Why is Yemen conflict so underreported?

Since early October, Houthi forces have encircled Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city. Nearly a million people are cut off from food aid. 
Yemeni analyst and human rights activist Baraa Shiban recently returned from the city. He warns against framing the war as a choice between the Houthis, who back the Palestinian cause, and their opponents, calling it a “mistake when you try to explain the internal dynamics of the conflict.” That framing, he says, overlooks the people inside Yemen’s besieged cities, who “pay the most expensive price.”

Israeli protesters call for Arab-Jewish unity government

Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Wednesday evening, calling for the opposition bloc to form a national unity government with Palestinian-led parties after the election produced inconclusive results, with no clear winner. 

“We simply need to take this victory and understand that there is no future here without Arab-Jewish partnership. This could be a historic moment,” says protester Noa Poliaki. 

Neither side has secured the 61 seats needed for a parliamentary majority. Palestinian-led parties, which are projected to win 19 seats, have offered to support an opposition-led minority government to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from returning to power. But key opposition figures have rejected the prospect of governing with Arab parties.

1973: Why Saudi Arabia cut off the oil

Israel’s election and Ben-Gvir’s army of settlers in the West Bank | David Hearst | UNAPOLOGETIC

“A CIA report came out recently, an assessment to say Israel was very close to being in a civil war.”
David Hearst on Ben-Gvir’s armed militia and why Israel’s settlers aren’t going away.

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"It's a survival election" | MEE Israeli election special

"It's a survival election"
 
The Israeli elections were a question of survival for Palestinian citizens of Israel, who turned out in record numbers to vote, said MEE's Palestine and Israel bureau chief Lubna Masarwa.
 
She spoke on MEE Live about the discrimination faced by Palestinians who have not been an equal part of Israel's democratic processes.
 
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Israeli academic confronted over quote suggesting rape of Palestinian families

"His wife was raped in front of him, so that they could get information from him."

Israeli academic Mordechai Kedar was confronted over a quote suggesting that threatening to rape Palestinian resistance fighters’ mothers or sisters could deter attacks, during a discussion on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Kedar denied making the statement, but the exact wording from a 2014 Haaretz interview was read out, leaving him struggling to explain the remarks.

When pressed, Kedar attempted to shift the context of the quote, rather than directly address its wording.

British commentator Benjamin Moser then placed the remarks in the wider context of Israeli society, pointing to demonstrations defending Israeli soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee and public rallies held in their support.

Abdul El-Sayed challenges Trump to take a lie detector test

US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has fired back at Donald Trump over his suggestion that he should go through a metal detector, challenging the president to take a lie detector test instead.

El-Sayed says he'll happily go through a metal detector every day if Trump agrees to one lie detector test.

He says his first questions would concern Jeffrey Epstein and then whether Trump actually won the 2020 election.

“I've got nothing to hide. You've got so much to hide,” El-Sayed declared.

#Exclusive: Britain will press ahead with sanctions on Israeli settlements whatever the outcome of Israel's elections, senior UK government figures have privately insisted.

Even if Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer prime minister, Labour ministers intend to implement comprehensive sanctions, including against companies providing construction and real estate services for settlement expansion.

Implementing the sanctions, however, will not be an easy task and the process could take up to nine months.

Speaking to Middle East Eye, multiple government and Labour sources accused some civil servants of causing “blockages” and attempting to weaken the sanctions.

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Israeli forces demolish Palestinian memorial in Hebron

Israeli forces demolished a memorial to Palestinian Fatah fighter Bajis Abu Atwan in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, amid a week-long military blockade and ongoing raids.

Taiz healthcare system crippled by Houthi siege

Amal al-Sabri, a 25-year-old pregnant mother of two from Yemen's Taiz, recounted how she and her husband escaped from their home after she had been shot by a Houthi sniper. For doctors to save her life, she won't be able to keep the baby.

Ansar Allah, the official name for the Houthi movement, has besieged Taiz for over a month leading to acute shortages of essential goods, from food to medical aid.

According to the Red Cross, local hospitals on the front lines, which were already under strain before the escalation in fighting, are receiving over 700 patients per week, burdening the healthcare system.

