NewsFeed A baby was rescued by her family after her home was set on fire by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. The attacks come as settlers and Israeli forces carry out extensive raids across Nablus following Friday’s deadly shootout. Published On 25 Jul 202625 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link
NewsFeed A China Coast Guard vessel has fired its water cannon at Philippine government boats near Scarborough Shoal, the latest in a series of confrontations in the disputed South China Sea. Published On 24 Jul 202624 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link
Sebastia in the occupied West Bank and five Lebanese castles get emergency listing despite Israeli objections. By AFP and The Associated Press Published On 24 Jul 202624 Jul 2026 UNESCO has added sites in the occupied West Bank and Lebanon to the list of endangered World Heritage sites, despite Israeli objections. A committee vote on Friday at a UNESCO meeting in Busan, South Korea, placed six locations on both the main World Heritage list and the endangered list at once, under an emergency procedure, citing the toll of the ongoing conflicts in the region. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The locations include a biblical archaeological site in the West Bank and five castles in southern Lebanon, one of which was recently seized by Israeli troops. Member states of the UN’s cultural agency approved the listings despite a campaign by Israel’s foreign ministry to have them rejected. The West Bank site, Sebastia, sits on a hilltop near Nablus and is identified by historians as ancient Samaria, capital of the biblical Kingdom of Israel. …
Israeli attacks come amid ongoing talks with Lebanese officials to implement framework for peace between two countries. Published On 24 Jul 202624 Jul 2026 The Israeli army has attacked the southern Lebanese town of al-Mansouri and carried out blasts in the nearby village of Majdal Zoun, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports, despite the “ceasefie” and ongoing talks between the two countries. The explosion in Majdal Zoun on Friday was heard as far away as city of Tyre, over 15 kilometres (nine miles) away, according to local reports. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The attack and demolitions have become a routine feature of life in southern Lebanon, despite a United States-brokered framework that is supposed to end the fighting and lead to “peace”. On Thursday, an Israeli strike on an ambulance in Nabatieh al-Fawqa injured two medics. The Lebanese Health Ministry called the attack a “flagrant violation of international and humanitarian laws and norms”. Israel has been systematically levelling entire villages near the border, with Israeli officials openly declaring the objective of erasing …
Published On 23 Jul 202623 Jul 2026 After more than two and a half years of near-constant bombardment, people in Gaza are now facing a deepening shelter crisis. The scale of physical destruction is estimated in the tens of billions of dollars, but the reality is measured in human terms: households without water or electricity; children sleeping in torn tents; and rodents breeding beneath nearby rubble. More than 92 percent of homes have been damaged or destroyed by Israel’s war, according to the United Nations. Families are erecting shelters wherever they can, pitching tents on the ruins of their houses, sealing off collapsing mosques with plastic sheeting, or stitching together makeshift structures from whatever materials are available. At least 850,000 people require emergency shelter assistance, lacking even basic items such as plastic sheeting, rope and plywood, according to the Palestine Shelter Cluster. Continuing Israeli restrictions on the entry of critical materials needed to replace, repair and reinforce shelters are preventing humanitarian organisations from responding at the necessary scale. Shelter needs were already severe following a …
Commercial vessels remain anchored off Port Sultan Qaboos around Qaboos Port on June 21, 2026 in Muscat, Oman. Elke Scholiers | Getty Images News | Getty Images Vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slumped since U.S. President Donald Trump’s blockade took effect last week, with shipowners increasingly avoiding one of the world’s most important energy corridors as fighting between the U.S. and Iran intensifies. Crossings through the Strait have fallen sharply across multiple shipping datasets with renewed U.S. strikes on Iran, Tehran’s declaration of a blanket ban on maritime traffic and fresh attacks on commercial vessels has prompted operators to reassess the risks of entering the Gulf. Lloyd’s List Intelligence recorded just 53 vessel transits in the week through July 20, down 66% from 157 the previous week. Tanker and gas carrier movements, which are the ships responsible for transporting most Gulf crude oil and liquefied natural gas, dropped to 30 crossings from 90. Kpler data similarly show activity deteriorating almost immediately after the blockade began. Daily crossings, which had averaged more than …
The United States and Iran are locked in an increasingly escalatory cycle of strikes that they each claim is aimed at preventing the other from securing military dominance over the Strait of Hormuz. As the US pounds southern Iran and, in recent days, other parts of the country, Tehran too has hit back, striking US military bases in neighbouring nations in the Gulf and Jordan. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list But projectiles fired by both the US and Iran have also hit civilian infrastructure, raising questions over potential violations of international law, even as the fragile memorandum of understanding (MoU) towards peace that the two countries had signed in June has collapsed. “We’re going to knock out all their power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate,” US President Donald Trump threatened in a Fox News interview last week. He made similar threats on civilian infrastructure earlier in April. At least 50 people have died in Iran since the resumption of hostilities, …
The United States has attacked Iran for a ninth consecutive night after the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) announced a US soldier had died in northern Iraq in a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone. Here is what happened over Sunday night and Monday morning and what officials on both sides have said: Where was Iran attacked? CENTCOM announced in a statement on X that it completed the ninth wave of attacks against Iran at 02:00 GMT on Monday. It said it “targeted Iranian military command centers, air defense and coastal surveillance sites, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and communications networks to further diminish Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz”. The US military did not provide details about the actual sites hit in Iran. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said two oil tankers “exploded” and were halted in the southern Strait of Hormuz late on Sunday, according to a report by the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency on Monday. The IRGC …
Authorities in India-administered Kashmir are conducting a mass filtering of books at the region’s prominent libraries and educational institutions over allegations that they carry “objectionable” content, including extolling leaders associated with Kashmir’s pro-freedom movement. All educational institutions in the region have been ordered to vet books, journals, dissertations, doctoral theses and digital resources to “prevent the procurement, circulation or retention of any publication containing misleading, factually incorrect, distorted, inflammatory, unlawful or otherwise objectionable material, including any content which directly or indirectly promotes, glorifies, legitimises or justifies terrorism, violent extremism, secessionism, radicalisation, communal disharmony or any activity prejudicial to the sovereignty, unity, integrity and security of nation,” according to an order issued by the government on July 9. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Authorities have also ordered an investigation to determine how books with “seditious content” made their way into public libraries and educational institutions in the disputed region. The inquiry, initially ordered only for school libraries, was broadened last week to include not just books, but also research publications, dissertations, journals, and content …
A so-called “ceasefire” agreed in October has not stopped the Israeli army’s attacks on the Gaza Strip. Nothing is off limits, including homes, tents sheltering the displaced and even funerals. The death toll is rising. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Israel says it is targeting Hamas fighters, but Gaza’s Health Ministry says most of those killed are women and children. The UN says Palestinians are stuck in a nightmare that’s difficult to reconcile with the existence of a truce. And talks to move the deal to the next phase have stalled. Presenter: Scott McLean Guests: Gideon Levy – Columnist at Haaretz newspaper and author of, The Punishment of Gaza Xavier Abu Eid – Former PLO communicators director, author of, Rooted in Palestine, and political analyst Julie Norman – Associate fellow, Middle East programme at Chatham House, professor of international relations at University College London and co-author of, Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare Published On 18 Jul 202618 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera …
