Mideast News from WN Network

Heavy fighting in Gaza’s Rafah keeps aid crossings closed, sends 100,000 civilians fleeing 2024-05-10
Wtop

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and caused over 100,000 people to flee north, a United Nations official said Friday. Israel’s plans...

photo: AP / Fatima Shbair

Tunisia: The migration trap 2024-05-10
Al Jazeera

Sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants fleeing northwards away from war, conflict and corrupt governments are ending up trapped in Tunisia, unable to move on to Europe or return home. Across Tunisia, signs of growing hostility towards these arrivals are apparent.Keep reading list of 4 itemslist 1...

photo: AP / Francisco Seco, File

Iran’s Khamenei urges people to vote in parliamentary run-off amid apathy 2024-05-10
Al Jazeera

Iranians are voting in a run-off for the remaining seats in Parliament after conservative candidates dominated the elections in March. Shortly after polling stations opened on Friday, state TV showed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casting his vote.Keep reading list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Low...

photo: Creative Commons / Khamenei.ir https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

Israel strikes Rafah as talks yield no breakthrough 2024-05-10
Dawn

SMOKE billows from a building which caught fire after fresh Israeli attacks in the Zaytoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, on Thursday.—AFP CAIRO: Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, after President Joe Biden said the United States would...

photo: AP / Ismael Abu Dayyah

Sudan’s paramilitary RSF accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Darfur 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias killed “at least thousands of people” in West Darfur state, an international rights group has said, in what it called apparent “crimes against humanity” and “genocide”. In a report published on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

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Give or take a few bombs, US complicity in genocide remains ‘ironclad’ 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

On Wednesday, May 8, United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin became the first senior administration official to publicly confirm that the US government has uncharacteristically paused a weapons shipment to Israel. Over the past seven months, the Israeli military has killed some 35,000...

photo: AP / Tsafrir Abayov

Iran warns it will change nuclear doctrine if ‘existence threatened’ 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

Iran could be pushed into building a nuclear weapon if Israel threatens its existence, an adviser to the country’s supreme leader has warned. “We have no decision to build a nuclear bomb but should Iran’s existence be threatened, there will be no choice but to change our military doctrine,” said...

photo: AP / Vahid Salemi

Israel shells Rafah as Biden vows arms suspension 2024-05-09
Gulf Today

Palestinians work to remove debris following an Israeli strike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday. Reuters Israel shelled Rafah on Thursday as US President Joe Biden offered his starkest warning yet over the conduct of its war against Hamas, vowing to cut off arms transfers if an offensive into the...

photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana

US pauses weapons delivery to Israel over Rafah offensive concerns: Reports 2024-05-08
Al Jazeera

US President Joe Biden’s administration paused a shipment of weapons to Israel last week in opposition to apparent moves by the Israelis to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a senior administration official has said. Biden has been trying to head off a full-scale assault by the Israelis...

photo: AP / Ramez Habboub

Iran is gaining credibility across the Muslim world 2024-05-07
Asiatimes

Iran’s leadership has been a direct beneficiary of the months-long war in Gaza. With every missile that Israel fires on Gaza, every US veto of a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution, and every arrest of an anti-war protester on American university campuses, Iran’s rejection of the US-dominated...

photo: Creative Commons / Mostafa Roudaki/Mizan News Agency