'I no longer feel proud to be Israeli': Actress criticises Israel while thinking she was off air

Veteran actress Chelli Goldenberg was caught on air saying she no longer felt “proud to be an Israeli” and blamed the Israeli occupation for “religious coercion, the settlers, Jewish terrorism, arrogance.” 

Goldenberg added that as a “minority”, Palestinians had a “right to fight for freedom”. 

The actress, who was a guest on Israeli Channel 13 and assumed they were on a commercial break, got flustered when she eventually realised the conversation was being broadcast live on air.

Tucker Carlson releases footage of American beaten by Israeli settlers

"They're beating up an American homeowner almost to death."

Tucker Carlson has released previously unseen footage showing masked Israeli settlers brutally beating an elderly American man with sticks, leaving him badly injured, before pouring gasoline over his family’s car and setting it on fire in the occupied West Bank.

Carlson says the attackers operated with the full impunity enjoyed by Israeli settlers in the occupied territories, adding that they beat the man “almost to death.”

The family member who filmed the attack pulled out of appearing on the show, fearing that identifying himself could put his relatives still living in the town at risk of being killed.

Carlson also directly confronted US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, accusing him of ignoring the American citizen after his family sought help and demanding that he do his job.

Francesca Albanese remembers Fatima Hassouna | UNAPOLOGETIC

The UN’s Francesca Albanese on Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, killed with her family the day after her film was selected for Cannes.
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Eisenkot warns Netanyahu working to 'delegitimise' Israel election results

Israel's chief opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot warned on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was working to delegitimise election results which produced no clear winner.  

"It's already clear that Likud and Netanyahu have embarked on a coordinated, organised campaign seeking to delegitimise the results of the election," he said.

Does the world truly understand Israel? | Daniel Levy

"Israel is not North Korea... It is globally interconnected," Daniel Levy told MEE Live, speaking about Israel's image after the elections on Tuesday.
 
He told MEE's Mathilda Mallinson that the international community could still force Israel into policy changes due to its deep economic and military ties with other countries.
 
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Al Jazeera obtains exclusive footage of call between Sinwar and Deif

Al Jazeera has released exclusive footage of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar tearing up during a phone call with Hamas’s military commander, Mohammed Deif, as a ceasefire was announced in 2021 following Operation Sword of Jerusalem.

Tenured MIT professor continues to fight to teach on Palestine

"Political sovereignty and linguistic sovereignty are connected. Once the weaponisation of language is used to deny children education, deny citizens access to healthcare, justice, or political participation, then we're no longer dealing with just simple academic issues."

Renowned linguistics professor at MIT Michel DeGraff sought to teach a course in the Spring of 2024 on linguistics and liberation, with a focus on Palestine. Since then, he's faced suppression for his protest against the decision and has had his title changed to “Faculty at large” in the Department of Arts and Sciences.

DeGraff has been in rows with both the university and US congress since 2024, but the legal battle for his academic freedom as a tenured professor began just this year and is reaching new stakes.

Who are Yemen’s Giants Brigades and who do they fight for?

Yemen’s Giants Brigades have emerged as one of the most powerful forces fighting the Houthis.
Built with UAE backing and rooted in Yemen’s southern movement, they are now fighting alongside Saudi-backed government forces in a major new offensive.
So who are the Giants Brigades, who do they actually fight for, and what does their rise tell us about Yemen’s war?

Israeli officials say elections will stand after Netanyahu claimed Arabs stole vote

Israeli election officials have said the results of the country's election will stand, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged that Arab parties had stolen votes.

Noam Sohlberg, chair of Israel's Central Elections Committee, said the election had been conducted properly and that even if allegations of foreign interference raised by Netanyahu were substantiated, they would not change the results.

Solberg made the remarks alongside Israel's attorney general and the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service.

Trump calls Abdul El-Sayed 'nasty guy' who 'needs to get his ass kicked'

US President Donald Trump intentionally misnamed Abdul El-Sayed again during a rally in Iowa on Sunday ahead of the US midterm elections.

He also called El-Sayed, who is running for a seat in the US Senate as the Democratic candidate for Michigan, a "nasty guy" and said he hopes "he gets his ass kicked".