Saudi court sentences tribesmen to death for protesting forced eviction

The Howeitat tribe has been forcibly evicted from its land to make room for a futuristic megacity that is part of the kingdom's Vision 2030 development initiative

Yemen condemns Israeli, Emirati eviction of Socotra island residents

About 1,000 fishermen from the Abd al-Kuri Island of the Socotra archipelago are being relocated, as the UAE intends to limit it to a strictly Israeli and Emirati presence

Tribesmen arrested by Saudi authorities on charges of resisting eviction

Forty-seven members of the Howeitat tribe were arrested after they protested their eviction from the Tabuk province to make way for the NEOM city project

Israel mass eviction of Palestinians a ‘war crime’: UN

OCHA says 215 Palestinian families, including 569 children, face the threat of home demolitions in Masafer Yatta

Israeli court upholds eviction of 1,300 Palestinians from their land for military use

Israel will also fine each Palestinian $5,900, despite the fact local families have permanently resided in the area

Eviction of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem delayed by Israeli court

The Israeli court has asked several families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to pay over $700 a year to Israeli settlers to be recognized as 'protected tenants'

South African parliament votes to downgrade ties with Israel

The parliament voted to downgrade the South African embassy in Tel Aviv in solidarity with the Palestinian people

African Union renews full support for Palestine, confirms Israel not invited to summit

The head of the AU commission confirmed Israel's observer status remains suspended, adding that an investigation is ongoing to discover how Israeli officials entered the opening ceremony

UAE calls off UN vote on Israeli settlements under US ‘pressure’

Last week, the UAE put forward a draft UN resolution condemning Israel’s illegal expansion of settlements

Over a million Saudi citizens forcibly displaced in Jeddah to make way for extravagant project

The kingdom recently convicted several tribesmen to death for resisting the forced eviction from their lands

Amnesty International becomes fourth major human rights group to call Israel an ‘apartheid state’

The designation includes accusations of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian population

Saudi Arabia puts Shia clerics behind bars amid brutal crackdown

The crackdowns are part of Riyadh's campaign of persecuting Shia figures and activists

Tyranny on the waters: The UAE-Israeli occupation of Yemen’s Socotra Island

The transformation of Yemen’s strategically-located Socotra Island into an Emirati-Israeli military intelligence hub has raised concerns for the Ansarallah movement and its allies, significantly increasing the geopolitical stakes of the Yemen war.

Israeli army fires artillery into Gaza, raising fears of escalation

Previous Israeli provocations in the occupied West Bank have led to brutal Israeli bombing campaigns in Gaza in the past

Migrant workers left to sleep on the streets in Qatar ahead of World Cup

Qatari authorities gave thousands of migrant workers two hour notice to vacate their apartments, which will be used to accommodate fans

Israel should be blacklisted if killing of Palestinian children continues: UN chief

Ahead of a visit by US President Joe Biden to occupied Palestine, the UN revealed that 78 Palestinian children were killed and nearly 1,000 were maimed by Israeli troops last year

Palestinians brace for mass displacement to make way for Israeli military site

Palestinians in Masafer Yatta live inside caves and hills for part of the year, so an Israeli court used this is an excuse to evict them from their homes

Israel approves construction of 4,427 illegal settlements in the West Bank

No date was given for the construction of housing units that would expand 22 of Israel's 132 illegal settlements in the West Bank

Home demolitions in Jeddah leave residents destitute

Jeddah, the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia, is home to 4.5 million people and is an important economic hub

Israel seeks to annex 800 homes in occupied East Jerusalem

Yet another Palestinian neighborhood faces annexation and forced expulsion of its Palestinian residents in exchange for Jewish-only housing

Israeli extremists ramp up their attacks on Sheikh Jarrah residents

Attacks by Israeli far-right groups have significantly increased during the past two years

Israel’s secret war on the ‘48 Palestinians

Inside the 1948 borders of the Israeli occupation, Palestinians are anything but ‘ordinary citizens’, and anger is rising against Israeli ploys to criminalize their communities

Israel’s highest court offers ‘compromise’ to Palestinian families facing expulsion in Sheikh Jarrah

The compromise calls for the Palestinian families to pay rent every two years while handing over land ownership to a settler organization

West Bank: Embers under the ashes

Today, the West Bank is a 'sleeping lion' about to wake from decades of lethargy. Its Palestinian youth now openly reject the Palestinian Authority and the treachery of Arab 'peacemaking' – so they're taking the fight directly to the Israeli occupation, to the streets, using the Gaza model of resistance.

Jordan provides documents proving Sheikh Jarrah families own their homes in occupied Jerusalem

Families have been threatened with forceful eviction to make way for illegal Israeli settlements