Author: Gulf News Week
Israel has conducted more than 1,000 air strikes and more than 400 ground incursions in Syria since al-Assad overthrow.Israel’s army has renewed its incursions into Syria, setting up a checkpoint in the southern province of Quneitra, according to local media, as it continues daily attacks, destabilises its neighbours and occupies and assaults Palestine.State news agency SANA reported that two tanks and four military vehicles entered the town of Jabata al-Khashab in the Quneitra countryside on Wednesday, setting up the military post on the road leading to the village of Ain al-Bayda.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump to…
Reports of RSF attack on army-held el-Obeid emerge as paramilitary group on the verge of launching an offensive on the key city.An attack on a funeral in the key city of el-Obeid in Sudan’s North Kordofan state has killed 40 people, according to the United Nations.The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), citing local sources, said on Tuesday the attack in the state capital, which is still being held by the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), occurred without specifying when it took place or who was behind it.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3The TikTok-famous commander accused…
Cecile Kohler, 41, and her partner, Jacques Paris, 72, had been jailed on charges of spying for France and Israel.Iran has released two French nationals imprisoned for more than three years on spying charges their families rejected, French President Emmanuel Macron has said, though it remains uncertain when they would be allowed to return home.Expressing “immense relief”, Macron said on X on Wednesday that Cecile Kohler, 41, and her partner Jacques Paris, 72 – the last French citizens officially known to be held in Iran – had been released from Evin prison in northern Tehran and were on their way…
The Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are collecting bodies after the deadly takeover of North Darfur capital, US researcher says.A researcher at Yale University in the United States says the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are digging mass graves in el-Fasher, the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region that has seen mass killings and displacement since the RSF took over last month.Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale’s School of Public Health, told media on Tuesday that the RSF “have begun to dig mass graves and to collect bodies throughout the city”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist…
UN calls for all Gaza crossings to be opened to allow unimpeded deliveries of food and other humanitarian aid.Aid agencies are in “a race against time” to get food and other humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip, a United Nations official has warned, as Israeli restrictions continue to impede deliveries across the bombarded enclave.Speaking during a news briefing on Tuesday, a senior spokesperson for the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) noted that aid deliveries have increased since a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect last month.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Are we closer to a…
Military commander arrested by RSF grew famous on social media after apparently recording himself killing civilians.The face in the photo has become well-known in Sudan. The fighter, with his medium-length hair framing a bearded face, has appeared in numerous videos. Sometimes he smiles, even as he kills unarmed people.This is Abu Lulu. But the photo of him released last Thursday by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the group he purported to represent, showed him with handcuffs on after being arrested.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3War in Sudan: Humanitarian, fighting, control developments, October 2025list 2 of 3Trump’s…
Since a 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel has attacked Lebanon almost daily. Now, the pattern is repeating in Gaza.A ceasefire was agreed to end the war, but that has not stopped Israel from attacking. On Sunday, an air attack killed four people. A few days before that, last Friday, another Israeli strike killed a man on a motorbike. And on October 17 Israeli warplanes killed at least one person.None of these attacks were in Gaza – where Israel has also spent the few weeks since a ceasefire began on October 10 conducting attacks, many of them far more deadly than…
Public services are being dismantled while wealth is hoarded at the top. The social contract will not survive this neglect.A wave of youth-led “Gen Z” protests is sweeping the world. A recurring slogan during the recent protests in Morocco was “We want hospitals, not stadiums”, reflecting how publicly funded services such as health and education are being sidelined. Electricity and water outages triggered the protests in Madagascar that toppled the government. Rooted in high levels of inequality, deficits in public services, and generational frustration, these protests reflect the fracturing of the social contract between governments and young citizensThis week will…
Jimmy Wales calls for a ‘neutral approach’ to the page, which referred to the ‘ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people’.Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales has blocked editing access to the site’s Gaza genocide page, saying it fails to meet the company’s “high standards” and “needs immediate attention”.In a statement on the page’s discussion section on Sunday when all further editing was blocked, Wales said he had been asked in a “high-profile media interview” about the page, which stated in its first line that the genocide was an “ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the…
One in five children live in conflict zones and 520 million exposed to war, a record high.One in five children globally lived in active conflict zones last year, according to Save the Children.In a report released on Tuesday, the charity said 520 million children in 2024 were exposed to war, marking a record high for the third consecutive year.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Children’s toys in rubble as Israel strikes Gaza clinic shelterlist 2 of 3Gaza’s Dr Hussam Abu Safia is still held by Israel, no sign of releaselist 3 of 3Ukraine says 9 people, including children,…