Qlayaa, Lebanon - The birds are still singing in south Lebanon, but they are faintly heard over a soundscape that - after two and a half years of war and broken ceasefires - has become familiar there. Deep...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has urged the European Commission to activate legal protections for International Criminal Court (ICC) officials targeted by US sanctions over investigations linked to Gaza war crimes. In a post on X...
The United Nations on Wednesday called on Israel to immediately release two activists taken from a Gaza-bound flotilla , and demanded an investigation into "disturbing accounts" they had been severely mistreated . Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilian...
Have you ever come across someone whose life has thrown so many curveballs at them that it almost sounds unbelievable, and yet here they are, still standing? Naz Shah , who is Labour MP for the West Yorkshire constituency of...
A former synagogue in London has been targeted by an arson attack, amid ongoing media coverage of antisemitism which has seen right-wing and pro-Israel politicians call for a ban on pro-Palestine marches. The East London Central Synagogue, a former...
Long a cornerstone of Israel’s low-wage economy, Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza have been frozen out since October 7 — replaced by an influx of migrant workers in highly precarious conditions. The post Palestinians out, foreign workers in:...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) demolished on Wednesday two Palestinian homes in Ramallah and Jerusalem under the pretext of unlicensed construction. Local sources reported that Israeli forces with bulldozers stormed the town of Shuqba west of Ramallah and started...
GAZA, (PIC) Despite the repeated talk about a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, field facts and political statements indicate that Israel’s aggression has not actually stopped, but has rather entered a stage based on gradual escalation, with the continuation of daily...
The fundamental question is whether Europe can survive the energy crisis without permanently losing its industrial base and its position in the international economic system. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Anatomy of...
GAZA, (PIC) UNRWA has warned of a growing health crisis in the Gaza Strip as skin diseases spread rapidly through overcrowded displacement camps, amid fears conditions will worsen with the arrival of summer. The agency said cases of skin infections in Gaza...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided homes and kidnaped several Palestinian citizens during raids in different West Bank areas last night and on Wednesday morning. According to local sources, Israeli forces stormed the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin,...
GAZA, (PIC) In a scene that appears contradictory at first glance, the sounds of ululations return to rise among neighborhoods where the traces of destruction are still clear in their details, and faint songs emanate from houses that have lost many...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police issued an order on Tuesday banning an Islamic Awqaf employee from entering the Aqsa Mosque for several months. Rami al-Khatib, who works as a media officer for the Islamic Awqaf Administration in Jerusalem, was ordered...
Bethlehem / PNN / Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening attacked Palestinian worshippers marking the Feast of St. George in Al-Khader, a town south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to Local sources. The sources reported security sources as confirming...
I honestly do not know what Trump is going to do. I can only tell you what I am being told. A friend of mine who happens to live in the UAE, reached out to me late last night with...
As the U.S. blockade on the Strait of Hormuz threatens an already tenuous ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, many at home are looking to profit. Below are five examples of wartime grifters, profiteers, and opportunists absolutely outdoing themselves. 1. Lockheed...
GAZA, (PIC) When recently released prisoner Ahmad Qaddas first saw Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya inside prison, he did not recognize him immediately. The exhausted body and faint voice bore little resemblance to the man whose presence once commanded attention, who appeared...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement on Tuesday called on mediators guaranteeing the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip to take urgent action to stop Israeli violations and attacks in the territory. In a press statement, the Movement said the ongoing “barbaric Zionist...
GAZA, (PIC) A child was killed and several Palestinians were injured, some critically, on Tuesday evening in an Israeli strike targeting the al-Nasr neighborhood west of Gaza City. Local sources reported that the body of a child and several injured people were...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to...
UK-based Google AI workers are unionising in a bid to end the use of their technology by the US and Israeli militaries. Scores of employees at Google DeepMind sent a letter to management on Tuesday requesting that the Communication...
In mid-March, veteran Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin abruptly sounded an alarm . "If the Americans do not restrain Israel, Israel will reoccupy the Gaza Strip all the way to the sea." On the surface, the timing of the warning seemed...
GAZA, (PIC) Dozens of wounded Palestinians and their families held a sit-in on Tuesday at Palestine Square in eastern Gaza City under the slogan “It is My Right to Receive Treatment.” They called for permission to travel abroad for medical care amid...
Four British pro-Palestinian activists were on Tuesday convicted of criminal damage relating to a 2024 raid on a factory operated by Israeli defence firm Elbit , with one of the defendants found guilty of hitting a police officer with...
