Middle East Experience

Israel is responsible for serious violations against Palestinians, a UN Special Rapporteur said in a report..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: UN expert condemns Israel's 'collective punishment of Palestinians', home demolitions

On May 20, 1967, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran and proclaimed "these waters are ours... the Israeli flag shall not go through the Gulf of Aqaba."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: The fallacy that is the 1967 line that divided Israel and the West Bank

As Turkey celebrated with much fanfare the failure of a 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Turkish court convicted a correspondent for Germany’s Die Welt newspaper Thursday of engaging in propaganda in favour of Kurdish rebels and sentenced him in absentia to more than two years and nine months in prison..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: As it celebrates coup anniversary, Turkey sentences reporter to jail

'Unprecedented' online reaction against Supreme Court's decision to uphold the death penalty for three young protesters..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Iranians take social media by storm to halt executions

Pro-Palestinian progressive insurgent Jamaal Bowman ousted House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel in the New York Democratic primary, according to an Associated Press call of the today. While Engel has been trailing behind Bowman since the election was held last month, the counting of mail-in ballots has delayed the final results.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Intel: Pro-Palestinian progressive insurgent ousts House Foreign Affairs chairman

Three House Democrats are vying to replace Eliot Engel as the party’s new foreign affairs leader — will they actually change his Middle East policies?
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Engel is out — will the new foreign affairs chairman upend his Mideast policies?

Ankara’s harsh outbursts in favor of Baku in Azerbaijan’s rekindled conflict with Armenia might be aimed at domestic consumption as well as pressuring Russia into concessions in Libya and Syria.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Is Erdogan after a Caucasus adventure?

US sanctions on Venezuela allow for humanitarian exemptions. Turkey is active in delivering coronavirus-related aid around the world.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Turkey sends virus aid to Venezuela

The Hope probe is now scheduled to launch Monday from Japan.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: UAE Mars mission again delayed due to weather

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus and that another 35 million are at risk of acquiring it.For more coronavirus news, visit our dedicated page.The figures, which Rouhani said were based on a new Health Ministry report, are far higher Iran’s official toll of 269,440 infected.Rouhani in a televised speech did not address the discrepancy.Iran, with a population of more than 80 million, has been the Middle East country hardest hit by the epidemic.“Our estimate is that as of now 25 million Iranians have been infected with this virus and about 14,000 have lost their dear lives,” Rouhani said in the speech.“There is the possibility that between 30 and 35 million other people will be at risk,” he said.“In total, more than 200,000 people have been hospitalized,” he said.The Health Ministry on Friday said 13,791 people had died from COVID-19.Read more:Attacked, jailed, sentenced to flogging: Young woman reveals her life in IranIran arrests about 30 following Behbahan protestsCoronavirus: Iran continues to struggle with 198 COVID-19 deaths and 2,500 new cases
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Coronavirus: 25 million in Iran infected with COVID-19, says Rouhani