Raids hit hills and valleys as Israeli military keeps up pressure, it says, to force Hezbollah to disarm.

Rights groups and Muslim representatives condemn law as infringement on civil liberties

<article data-history-node-id="432609" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-storm-deaths-rises-two-14" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-storm-deaths-rises-two-14" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Death toll from storm rises to 14</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 14 Palestinians have died in the last 24 hours from plummeting temperatures and collapsing buildings amid Storm Byron in Gaza, Wafa news agency is reporting.</p> <p>The figure includes at least three children who died from hypothermia.</p> <p>Civil defence services reported that six people died when a house collapsed in the Bir al-Naaja area in northern Gaza. They added that two others had died after a wall collapsed in Gaza City's al-Rimal neighbourhood, while another died in Shati refugee camp- also from a wall collapse.</p> <p>They added that around 15 houses have collapsed across Gaza, leaving rescue teams scrambling to recover people from the rubble.</p> </div> </div> </article>

JEREMY CORBYN warned today that the government risks letting jailed Palestine protesters on hunger strike die in prison.The former Labour leader and Your Party MP said that he had visited one of the h...

NHS doctor tells MEE situation is incredibly serious and that one prisoner was chained to a prison guard in hospital

The el-Fasher massacre in late October highlighted that the war in Sudan shows little sign of abating.

<article data-history-node-id="430824" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settler-violence-sweeps-west-bank-amid-olive-harvest" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settler-violence-sweeps-west-bank-amid-olive-harvest" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli settler violence sweeps West Bank amid olive harvest </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Army-backed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;settlers carried out a series of assaults on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>&nbsp;and olive pickers across the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/occupation" target="_blank">occupied</a>&nbsp;West Bank on Tuesday, amid an escalating wave of settler violence.</p> <p>In the town of Atara, north of Ramallah, residents woke on Wednesday to find two vehicles torched and racist slogans spray-painted on a home.</p> <p>Mayor Nizar Moghrabi told Middle East Eye that settlers infiltrated the Turfin area after midnight, set fire to the vehicles and scrawled threatening messages on a house wall.</p> <p>“We don’t know how many settlers there were or where they came from, but they managed to reach homes in the village and burn the vehicles,” he said.</p> <p>Last August, settlers established their first outpost on Atara’s land, placing mobile homes in the Turfin area, from which they have since launched repeated attacks on Palestinian homes.</p> <p>According to Moghrabi, since the outpost’s establishment, the town has faced multiple assaults, including vehicle arson and the smashing of windows, aimed at forcing residents to leave the area.</p> <p>“We don’t know if the Israeli army was aware of the attack,” he added, “but even if it was, it’s the same army that protects them.”</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settler-violence-sweeps-west-bank-amid-olive-harvest">Israeli settler violence sweeps West Bank amid olive harvest&nbsp;</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="An Israeli settler argues with a Palestinian farmer, during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, 29 October 2025 (Reuters/Mohammed Torokman)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7a5e7bea-a736-4322-9be0-01acae204459" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2025-10-29T082848Z_1938373570_RC2KLHAVRKQJ_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-OLIVES-SETTLERS%20%281%29.jpeg" width="1400" height="787" alt="An Israeli settler argues with a Palestinian farmer, during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, 29 October 2025 (Reuters/Mohammed Torokman)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>An Israeli settler argues with a Palestinian farmer, during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, 29 October 2025 (Reuters/Mohammed Torokman)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

Palestine has always been a labor issue — but until recently, many top US union leaders have been on the wrong side.

Trump confirmed he has green-lit CIA covert operations in Venezuela, and that ground attacks might be next.

Some bodies show evidence of strangulation, mutilation and being run over by tanks