Iran is experiencing a nationwide internet blackout, according to an online monitoring group, amid escalating protests over a worsening economic crisis

Saudi Arabia has accused the UAE of orchestrating a covert operation to extract Aidarous al-Zubaidi from Yemen after the separatist leader was charged with high treason, intensifying tensions between the nominal allies.

‘Gaza exposed the hollowness of western universalism, liberalism and globalisation. Venezuela extends the lesson into the western hemisphere, with a clarity that even allies cannot easily obscure.’

Israel’s opposition leader has urged Iran to ‘pay close attention to what is happening in Venezuela,’ in an apparent threat of violent regime change.

UAE-backed separatists in southern Yemen vow to hold independence referendum amid deadly fighting with Saudi Arabia and its local allies

Iran protests: ‘What we are witnessing is not a political revolution, but the desperate gasps of a society whose economic buffer, the middle class, has been systematically hollowed out by an inhumane, punitive policy of international isolation.’

In Gaza, ‘a lifetime can be compressed into a single year. You live both displacement and return, starvation and sating, survival and a thousand deaths in between – and yet, somehow, you still have one more moment to hold on.’

“Saudi Arabia has fired what amounts to a warning shot across an ally’s bow: the era in which the UAE could build a separate sphere of influence inside Yemen, while sheltering beneath the label of a ‘Saudi-led coalition’, is ending” - @andreaskrieg.bsky.social

The UAE has announced that it will withdraw its military personnel from Yemen, hours after Saudi Arabia struck its Yemeni allies and made an extremely rare public condemnation of Abu Dhabi’s conduct in the country.

The rise of Emirati dis-influencers: Open-source investigation reveals the UAE’s sophisticated pseudo-media ecosystem, where right-wing and Israel-aligned commentators masquerade as moderate Arab voices - by @marcowenjones.bsky.social

The US military has reportedly launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria after an attack last weekend on American forces

A year after Assad’s fall, ‘Syria could yet prove to be the turning point of Israel’s increasingly aggressive military ambitions.’

As Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts, Palestinian families are forced to flee their homes in silence

Reporters Without Borders has labelled the Israeli army as ‘the worst enemy of journalists,’ with more than 200 killed in Gaza since October 2023.

Sudan war: ‘As evidence mounts of the RSF’s barbarous attacks on civilians and cultural institutions, a clearer picture is emerging of an ongoing genocide, backed by the UAE and tacitly enabled by the UK. The comparisons with Gaza are chilling.’

Anti-Hamas militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab has reportedly been killed in southern Gaza.

Ben Gvir promotes head of unit involved in executing two Palestinians, and calls for an end to investigations into the killings of Palestinians

‘I was afraid that they might take it all and that I would die’: Sudan’s RSF took blood from civilians trying to flee el-Fasher, according to victims, witnesses and aid workers.

Dozens of Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since a US-brokered ‘ceasefire’ deal came into effect last month, according to Unicef.

Why the ‘international’ media suddenly cares about Sudan: When more than two years of brutal warfare devolved into wholesale ethnic slaughter, western journalists could no longer look away, writes @barrymalone.bsky.social

‘Facing record opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, America’s elites are seizing control of news and tech companies to suppress criticism and rescue a crumbling narrative.’

Lebanon is filing an ‘urgent complaint’ to the UN over allegations that Israel is building a wall in occupied territory in the country’s south.

An Israel-backed armed group that has been accused of stealing aid in Gaza is set to oversee the ‘rehabilitation’ of Rafah city, according to Israeli media.

‘The BBC is punished for the wrong things. It loses its leaders over an editing error, while escaping accountability for its editorial failures on Gaza.’

The next country to enter the Abraham Accords tonight will be Kazakhstan, according to an Axios report, as the US pushes to expand Israel normalization scheme

‘The loss of el-Fasher closes one chapter of Sudan’s tragedy and opens a darker one. It deepens the country’s fragmentation, tests the limits of humanitarian endurance, and highlights the silence of a world that has watched for too long.’

Despite the ceasefire deal, Gaza continues to face a severe water crisis after two years of Israel’s genocidal war, with around 85 percent of its water needs going unmet, according to local officials.

Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue

Breaking: Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli military to carry out ‘powerful’ strikes on Gaza

A UN agency has warned that Gaza is buried under more than 61 million tonnes of debris, with three quarters of buildings in the besieged enclave destroyed by two years of Israeli attacks.

The ICJ has ruled that Israel’s Gaza aid blockade violates international law, citing its obligation to facilitate humanitarian relief for Palestinians.

Hamas says Israel’s ‘indiscriminate’ destruction of Gaza is behind the delay in locating bodies of captives

‘Two years into the genocide in Gaza, under a sky heavy with chaos and an unclear future, Palestinians … must reckon with the cruelty of the regional order - and with how easily Arab and Muslim lives are crushed beneath the weight of economic interests, especially those tied to Israel.’

Trump and regional leaders have signed a document to formalize the Gaza ceasefire deal at a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh.

'Everybody is a fighter in Grassy': The poisoned river and a First Nation's quest for justice (With @jkdamours.bsky.social and support from @ijnr.bsky.social)

‘Nothing but rubble’: Palestinians returning to Gaza City are finding their homes and neighbourhoods erased.

The Israeli prime minister's office has unilaterally removed Marwan Barghouti's name from the prisoner exchange list at the last minute, endangering the Gaza ceasefire deal's implementation, a source tells Middle East Eye.

Trump says Israel and Hamas have signed off on the first phase of his ceasefire plan, entailing a release of captives and an Israeli withdrawal to an ‘agreed upon line.’

Two years of Gaza genocide: ‘The intensifying campaign of demonisation will grow, as will the crackdown on fundamental and long-cherished rights. Israel has declared war on the Palestinian people. And our leaders are slowly declaring war on us.’

An average of nearly 100 Palestinians per day have been confirmed killed since Israel’s genocide began two years ago. Its attacks on Gaza continue to this day.

‘Israel is seeking full domination of the region. After Gaza, no Arab country is safe’

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Live-stream coverage and communications have been lost with several boats as Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The US ‘peace plan’ is defined ‘by profound asymmetry, conditional rights, and the imposition of external control, reflecting a continuation of colonialist logic rather than a genuine pathway to self-determination. Trump, in the shoes of previous imperialists, imposed the plan as an ultimatum.’

Netanyahu has accepted Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza, which requires the disarmament of Hamas and the end of the group’s rule in the Palestinian territory. Hamas has yet to publicly respond.

‘Imagine that these four leading western countries had recognised Palestine not in late 2025, when Palestine is in the final stages of being eradicated, but in the late 1990s, during a period of supposed Palestinian state-building.’

Final goodbyes to Gaza City: ‘I look at the walls of my house, even the lamp, and it breaks my heart, the little details. It feels strange to think I won’t have a house. This thought will haunt you no matter where you go.’

The UK, Canada and Australia have officially announced their recognition of a Palestinian state. France is expected to imminently follow suit.

‘Silencing their voices’: Israel’s decimation of Gaza City has left around 800,000 Palestinians in a total internet and telecommunications blackout.

Gaza City is facing an internet and mobile network blackout amid Israel’s ground offensive and intensified attacks.