Gaza is still facing widespread famine because of Israel’s deliberate starvation of the population: Israel is blocking all but a trickle of humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, with...
Iran keeps rejecting the Trump administration’s unrealistic demands on the nuclear issue: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said U.S. demands that Tehran stop enriching uranium are "excessive and outrageous", state media reported, voicing doubts whether...
Alex de Waal comments on the recent IPC report warning of famine in Gaza: They could have stated the matter more simply. Mass death through starvation is the certain outcome of Israel’s continued blockade and ongoing military campaign. The only question is when. The...
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) released a new report this week raising the alarm about the severity of the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing the people of Gaza: Half a million people in the Gaza Strip face starvation, a global hunger monitor...
Trump claims that the Houthis have “capitulated” and the U.S. will therefore stop bombing. The Houthis have a different interpretation of the truce: In a later interview with Bloomberg News, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi Political Council, suggested the...
U.S. forces reportedly bombed a prison in Yemen in a series of strikes that killed at least 68 people: Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday alleged a U.S. airstrike hit a prison holding African migrants, killing at least 68 people and wounding 47 others. The U.S. military...
Trump’s illegal war in Yemen continues: US strikes on a Yemeni fuel port killed at least 74 people, Huthi rebels said Friday, in the deadliest attack of Washington's 15-month campaign against the Iran-backed group. The latest U.S. attack killed dozens of people and...
The president’s Middle East envoy has repudiated the idea that the U.S. might be open to a reasonable compromise with Iran: United States special envoy Steve Witkoff has said that Tehran “must stop and eliminate” its nuclear enrichment programme to reach a deal with...
Rozina Ali reports on some of the civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in Yemen: Hassan’s brothers were already there, digging through the rubble, searching for the remains of a family. “They were scattered and torn into pieces,” he said. Rescuers recovered...
Kenneth McKenzie is the former head of CENTCOM, and he thinks the illegal war in Yemen is just great. Here is his defense of Trump’s bombing campaign: First, we’re asserting the importance of free passage on the global commons; we are the world’s greatest maritime...
