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    'You Are Making The Ground Shake': Earthquake At UN Security Council Briefing On The Situation For Children In Gaza
    A video captures an earthquake striking the New York City region on Friday morning, interrupting a United Nations Security Council briefing session on the situation in Gaza. Save the Children's President and CEO, Janti Soeripto, was addressing the ha
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Distinctions Without Difference: The UN Security Council And The Gaza Ceasefire
    The UN Security Council presents one of the great contradictions of power within the international system. On the one hand vested with enormous latitude in order to preserve international peace and security, it remains checked, limited and, it can be
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readCrime & Violence
    Israeli Officer Orders Soldiers To Kill Any Palestinian Resisting Arrest
    Footage of an Israeli officer passing instructions to his soldiers regarding Palestinian detainees went viral on social media. The officer told his soldiers that no Palestinian was innocent while ordering them to kill anyone who resisted his arrest.
    The Middle East Monitor
    London Calls For Ceasefire On Global Action Day For Gaza
    Hundreds of thousands rallied today in London, in response to the call for a Global Action Day for Gaza. Protestors demanded an end to the genocide and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. 121 cities around the world responded today to the call for protes
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Blinken Put Pressure On Abbas To Accept US Security Plan For Jenin And Nablus
    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has put pressure on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accept and implement America's security plan for the PA to regain control over Jenin and Nablus, Axios news website reported on Wednesday. US an
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readWorld
    Palestinians Mourn Doctor Killed By Israeli Occupation
    Hundreds of Palestinian mourners on Friday participated in the funeral procession of Palestinian doctor Abdullah Abu Al-Teen, 43, who was killed by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank city of Jenin. The Palestinian doctor was severely injured
    The Middle East Monitor4 min readWorld
    Remembering The Israeli Withdrawal From South Lebanon
    On this day in 1978, Israeli military forces finally withdrew from Lebanon three months after their invasion of southern Lebanon in an effort to hunt down and eliminate the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO). It was essentially an extension of
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readWorld
    Yemen: UN Observers Withdraw Money-laundering Allegations
    Independent UN sanctions observers have withdrawn their allegations that the Yemeni government is guilty of money laundering and corruption, which had "adversely affected access to adequate food supplies" in a country on the brink of famine, Reuters
    The Middle East Monitor3 min readPolitics
    What Was David Cameron Thinking When He Holidayed With Bin Salman Post-Khashoggi Murder?
    Sensationally, it has emerged that former British Prime Minister David Cameron went on a desert camping holiday with Mohammed Bin Salman despite Western intelligence agencies naming the Saudi Crown Prince as being the man who ordered the death of dis
    The Middle East Monitor2 min read
    200,000 Animals Likely To Die In Suez Canal Bottleneck
    Around 200,000 animals are likely to die after being stuck in the Suez Canal bottleneck without enough food or water to last them the rest of the journey. Gabrile Paun, EU director for the NGO Animals International, has said that the worst maritime a
    The Middle East Monitor1 min read
    Syrian Man Murders Teen Employee For Showing Up Late To Work
    A Syrian store owner in the northern governorate of Aleppo has killed his 15-year-old employee for showing up late to work, the Syrian ministry of interior revealed. The Syrian ministry said in a statement on its official Facebook page, that the boy
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Human Rights Watch Calls On Jordan Not To Deport Yemeni Asylum Seekers
    Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Jordan not to deport Yemeni asylum seekers, warning that forcible deportation exposes them to "harm in Yemen." The rights watchdog said in a statement that "the Jordanian authorities have deported at least four
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readCrime & Violence
    Libya: 230 Migrants Rescued Off Tripoli Coast
    The Libyan authorities announced on Tuesday that 230 migrants heading for Europe had been rescued in two operations off the Tripoli coastline. According to the Libyan Navy, the migrants were in rubber dinghies and had issued distress signals before b
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Turkey Insists That Libya Has Not Asked To Cancel Military Cooperation
    An advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan advisor has denied media reports which claim that the head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, has asked Ankara to cancel the 2018 military cooperation agreement between Turkey an
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    PLO Says No To Elections Without Jerusalem
    An Executive Member of the Central Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation called on Tuesday for the international community to bear the consequences of Israel's possible refusal to allow Palestinians in Jerusalem to participate in the upc
