Tunisia Parliament Rejects Blacklisting Muslim Brotherhood

Head of PDL Abir Moussi. AFP
Head of PDL Abir Moussi. AFP
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Tunisia Parliament Rejects Blacklisting Muslim Brotherhood

Head of PDL Abir Moussi. AFP
Head of PDL Abir Moussi. AFP

Tunisia’s parliament bureau has rejected a draft-law submitted by the opposition Free Destourian Party (PDL) to blacklist the Muslim Brotherhood.

The bureau consists of the parliament speaker, his deputies, and 10 lawmakers representing all parties in the legislatures. Five votes were in favor of the motion and five against it.

The bureau said the draft-law contradicts the parliament’s statute.

PDL is a staunch critic of political Islam and Islamist organizations. Its head, Abir Moussi, accuses Ennahda movement of having solid ties with the Muslim Brotherhood despite its denial.

Moussi said Saturday that turning down the motion proves that the Tunisian parliament is ruled by the Brotherhood.

She described the bureau’s latest move as a “conspiracy against the state.”

Also Saturday, workers at oilfields in the Tataouine region, in southeastern Tunisia, launched an open-ended general strike, demanding that the government implements the El-Kamour Agreement.

The Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) called for the strike that involves all public facilities, and the oil and gas sectors.

The protesters are demanding to hire more than 1,500 people in the petroleum companies operating in the region, the employment of 500 others in the environmental and horticulture companies, and allocating an amount of TND80 million dinars annually to the development fund within the governorate.



Building in Beirut Southern Suburbs Struck After Israeli Warning

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Building in Beirut Southern Suburbs Struck After Israeli Warning

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A building in Beirut’s southern suburbs known as Dahieh was struck on Sunday almost an hour after the Israeli army issued an evacuation order to residents of the area.

The Israeli army's spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, earlier said on X that residents should evacuate several buildings in the Hadath neighborhood and move "at least 300 meters away.”

Residents reported hearing gunfire across the area, which they said they believed was intended to warn people to leave, as well as seeing a massive traffic jam on roads leading from the area.

"To everyone located in the building marked in red on the attached map, and the surrounding buildings: you are near facilities belonging to Hezbollah," Adraee wrote in a post that included a map of the potential targets.

Earlier this month an Israeli airstrike killed four people, including a Hezbollah official, in Beirut's southern suburbs -the second Israeli strike on a Hezbollah-controlled area of the Lebanese capital in five days.