Middle East Experience

The Israeli Embassy in Ireland issued a statement in response to Higgins' claim, calling it a "baseless accusation" and that it is "highly inflammatory and potentially slanderous."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Irish President accuses Israeli embassy in Dublin of leaking letter he sent Iranian counterpart

After almost a year of war against Hamas in Gaza, Israel is shifting its focus to its northern frontier, where Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel in support of its ally Hamas.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: US sends additional forces to Middle East as tensions soar, Pentagon says

Bardem implored Western governments, the US and UK in particular, to reconsider their “unconditional support” for Netanyahu.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Javier Bardem slams Israel’s ‘unacceptable, dehumanizing’ policies in Gaza

US Senator Chris Van Hollen calls for Israeli accountability in death of Turkish American citizen; UAE transports sick and wounded form Gaza; Saudi Arabia grapples with low oil prices … and advances Vision 2030 military reform.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israel braces for possible ‘all-out’ war against Hezbollah, Iran proxies

Off a quiet Tunisian island, Sara Souissi readies her small fishing boat. As a woman in the male-dominated trade, she rows against entrenched patriarchy but also environmental threats to her livelihood.Souissi began fishing as a teenager in a family of fishers off their native Kerkennah Islands near the city of Sfax, defying men who believed she had no place at sea."Our society didn't accept that a woman would fish," she said, hauling a catch onto her turquoise-coloured boat.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Tunisia fisherwomen battle inequality and climate change

Mourners gathered in southwest Turkey on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist, who was shot dead while protesting Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The killing last week of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has sparked international condemnation and infuriated Turkey, further escalating tensions over the war in Gaza that began with Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel. Eygi's body, wrapped in the Turkish flag and carried by uniformed officers, arrived at its final resting place in the Aegean town of Didim.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Turkey buries activist shot in West Bank

Throughout the saga of Jamal Khashoggi's murder, one thing that never came up was his beliefs. In short: Yes, Khashoggi advocated for democracy in the Middle East, but of a very specific kind.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Democratic terrorism: Jamal Khashoggi's vision of political Islam

Heavy fighting on Saturday shook a Sudanese city besieged by paramilitaries, witnesses told AFP, as US researchers reported unprecedented and escalating combat in the North Darfur state capital.El-Fasher is one of five state capitals in Sudan's western Darfur region and the only one not in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who have been battling the regular army since April 2023.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Sudanese city pounded as analysts report 'unprecedented' combat

UAE official: "Technical requirements, sovereign operational restrictions, and cost/benefit analysis led to the reassessment at that time, and those considerations underpin our ongoing position."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: UAE does not plan to re-open F-35 fighter jet talks with US, UAE official says

The Tel al-Sultan battalion was a major part of Hamas's Rafah Brigade.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: IDF targets last Hamas strongholds in Tel al-Sultan, uncovers weapons and tunnels