News from The Middle East

April 19th - April 25th, 2025

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Saturday/Sunday - April 19th - 20th

• Qatar’s lead negotiator committed to reviving Gaza peace talks

• Iran, US ‘make some progress’ towards a nuclear deal in Rome

• Mob in Pakistan beats to death man from persecuted minority

• Gazans resort to turtle meat amid famine, humanitarian crisis: UN

• Israel’s Netanyahu says military to increase pressure on Hamas

• Netanyahu says Israel has ‘no choice’ but to continue fighting in Gaza

• Erdoğan Sets His Sights on Israel

• ‘Utter desperation’ in Gaza after ceasefire collapse and Israel’s aid blockade

• 15 Gaza paramedics were shot and killed in ‘misunderstanding’, Israel finds

• Israeli probe into the killings of 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza finds ‘professional failures’

• Israel finds ‘failures’ that led to killing of Palestinian medics in Gaza

• Syrian president meets a US Congress member on an unofficial visit to Damascus

• First wheat shipment since Assad's ouster arrives in Syria's Latakia

 

Monday - April 21st

• Israel opposition leader fears violence over move to sack Shin Bet chief

• Israel cancels visas for French lawmakers 2 days before visit

• Gaza rescue service dismisses Israeli probe into killing of medics as a ‘fabricated investigation’

• Anti-Defamation League says anger at Israel is now the driving force behind antisemitism in the US

 

Tuesday - April 22nd

• China’s KJ-500 radar aircraft overseas for first time in joint drill with Egypt

• Fireworks as thousands greet Serbian students who cycled to France seeking EU support for protests

• Israel May Be Unable to Participate in the 2026 Venice Biennale

• Israeli strikes kill 17 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble

 

Wednesday - April 23rd

• Magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits Istanbul in Türkiye with more than 150 injured

• Erdoğan’s Bet on Trump Is Paying Off

• Israeli tank fire responsible for deadly strike at UN facility in Gaza, IDF report finds

• Dialysis patients struggle to get treatment in blockaded Gaza. Officials say hundreds have died

• Low-level Israeli representation at pope funeral follows decline in relations

• Israeli strike in Gaza kills 23 as Arab mediators seek long-term truce

• Yemen’s Houthi rebels fire a missile at northern Israel, the first time for the group to reach there

• Palestinian leader Abbas labels Hamas 'sons of dogs', demands hostage release

• Pakistan warns India that changes to Indus Waters Treaty an 'act of war'

• Presence of Indonesian students in Israel stirs debate over Palestinian issue

 

Thursday - April 24th

• China backs Iran holding nuclear talks with ‘bullying’ US: Wang Yi

• Polish and Israeli presidents lead March of the Living at Auschwitz

• Houthi rebels have shot down 7 US Reaper drones worth $200 million in recent weeks

• While the world watches Gaza, here is what’s happening in the West Bank

• Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 50, many of them women and children

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Friday - April 25th

• After cycling to France, Serbia’s protesting students run to Brussels to stir EU attention

• UN food agency says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s blockade

• A deleted condolence after pope’s death revealed tension between Israel and the Vatican

• Negotiations between Iran and the US over Tehran’s nuclear program return to secluded Oman

• New Syrian foreign minister attends UN Security Council in first US appearance since Assad’s fall

• US visit by far-right Israeli minister draws tense protests and ‘big fissures’ in Jewish community

• What do ‘expert level’ talks signal for the progress of the Iran-US nuclear negotiations?