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The Iran-linked group has warned of more attacks on shipping despite sustained US, UK air strikes on Yemen.Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group has claimed a new missile attack on Western interests amid Israel’s war on Gaza, this time on a British oil tanker that the United States identified as a Panamanian-flagged vessel carrying crude oil bound for India. Yahya Saree, the group’s military spokesperson, said in a televised statement on Saturday that a “large number of appropriate naval missiles” were used to target the Pollux tanker in the Red Sea in “accurate and direct” hits. “The Yemeni armed forces will not hesitate…

Is the horror of Rafah being downplayed or do we not have the words to describe it?More than a million Palestinians have been crammed into the city of Rafah –  which is being bombed by Israel with the imminent threat of a ground invasion. Western media, however, has once again failed to communicate the severity of this moment. Contributors:Laura Albast – Media Analyst, Institute for Palestine Studies-USANabih Bulos – Middle East Bureau Chief, LA TimesAdel Iskandar – Professor of Global Communication, Simon Fraser UniversityJacob Magid – US Bureau Chief, The Times of Israel On our radar: Haaretz newspaper published an article…

Planned delivery of bombs and other munitions comes as President Biden pushes for truce in Israel’s war on Gaza.The United States is preparing to send more bombs and other weapons to Israel even as it pushes for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and has said it opposes Tel Aviv’s plans for a ground invasion in southern Rafah where more than half the enclave’s displaced population is trapped. The proposed arms delivery includes about a thousand each of MK-82 500-pound (227kg) bombs and KMU-572 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) that turn unguided munitions into precision-guided bombs, The Wall Street…

NewsFeedThe UN and international aid groups have warned of a ‘slaughter’ if Israel launches a ground attack in Rafah, where more than one million displaced Palestinians currently are sheltering.Published On 16 Feb 202416 Feb 2024 Source link

PodcastPodcast, The TakeEgypt could soon face more hard decisions along its crossing with Gaza as Israel’s offensive nears its border. Will Israel invade Rafah? At Gaza’s southernmost point, 1.5 million Palestinians are trapped after being pushed there during months of relentless Israeli attacks. That’s put the spotlight on Egypt, which shares a border and complicated history with Gaza. In this episode:  Mirette F Mabrouk (@mmabrouk), Middle East Institute senior fellow Youmna ElSayed (@YoumnaElSayed17), Al Jazeera correspondent Reem, Family member of Palestinians trapped in Gaza Episode credits: This episode was produced by Miranda Lin, Ashish Malhotra and Zaina Badr with our…

‘Israel operates under a climate of absolute impunity,’ says Craig Mokhiber, former top UN official.Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza the United Nations has been under pressure. More than 85 percent of the Gazan population is currently homeless and living in dire conditions, while the UN remains in political gridlock. Three weeks after the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, the former director of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Craig Mokibher, resigned from his post, protesting that the UN was “failing” in its duty to prevent what he called a “textbook case of genocide” against Palestinians…

Israel’s incursion into Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip has led to the deaths of at least five patients after electricity was severed and oxygen supplies cut, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. The hospital is currently the largest functioning medical facility in Gaza and had been under Israeli siege for weeks. “We hold the Israeli occupation forces responsible for the lives of patients and staff, considering that the complex is now under their full control,” the ministry said. In a statement on Telegram, it added that two women gave birth in “inhumane” conditions and Israeli…

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Following an inflammatory piece in the Wall Street Journal, Marc Lamont Hill talks to Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud.Since the October 7th attacks and the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, there’s been an uptick in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric and incidents across the United States. A few weeks ago, an opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal labelled the city of Dearborn, Michigan, home to one of the largest Arab and Muslim communities in the US,  as “America’s Jihad Capital”. The op-ed has left many of the city’s residents concerned that the piece plays into growing anti-Arab and Islamophobic…

Top UN court notes ‘perilous’ situation but rejects South African request to order urgent measure to safeguard civilians.The top United Nations court said that it notes the “perilous” situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but has declined South Africa’s request for urgent measures to safeguard Palestinians being threatened by an Israeli ground assault there. “The Court notes that the most recent developments in the Gaza Strip, and in Rafah in particular, ‘would exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences’, as stated by the United Nations Secretary-General,” the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said…