Israel’s foreign minister said Sunday that his government does not intend to hold direct talks with the Lebanese government in the coming days, Anadolu reports. “If the Lebanese government and the …

This isn't about the Bondi Beach attack or Randa Abdel-Fattah personally, but about an increasingly desperate scramble to silence critics of Israel

<article data-history-node-id="432665" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-youth-shot-dead-israeli-forces-hebron" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-youth-shot-dead-israeli-forces-hebron" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian youth shot dead by Israeli forces in Hebron</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>We reported earlier that Israeli forces shot and wounded a young Palestinian man in north Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Palestinian health ministry has since issued a statement confirming&nbsp;that 23-year-old Mohammad Wael Al-Sharouf&nbsp;was shot by Israeli soldiers in the head and left to bleed to death.</p> <p>It added that his body was seized by Israeli forces.</p> <p>Wafa reported earlier that Israeli soldiers had barred ambulance teams from reached al-Sharouf, and that they had sealed off all entrances to the city following the shooting.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Qesser Zuhrah was experiencing worsening chest pains and was told by a nurse ‘you don’t decide if you go to hospital, I do'

Israeli forces bulldozed dead bodies of Palestinians and buried them in shallow graves; a CNN investigation has uncovered. The report, based on extensive video analysis, satellite imagery and testi…

No, Jewish Americans aren't turning against Israel because of TikTok and ignorance

New Jordan Valley separation barrier will isolate Palestinians from their land and sever links with the rest of West Bank

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, stated that the situation in Gaza has become even more dangerous and tragic than it was a year ago, following a devastating war that claim…

Four doctors from Gaza share their stories of pain, loss, and hope as they recount the horrors they have witnessed while working amid a brutal genocide

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has announced the death of Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Hatem Mohammed Khudairat, 22, from the town of al-Dhahiriya in Hebron Governorate. Hamas said he died d…

<article data-history-node-id="429818" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-11100-palestinians-held-israeli-jails-prisoners-group-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-11100-palestinians-held-israeli-jails-prisoners-group-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Over 11,100 Palestinians held in Israeli jails, Prisoners’ group says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) says more than 11,100 Palestinian prisoners and detainees are being held in Israeli prisons as of the beginning of October, marking&nbsp;the highest number of detainees since the second Intifada in 2000.</p> <p>“According to what was announced by the Occupation Prison Administration as of October, the number of sentenced prisoners exceeded 1,460 prisoners,” the statement said, adding that more than 400 child prisoners have been detained in Ofer and Megiddo prisons.</p> <p>“The number of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment and those against whom indictments have been filed in preparation for issuing life sentences is about 350 prisoners, of whom 303 are sentenced, and 40 are indicted for issuing life sentences,” it added.</p> <p>Abdullah Barghouthi has the highest sentence after being issued 67 life sentences, followed by Ibrahim Hamed, who was issued 54 life sentences, according to the rights group.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="428545" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-signs-e1-plan-bisect-west-bank-israeli-forces-raid-its-cities" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-signs-e1-plan-bisect-west-bank-israeli-forces-raid-its-cities" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Netanyahu signs E1 plan to bisect West Bank as Israeli forces raid its cities</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed off the&nbsp;highly controversial E1 plan allowing for a massive expansion of settlements in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/occupation" target="_blank">occupied&nbsp;</a>West Bank on Thursday, local media reported.</p> <p>“We said that there would not be a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;state - and indeed, there will not be a Palestinian state,” Netanyahu said at a ceremony in the&nbsp;Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim.</p> <p>The E1 plan, a decades-old project approved by the Israeli Civil Administration last month, will&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approves-e1-settlement-smotrich-says-palestinian-state-being-erased" target="_blank">permit</a>&nbsp;the building of over 3,400 new settler units&nbsp;in an area that aims to connect existing settlements in Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank with occupied East Jerusalem.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;Netanyahu signs E1 plan to bisect West Bank as Israeli forces raid its cities</h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a signing ceremony for a framework agreement to speed up development in the settlement of Maale Adumim, in the occupied West Bank, 11 September 2025 (Menahem Kahana/AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="be0d5701-d4b9-400d-9746-98dcf1c4e277" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/Israel-Prime-Minister-Netanyahu-sign-E1-settlement-Maale-Adumin-11-September-2025-Kahana-AFP.jpg" width="3065" height="2044" alt="Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a signing ceremony for a framework agreement to speed up development in the settlement of Maale Adumim, in the occupied West Bank, 11 September 2025 (Menahem Kahana/AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a signing ceremony for an agreement to speed up development in Maale Adumim settlement, occupied West Bank, 11 September 2025 (Menahem Kahana/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

Former Labour leader tells MEE people have a right to be appalled at situation in Gaza and proscription 'blunting' terror laws

Two senior US senators have accused Israel of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, warning that the US is complicit and that the world must act to stop it. In a damning report relea…

The Global Sumud Flotilla’s attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza is “a risk but also a historic responsibility,” Greek activist Paris Laftsis told Anadolu. Laftsis, who will join the crew on…

The artwork of a judge hitting a protester with a gavel has been removed from the listed building.

