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It is estimated that there are over 4 million undocumented Afghans living in Iran
Iran drives out 1.5 million Afghans, with some branded spies for Israel
SINGAPORE — Ali Ahmad's eyes fill with tears as he lifts his shirt to show deep bruises across his back.While he was detained, Iranian officers struck him and accused him of spying, he says. "They used hoses, water pipes and wooden boards to beat me. They treated us like animals."He was speaking to the BBC earlier this month at Islam Qala on the two countries' border, before crossing back over to Afghanistan. His name has been changed to protect his identity.Iran, which says it hosts more than four million undocumented Afghans who fled conflict in their homeland, has been stepping up deportations for months. In March those without papers were given a July deadline to depart voluntarily, but since a brief war with Israel in June, the authorities have forcibly returned...
August 01, 2025

Iran drives out 1.5 million Afghans, with some branded spies for Israel

US envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff will visit Gaza Friday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavett has confirmed
US envoy to visit Gaza, as hospital says dozens killed seeking food
JERUSALEM — US special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Gaza on Friday to inspect food distribution sites, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has confirmed.Leavitt said Witkoff would visit the territory along with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and "secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear first-hand about this dire situation on the ground".Witkoff, who is on a visit to Israel, also had a "productive" meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the press secretary added.Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said 111 people had been killed, 91 of them while seeking aid, in the 24 hours before Thursday midday.A hospital director told the BBC that more than 50 Palestinians were killed and 400 others injured while...
August 01, 2025

US envoy to visit Gaza, as hospital says dozens killed seeking food

Smoke rises from Gaza as the sun sets, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, July 30
US allies break with Trump to force diplomatic shift on Gaza
NEW YORK — As Canada joins France and the UK in announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state, the US is standing firmly with Israel — but does Trump have a long-term plan for Gaza's future?Of all history's declarations about the Middle East, one that may be less prominent in the global collective memory was in Tokyo in November 2023.Then-US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken laid out a series of principles for the "day after" the war in Gaza at a meeting of the G7, a group of the world's most powerful countries.He travelled there from Tel Aviv, after meeting Israel's leadership a month after the Hamas attacks on October 7, during the ensuing Israeli offensive on Gaza.Blinken listed what amounted to US conditions for Israel's military objectives and...
July 31, 2025

US allies break with Trump to force diplomatic shift on Gaza

Canada Foreign Minister Anita Anand addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, July 28, 2025
Canada and Malta say they will recognize Palestine, joining France and UK
NEW YORK — Canada and Malta both announced on Wednesday that they plan to formally recognize the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in September, joining France and the United Kingdom, who announced earlier they would do so.The move to recognize Palestine as a state comes amid a renewed push in Europe to put pressure on Israel to stop its devastating war in Gaza, which has led to widespread starvation in the strip, as well as to halt the expansion of settlements in the West Bank."The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable," Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, emphasising the need for international cooperation to ensure lasting peace and stability in the region."Canada has long been committed...
July 31, 2025

Canada and Malta say they will recognize Palestine, joining France and UK

A boy cries after his father was killed near an aid site in Gaza
Belgium refers complaints against Israeli soldiers over Gaza war crimes to the ICC
BRUSSELS — A legal complaint against two Israeli soldiers, who were accused by an NGO of violating international humanitarian law in Gaza after being identified at a music festival in Belgium, has been sent by Belgian prosecutors to the International Criminal Court (ICC).The Belgian Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said it received two complaints earlier this month from the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a Belgium-based pro-Palestinian group, against two Israeli soldiers who were in the country to attend the annual Tomorrowland festival.Police last week questioned the pair over allegations of "serious violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza", according to the prosecutors.On Wednesday, the prosecutor's office said it had decided to refer the complaints...
July 31, 2025

Belgium refers complaints against Israeli soldiers over Gaza war crimes to the ICC

