Israel’s defence minister says forces occupy Jenin camp in West Bank Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has said the Israeli military evacuated the residents and occupied the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank. Katz's statement follows Israeli strikes that killed three people in Jenin earlier today. "The [Israeli military] is permanently stationed there," the minister said in a social media post.
Transgender former Israeli spy detained by ICE in US A transgender Israeli woman who served in Israel’s military intelligence directorate is facing deportation from the US after being convicted of imprisonment. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said on Thursday that it had detained Alon, "a criminal illegal alien from Israel, during targeted operations in Concord, New Hampshire”. ICE used Alon’s former first name, Avishay.
Unifil records 1,030 projectile launches in south Lebanon in a week Levels of violence are lower than earlier this year, but the situation in south Lebanon "remains fragile," the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) has warned on Friday. The peacekeeping force said that between 21-27 August, it recorded 1,030 projectile trajectories in the area, an average of 147 per day. “Behind these numbers is a continuing toll on civilians, with homes and vital infrastructure damaged and communities struggling to recover,” Unifil said.
Transgender former Israeli spy detained by ICE in US Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 08/28/2026 - 17:36 Allison Alon worked for US tech companies before kidnapping acquaintance mmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk outside the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. The Ventura County Government Center has been the site of tense standoffs and confrontations in recent weeks between US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, local community observers, and protesters. Blake Fagan / AFP Off A transgender Israeli woman who served in Israel’s military intelligence directorate is facing deportation from the US after being convicted of imprisonment.
Israeli strikes kill five in Gaza Israeli strikes killed five people in Gaza on Friday, authorities in the Strip said, in the latest day of attacks despite international appeals to move ahead on a peace plan. The civil defence agency said that the bodies of three people were recovered in pieces after Israeli strikes in the town of Al-Qarara, east of Khan Younis. Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis named the three people and said they all belonged to the same family, with two aged 42 and one aged 28.
Exclusive: Cambridge colleagues argued a Google search would have prevented Nathan Cofnas hiring Submitted by Fleur Hargreaves on Fri, 08/28/2026 - 11:13 Cofnas, a self-described race realist, accused Jason Arday of plagiarism last month. His colleagues held meeting about his controversial views in February 2024 Nathan Cofnas has faced scrutiny in recent weeks over his controversial views on race and intelligence (Screengrab/X) Off Academics at the University of Cambridge privately argued in 2024 that Nathan Cofnas, who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism last month, should not have been hired, Middle East Eye has learnt. Cofnas, a self-described race realist, has been in the headlines after sociologist Arday died earlier this month.
US issues fresh Iran-related sanctions as war marks six months The United States issued more Iran-related sanctions targeting one entity and one individual on Friday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this week threatened further action amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran. The sanctions target one entity based in Hong Kong and one person linked to Iran's Bank Melli, a notice posted on the Department of Treasury's website showed.
Hamas must not concede in talks what Israel failed to win on the battlefield Submitted by Sami Al-Arian on Fri, 08/28/2026 - 14:36 As pressure mounts to disarm and incorporate it into a reconstructed Palestinian order, the movement needs strategic patience to preserve its independence and resistance identity Hamas fighters secure the area as Egyptian workers and Red Cross officials search for the remains of the last Israeli captive, in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, on 8 December 2025 (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP) Off Some moments in the history of liberation movements require courage to act; others require equal courage to wait. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, on 7 October 2023, was a daring decision that shattered assumptions that had governed the Palestinian question for years. It brought Palestine back to the centre of world politics, exposed the illusion that it could be managed or bypassed, and confronted Israel and its western supporters with a conflict they had convinced themselves could be contained indefinitely.
Smotrich announces plan to judaise Negev and Galilee Submitted by Nadav Rapaport on Fri, 08/28/2026 - 14:53 Israeli finance minister vows to replicate his West Bank settlement expansion Bedouin look on as a family demolish their home after the Israeli authorities served demolition notices, ordering the owners to tear down their own premises or face being charged a hefty fee for the state to do it, in an al-Sir, a Bedouin village in the Negev, 16 June 2026 (AFP) Off Israel 's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced a new plan to judaise the Negev, or Naqab in Arabic, and the Galilee, vowing to replicate in Israel policies that he has pursued in the occupied West Bank. "Today I am presenting to you the Religious Zionism plan for the judaisation of the Negev and Galilee," Smotrich said on X on Thursday. The Negev and Galilee are in the southern and northern parts of Israel and are home to the majority of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
'A very frightening time': US terror tag endangers UK Palestine Action activists, critics say Submitted by Katherine Hearst on Fri, 08/28/2026 - 12:39 Washington announced the sanctions days before it was revealed that activists who targeted Trump's Scottish golf resort could face sentencing as 'terrorists' The designation raises questions about the fate of over 2,700 protesters who were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act for supporting the banned group, in London, April 2026 (Katherine Hearst/MEE) Off Washington's move to designate Palestine Action as a transnational terrorist organisation could place British activists associated with the group at heightened risk of surveillance and being frozen out of the financial system, campaigners warn. In a statement on its website, the US Department of the Treasury announced a slew of sanctions targeting “Violent Far-Left Terrorist Networks”, including Palestine Action and Masar Badil , a movement that advocates for an "alternative revolutionary path" for Palestinian rights and freedoms. Italian tech collective Autistici/Inventati was also designated as a terrorist group for allegedly supplying “specialized digital architecture, tools, and services for Antifa cells and other violent far-left extremists, including a foreign terrorist organization”.
