Follow South China Morning Post - Middle East, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/scmp19 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:11:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTogqeEmUyFdrBpVjH6qdYdAk The threat of a renewed escalation in attacks came as Washington’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, met officials in Israel to seek a longer pause in the devastating conflict.]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:27:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTogqeEmUyFdrBpVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTogQvPDlqhZwRZs0ohxaO6Yr Thailand had 30,000 citizens in Israel when the raid occurred, most of them migrant workers from poorer provinces in the kingdom’s northeast.]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:54:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTogQvPDlqhZwRZs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojPlhKgDMOdraCY3L745TL_ Nearly a week after Hamas began freeing hostages under terms of a temporary truce with Israel, a textured portrait of sojourn in captivity in the war-battered Gaza Strip is beginning to emerge.]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:58:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojPlhKgDMOdraCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojp81R5RXsbOOT5HJgy6HUf International mediators are racing to seal another extension to allow further exchanges and prolong the halt of Israel’s air and ground offensive.]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 01:19:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojp81R5RXsbOOT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToieAMvdoh5LoeT5HJgy6HUf As China finishes its rotating leadership of the UN Security Council, the foreign minister repeats his call for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza and eventual two-state solution.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:28:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToieAMvdoh5LoeT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojy82KFZMqMqCejEQ2Mq9rY Hamas says that baby Kfir Bibas, his brother, 4, and their mother had been killed in an Israeli bombing before the pause in fighting went into effect.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:40:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojy82KFZMqMqCejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTog2bVm9Nv_Xv11cWWor9YPv Sultan Al Jaber, who is also CEO of his country’s oil giant ADNOC, denied reports he used his position as Cop28 president to pitch new oil and gas investments to governments.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:00:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTog2bVm9Nv_Xv11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiSxA0iz30OrylmFkX7M1Jw The Saudi public fund would join existing owners including Qatar, which holds 20 per cent, and smaller investors including Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund, which has an 11.2 per cent stake.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:22:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiSxA0iz30OrylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToizzJwxQQ0_7CejEQ2Mq9rY The Biden administration has told Israel it must work to avoid more large-scale civilian casualties or mass displacement of Palestinians in southern Gaza if it renews its ground campaign.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:50:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToizzJwxQQ0_7CejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToi9PpSmkZsypuzdsCmHakzH 9 Israeli women and 1 minor, as well as 2 Thai nationals, were exchanged for 15 Palestinian women and 15 teen boys on the fifth day of the extended truce.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:19:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToi9PpSmkZsypuzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohS7pnM0-Seaps0ohxaO6Yr Riyadh won the right to host the event, which attracts millions of visitors and billions of dollars in investment, with 119 votes to Rome’s 17 and Busan’s 29.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:54:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohS7pnM0-Seaps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohVV_AV_pLeLps0ohxaO6Yr Ten hostages held in Gaza would be freed in return for 30 prisoners released from Israeli prisons on Tuesday in the first exchanges under the truce extension, according to a Hamas source.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:07:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohVV_AV_pLeLps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToh70d-JCAkwOMb1naedg1wr After years of Arab countries growing closer to Israel, the events of October 7 have swung the pendulum the other way. Mass pro-Palestinian protests, calls to boycott companies over their ties to Israel, and more, are generating political shifts in Arab countries and the West.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:30:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToh70d-JCAkwOMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohOxFufkMrma5VjH6qdYdAk Qatari mediators made an unprecedented Tel Aviv trip on the weekend as the Israel-Hamas truce was in danger of falling apart.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 07:27:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohOxFufkMrma5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohNu2ICaqy_w3n9ye8UNv30 Extended truce announced Monday gives Palestinians in Gaza a longer reprieve from the relentless Israeli military campaign that has killed thousands.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 06:05:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohNu2ICaqy_w3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToh5jMH1FP03ZF1cWWor9YPv The task force will enhance sharing of financial intelligence on terrorist-financing related matters and will discuss best practices and opportunities for additional actions, the US Treasury Department said.]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 21:25:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToh5jMH1FP03ZF1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiFf2aPZjV1U5s0ohxaO6Yr The tech tycoon and Netanyahu held a brief interview on X, formerly Twitter, following their tour of Kfar Aza, one of the kibbutzim – communal farms – in Israel attacked by Hamas on October 7.]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:47:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiFf2aPZjV1U5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToh6ChqCehwckJs0ohxaO6Yr Israel froze 143 Tron wallets between July 2021 and October 2023 that it believed were connected to a ‘designated terrorist organisation’.]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:00:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToh6ChqCehwckJs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohHo1MHSMy_pHn9ye8UNv30 Hamas said it had agreed a two-day extension to the truce with Qatar and Egypt, who have been facilitating indirect negotiations between the two sides. The White House confirmed the extension..]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:08:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohHo1MHSMy_pHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojQR_ixHLHOhuT5HJgy6HUf An Israeli official said the onus was on Hamas to produce a new list of 10 hostages it could free on Tuesday in exchange for that becoming an additional truce day.]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:33:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojQR_ixHLHOhuT5HJgy6HUf