Navi Pillay reacts to Nobel Peace Prize win

Navi Pillay, the eminent South African jurist who co-authored the United Nations report accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, has expressed disbelief and gratitude after officially receiving confirmation from the Norwegian Nobel Institute that she was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking in a personal phone call, Pillay told Kristian Berg Harpviken, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, that she could barely credit the news until hearing it directly from him.

Pillay described the award as a massive recognition for the global human rights community and international legal institutions rather than just an individual honour.

Pillay, 85, is one of the most influential figures in international criminal justice and human rights law, and is South Africa’s most prominent international judge.

Massive International Day for Palestine march fills London

A massive International Day for Palestine march is taking place in London to mark three years of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Demonstrators are calling on the UK government to stop arming Israel, impose sanctions, and end its complicity in Israel's crimes.

Houthis clash with Yemeni government in Taiz

Footage released by the Houthis in Yemen shows clashes with Saudi-backed government forces near Taiz.

They key province has long been a flashpoint in Yemen's war, with Houthi forces having effectively encircled the government-controlled city.

Renewed escalations have worsened the existing humanitarian crisis, with over 200,000 people displaced due to fighting and air strikes.

Proposed Dutch “terrorism" bill explained

A Dutch bill would criminalise publicly praising acts labelled terrorist under Dutch law, sharing such praise or supporting designated groups. Researchers warn it could target Muslims and anti-genocide movements. @mayanoraa asks: what does this mean for freedom of speech?

Israeli settlers steal Palestinian olives and lemons under army protection

Palestinian activist Issa Amro filmed Israeli settlers trespassing onto his property and stealing olives and lemons from his trees under the protection of Israeli army soldiers on Saturday night. 

Amro called out the soldiers’ complicity in the settlers’ theft, as they stood by and let it happen, while calling on him to stop filming them. 

“Respect your army uniform. You let them steal. No one army in the world does what you do. You protect the thieves to steal olives and steal lemon,” Amro is heard shouting at soldiers in the video.

Arab-Israeli activist calls out ‘self-hating Jews’ participating in London Palestine march

Right-wing Palestinian-Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad harassed Orthodox Jews participating in a Palestine march on Saturday, accusing them of being “self-hating Jews”. 

“Look at this self-hating Jew. I’m an Arab and you self-hating Jew, support Palestine!” he told a group of Orthodox Jewish men. “Shame on you, self-hating Jews.” 

Haddad is a member of a nascent right-wing party campaigning for the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza.

'Staying here means death': Palestinians leave eastern Gaza City as Israeli army advances

"Staying here means death."

In Shujaiya, eastern Gaza City, Palestinians are packing up their tents to be displaced once again.

The Israeli army advanced and placed concrete blocks marking the yellow line next to their tents, bringing more of the neighbourhood under military control. Nearly two-thirds of Gaza is now under Israeli military control.

More than 1.9 million Palestinians in Gaza have been internally displaced, many of them multiple times. According to the UN, over 1.2 million people, almost 60 percent of the population, have lost their homes.

Israeli in California demolishes Palestinian solidarity stand

“Now you will see what Jewish power is.”

An Israeli man filmed himself attacking a Palestinian solidarity display on a California beach. In the footage, he tears down a Palestinian flag, damages belongings, and shouts “fuck Palestine”.

The video has been widely praised on Israeli social media, where the assault is being celebrated as a show of strength.

Ed Miliband: From meme to foreign secretary

Once ridiculed by the British press and written off after Labour's 2015 election defeat, Ed Miliband has made a political comeback.

Now Britain's Foreign Secretary, he's challenging Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, introducing restrictions on illegal settlements and facing fierce opposition at home and abroad.

How did Miliband go from political punchline to one of Britain's leading politicians, and what shaped his approach to Israel and Palestine?

#BREAKING: Colombia opened its embassy in West Jerusalem on Wednesday, following a controversial decision by the country’s new pro-Israeli president, Abelardo de la Espriella.

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Houthis threaten further strikes on Saudi Arabia

Yemen's Houthis have threatened Saudi Arabia with further escalatory strikes if the kingdom does not accept its terms for peace, a member for the Political Bureau of Ansar Allah said on Monday.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia has also threatened retaliatory strikes after Houthi attacks on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed 12 people and injured 300 on Saturday. They also targeted an Aramco building on Tuesday evening, resulting in a limited fire.

The group said that the attacks were in response to Saudi Arabia's support for government forces in Yemen's civil war, including an air strike on Sanaa airport earlier this year.

The escalations have fuelled an existing humanitarian crisis in Yemen, displacing over 200,000 people.

