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UAE arrests more than 100 for filming and posting ‘misleading information’
Abu Dhabi police in the UAE have arrested 109 people for filming and posting “misleading information” during the Middle East war. “Such actions are liable to incite public opinion and spread rumours among members of the community,” Abu Dhabi police said in a post on X on Friday.
Similar measures have been taken across the Gulf, as misinformation flourishes during the war on Iran launched by the US and Israel.
Yeah the misinformation flourishes on main stream media and out of the mouths of US officials.
Iran’s humanitarian needs ‘growing rapidly’: NRC chief
Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, says while the war is “often framed as a geopolitical chess game, the reality is far grimmer for families”.
Estimates suggest more than three million people have been internally displaced within Iran, with more than 1,400 killed.
“Iran is huge. Tehran alone, under constant bombardment day and night, has 10 million inhabitants,” he tells Al Jazeera. “Millions have left Tehran, as well as other cities. We have 110 aid workers on the ground, making us one of the few Western groups operating there and the largest, with eight relief centres across as many provinces. The needs are growing rapidly.”
He said his organisation is “overrun, overstretched, and underfunded. Most aid work is carried out by national and local organisations. Shipping and flights are disrupted, so local and international groups struggle to bring in desperately needed supplies.”
People react as emergency crews search for victims trapped in the rubble following a strike on a residential building on March 16, 2026, in central Tehran
‘In Israel, support for this war not flagging’
Political commentator Ori Goldberg described the public mood in Israel surrounding its wars on Iran and Lebanon is “schizophrenic”.
“Israelis are very much war-weary,” he told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv. “On the other hand, support for this war is not flagging.”
Public attention was focused very much on the war on Iran, which was supported by more than 90 percent of Jewish Israelis, he said. “The war with Lebanon? Well, that depends on who you ask and why,” he said, adding that the war there factored more of as a concern for those in Israel’s north.
Damage reported in Jerusalem’s Old City after Iranian missile barrage
The Times of Israel reports that first-responders have been dispatched to the site of a missile impact in Jerusalem’s Old City, after another Iranian missile barrage targeted the country.
Ten separate volleys of Iranian missiles have fallen on various cities across Israel. The focus has been on the greater Tel Aviv area, the centre of Israel. Rehovot, a city known for science, research and technology, was hit. There was property damaged and two people reported injured.
It’s not so much about the number of people injured. The issue is that Israelis have not been able to return to any semblance of normal life.
Schools are still out, Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport is not working, the private sector is choosing whether it can or cannot operate, people who work independently are losing income and the government doesn’t have a lot of answers for them – except that this will last for as long as it will take.
