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UN Court to Weigh Consequences of Israel Occupation
The Hague, Netherlands — The U.N.'s top court will from Monday hold hearings on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967, with an unprecedented 52 countries expected to give evidence.
Nations including the United States, Russia, and China will address judges in a weeklong session at the Peace Palace in The Hague, seat of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
In December 2022, the U.N. General Assembly asked the ICJ for a nonbinding...
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As Thousands Protest in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu Dismisses Calls for Early Elections
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday dismissed the idea of holding early elections, while thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv for an anti-government protest.
Netanyahu has seen his popularity plummet in opinion polls since Hamas' October 7 terror attack that sparked the devastating Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Anti-government protests that shook the country for much of 2023 have largely subsided during the war. Still, demonstrators again took to the...
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Iran: Anti-Veil Activist Must Serve Long Prison Sentence
Tehran, Iran — Iranian justice summoned an activist against the compulsory wearing of the Muslim veil to serve a sentence of almost 4 years in prison, before suspending the execution of the verdict until March 10, local media reported Saturday.
Sepideh Rashno, 29, was detained for more than a month in July 2022 after being involved in an argument with another woman who accused her of removing her veil on a bus.
Judicial authorities announced to Sepideh Rashno that she would have to...
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Iran Reveals Air Defense Systems as Middle East Tensions Soar
tehran, iran — Iran unveiled two new air defense systems Saturday, state media reported, with tensions high in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
"The Arman anti-ballistic missile system and the Azarakhsh low-altitude air defense system, built by the ministry of defense, were unveiled this morning," the official IRNA news agency said.
The unveiling of the new weapons comes at a time of heightened regional tensions, with the war between Israel and Tehran-backed...
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Iranian Gunman Kills 12 Relatives in Shooting Rampage
TEHRAN, Iran — A 30-year-old man gunned down 12 of his relatives Saturday in a remote rural area in southeast Iran, the deadliest shooting reported in decades.
Head of the justice department of the province of Kerman, Ebrahim Hamidi, told the semiofficial ISNA news agency the gunman opened fire on his father, brother and other relatives early in the morning in a village because of family disputes.
The report, which did not identify the assailant, stated he used a Kalashnikov assault...
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Comparing Arsenals of Israel, Hezbollah as Strikes Escalate
beirut — The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group and Israeli forces escalated this week, reviving fears that the daily clashes could expand into an all-out war.
A rocket fired from Lebanon struck the northern Israeli town of Safed on Wednesday, killing a 20-year-old female soldier and wounding at least eight people.
Israel responded with airstrikes that killed at least 10 people in southern Lebanon: a Syrian woman, her two children, four...
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Brilliant Red Wildflowers Bloom Among Ashes of Southern Israel
REIM, Southern Israel — Each year as spring approaches, wildflowers erupt across Israel, a splash of color before the punishing Middle Eastern summer. Nowhere is the show more dramatic than in southern Israel, near Gaza, where brilliant red anemones burst forth with such intensity that rolling hills seem to be covered in red carpets.
Along the Gaza border, the flowers, which look like poppies, have been crowned with their own festival, Darom Adom, or Scarlet South. It's been a major...
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US Cyberattack Hit 2 Iranian Military Ships in Red Sea
pentagon — The United States carried out a cyberattack earlier this month against two Iranian military ships as part of its multipronged response to the killing of three U.S. soldiers by Iran-backed proxies, VOA has confirmed.
A U.S. official, who spoke to VOA on the condition of anonymity because of operational sensitivities, said the MV Behshad was one of the targeted ships. The Iranian military ship was collecting intelligence on vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. A source with...
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Houthi Rebels Claim Responsibility for Oil Tanker Attack
state department — Yemen’s Iran-back Houthi rebels claimed responsibility Saturday for an attack Friday on an oil tanker in the Red Sea.
In a statement Saturday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said Yemeni naval forces fired missiles at what he called a British oil tanker, the Pollux, adding that the strikes were “accurate and direct.”
The U.S. Central Command assessed Friday that at least three missiles were launched toward the India-bound, Panamanian-flagged M/T Pollux, which...
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UN Chief: Current Global Order Fails Millions
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Wars in Israel, Ukraine to Dominate Global Security Summit in Munich
BERLIN/MUNICH — Leading politicians, military officers and diplomats from around the world gather in Munich on Friday for a security conference that will be dominated by the wars in Israel and Ukraine as well as fears over the U.S. commitment to defending its allies.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are among the top officials attending the Munich Security Conference (MSC), an annual global gathering focused on...
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US Investigators Visit Homes of 2 Palestinian-American Teens Killed in West Bank
JERUSALEM — The families of two Palestinian-American teenagers killed in separate but eerily similar incidents in the West Bank say investigators from the U.S. Embassy have visited their homes to look into the shootings.
The launch of U.S. probes into the killings of Mohammad Khdour and Tawfic Abdel Jabbar reflects what appears to be a lack of confidence in the Israeli justice system to properly investigate the cases. Rights groups have long said that Israeli investigations into killings...
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Red Sea Attacks Foster Arab-Israeli Trade Link by Land
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — Houthi drone and missile attacks on Red Sea shipping have spurred the development of an alternative “land bridge” to carry cargo by truck from the Persian Gulf across Saudi Arabia and Jordan to Israel and Egypt.
The project, which is already seeing dozens of trucks per day reach the Israeli port of Haifa, is seen as an early benefit of the 2020 Abraham Accords normalizing ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
It bodes well for future cooperation between...
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Nightmare Far from Over for Eritrean Refugees Caught in Gaza War’s Crossfire
The nightmare of the October 7th attacks by Hamas gunmen and the war that’s followed them is far from over for Eritrean refugees in southern Israel. With no Israeli IDs and limited access to benefits, the refugees - twice displaced - are struggling to rebuild their lives as the war in nearby Gaza shows no signs of ending. VOA’s Celia Mendoza reports from the southern Israeli port city of Ashkelon.
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US CENTCOM Says Its Forces Seized Iranian Arms Bound for Houthis on Jan. 28
DUBAI — U.S. forces seized advanced conventional weapons and other lethal aid from Iran that were bound for Houthi-held areas of Yemen on a vessel in the Arabian Sea on Jan. 28, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Thursday.
Over 200 packages containing medium-range ballistic missile components, explosives, unmanned underwater/surface vehicle (UUV/USV) components, military-grade communication and network equipment, anti-tank guided missile launcher assemblies, and other military...
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