Israel Palestine Conflict News

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced on Tuesday that new sanctions on Tehran, potentially aimed at diminishing the country's oil export capacity, would be imposed within days. Meanwhile, while the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has asserted its intention to strike back against the attack, world leaders have urged Israel not to retaliate.

McDonald’s is the latest major American brand to report that boycott calls on social media and elsewhere have had a serious impact on its sales. The boycott calls were given by Palestinian groups after Israel attacked Gaza following the October 7th Hamas attacks on the country, in which hundreds of Israeli civilians lost their lives. Calls to boycott brands which are seen as supportive of Israel have been gaining ground. Dominoes, Starbucks, and Burger King are some of the other brands which have reported the adverse impact of the call on sales. Watch.

Tens of thousands of Palestine citizens, pressing for a right of return for refugees to what is now Israel, gathered along the fenced 65-km frontier where tents were erected for a planned six-week protest

The demonstrations began on Friday with tent encampments set up a half-mile from Gaza's 40km frontier with Israel, an effort to dramatize the Palestinians' story as refugees

Anwar Gargash, the UAE's MoS for foreign affairs, also said that Iran's ballistic missile programme was a 'major concern' in West Asia

India-Israel ties are on course for further expansion under Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu, who have developed the personal chemistry needed to take it forward

While one can doubt the positives of voting with the US, none would have questioned the wisdom of abstention

Arabs across the Middle East, and Europe and the United Nations called Donald Trump's move on Jerusalem as detrimental to the Israel-Palestine peace process

The caricature of Iran as the 'tip of the spear' of global terrorism is dangerous. It could lead to another Middle East war

An army statement says an Israeli tank targeted a post belonging to the Hamas terror organisation in the southern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Monday