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India Today
20-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
UK suspends free trade talks with Israel amid Gaza crisis
The United Kingdom has suspended its free trade negotiations with Israel and imposed new sanctions targeting West Bank settlers as it continues to denounce Israel's actions in Secretary David Lammy announced the move on Tuesday, saying the UK could no longer continue discussions with a government pursuing 'egregious policies' in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. He described Israel's failure to stop settler violence as putting both Palestinian communities and the two-state solution in Prime Minister Keir Starmer echoed Lammy's concerns, calling the suffering of children in Gaza 'utterly intolerable' and renewing his call for an immediate ceasefire. 'This war has gone on for far too long,' he told Parliament. 'We cannot allow the people of Gaza to starve.' Starmer joined French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in a joint statement Monday, condemning Israel's latest military offensive and warning of 'concrete actions' if it does not lift restrictions on humanitarian Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the criticism, claiming it was a 'huge prize' for UK sanctions include penalties against three individuals, two illegal settler outposts, and two organizations linked to violence against Palestinians. Lammy criticized the Israeli government's support for settlement expansion, calling the blockade of aid to Gaza 'cruel and indefensible.'advertisementMeanwhile, the European Union is also considering a review of its trade pact with Israel, signaling growing frustration from international initially enjoyed broad support following the October 7 Hamas attack that killed 1,200 people; however, its ongoing offensive in Gaza is now costing it international to Gaza's Health Ministry, over 53,000 Palestinians—mostly women and children—have died since the war began. Despite some aid trucks reaching Gaza, UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said the assistance was 'a drop in the ocean.'With calls for a ceasefire growing louder, the UK and its allies are stepping up diplomatic and economic pressure in hopes of ending the humanitarian Watch
Arab News
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Israel vows retaliation against Iran, Yemen's Houthis over airport attack
TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed a response to Yemen's Houthis and their Iranian backers after the militant group struck the area of Israel's main airport, wounding six people and prompting several major airlines to suspend strike came hours before Israel's army confirmed the call-up of 'tens of thousands' of reservists to expand the 19-month war in Gaza against Palestinian militants military confirmed that the attack, which gouged a large crater in the perimeter of Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, was launched from Yemen and had struck despite 'several attempts... to intercept the missile.'In a video published on Telegram, Netanyahu said Israel had 'acted against' the Iran-backed group in the past and 'will act in the future.''It will not happen in one bang, but there will be many bangs,' he added, without going into further on X, Netanyahu said Israel would also respond to Iran at 'a time and place of our choosing.'A police video showed officers standing on the edge of a deep hole in the ground with the control tower visible behind them. No damage was reported to airport police reported a 'missile impact' at Israel's main international AFP photographer said the missile hit near the parking lots of Terminal 3, the airport's largest. The crater was just hundreds of meters (yards) from the inside the airport'You can see the area just behind us: a crater was formed here, several dozen meters wide and several dozen meters deep,' central Israel's police chief, Yair Hezroni, said in the video.'This is the first time' that a missile has directly struck inside the airport perimeter, an Israeli military spokesperson told the Houthis, who say they act in support of Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza, claimed responsibility for the rebels said their forces 'carried out a military operation targeting Ben Gurion airport' with a 'hypersonic ballistic missile.'Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened a forceful response, saying: 'Anyone who hits us, we will hit them seven times stronger.'Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad later hailed the attack on the Magen David Adom emergency service said it had treated at least six people with light to moderate AFP journalist inside the airport at the time of the attack said he heard a 'loud bang' at around 9:35 am (0635 GMT), adding that the 'reverberation was very strong.''Security staff immediately asked hundreds of passengers to take shelter, some in bunkers,' the AFP journalist said.'Many passengers are now waiting for their flights to take off, and others are trying to find alternative flights.'An incoming Air India flight was diverted to Abu Dhabi, an airport official told AFP. It was one of the airlines to suspend Tel Aviv flights until Tuesday along with Italy's ITA Airways and Germany's Lufthansa Group, which includes Austrian, Eurowings and SWISS. Air France announced the cancelation of Sunday Houthis, who control swathes of Yemen, have launched missiles and drones targeting Israel and Red Sea shipping throughout the Gaza resumed major operations across Gaza on March 18 amid a deadlock over how to proceed with a two-month ceasefire that had largely stopped the war.
