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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, stated that the situation in Gaza has become even more dangerous and tragic than it was a year ago, following a devastating war that claimed tens of thousands of lives.

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 20m
Two years after the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, hundreds of residents of the Colombian capital took to the streets, holding sit-ins, demonstrations, and protests. One of the main routes stretched between the United States Embassy and Plaza de Bolívar.
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Can we talk about Palestinian prisoners?
Can we talk about Palestinian prisoners?
Almost sixty years since Israel started its illegal occupation and colonization of the West Bank and Gaza, two years after the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war, and as the mass arrests and syste…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 1h
A UNICEF spokesperson warned Tuesday that children in Gaza are enduring levels of violence and fear that “no child should ever experience,” amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign.

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 1h
Six Gaza Sumud Flotilla activists remain detained in Israel’s Ketziot Prison
Six Gaza Sumud Flotilla activists remain detained in Israel’s Ketziot Prison
Six volunteers who took part in the Gaza Sumud Flotilla remain under Israeli detention at Ketziot Prison in the Negev Desert, the legal centre Adalah said on Tuesday evening. The flotilla was inter…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 1h
Trumps Plan for Gaza Breaches International Law and Must be Rejected

by Shawan Jabarin
Trumps Plan for Gaza Breaches International Law and Must be Rejected
In a 2000 critique of the Oslo Accords process, Edward Said observed that at the core of externally imposed models of governance for the Palestinian people was the assumption ‘that after enough pun…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 1h
Egyptian Turkish relations are moving toward a new horizon of military cooperation—signalling a major turning point in the growing rapprochement between the two countries, as they seek to shape a new regional alliance.

#OPINION by Mahmoud Hassan

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 2h
Members of the Green Party of England and Wales have voted to call for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. The IDF is the national military of the State of Israel.
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 2h
Hamas warns that Israeli prisons have become silent mass graves
Hamas warns that Israeli prisons have become silent mass graves
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has announced the death of Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Hatem Mohammed Khudairat, 22, from the town of al-Dhahiriya in Hebron Governorate. Hamas said he died d…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 2h
Vatican Secretary of State condemns global inaction over Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza
Vatican Secretary of State condemns global inaction over Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, stated that the situation in Gaza has become even more dangerous and tragic than it was a year ago, following a devastating war that claim…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 2h
Estranged realities: Israel and the Global Sumud Flotilla

by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Estranged realities: Israel and the Global Sumud Flotilla
Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was a coarse and violent affair.  Having been intercepted in …
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 3h
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that another US team left to take part in negotiations on Gaza, voicing hope for a deal.

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 3h
Sudanese Observatory expresses concern over hate speech, violence and arrests targeting refugees in Libya
Sudanese Observatory expresses concern over hate speech, violence and arrests targeting refugees in Libya
The Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights has voiced deep concern over the growing hate speech, violence and arbitrary arrests targeting Sudanese refugees in Libya. The observatory said the situati…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 3h
Israeli navy attacks another aid flotilla heading to Gaza
Israeli navy attacks another aid flotilla heading to Gaza
The Israeli navy has attacked another aid flotilla sailing towards Gaza in an attempt to break the blockade imposed on the Strip, according to media sources. The reports said the navy intercepted t…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 3h
An aid convoy continues to approach the Gaza Strip in a new attempt to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade on the Palestinian enclave, organizers said Tuesday.

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 4h
The price was high, the return is priceless: How the war on Gaza unmasked Israel

by Jasim Al-Azzawi
The price was high, the return is priceless: How the war on Gaza unmasked Israel
Ever since 7 October 2023, a painful question has haunted every soul. Was the immense price paid by Palestinians worth it? For months, this question was a hushed whisper. Today, it has become a dea…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 4h
New customs data indicate that the value of UK arms exports to Israel reached a record high in June 2025, with September ranking as the second-highest month on record, despite the UK government’s partial suspension of some export licenses.

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 4h
Italian officials including Meloni reported to the ICC over Gaza war
Italian officials including Meloni reported to the ICC over Gaza war
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday that she had been reported to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of complicity in genocide committed in the Gaza Strip as a resu…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 4h
Israeli captives will only be released after agreement to end Gaza war, Islamic Jihad says
Israeli captives will only be released after agreement to end Gaza war, Islamic Jihad says
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement declared that Israeli captives in Gaza will not be freed except as part of a broader agreement to end the ongoing war. In a statement, Saray…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 4h
Rights group urges probe into alleged UN complicity with Israeli policies in Gaza
Rights group urges probe into alleged UN complicity with Israeli policies in Gaza
The Gaza Center for Human Rights has called on the United Nations to investigate allegations that senior UN officials have been complicit in Israeli policies restricting humanitarian aid in Gaza. I…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 5h
UNICEF: Gaza’s children enduring “terror no child should experience”
UNICEF: Gaza’s children enduring “terror no child should experience”
A UNICEF spokesperson warned Tuesday that children in Gaza are enduring levels of violence and fear that “no child should ever experience,” amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign. Speaking to repo…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 5h
German police in Berlin are taking law enforcement action, placing pro-Palestinian demonstrators under arrest.

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 5h
Israeli firms barred from Dubai Airshow after “technical review”
Israeli firms barred from Dubai Airshow after “technical review”
Organisers of the Dubai Airshow announced Tuesday that Israeli companies will not be participating in this year’s event, citing a “technical review.” The decision comes two years after the outbreak…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 6h
Syria’s Sharaa meets SDF Commander after new truce, but Kurdish leader reaffirms push for autonomy
Syria’s Sharaa meets SDF Commander after new truce, but Kurdish leader reaffirms push for autonomy
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa held two high-level meetings in Damascus on Tuesday, first with Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and later with a US delegation led by…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 6h
Behind the Egypt-Turkey Friendship Exercises

by Mahmoud Hassan
Behind the Egypt-Turkey Friendship Exercises
Egyptian Turkish relations are moving toward a new horizon of military cooperation—signalling a major turning point in the growing rapprochement between the two countries, as they seek to shape a n…
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