When South Africa brought the charge of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the court gave Israel nine months to present its rebuttal. That expired at the end of July.

US President Donald Trump's tour of the Middle East last week - which included stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE - marked a notable departure from his previously unflinching alignment with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

When former President Donald Trump snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in the 2016 elections, I wrote an article in Middle East Eye to explain the roots of his mystifying phenomenon.

In the last three days, and still ongoing, the Qatari capital, "Doha," has witnessed an unprecedented mass gathering comprising various local, national, Arab, and foreign popular factions that have flocked from different parts of the world. The gathering included large delegations from other continents, attending the two largest tents ever set up on a vast area on its outskirts.

Symbolically, the death of Ismail Haniyeh is the heaviest loss that the Hamas leadership has faced since the assassination of its founder and spiritual leader, Ahmed Yassin, in 2004.

On 26 July, 2024, the office of British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, announced that his government will not be adopting the appeal filed by the Conservative government before the International Criminal Court (ICC), and that it will not interfere in the work of the Court in issuing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Defence Minister, Galant. This announcement came after long hesitation and issuing of conflicting stat