To commemorate Nakba Day 2026, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is honoured to host Lubnah Shomali from BADIL for a meeting to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the beginning of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’ in Arabic) – and to discuss how...
JENIN, (PIC) An extremist Jewish settler stormed the courtyard of a Palestinian school in the town of Silat al-Dhahr, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning, driving his vehicle inside and chasing students while brandishing his weapon. Eyewitnesses...
As a child born and raised in the Middle East, I had little awareness of politics. When I arrived in the UK to pursue my education, my knowledge was so limited that when asked whether I was left or right-leaning,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, Atallah Hanna, has warned of escalating Israeli attacks targeting Christians in Jerusalem, describing them as “systematic and racist” and part of efforts to alter the city’s identity. In remarks published by Al-Jazeera on...
Israeli strikes killed at least two Palestinians and wounded several others in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said. Medics said a Palestinian was killed and two others were wounded by an Israeli airstrike near the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood...
In 1666, a bipolar rabbi who married the Torah sparked a secretive, transgressive Jewish messianic cult. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In recent years, Israel has attempted to impose on public opinion...
Every year on 3 May, the communities around the globe mark World Press Freedom Day, an occasion meant to reaffirm the protection of journalists and their right to report freely. In the war-torn Gaza , however,...
A Gaza flotilla activist detained by Israel has written an emotional letter to his young daughter, describing his participation in a humanitarian mission as a "historical task" driven by moral responsibility. Thiago Ávila, one of around 180...
Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his documentation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza , with judges praising his work as "haunting" and "sensitive". Alghorra, a contributor...
By Bashaer Abu Muammar In Gaza, the sound of drones does not fade. It lingers, day and night, above shattered neighborhoods and fractured lives. But beneath that constant noise, another threat is quietly growing, one that families say they can neither...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Israeli far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich joined thousands of settlers in provocative dances and rituals at the courtyard of the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil City in the occupied West Bank on Monday evening. The minister and settlers defiled the Mosque...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has warned of escalating violations against Palestinian female prisoners held in Israeli Damon Prison, describing the abuses as “war crimes that cannot be ignored” and calling for urgent international action to protect detainees. In a statement on...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,615 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Monday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
We, undersigned members and partners of the Global Forum for Media Development and IFEX, strongly condemn the Zambian government’s decision to force the last-minute cancellation of RightsCon 2026 due to the foreign interference of China over the participation of Taiwanese...
When Ayat Hani needs to get somewhere in Gaza, the hardest part isn't the broken roads or the heat. It's the change. Getting around after over two years of Israel's genocide in Gaza has become an exercise in negotiation...
The Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development Authority has been designated by a presidential directive as the country’s sole rice exporter, according to a letter the military-controlled body sent to the Egyptian Customs Authority dated April 23. The move grants...
Israeli authorities are expected to seek an extension of the detention of foreign activists from the Gaza flotilla who were detained last week, according to a legal rights group. Mutasem Zeidan, a spokesperson for the Israel-based NGO Adalah, told...
Israeli authorities have extended the detention of two foreign activists from the Gaza flotilla who were detained last week until 10 May, according to a legal rights group. Israel-based NGO Adalah said the court's decision to extend the detention...
GAZA, (PIC) Healthcare specialists in the Gaza Strip have warned of a growing outbreak of chickenpox among displaced children, unfolding against the backdrop of a devastated humanitarian reality shaped by a genocidal war that Israeli occupation authorities threaten to resume. The...
GAZA, (PIC) In Gaza, the final secondary school exam, known locally as Tawjihi, has ceased to be a routine academic milestone and instead become a struggle for survival, as students push to continue their education amid a devastating war that has...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out raids on homes, kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens, and closed roads during campaigns in the West Bank last night and at dawn Tuesday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped two...
Elly Van Reusel remembers scratching a list of medical supplies into the metal wall as she tried to keep note of everything her comrades needed. The containers aboard the Israeli military ship were hot during the day, and no one...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) carried out demolitions and displaced families in Jerusalem today, Tuesday, and in recent days under the pretext of unlicensed construction. According to media sources, the Israeli municipality forced Mohamed Abu Tair last Sunday to...
NABLUS, (PIC) In Palestine, stories do not need exaggeration to be painful. It is enough for a life to start in the same moment that death takes another, for a story unlike any other to be written. Yaman came into the world...
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