Cairo accused of ‘punishment by proxy’ after British-Egyptian woman arrested over sister's activism Submitted by Elis Gjevori on Fri, 08/28/2026 - 14:47 Lawyers say Egypt detained Eman el-Shazly to pressure her UK-based sister into ending her criticism of President Sisi An Egyptian detention facility pictured in 2022 (Khaled Desouki/AFP) Off There is mounting alarm over the treatment of a British- Egyptian woman detained in Egypt on what her lawyers say are politically motivated charges intended to silence her sister. Egyptian security personnel detained Eman el-Shazly, a 45-year-old mother of four from Birmingham, while she was visiting Egypt on 16 August. Her lawyer said the authorities arrested her to intimidate the family and pressure her sister, Mona el-Shazly, into ending her criticism of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s government.
US to set limits on Egyptian bank in effort to pressure Iran The Treasury Department is due to cut off a major Egyptian bank's operations in the United Arab Emirates from the US financial system, a US official confirmed Friday, as Washington pushes to choke Iran off economically. The move impacts UAE branches of Egypt's second biggest bank, Banque Misr. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out plans earlier this week for Iran's "economic asphyxiation" six months into a war on Tehran.
Likud criticises Ben Gvir for splitting far-right vote The Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised fellow cabinet minister Itamar Ben Gvir after he said he would not unite with a fellow far-right minister in the upcoming elections on 27 October. Ben Gvir rejected a plea from Netanyahu to ally his far-right Jewish Power party with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's far-right Religious Zionism party, which faces an electoral threat from another far-right (but anti-Netanyahu) party called Amcha Yisrael. "What does Ben Gvir want?
Israel launches air strike on occupied West Bank Israel has launched an air strike on the occupied West Bank. The attack targeted the city of Jenin, where the Israeli army said it was targeting "terrorists.
Britain's 'small boats' obsession misses the point on migration Submitted by Barry Malone on Mon, 08/24/2026 - 11:53 Almost a month after the cynical weaponisation of Ceuta, racist scaremongering has kept its place at the top of the agenda Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks with interim Chief Coastguard and Border Security Commander as they stand by a recovered boat used by migrants crossing the English Channel, in Dover, on 2 August 2026 (AFP) On For a while there, it seemed like they’d stopped talking about it. Andy Burnham had become prime minister and hit the ground running with a series of small but respectable measures aimed at alleviating what, for most people, is the most pressing problem in Britain: the cost of living. At the same time, Nigel Farage, leader of the hard-right Reform UK, had become a joke, running against a comedian with a bin on his head in a pointless by-election .
Israel to expel Palestinians in Gaza over kites flown by children Submitted by Nadav Rapaport on Fri, 08/28/2026 - 12:59 Defence minister Israel Katz vows ‘severe response’ to balloons and kites that drift into Israel A displaced Palestinian man helps a child to fly a kite near the border with Egypt in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 28 March 2024 (Said Khatib/AFP) Off The Israeli government has instructed its military to expel Palestinians from areas of the Gaza Strip where children are flying kites and releasing balloons, Israel’s Channel 13 reported on Thursday. According to the report, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz told army chief Eyal Zamir and other senior military officials that “the ultimatum we issued following the launching of balloons and kites from the Gaza Strip towards Negev communities [in southern Israel] has expired”. “Every launching of balloons and kites from Gaza towards southern communities will be met with a severe response,” Katz said during a meeting with the military’s top command.
Israel expected to delay negotiations with Lebanon ahead of elections Israeli officials may push to delay negotiations between Israel and Lebanon in the lead up to Israeli elections in October, Al Jazeera reported. The Al Jazeera report cited a Lebanese source who stated that Israel was attempting to 'buy time' and also referenced the international consensus on the inability to disarm Hezbollah 'by force or quickly'.
Iranian Foreign Ministry condemns US sanctions as 'state terrorism' The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the United States' newest sanctions campaign as an act of 'state terrorism' in violation of the UN Charter, Al Jazeera reported. According to Al Jazeera, the Ministry stated that the sanctions would put the health and livelihoods of millions of Iranian civilians at risk. The Ministry also warned that countries participating in sanctions imposed on Iran would be complicit in the US' 'unlawful' campaign.
Ben Gvir to release children’s book glorifying his racist ‘achievements’ in power Submitted by Elis Gjevori on Fri, 08/28/2026 - 11:14 Jewish Power will distribute the book as support for Israel’s far right grows among young people The cover of a children’s book that is to be released by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (Jewish Power party) Off Israel’s far-right Jewish Power party is preparing to release a children’s book celebrating the “activities and achievements” of its leader, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. The party is planning to distribute the book to students outside educational institutions in order to target a key and expanding part of Ben Gvir’s electoral base: young Israelis. Israeli media said the party printed the book “in accessible language adapted for children”.
Iranian Defence Ministry spokesperson warns of new 'surprises' on battlefield The spokesperson of Iran's Ministry of Defence, Brigadier General Reza Talaei‑Nik, stated that Iran has prepared new weapons and 'surprises' for the battlefield in the event of future war, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported. According to the IRNA report, the spokesperson said that despite the losses, the recent wars have fostered opportunity for industrial and defense-related progress. Talei-Nik told IRNA that Iranian arms production has doubled since the '12 day war,' when Israel launched air strikes against Iran in June of 2025.