Israeli occupation devastates Gaza’s olive harvest

Israel’s continuing occupation of Gaza has devastated the territory’s olive industry, with farmers reporting widespread destruction of orchards, soaring prices and a harvest reduced to a fraction of pre-war levels.
Gaza’s agricultural authorities estimate that only 150,000 of the territory’s two million olive trees remain standing. This year’s harvest is expected to yield around 5,000 tonnes of olives, down from the usual 40,000 tonnes.
Farm workers are struggling from the lack of work, while nearly half of Gaza’s olive trees remain beyond the Israeli yellow line.
The destruction has also driven up prices, with a 16-litre can of olive oil now costing around 1,500 shekels ($488), compared with 500 shekels before the war, putting it beyond the reach of many Palestinians.

Trump accuses Congress hopeful El-Sayed of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood

peaking to reporters on Wednesday, US president Donald Trump accused Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of being a “member of the Muslim Brotherhood”. 

“He was a proud member. And you can’t have a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Congress being on one of our security committees,” he said.

HSBC ‘sharia‑compliant’ fund spent over $100m on five Israeli military‑linked firms

HSBC's "sharia-compliant" fund spent over $100 million on five Israeli military-linked firms, a Middle East Eye investigation has revealed.

MEE's Imran Mulla explains.

Iraq hosts OIC delegates for regional solidarity and cooperation

"Ensuring justice for the Palestinian people, guaranteeing their rights to their land and homeland, and protecting Islamic holy sites are fundamental to the security and stability of the region."

Delegates from member states of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation gathered on Saturday in Baghdad for a two-day meeting, with discussions focusing on the Israel-Palestine conflict, rising tensions in Saudi Arabia, and regional security and economic cooperation.

Iraq assumed the rotating presidency as officials called for greater solidarity, the protection of Palestinian rights and stronger regional ties.

#BREAKING: The Turkish government submitted the text of the Mecca Defence Pact to the Turkish Parliament on Tuesday.

The pact, signed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in August, establishes a new international defence alliance that commits the signatories to one another’s defence, similar to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.

The text of the agreement, obtained exclusively by Middle East Eye, does not identify any specific country or region as a threat, but emphasises that all participating countries will take the necessary measures to support one another in the event of an armed attack against their independence, sovereignty or territorial integrity.

🔗 Read more: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-mecca-defence-pact-signed-turkey-saudi-arabia-and-pakistan

Netanyahu says Hamas ‘on the streets of Paris’

Speaking to Channel 14 English, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas was “on the streets of Paris”. 

He added that he had warned French President Emmanuel Macron on October 7 that diplomacy was not an option with the group and that they needed to be destroyed.  

“These are monsters. These are neo-Nazis. You don’t solve a problem of the SS … with diplomacy. You destroy them,” he said.

Why Britain's liberal Zionists must watch NAZA | The David Hearst Podcast

David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, says that watching NAZA, a documentary by Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor featuring interviews with members of an elite Israeli army unit involved in supplying targets for what he describes as genocide, should be “compulsory” for Britain’s liberal Zionists.

Hearst criticises those who, he argues, continue to portray themselves as victims while dismissing pro-Palestinian demonstrations as “hate marches” and accusing critics of Israel and its leaders of antisemitism.

He says the documentary revealed nothing that Middle East Eye had not already reported over the past three years, but argues that British politicians Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband should watch it.

“Miliband’s stand against Israel lasted all of ten days,” Hearst writes.

Israeli soldiers film themselves in Lebanese family’s house before detonating it

“Welcome to my house. Please come inside.”

In a video circulating online, an Israeli soldier gives his fellow soldiers a tour of a displaced Lebanese family’s house after it was forced to flee the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. 

The house is riddled with gallons of explosive materials, indicating the soldiers were going to detonate it shortly after filming the video. 

The UN estimates that Israel has completely destroyed more than 11,000 buildings in southern Lebanon since early March.

When saving your pet comes with guilt | The reality of starvation in Gaza

“He couldn’t understand the starvation, the occupation, the blockade or the genocide.”

In the latest episode of The Gaza Podcast, Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini introduces her cat Tom, a fellow genocide survivor.

Having moved from one shelter to another throughout the war, Tom suffered an eye injury from a soot-covered pot and saw his weight drop in half during the peak of starvation in Gaza.

Maha shares the emotional reality of trying to keep a pet alive when food was nearly impossible to find, and how pets across Gaza continue to suffer as Israel continues to block the entry of essential veterinary supplies.

Watch the full conversation on YouTube.