Middle East Experience

Protesters will march from the Knesset to Balfour in support of the Lapid-Bennett coalition on Saturday evening.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Demonstrations in support of unity government to take place nationwide

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now 82 years old, meaning that it is possible the ayatollah could pass away during the next president's term.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Why these Iranian elections are so important - expert

Addressing Palestinian academics in the Gaza Strip, a defiant Sinwar again boasted that Hamas had won the last round of fighting with Israel.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Sinwar: Next war with Israel will change the Middle East

An Egyptian archaeological mission is preparing to launch an excavation project in Saudi Arabia after several discoveries showed that ancient Egyptian King Ramses III had a presence in the Arabian Peninsula.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Egypt traces relics of Ramses III back to Saudi Arabia

The Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in east Jerusalem faces a similar fate to the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where 86 Jerusalem families are threatened with eviction to make way for Israeli settlers.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Jerusalem’s Batn al-Hawa could be next Sheikh Jarrah

Israeli police detained two prominent Palestinian activists on Sunday who have become the face of a campaign to halt Palestinian evictions from a flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood.Supporters of Muna and Mohammed El-Kurd, who are twins, say their detention is part of a broader Israeli effort to halt opposition to the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah, where Jewish settlers want to move into the El-Kurds’ home and others under an Israeli court ruling.Without explicitly naming Muna El-Kurd, 23, an Israeli police spokeswoman said “police arrested under court order a suspect (23) who is a resident of East Jerusalem, on suspicion of participating in riots that took place in Sheikh Jarrah recently.”For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Footage on social media showed her handcuffed and being escorted out of her home by Israeli officers earlier on Sunday.Police did not immediately comment on her twin brother Mohammed, who turned himself in at a police station in East Jerusalem after receiving a police summons.“What’s happening is that they (Israel) want to quiet all of our voices in Jerusalem,” said their father, Nabil El-Kurd, calling on Palestinian youth to protest outside the police station on East Jerusalem’s Salah Al-Din street.In October last year, an Israeli court ruled in favor of Jewish settlers who say some eight Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah are living on land that used to belong to Jews.Palestinians are appealing the decision at Israel’s Supreme Court, and the evictions are currently on hold.Anger over the proposed evictions helped spark 11 days of violence in May between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza, whose Islamist rulers Hamas have called Israeli policy in East Jerusalem a “red line.”Tensions could flare further in Jerusalem this week, when a Jewish right-wing march is expected to pass through the Old City’s Damascus gate. A similar march, its route diverted at the last minute, was held the same day that the Israel-Gaza fighting broke out.Israel captured East Jerusalem, along with the West Bank and Gaza, in the 1967 Middle East war. Palestinians seek the territories for a future state.Read more:Israel’s Lapid set to unseat Netanyahu, form new governmentIsrael’s Shin Bet warns of violence as Netanyahu faces unseatingClashes in east Jerusalem ahead of court case on Palestinians’ eviction
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Israeli police arrest Palestinian activist twins from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah

Saudi Arabia on Sunday reported 984 coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of cases to 457,546, according to the Ministry of Health.For more coronavirus news, visit our dedicated page.The death toll rose by 16 to 7,456, while the number of recoveries rose by 1,185 to 440,644.There are 9,446 active coronavirus cases in the Kingdom, 1,545 of which are critical cases.The country had administered 14,835,236 COVID-19 vaccine doses, the health ministry said Sunday.Read more:Saudi Arabia reports slight 24-hour drop in COVID-19 infections, 16 deathsSaudi Arabia draws hundreds at first Riyadh concert since COVID-19 outbreak
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Saudi Arabia reports 984 COVID-19 cases, 16 deaths

Supporters of banned lawmaker Osama al-Ajarma fired guns near the Jordanian capital Amman on Sunday amid unrest over the parliament ban, an Al Arabiya correspondent reported.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.In response to the gunfire, Jordanian forces fired tear gas to disperse the protesters that have taken to the streets in the suburban area called Naour.Jordan's Public Security Directorate soon after released a statement saying anyone trying to reach the location of the clashes will be arrested, Al Arabiya reported.There was heavy security presence in the area that witnessed violent clashes overnight, resulting in the injury of at least four members of the security force on Saturday.Witnesses told Reuters the overnight attacks were triggered by tribal supporters of a the lawmaker.Al-Ajarma, was banned from Parliament for one year last week for insulting the body in a speech, inciting calls for protests by members of his tribe.The Interior Ministry said on Saturday that it would not allow any gatherings that breached the law governing public gatherings.Clashes between some unruly members of Jordan's powerful frequently take place in a country where tribes are the backbone of the security forces and the army.With ReutersRead more:Armed attacks on Jordan security forces, some injured: MinistryJordan refers two former senior officials to security court over alleged foreign plot
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Protesters fire guns near Jordanian capital Amman, police respond with tear gas

He managed to apprehend the gang member with the help of a group of passers-by..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Dubai: Chance encounter helps worker nab thief, 3 days after robbery

Two Palestinians were killed and six others wounded in a gunfight involving Fatah fighters and drug dealers at Rashidiyeh refugee camp in south Lebanon early Sunday..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Two dead in clash at Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon