The politicians criticised the government's controversial asylum reform proposals in comments to MEE

Mike Phipps reports on an important meeting highlighting a global offensive against one of our key democratic freedoms. Sunday 2nd November was the UN-designated International Day to End Impunity f…

<article data-history-node-id="430946" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/full-list-israels-ceasefire-violations-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/full-list-israels-ceasefire-violations-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Since the Gaza ceasefire was signed last month,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>&nbsp;has continued to violate the agreement.</p> <p>From air strikes and shootings to arrests and incursions beyond the deployment lines, most of the violations appear unprovoked.</p> <p>Israel has cited alleged breaches by Hamas and other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;groups to justify its actions.</p> <p>Hamas, however, has denied the accusations, insisting it has fully complied with the terms of the ceasefire.</p> <p>Many of the violations targeting civilians, meanwhile, have occurred without justification.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-list-israels-ceasefire-violations-gaza">Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza</a></h3> <p><img alt="A woman reacts after an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 29 October 2025 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/000_82CE7HT%20%281%29.jpg.jpg?itok=st5prIg4"></p> </div> </div> </article>

Þórður Snær Júlíusson, framkvæmdastjóri þingflokks Samfylkingarinnar, hefur verið gagnrýninn á séreignarsparnaðarleiðina svokölluðu og sagt hana gagnast þeim efnamestu. Ríkisstjórn Kristrúnar Frostadóttur festir hana nú í sessi.

Volker Turk voices rare criticism of the US bombing campaign that has killed more than 60 people in under two months.

<article data-history-node-id="430558" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-says-aid-israel-has-let-gaza-drop-ocean" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-says-aid-israel-has-let-gaza-drop-ocean" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas says aid Israel has let into Gaza is 'drop in ocean' </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hamas on Wednesday said that Israel is "dragging its feet" on letting aid into the Gaza Strip, as the group reiterated its commitment to the ceasefire agreement.&nbsp;<meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p>Hamas official Ismail Radwan told Al Jazeera that&nbsp;Israel is trying to “evade its obligations" and that the amount of aid allowed into Gaza is a “drop in the ocean”.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israel has refused to allow the Rafah crossing to open.&nbsp;</p> <p>“The occupation is dragging its feet and has not fully complied with the humanitarian part of the agreement. There are more than 10,000 people missing under the rubble, and Civil Defence workers need heavy equipment to retrieve them,” Radwan said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

In the first phase of the ceasefire plan, Israel will remain in control of nearly 60 percent of the Gaza Strip.

<article data-history-node-id="429468" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-51-killed-gaza-over-past-24-hours" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-51-killed-gaza-over-past-24-hours" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At least 51 killed in Gaza in over past 24 hours</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 51 people were killed across Gaza in the last 24 hours, while 180 have been taken to hospitals for treatment.</p> <div class="card-live__content"> <div class="wysiwyg-content"> <div> <div class="wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content" id="wysiwyg"> <p>The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said this took the overall death toll to 66,148 in Gaza since October 2023.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="428124" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/nelson-mandelas-grandson-join-global-sumud-flotilla-tunisia" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/nelson-mandelas-grandson-join-global-sumud-flotilla-tunisia" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Nelson Mandela’s grandson to join Global Sumud Flotilla in Tunisia</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla, is set to join the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza in Tunisia and says his part in the protest is a continuation of his ‘family legacy’.</p> <p>Mandla has <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/9/4/video-mandelas-grandson-says-joining-gaza-flotilla-is-family">told reporters</a> that Palestinians face worse conditions than those his grandfather fought against.&nbsp;</p> <p>“Many of us that have visited the occupied territories in Palestine have only come back with one conclusion: that the Palestinians are experiencing a far worse form of apartheid than we ever experienced,” he said.</p> <p>The Global Sumud Flotilla, which aims to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza, was on its way to Tunisia on Thursday. From there, it intends to connect with other flotillas across the Mediterranean to Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>The flotilla of several dozen boats aims to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to Gaza, where the Israeli-imposed blockade has caused at least 348 deaths due to starvation.&nbsp;</p> <p>Libyan ship Omar al-Mukhtar is scheduled to set sail on 6 September to join the flotilla, Libya Observer has reported. The vesse will carry a delegation of Libyan and international activists, along with participants from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.</p> <p>Among them is British journalist and activist Yvonne Ridley, well-known for her longstanding advocacy for Palestinian rights.</p> <p>Famine has been officially declared in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the UN-backed global hunger monitor.&nbsp;</p> <p>Pro-Palestine activists, including climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham are on the Sumud flotilla. Sumud is the Arabic term for "resilience".&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.

The move comes after the US doubles the bounty for Maduro’s arrest to $50m and deploys three warships in the Caribbean.

Ali Esbati: ”Det verkligt märkliga är att man inte reagerat tidigare.”

<article data-history-node-id="426547" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-man-starves-death-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-man-starves-death-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian man starves to death in Gaza&nbsp;</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A&nbsp;young man from Rafah has died from starvation, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, quoting sources at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.&nbsp;</p> <p>At least 155 Palestinians have died due to starvation as Israel continues to block all aid to Gaza.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <section> <article about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-103-killed-24-hours-health-ministry" data-history-node-id="426506"> <p>Since May, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,239 Palestinian aid seekers.&nbsp;Over 8,152 others have been wounded in Israeli attacks, mainly at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution sites run by the US and Israel.&nbsp;</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-AID Palestinians mourn outside the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 31, 2025, where bodies of people killed a day earlier while waiting for aid were brought. BASHAR TALEB / AFP" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9f71c1ef-0729-4eae-bb58-93c984fa8659" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-AID.jpg" width="1024" height="576" alt="PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-AID Palestinians mourn outside the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 31, 2025, where bodies of people killed a day earlier while waiting for aid were brought. BASHAR TALEB / AFP" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Palestinians mourn outside the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 31, 2025, where bodies of people killed a day earlier while waiting for aid were brought. BASHAR TALEB / AFP</figcaption> </div> </figure> <span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></article> </section> <footer role="contentinfo">&nbsp;</footer> </div> </div> </article>

Vänder sig mot kritiken: ”Finns begränsning i hur mycket kontroll vi kan ha”

On Tuesday, June 10 2025, I addressed a meeting at the European Parliament, an event organised by The Left and M5S Europa, on the theme of “The Economic Conditions for Peace”, alongside Jeffrey Sachs ...