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Palestinians in Gaza barred from Hajj, animal sacrifice
Before the war erupted in 2023, at least 3,000 pilgrims from Gaza performed the Hajj every year. Under the US-brokered ceasefire, Israel in February allowed a partial reopening of the Rafah crossing to Egypt, Gazas main gateway to the outside world. However, only a few hundred people have...
Israeli forces hijack Gaza-bound flotilla
Israeli naval forces hijacked vessels belonging to the Global Sumud Flotilla after the convoy set sail from Turkey toward the Gaza Strip in an attempt to challenge the Israeli blockade imposed on the territory, Al Mayadeen reported. The Global Sumud Flotilla posted a red alert on its social...
Boycott over Israel dims glamour of Eurovision final in Vienna
The 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest reached its grand final on Saturday amid political controversy, with protests and country boycotts over Israels participation casting a shadow over the glittering music spectacle in Vienna, reports AFP. Despite the festive atmosphere and thousands...
Gaza medics say child among seven dead in Israeli strike
Gaza medics said Israel killed at least seven Palestinians, including a child, in airstrikes on Friday that Israel said targeted Hamas armed wing chief, though neither Israel nor the militants said whether he had been killed or wounded. Hamas did not immediately respond to a request for comment...
13-km traffic jam hits Dhaka–Chattogram highway in Gazaria
A 13-kilometre traffic jam formed on the DhakaChattogram Highway in the Gazaria section of Munshiganj, causing severe disruption to commuters since early Wednesday. The congestion began around 6:00 am following a problem on the Langalband Bridge in neighbouring Narayanganj, officials said. On...
“Grave moral failure”: Hamas reacts to Gaza aid flotilla attack
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has strongly condemned the violent interception of vessels of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla and detention of pro-Palestinian activists, describing the attack as a clear sign of the Tel Aviv regimes moral decadence, Press TV reported. The Gaza-based group...
Gaza flotilla organisers say surrounded by Israeli 'military boats'
The organisers of a flotilla carrying pro-Palestinian activists aiming to break through an Israeli blockade in Gaza said Thursday their boats were surrounded by Israeli military boats. The flotilla, made up of more than 50 boats, set sail in recent weeks from Marseille in France, Barcelona in...
Palestinians hold first elections since Gaza war amid limited competition
Palestinians voted Saturday in their first elections since the Gaza war, with polling held in the West Bank and a limited area of central Gaza amid a narrow political field and public disillusionment, reports AFP. Nearly 1.5 million voters were registered in the Israeli-occupied West Bank,...
Over $71bn needed over next decade to rebuild Gaza: UN, EU
More than $71 billion will be needed over the next decade for recovery and reconstruction in war-ravaged Gaza, according to an EU-UN assessment published Monday. In their final Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA), the United Nations and the European Union said that more than two years...
UN says over 38,000 women and girls killed in Gaza genocide
Over 38,000 women and girls were killed in the Israeli genocide in Gaza by the end of 2025, the UN estimates, amounting to over half of the more than 72,000 deaths recorded by the territorys health ministry over the two-year war, Press TV reported. Between October 2023 and December 2025, more...
US and Hamas hold first direct talks since Gaza truce
The US and Hamas held their first direct talks since the Gaza ceasefire as part of efforts to advance the fragile US-brokered agreement, two Hamas sources said, CNN reported. A delegation led by senior US advisor Aryeh Lightstone met chief Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya in Cairo on Tuesday...
KSrelief launches multi-country humanitarian aid operations across Bangladesh, Gaza, Yemen and Ethiopia
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has carried out a series of humanitarian operations across Bangladesh, Gaza, Yemen and Ethiopia this week, providing food and shelter assistance to tens of thousands of vulnerable people, according to the Saudi Press Agency. In Gaza...
Netanyahu expels Spain from Gaza ceasefire coordination hub
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he has expelled Spain from a Civil Military Coordination Centre set up in the country as part of US President Donald Trumps 20-point peace plan that formed the basis for the ceasefire in Gaza, reports Al Jazeera. This comes amid Spains...
WHO urges Israel to cancel Beirut evacuation order near hospitals
The World Health Organization on Thursday called on Israel to cancel an evacuation order issued for Beiruts southern suburbs, warning that two major hospitals in the area could not safely relocate patients, reports AFP. The Israeli military had warned residents of southern Beirut long...
Gaza food prices soar as border closures deepen shortages amid Iran war
People in Gaza are once again rushing to markets to buy whatever food they can afford, as the regional war involving the United States, Israel and Iran sends shockwaves through an enclave already dependent on fragile aid and commercial lifelines, reports Al Jazeera. Residents and traders say...
Israeli attacks on police sites kill six in southern, central Gaza
At least six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli drone attacks targeting two police posts in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis in the south, as Israel presses on with its more than two-year genocidal war on the devastated enclave, reports...
Farmers in Gaza risking Israeli bullets to cultivate
Despite the ceasefire established in October, Palestinian farmers are returning to a landscape of ruin, risking their lives to revive an agricultural sector shattered by years of conflict. For many, the choice is simple: risk the farm to feed the family, or watch their heritage disappear into a...