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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Former Israeli leader says ‘humanitarian city’ in Gaza would be a ‘concentration camp’
JERUSALEM — A planned “humanitarian city” inside Gaza intended to hold hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be a “concentration camp,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned.Defense Minister Israel Katz said last week he had told the military to advance plans for the zone, which would eventually contain the entire population of Gaza. The area would be built on the ruins of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, and once Palestinians enter the zone, they would not be allowed to leave. Katz also vowed to implement a plan for the emigration of Palestinians from Gaza.“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” Olmert told The Guardian newspaper on Sunday. “If they (Palestinians) will be deported into the new ‘humanitarian city’, then you can say that this is...
July 15, 2025

Former Israeli leader says ‘humanitarian city’ in Gaza would be a ‘concentration camp’

Two female protesters hold Syrian flags and placards reading, 'Syrian refugees deserve dignity' and 'no human is illegal'
UK to start processing Syrian asylum claims again
LONDON — The UK is to start processing Syrian asylum claims again, more than seven months after decisions were paused following the fall of the Assad regime.Asylum minister Angela Eagle said the Home Office had "worked to lift the pause as soon as there was sufficient information to make accurate and well-evidenced determinations".She said claims could now be processed, and returns to Syria conducted in line with this.BBC News understands more than 20 asylum seekers who had been living in the UK have already voluntarily returned to Syria this year - and that thousands of others could now also be in scope for returns.Ministers hope the first enforced returns to Syria could take place before the end of the year, with a senior Home Office source adding that they "wouldn't...
July 15, 2025

UK to start processing Syrian asylum claims again

People carry the body of Saif Musallet during his funeral near Ramallah, in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Sunday
‘Why are you not preventing settler terrorism’: Palestinians call out IDF following beating death of American
MAZRA'A ASH-SHARQIYA, West Bank — Saif Musallet was just weeks away from celebrating his 21st birthday, and as he visited his family here, the Florida native’s thoughts began to turn toward marriage.“I think it’s time for me to get married,” Musallet told his father, Kamel, during a phone call last week. “Hopefully while I’m here, I’m able to find a future spouse to get engaged to.”That phone call would be Kamel’s last conversation with his son. Days later, Saif was beaten to death by Israeli settlers, according to his family and eyewitnesses.Musallet was one of two men killed that day by settlers, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, while they were in the neighboring town of Sinjil, where their families own farmland.Hundreds turned out on Sunday, braving...
July 15, 2025

‘Why are you not preventing settler terrorism’: Palestinians call out IDF following beating death of American

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli army strike on a house belonging to the Al-Arabid family killing at least 9 people, in Al-Zawida, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 13
Israeli strikes kill at least 32 in Gaza as Palestinian war death toll tops 58,000
JERUSALEM — Israeli strikes killed at least 32 people in Gaza on Sunday as the Palestinian death toll surpassed 58,000 after 21 months of war, according to local health officials.Officials at the Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza said it received ten bodies following an Israeli strike on a water collection point in nearby Nuseirat. Six children were reportedly among the dead.The Israeli Defence Forces said it was targeting a militant but a technical error made its munitions fall “dozens of metres from the target.”Separately, health officials said an Israeli strike hit a group of citizens walking in the street on Sunday afternoon in central Gaza City, killing 11 people and injuring around 30 others.In the central town of Zawaida, an Israeli strike on a home killed nine, including two...
July 14, 2025

Israeli strikes kill at least 32 in Gaza as Palestinian war death toll tops 58,000

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, left, shakes hands with Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar during the EU-Israel Association Council
EU member states wary on Kallas' 10 options for action against Israel
BRUSSELS — The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas is set to offer an exhaustive list of 10 possibilities for the EU to respond to Israel's action in Gaza during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels this week, but EU diplomats told Euronews there's little appetite across the EU to take any action against Tel Aviv.Kallas' 10 options include suspending visa free travel and blocking imports from the Jewish settlements in response to Israel’s breach of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, according to a document issued by Kallas’s office seen by Euronews.The proposals, which are listed with their legal basis and the procedure required to adopt them, include suspending the entire EU-Israel Association Agreement, halting political dialogue with Israel, or barring...
July 14, 2025