India Today
23-04-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Jordan outlaws Muslim Brotherhood, confiscates assets
Jordan has outlawed the largest opposition group in the country, the Muslim Brotherhood. The group is an ally of the Palestinian militant group, group is an ally of the Palestinian militant group, as the Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt by Hassan al-Banna in 1928, it is a transnational Sunni Islamist organisation. After members of the group were found to be linked to a sabotage plot, its assets were confiscated, said Jordan's Interior Minister Mazen Fraya, as reported by Reuters. He stated, "It has been decided to ban all activities of the so-called Muslim Brotherhood and to consider any [of its] activity a violation of the provisions of the law'.advertisementHe added that any promoter of the group's ideology will be held accountable by security forces arrested 16 people linked to the Muslim Brotherhood last week who were trained and financed in Lebanon. They are alleged to have plotted attacks on targets inside the kingdom involving rockets and ban extends to everything that may be published by the Muslim group has released no official comment on the actions by Jordanian WAS ONE OF THE FEW WHERE GROUP OPERATED LEGALLYThe Muslim Brotherhood has operated legally from Jordan for decades and has a wide supporter base spread across major urban centres and scores of offices across the country. It follows the Sunni Islamist ideology and consolidates with the goal of establishing a caliphate under sharia September, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political arm of the Brotherhood in Jordan, made significant gains in parliamentary elections. It secured 31 out of 138 seats by tapping into anger over Israel's war against group has been outlawed in many Arab countries, who consider it a dangerous 'terrorist group' that must be crushed, as mentioned by where it originated, has listed it as a terrorist though the Brotherhood claims that it publicly renounced violence decades ago and pursues an Islamist vision using peaceful means, the Arabic countries opposing it want it to be Watch
Arab News
16-04-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Trump says Harvard a ‘joke' undeserving of US federal funding
Harvard has stood out for defying Trump's attempts to force it to submit to wide-ranging government oversight'Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds,' said TrumpWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump doubled down Wednesday on a funding standoff with top university Harvard that has become a focal point of his war against elite educational has stood out for defying Trump's attempts to force it to submit to wide-ranging government oversight, in contrast to several other universities that have folded under intense pressure from the White House.'Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World's Great Universities or Colleges,' Trump said on his Truth Social platform.'Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds.'On Tuesday, Trump threatened to strip the university of its tax-exempt status as a nonprofit educational institution, after earlier freezing $2.2 billion in federal has demanded that the university change the way it runs itself, including how it selects students and its hiring practices, and that it submit itself to 'audits' of academic programs and Tuesday, Harvard President Alan Garber said the school would not 'negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights.'The US president and his administration have justified their pressure campaign on universities as a reaction to what they say is uncontrolled anti-Semitism and support for the Palestinian armed group anti-Semitism allegations are based on protests against Israel's war in Gaza that swept across campuses last White House has also strong-armed dozens of universities and colleges with threats to remove federal funding over their policies meant to encourage racial diversity among students and staff.
Arab News
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Netanyahu tells Macron: Palestinian state ‘huge reward for terrorism'
Netanyahu expressed to the French president his 'strong opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state, stating that it would be a huge reward for terrorism'The French president said he told Netanyahu that 'the ordeal the civilian populations of Gaza are going through must end'JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday that the establishment of a Palestinian state would be a 'huge reward for terrorism.'Macron, meanwhile, posted on X that he had told Netanyahu the suffering of civilians in Gaza 'must end' and only a ceasefire in the war with Hamas would free the remaining Israeli hostages in the territory.A statement released by Netanyahu's office said the two leaders spoke by phone and the Israeli prime minister expressed to the French president his 'strong opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state, stating that it would be a huge reward for terrorism.''The prime minister told the French president that a Palestinian state established just minutes away from Israeli cities would become a stronghold of Iranian terrorism, and that a vast majority of the Israeli public firmly opposes this — and this has been his consistent and long-standing policy.'For his part, the French president said he told Netanyahu that 'the ordeal the civilian populations of Gaza are going through must end,' and called for 'the opening of all humanitarian aid crossings' into the besieged Palestinian has cut off all aid to the Gaza Strip since March 2 to pressure call came after Macron's comments last week that Paris could recognize a Palestinian state within months sparked a wave of criticism in Israel, including from Netanyahu and his son, as well as right-wing groups in Monday, he said he hoped French recognition would encourage others to follow and that countries which did not recognize Israel should also do day before the call, Macron told the president of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, Mahmud Abbas, that he would support a plan for the PA to govern post-war Gaza, if it underwent reform.'It is essential to set a framework for the day after: disarm and sideline Hamas, define credible governance and reform the Palestinian Authority,' Macron told Abbas in a phone call, according to a post on X.'This should allow progress toward a two-state political solution, with a view to the peace conference in June, in the service of peace and security for all,' wrote has been battling Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip since the latter attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
