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Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, at a rally in Gaza City, on May 24, 2021. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Hamas leader in Gaza demands immediate transfer of Qatari cash

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Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar raised demands for the immediate transfer of Qatari cash to the Gaza Strip, threatening an escalation if that failed to happen, Kan news reported on Monday evening. Sinwar reportedly made the comments during...
Students wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing at a classroom on the first day of school reopening at a Secondary School in Doha, Qatar. Credit: Noushad Thekkayil/Shutterstock.

New Qatari school textbooks glorify Hamas, reject peace between Israel and Arab states

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Qatar prides itself on its high level of education and yet its own textbooks clearly do not meet accepted international standards, according to a new report by IMPACT-se, a research institute that analyzes schoolbooks...
Palestinians at the site of a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for more than 4,000 rockets fired by Hamas and other terror factions towards Israel, May 20, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Qatar offers Hamas-ruled Gaza $500 million to rebuild

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Qatar’s foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, announced on Wednesday that the Gulf state would give $500 million to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after an 11-day conflict with Israel. The hostilities began on...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on May 25, 2021. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL

Blinken’s Mideast trip highlights limits of American efforts to isolate Hamas

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While the Biden administration’s negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has generally being seen as successful, experts have low expectations that U.S. Secretary of State Antony...
Arab Gulf leaders pose together following the restoration of ties between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as well as other Arab countries, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt. Source: Twitter.

Debate over Qatar: Is blockade-ending move positive for Middle East?

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Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates ended their three-and-a-half-year blockade against Qatar on Tuesday—a move whose implications appear to have mixed ramifications on issues surrounding the Middle East, according to foreign-policy experts. Saudi Arabia...
Qatari TV host Abd Al-Aziz Khazraj Al-Ansarai. Source: YouTube.

Qatari TV host claims Israelis stole from Dubai hotels

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Israeli media picked up a story reported by a Qatari TV host last week, claiming that Israelis had been caught stealing from hotels in the United Arab Emirates. The unverified report was uploaded to YouTube and...
Qatar skyline. Credit: Pixabay.

Gulf states reach deal to end blockade against Qatar

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The Gulf states have reached an agreement to end the three-year-old boycott of Qatar, announced Kuwait’s foreign minister on Monday. White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner helped negotiate the settlement, a senior...
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. Credit: U.S. Department of State via Wikipedia.

Qatar foreign minister blasts Arab states for ties with Israel without Palestinian agenda

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Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said on Monday that Arab states that normalized relations with Israel are not helping the Palestinian Authority’s goal of getting a state. He told the 2020 Global Security...
Protesters in Turkey demonstrate against the Trump administration's “Peace to Prosperity” conference and Mideast peace plan in Bahrain, July 2019. Credit: TRT Arabic, Turkey.

Arabs states draw closer to Israel to counter non-Arab powers Turkey and Iran

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The decision by three Arab states to make peace with Israel can be credited both to efforts by the Trump administration and the recognition by these Sunni states that their security would improve against...

UAE official says Hamas, PA are ‘corrupt’ and ‘murderers’

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Dehrar Belhoul Al Falasi, a member of the Federal Council of the United Arab Emirates, told i24 News in an interview that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are “corrupt” and “murderer.” “The UAE is committed to the...