedom would be secured by Passover 2025, but that did not happen. “It’s […]
