Geography Archives: Middle East

False charges of antisemitism in the U.S. healthcare community are spreading anti-Palestinian racism and doing irreparable harm to our work and obligation as healers.

Israel is also preparing for the full-scale resumption of its genocidal war within 10 days if Hamas doesn’t accept its terms.

In phase one, which ended on Saturday, a total of 33 Israeli captives, including eight bodies, were released in exchange for 1,737 Palestinian abductees held in the regime’s jails.

To the victors, the spoils.

In a series of notifications sent to Congress on Friday, the State Department has reported it has approved the sale of more than 35,500 MK 84 and BLU-117 bombs and 4,000 Predator warheads worth $2.04 billion to Israel.

President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza.

A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire negotiations draws near.

Real estate event organized by company promoting land sales in illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank turns violent.

The arrest of a well-known Palestinian bookstore’s co-owner was part of a pattern of raids and repression, booksellers say.

The U.S. president is reviving old-style colonialism.

Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, Israel’s then defence minister has admitted, the Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley reports.

The attempt to remove Palestinians from Gaza is nothing new.

U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated his controversial proposal to take control of Gaza, saying he is committed to “buying and owning” the war-ravaged enclave.

During Netanyahu’s visit, Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing

“I watched Trump’s joint press conference with Netanyahu, in utter disbelief. Not that the idea, or indeed the practice, of ethnic cleansing of Palestine is new. But at that press conference the mask has fallen. Recently, fascism has been on the march everywhere, but that press conference seemed to herald an age of naked fascism.”

Doctors Without Borders notes significant increase in settler violence and systematic hindering of healthcare services.

Trump has signed an executive order to exert pressure on Iran while also trying to obtain a nuclear deal.

Hamas official tells MEE that group remains committed to agreement but ‘manipulation’ of truce may cause it to collapse.

Following the ceasefire, Toufic Haddad reflects on the complicity & failures of global powers & institutions. We must keep mobilising against Israel’s crimes.

On Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump in The White House during his second term. During the meeting, Trump doubled down on previous suggestions to remove Palestinians from Gaza.