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, July 28, 2025.
EU and Arab League reaffirm support for two-state solution, urge Hamas to disarm
NEW YORK — The European Union and Arab League, as well as several other countries, including Britain and Canada, voiced their commitment to revive the two-state solution in a bid to end Israel's devastating war on Gaza.High-level representatives gathered in New York on Monday at an International conference, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, at the United Nations Headquarters.The United Nations conference, which was postponed from June and scaled down from world leaders to ministers, established eight high-level working groups to offer proposals on a broad range of topics with regard to the two-state solution.It resulted in a seven-page declaration, called the "New York Declaration," which sets out a phased plan that urges countries to recognise the state of Palestine,...
July 30, 2025

EU and Arab League reaffirm support for two-state solution, urge Hamas to disarm

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas address the media at EU headquarters in Brussels -
EU fails to agree Israeli suspension from research fund over Gaza
BRUSSELS — A European Commission proposal to deny Israel partial access to the EU's €95 billion Horizon Europe research fund failed to garner the necessary qualified majority support when EU ambassadors met in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the issue.If agreed, Israel would lose access to €200 millions' worth of future grants and investments in Horizon's European Investment Council (EIC) which specialises in so-called disruptive technologies.But representatives from Berlin and Rome said they need to examine Commission's proposition further. For a qualified majority vote to pass the population weight of either Italy or Germany is required."Germany wanted to continue dialogue with Israel as opposed to taking action – but we all know the dialogue is not...
July 30, 2025

EU fails to agree Israeli suspension from research fund over Gaza

Odeh Hathaleen was shot in Umm Al-Khair village in the occupied West Bank
Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian involved in Oscar-winning West Bank film
JERUSALEM — An Israeli settler shot dead a Palestinian teacher who helped film Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, according to the Palestinian education ministry and an Israeli-American activist who was at the scene of the shooting.No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham said on X that a settler shot Odeh Hathaleen in the lungs in Umm Al-Khair village in the occupied West Bank.Residents allege the shooter was Yinon Levy, who is sanctioned by the UK.Attorney Avichai Hajbi said he was representing a resident "who felt his life was in danger, was forced to fire his weapon into the air" after residents were "attacked by an Arab mob, along with foreign activists, with stones and violence".Mattan Berner-Kadish, an Israeli-American activist at the scene, told the BBC...
July 30, 2025

Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian involved in Oscar-winning West Bank film

This photo released by the European Union's Operation Aspides shows fires burning aboard the oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024.
Yemen's Houthis vow to ramp up attacks on ships linked to Israel
SANAA — Yemen's Houthi rebels have vowed to target commercial ships belonging to any company that does business with Israeli ports, regardless of nationality, as part of what they say is a new phase of their military operations against Israel.After the Israel-Hamas war started in October 2023, the Iran-backed Houthis launched a campaign targeting ships in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea — in what they have called a show of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.In a recent announcement, the Houthis said they had "decided to escalate their military support operations and begin implementing the fourth phase of the naval blockade" against Israel.They warned that they would target "all ships belonging to any company that deals with the ports of the...
July 29, 2025

Yemen's Houthis vow to ramp up attacks on ships linked to Israel

Tom Fletcher, UN humanitarian chief, said most of the UN's food lorries were looted by desperately hungry Palestinians after entering Gaza on Sunday
Gaza experiencing 'real starvation', Trump says
JERUSALEM — There is "real starvation" in Gaza, Donald Trump has said, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted there was no such thing.Asked if he agreed with Netanyahu that it was a "bold-faced lie" to say Israel was fuelling hunger in Gaza, the US president replied: "I don't know... those children look very hungry... that's real starvation stuff."Speaking during a meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland, Trump said: "Nobody's done anything great over there. The whole place is a mess... I told Israel maybe they have to do it a different way."His comments came after the UN's humanitarian chief said "vast amounts" of food were needed to stave off starvation.Tom Fletcher told the BBC he...
July 29, 2025

Gaza experiencing 'real starvation', Trump says

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