    The Middle East Monitor1 min read
    Saudi Arabia Seeks To Overcome Differences With Other States
    Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman called Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday to wish him a speedy recovery from Covid-19 and discuss mutual relations, the Saudi Press Agency has reported. Khan tested positive for the virus on
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Yemen: 'Houthis Have Seen No Formal Initiative From Saudi Arabia'
    Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi has said that the Ansar Allah Movement, better known as the Houthis, have not received any written, formal peace initiative from Saudi Arabia. He insisted that as and when such an initiative is received, it will be assessed. Sa
    The Middle East Monitor5 min readWorld
    The Palestine Book Awards And Resisting The Falsification Of History
    The gap between the Arab people and their governments has never been greater and deeper than what we are currently experiencing regarding Palestine. At a time when some governments have rushed to declare their normalisation of relations with the raci
    The Middle East Monitor1 min read
    MEMO In Conversation With Susan Abulhawa
    As we mark 10 years since the launch of the Palestine Book Awards, join us for a live conversation with Palestinian novelist and poet Susan Abulhawa to discuss her novel 'Against the Loveless World', described by the New York Times as "a beautiful, u
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Washington Confirms Support For Morocco-Polisario Talks
    Secretary of State Antony Blinken has emphasised US support for political negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front over the disputed Western Sahara. Blinken's statement was issued on Monday evening following an online meeting with UN Secr
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Hamas Insists On Rebuilding PLO And Liberating Palestine
    Head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Tuesday that his movement insists on rebuilding the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). During a speech he delivered to the Second International Student Conference, Haniyeh said: "We belie
    The Middle East Monitor1 min read
    Majd Barbar Released After 20 Years In Jail, Re-arrested By Israel
    READ: Israel re-arrests previously jailed Palestinian-Belgian man
    The Middle East Monitor2 min read
    Bin Salman Embarks On Huge Spending Spree To Transform Saudi Economy
    Saudi Arabia will spend more in the next ten years than it has spent over the past 300 years since the First Saudi State was created in 1744, the Kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has said. This is a bold declaration of the de facto ruler's
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Iran Defends 25-year Cooperation Agreement With China
    An Iranian government spokesman defended on Tuesday the signing of a 25-year cooperation agreement between Iran and China, saying the agreement is not directed against any third country. The Iranian government spokesman, Ali Rabiei, said the agreemen
    The Middle East Monitor3 min readPolitics
    Blame The Dictatorship In Egypt For The Suez Canal Fiasco
    Impunity rules the day when those assigned with responsibilities are allowed to abandon them without consequences. This happens frequently in dictatorships, where economic opportunities favour those within the inner circles; bribery and corruption ar
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Egypt, Jordan, Iraq Ministers Agree To Cooperate In Combatting Terrorism
    The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq have agreed to enhance joint efforts to combat terrorism, pursue a political solution to the Syrian crisis, and coordinate political positions to solve regional crises, including the Palestinian issue.
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readCrime & Violence
    Rights Group Slams Official Lebanese Response To Tripoli Protests
    Human Rights Watch criticised the Lebanese authorities on Tuesday for their response to protesters in the northern city of Tripoli at the end of January. "Lebanese military intelligence agents forcibly disappeared and allegedly tortured detainees who
    The Middle East Monitor2 min readInternational Relations
    Sisi Warns Of Regional Instability Over Renaissance Dam Crisis
    Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has warned that it will not allow any other country to undermine its water supply and if it does, there will be severe regional consequences. "I'm not threatening anyone here, our dialogue is always reasonable a
    The Middle East Monitor2 min readInternational Relations
    Ethiopia Must Take Account Of The Rights To Nile Water Of Countries Downstream
    The issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is at a very difficult stage with the approach of the second stage of filling its reservoir. The long-term negotiations between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan have not resulted in any agreement or even a c
    The Middle East Monitor1 min readInternational Relations
    Kuwait Receives Archives From Iraq, 30 Year After They Were Seized
    Kuwait on Sunday received from Iraq the third batch of Kuwaiti property and archives that had been seized during Iraq's invasion of its Gulf neighbour in 1990. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Undersecretary for Legal Affairs a

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