Danish transport giant Maersk says it will start sending ships through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden again. They’re linked by the Bab al Mandab Strait. It’s a vital sea route which leads to the Suez Canal. Several firms stopped using the route, when Yemen’s Houthi fighters targeted tankers and container ships. The…
Tamer Qarmout, a Doha Institute for Graduate Studies professor, says Israel has not achieved the “undisputed victory” it wanted from this war. “Hamas still stands, the resistance still stands in the Gaza Strip, and this myth of Israel having control over any neighbourhood of the Gaza Strip is not true. We have seen in some…
The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah says it’s carried out several attacks on towns in northern Israel. Israel responded by launching a wave of air strikes on the group’s positions in Lebanese border towns. The army says it targeted military buildings and rocket launcher sites. Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem is monitoring the latest developments in Naqoura…
For decades a small Island in the gulf of Thailand lobbied the local government to join the National Electric Grid but the cost outweighed the benefits. So the islanders of Koh Jik took matters into their own hands and went solar. Now they have won a regional award for sustainable energy use, but they remain…
The head of the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has called the election process a ‘gigantic organized disorder’. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo says what should have been a great celebration of democratic values has quickly turned into frustration for many Congolese. Five days after elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
Israeli forces have raided properties in several cities and refugee camps in the occupied West Bank. An operation is underway in Jericho. Israeli forces have stormed the village of Burqa, northwest of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. At least 20 people have been arrested, including senior citizens. There have been reports…
Israel’s Prime Minister has criticised the economy minister – for saying not enough was being done to protect the lives of troops. Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the war despite mounting military casualties. At least 157 soldiers have been killed since Israel began its ground invasion of Gaza. Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reports from…
This year, Bethlehem is sombre and quiet. There is no Christmas tree and there are no holiday lights or tourists to see them. Instead, the city of Jesus’s birth – which is in the middle of a war zone – is marking Christmas with a powerful and poignant message: solidarity with Palestine. The Holy Family…
The United Nations says that nearly 2 million people in Gaza are facing severe food and water shortages. It is estimated 96 percent of the available water supply is unfit for human consumption. Israeli forces have bombed wells and desalination plants in north Gaza. Al Jazeera’s Anas Al Shareef Reports from the Jabalia refugee camp…
Israeli fighter jets have bombed a block of houses in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza – killing at least 70 Palestinians. Dozens more have been injured and many homes have been destroyed in the strikes. People are digging through the rubble, in the hope of finding survivors. Al Jazeera’s Imran Ullah Khan reports….