Explore inspiring stories, grassroots movements, and peace-building initiatives from around the globe.
Return of Jared Kushner: Netanyahu's friend and Gulf business ally reappears for Gaza talks Submitted by Sean Mathews on Tue, 10/07/2025 - 21:01 The US president's son-in-law never really left the Middle East. Now he is one of two US interlocutors tapped with ending Israel's genocide in Gaza US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff (R) and Jared Kushner await the arrival of President Donald Trump and First...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Gaza ceasefire deal: Hamas, Egypt and Qatar pushing for Marwan Barghouti's release EgyptandQatar, alongsideHamas, are using "all means available" to secure the release ofMarwan Barghoutias part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement between the group and Israel, three sources informed on the negotiationshave told Middle East Eye. The long-imprisoned Palestinian political leader is ona list βof around one hundred senior...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Donald Trump says a Middle East peace deal is βvery close,β while pledging US security guarantees for Gaza.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Italian prime minister reveals she has been referred to ICC over Gaza Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday that she and two of her ministers had been reported to the International Criminal Court for alleged complicity in genocide in Gaza. Speaking in an interview with state television company RAI, Meloni said Defence Minister Guido Crosetto and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani had both been referred,...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Argentine President Javier Milei took to the stage, singing 80βs rock classics, as his country faces an economic crisis.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:The electric carmakerβs new model comes as part of efforts to address slumping sales.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Signaling significant progress, Qatari prime minister to personally join Gaza talks in Egypt on Wednesday Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani will join the talks on US President Donald TrumpβsGazaplan in Egypt on Wednesday, an official briefed on the talks told Reuters on Tuesday. "Following two days of talks, the Qatari Prime Minister is traveling to Egypt to meet with other mediators...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Israeli opposition leader slams Netanyahu for silence on 7 October anniversary Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday for not yet having made any public statements or appearances on the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks. "Today is October seventh. The evening has fallen, the Prime Minister of Israel, then and now, did not say a word, did not...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:New Yorker publishes fresh details of how sex claims against Karim Khan derailed ICC's Israel probe Submitted by Imran Mulla on Tue, 10/07/2025 - 11:30 New Yorker article reiterates questions surrounding sexual misconduct investigation into ICC prosecutor previously exclusively raised by MEE International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan, attends a United Nations Security Council meeting on Sudan and South...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:David Adler says Sumud Flotilla activists were 'kidnapped, stripped, zip-tied, blindfolded' and sent to prison camp.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:US refugee admissions to be cut to record low, white South Africans prioritised: Report Submitted by Syma Mohammed on Tue, 10/07/2025 - 15:58 Most of the open spots for resettlement in the US will be allocated to white South Africans over at-risk populations, according to a new report Newly arrived white South Africans wait to hear welcome statements from US government officials near Washington Dulles International...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:22-year-old Palestinian dies in Israeli custody in occupied West Bank A 22-year-old Palestinian man from a village south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank died in Israeli custody on Tuesday because of medical neglect, the office of Palestinian prisoners' affairs announced. The news was first reported by the Wafa news agency. Ahmed Hatem Mohammed Khudairat had been held in administrative detention by Israel - meaning...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Husamettin Dogan is the only defendant to appeal his conviction for assaulting Pelicot in a landmark French case.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Israel 'beat, tied up and tortured' Gaza flotilla activists in prison Submitted by Oscar Rickett on Tue, 10/07/2025 - 18:00 David Adler, a Jewish American detained by Israel, tells MEE about brutal treatment at Ashdod and in Ketziot Prison David Adler was part of the Global Sumud Flotilla and was detained by Israel (Supplied) Off A Jewish American activist deported from Israel after participating in the Global Sumud...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:A Los Angeles court orders the pharma giant to pay damages to the family of Mae Moore, who died of mesothelioma in 2021.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:US's Trump said the two leaders would discuss trade as tariffs weigh on the Canadian economy.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Students defy Keir Starmer's call to cancel Gaza protests on 7 October Submitted by Areeb Ullah on Tue, 10/07/2025 - 17:51 Hundreds marched through central London, as the UK prime minister described the planned protests for Gaza as "un-British" Pro-Palestine student protesters take part in an inter-university march for Gaza in London on 7 October 2025, the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel and...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:The Conscience is the latest ship in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to sail across the Mediterranean Sea toward Gaza.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Liam O'Hanna said after case thrown out last month that charges aimed at silencing dissent over Gaza war.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Hamas lays out its conditions as second day of talks conclude in Egypt Hamas said on Tuesday that a second day of talks between the group and mediators Qatar and Egypt, as well as the US and Israel, have wrapped up in Sharm el-Sheikh with a focus on Israeli army withdrawal maps, and the schedule for the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza. Hamas said in a statement that it called for linking each stage of the...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:A landmark deal to integrate the SDF with state institutions has stalled as both sides accuse each other of violence.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Hamas says Israel failed to achieve any of its goals in Gaza on war anniversary Submitted by MEE staff on Tue, 10/07/2025 - 16:25 In speech marking two years since the start of genocide, Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum says Israel failed to expel Palestinians to other countries and faces 'unprecedented isolation' A plume of smoke rises above Gaza City on 3 October 2025 after an Israeli air strike (Jack Guez/AFP) Off The...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Exclusive: UN commissioner says Trump's Gaza plan breaches international law Submitted by Sondos Asem on Tue, 10/07/2025 - 11:28 Navi Pillay, the chair of the UN inquiry that found Israel responsible for genocide, says her findings will still stand even if a ceasefire is reached South African judge and UN commission of inquiry chief Navi Pillay speaks during a press conference in Geneva on 16 September 2025 (AFP) Off...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Italy host Israel in an October 14 World Cup qualifier, in Udine where the football stadium only holds 6,000 spectators.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemns 'heinous attack' after Iris Stalzer, mayor-elect of Herdecke, stabbed.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Turkish and European MPs issue call for release of flotilla activists Submitted by MEE staff on Tue, 10/07/2025 - 15:17 Dozens of activist from the Global Sumud Flotilla remain in Israeli detention, with their status unknown La France Insoumise MP Francois Piquemal (C), who was sailing aboard the Gaza-bound aid flotilla before being stopped and detained by Israeli forces, at Orly airport, Paris, on 7 October 2025...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:How Israel's war in Gaza changed big tech Submitted by Areeb Ullah on Tue, 10/07/2025 - 13:12 Workers, whistleblowers and developers are forcing the worldβs most powerful companies to confront their role in Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinians A protester lifts a placard showing Moroccan Microsoft engineer Ibtihal Abu al-Saad after a video showed her protesting the company's reported supply of AI to...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:A global truce for the duration of February's 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will be sought by hosts Italy.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Displaced Palestinians in Gaza's Deir el-Balah say theyβre ready to return home once a ceasefire deal is reached.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Saber Ben Chouchane, who was given the death penalty over posts insulting President Kais Saied, is released.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Palestinians have been reflecting on the toll on their lives since Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, which triggered the war.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:The trauma of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel continues to define and justify its bombing of Gaza, analysts say.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:There is a chance of a deal that will end the killing and destruction in Gaza and return the Israeli hostages, living and dead, to their families.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Negotiators from Israel and Hamas are heading to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to start indirect talks about ending the Israel-Gaza war.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Two years on from Hamas' attack on 7 October, Herut Nimrodi says she is clinging to hope that her son Tamir is "still hanging on".
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source: