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  • January 5, 2022

    Israel demolished health centre in Jerusalem

    Israeli occupation forces yesterday demolished a Palestinian health centre serving 20,000 Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem without prior notice. Municipality bulldozers raided the Jabal Al-Mukaber neighbourhood after police cordoned the area off and demolished the health...

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  • January 5, 2022

    Ex-Lebanon PM slams Hezbollah over Saudi comments

    Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Saad Hariri yesterday criticised Hezbollah for accusing Saudi Arabia of spreading extremism and terrorist ideologies in the region. Earlier on Monday, Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah...

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  • January 5, 2022

    Israel to build new town near Gaza Strip

    Israel’s National Planning and Building Council yesterday approved establishing a new Jewish community in the periphery of the occupied Gaza Strip, Anadolu reported. The new settlement would be given a temporary name – Hanoun – and it will...

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  • January 5, 2022

    Israel reservists refuse to take part in military training

    Some 120 Israeli reservists have refused to take part in a military exercise that coincided with their vacations, public broadcaster Kan reported yesterday. The soldiers refused the training which came at...

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  • January 5, 2022

    Will 2022 be the ‘Year of the Palestinian Prisoners’?

    Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash has apparently agreed to end his hunger strike of 141 days in a deal with Israel which will see him released next month. Abu...

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  • January 5, 2022

    Tunisia’s Ennahda slams interior minister’s ‘terrorism’ accusations  

    Tunisia’s Ennahda yesterday said it was “astonished” at recent accusations levelled by Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine against the movement’s deputy chief, Noureddine Bhiri, adding that the chargers must “remain...

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  • January 5, 2022

    UN suspends Yemen relief projects over funding shortages 

    The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) yesterday announced the suspension of vital relief programmes in Yemen due to a lack of funding. “Lack of...

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  • January 5, 2022

    Tunisia’s labour union slams president’s ‘e-platform’ 

    The Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labour Union, Noureddine Taboubi, yesterday criticised an electronic platform which was launched by President Kais Saied, describing it as “useless and does not...

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  • January 4, 2022

    Abbas excludes close aides to Marwan Barghouti from Fatah

    Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO and Fatah President, Mahmoud Abbas, has started a campaign to exclude close aides to jailed Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti, Al Resalah newspaper reported on Tuesday....

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  • January 4, 2022

    Rights group: Israel killed 313 Palestinians in 2021

    Israeli occupation forces killed 313 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, including 71 minors, Israeli rights group, B’Tselem, said in a report issued on Tuesday. The...

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