The Israeli army rounded up at least 35 Palestinians, including children, in military raids in the occupied West Bank, prisoners’ affairs groups said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports. Children and forme…

<article data-history-node-id="425599" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-kills-children-near-gaza-clinic-no-immediate-truce-sight" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-kills-children-near-gaza-clinic-no-immediate-truce-sight" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli strike kills children near Gaza clinic with no immediate truce in sight</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p>An&nbsp;Israeli airstrike hit Palestinians near a medical centre in&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;on Thursday, killing 10 children and six adults, local health authorities said, as ceasefire talks dragged on with no immediate deal expected.</p> <p>Verified video footage from the strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip showed the bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust and screaming. One clip showed several motionless children lying on a donkey cart.</p> <p>"She didn't do anything, she was innocent, I swear. Her dream was for the war to end and that they announce it today, to go back to school," said Samah al-Nouri, sitting by the body of her daughter who was killed in the blast.</p> <p>"She was only getting treatment in a medical facility. Why did they kill them?" she said, with other bodies laid out around her at a nearby hospital.</p> <p>- <em>Reporting by Reuters</em></p> </div> </div> </article>

Hamas footage appears to contradict army's statement, highlighting 'troubling conclusions' according to Israeli media

<article data-history-node-id="425185" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-troops-executed-her-father-and-brother-then-taunted-survivors" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-troops-executed-her-father-and-brother-then-taunted-survivors" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli troops executed her father and brother. Then taunted the survivors</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hungry, terrified, and crammed into a small apartment, as intense&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;bombardment rocked the area around them.</p> <p>This is how Hadeel Saleh and her family of nine spent several days in March 2024 during a violent Israeli&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israel-new-raid-shifa-hospital" target="_blank">raid on Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital</a>&nbsp;and the surrounding neighbourhood.</p> <p>Their ordeal was interrupted by dozens of Israeli soldiers storming the home without warning.</p> <p>Without hesitation, they shot and killed her 60-year-old&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;father. When her older brother rushed to help, he too was gunned down.&nbsp;</p> <p>During the raid on the hospital, Israeli forces had put it out of service and then went door to door to neighbouring buildings, killing at will and forcing survivors to flee.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-recounts-israeli-execution-father-and-brother-gaza-hospital-raid">Israeli troops executed her father and brother. Then taunted the survivors</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Hadeel Saleh holds a photo of herself alongside her mother and father, who was executed by Israeli forces in March 2024 (MEE/Mohammad al-Hajjar)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="53286b30-ddc7-4910-bbc3-56ff3960d7b9" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/MAJD1201%20%281%29.jpg" width="2000" height="1125" alt="Hadeel Saleh holds a photo of herself alongside her mother and father, who was executed by Israeli forces in March 2024 (MEE/Mohammad al-Hajjar)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Hadeel Saleh holds a photo of herself alongside her mother and father, who was executed by Israeli forces in March 2024 (MEE/Mohammad al-Hajjar)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

The UK broadcaster is writing hundreds of articles on Iran’s budding nuclear programme while failing to inform the public about Israel’s actual nuclear weapons.

A leading aid group says that Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza has forced it to shut down its community soup kitchens.

The Democratic Party is essentially in uncharted territory, as it struggles to find ways to resist an unconventional president

Drop Site obtained the draft of a deal currently being pushed by the U.S., Egypt, and Qatar. Hamas insists it will not capitulate to Netanyahu’s new demands.

From Israel-Palestine to economic policy, polling from Data for Progress and Zeteo shows likely primary voters prefer a more progressive approach.

The energy giant has been criticised for supplying oil to Israel and scaling back on climate commitments

President Trump’s Africa envoy Massad Boulos has finished a tour of several East African nations, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he discussed a peace deal that could involve the...

Prominent Jenin-based journalist Mujahed al-Saadi has been in administrative detention without charge or trial since his violent arrest by Israeli forces in September.

On Palestinian Prisoner Day, former prisoner of almost 30 years Wael El Gaube, reflects on the achievements won by of the prisoner movement.