EU member states wary on Kallas' 10 options for action against Israel

Members of Syrian security forces stand guard following clashes in Sweida province in May
At least 30 killed in sectarian clashes in Syria
DAMASCUS — At least 30 people have been killed in clashes in southern Syria as authorities sent forces to de-escalate the situation.Scores of people were also injured in the violence between Bedouin Sunni tribes and fighters from the Druze religious minority in the city of Sweida.Syria's interior ministry said at least 30 people were killed, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, put the death toll at 37.Fighting between different minority groups has escalated since the collapse of the Assad regime in December.A new Islamic-led government is working to establish control within the country, which remains in a fragile situation.At the end of last year, Sunni rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) stormed Damascus. They toppled President Bashar al-Assad, whose...
July 14, 2025

At least 30 killed in sectarian clashes in Syria

A boy holds an AK-47 rifle as he stands next to a Hamas militant ahead of the handover of four bodies of hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, 20 February 2025
Abu Shabab forces emerge as new militia in Gaza to challenge Hamas' control
JERUSALEM — A 300-member-strong Palestinian militia has emerged in Gaza, aiming to liberate the Strip from Hamas — and now it says it has the backing of Israel.The group, calling itself the Popular Forces, operates in eastern Rafah under the leadership of Yasser Abu Shabab, a Bedouin man in his thirties who spent years in Hamas detention for criminal activities before the 7 October attacks freed him from prison.According to comments made exclusively to Euronews, Abu Shabab’s group — not to be confused with Somalia’s Islamist extremists, Al-Shabaab — first banded together in June 2024.The Popular Forces, who also go by the moniker Anti-Terror Service, describe themselves as mere "volunteers from among the people" who protect humanitarian aid from "looting,...
July 11, 2025

Abu Shabab forces emerge as new militia in Gaza to challenge Hamas' control

Tehran has declared its intention to remove the millions of undocumented Afghans who carry out lower-paid labor across Iran
Iran expels half a million Afghans in 16-day stretch since recent conflict with Israel, UN says
GENEVA — More than half a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran in the 16 days since the conflict with Israel ended, according to the United Nations, in what may be one of the largest forced movements of population this decade.For months, Tehran has declared its intention to remove the millions of undocumented Afghans who carry out lower-paid labor across Iran, often in tough conditions.The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said 508,426 Afghans have left Iran via the Iranian-Afghanistan border between June 24 and July 9.A startling 33,956 crossed Wednesday and 30,635 on Tuesday, after a peak of 51,000 on Friday, ahead of a Sunday deadline from Iran for undocumented Afghans to leave.The deportations – part of a program Iran announced in March – have radically...
July 11, 2025

Iran expels half a million Afghans in 16-day stretch since recent conflict with Israel, UN says

Migrants rescued south of Crete walk after their arrival at the the port of Lavrio, 10 July, 2025
EU leaders agree to send delegation to Libya after previous group expelled from country
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders have agreed to send a new diplomatic delegation to Libya after the military leader Khalifa Haftar asked the previous representatives to leave the country.Speaking on the sidelines of On the sidelines of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the Prime Minister of Malta Robert Abella said it was important to re-engage with Libya.The four leaders agreed on the need to reactivate the Team Europe initiative, with a delegation from the European Commission, as well as ministers from Greece, Italy and Malta, to be re-deployed to Libya.Team Europe consists of the European Union, EU Member States, as well as the...
July 11, 2025

EU leaders agree to send delegation to Libya after previous group expelled from country

A woman comforts a child at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, after medics said at least 15 people were killed in an Israeli strike at a roundabout, in central Gaza.
Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
JERUSALEM — At least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, have been killed in an Israeli strike near a medical point in central Gaza, a hospital there says.Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said the strike hit people queueing for nutritional supplements in the town of Deir al-Balah. Graphic video from the hospital showed the bodies of several children and others lying on the floor as medics treated their wounds.The Israeli military said it targeted a "Hamas terrorist" in the area. It said it "regret[ted] any harm to uninvolved individuals" and that the incident was "under review".Another 26 people were reportedly killed in strikes elsewhere in Gaza on Thursday, as Israeli and Hamas delegations continued negotiations for a new ceasefire and hostage...
July 10, 2025

Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza

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