Britain’s prime minister-designate Andy Burnham has admitted Labour "didn’t get it right" on Gaza and signalled a tougher approach towards Israel, including potential sanctions, in what he described as a need to "strengthen" the UK’s response to the war. In a...
More than two-and-a-half years after he was killed, the remains of a Gazan doctor were finally recovered from the rubble of his levelled home on Thursday, as thousands of missing Palestinians remain unaccounted for amid Israel's continued bombardment. Dr Maysara Azmi...
As UK retailers rapidly expand facial recognition technology across hundreds of UK supermarkets to tackle shoplifting, campaigners are warning that shoppers' biometric data could be entangled with the same Amazon cloud infrastructure used by the Israeli military in its war...
Occupied Jerusalem/PNN / Israeli occupation authorities issued a one-week ban on Friday preventing Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine and preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Earlier on Friday, local sources said that Israeli...
RAMALLAH /PNN / Israeli Extremist settlers on Thursday demolished the Yanoun Co-educational Primary School in the southern Nablus district, which had been serving 15 students from grades one through six, about eight months after residents of Khirbet Yanoun were forcibly displaced. In...
“Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of angry young Muslims questioning Western socio-political hegemony, but amongst Muslims who are convinced that Muslim...
A source familiar with international discussions on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip told The New Arab on Thursday that Israel is studying a phased reconstruction plan that will span several years. The plan would be implemented only if the...
British journalist and documentarian Louis Theroux has described a new film on Gaza's wartime medical crisis as "a testament to something horrific", as he hosted a London premiere amplifying firsthand accounts from international doctors who worked inside the besieged enclave...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday issued a presidential decree setting 28 November 2026 as the date for legislative elections , reviving the Palestinian electoral process after two decades of limbo, while presidential elections are scheduled for the first...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) More than 70,000 worshipers performed the Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque compound in Occupied Jerusalem despite Israeli restrictions. Hundreds of worshipers from Occupied Jerusalem’s Old City and Palestinian communities inside Israel gathered to pray at Aqsa Mosque and...
Pope Leo XIV's decision to declare the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) in schism and excommunicate its bishops and priests has thrust one of Catholicism's most controversial movements back into the spotlight. While the immediate dispute centres on papal...
GAZA, (PIC) The waiting of the family of the martyr Muhammad Abu Khammash turned into a harsh ordeal that lasted nine days, during which it was unable to recover his body from an area east of Deir al-Balah under the control...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies said Israeli occupation authorities are committing war crimes against detainees from the Gaza Strip inside Israeli prisons, alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023. In a report issued on Thursday, the...
Waving flags, singing patriotic songs and carrying banners proclaiming " Egypt's men made us proud", thousands of supporters welcomed Egypt's national football team home on Friday after the Pharaohs produced the finest 2026 World Cup campaign in the country's history. Crowds...
From Arafat in 1988 to Trump’s travel bans, Washington turns the Headquarters Agreement into a weapon. Hosting the UN means spying, co-opting, and silencing. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In 2025, Donald Trump’s administration once...
As Israel's actions continue to divide US Jewish communities nearly three years into its genocide in Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll reveals that some of the biggest gaps are between religious and secular Jews. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Centre...
WEST BANK, (PIC) For Palestinians, the sound of an Israeli bulldozer is no longer just noise preceding the demolition of a wall or a house roof, but has rather become an announcement of the uprooting of an entire life. In just...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the Gaza ceasefire on Thursday, carrying out artillery shelling, heavy gunfire, and demolition operations across several areas of the Gaza Strip. A local source reported that a Palestinian woman was wounded by Israeli military fire in...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli forces carried out a new wave of large-scale military raids and coordinated operations across the occupied West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem overnight and into Friday morning, triggering violent confrontations that left several Palestinians injured. The escalating incursions come...
This live blog has now closed. Here are the key updates from today: - The United States and Iran are lowering tensions following days of strikes between the two. Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz plunged, negatively impacting markets - - Funeral ceremonies...
A major showdown on the House floor seemed imminent. An amendment, advanced by the Rules Committee, was poised to force a rare and telling record vote on stripping Israel of $3.3 billion in annual US military aid. Brought forward by...
NABLUS, (PIC) Jewish settlers on Thursday demolished the Yanon Coeducational Elementary School in the South Nablus Directorate, nearly eight months after the forced displacement of residents from Khirbet Yanon, depriving 15 students of their only local school. In a statement, the Palestinian...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the Gaza ceasefire on Thursday through artillery shelling, airstrikes, and gunfire across multiple areas of the Strip, killing six Palestinians and injuring several others. According to local sources, one person was killed and three others were...
The Committee to Protect Journalists is in damage-control mode amid a furor over a review of Palestinian journalists in its Gaza casualty database and attempts to change the definition of who is a journalist to exclude some Palestinians. net/content/exclusive-cpj-reconsidering-removal-killed-gaza-journalists-database/51505">HERE Relatives mourn Al...
The US-led Board of Peace said on July 8 that it would soon begin setting up a “pilot zone” in Gaza that would bring unarmed civilians screened for Hamas links across the Yellow Line into the Israeli-controlled portion of the...
Germany’s two leading authoritarian liberal politcal parties have proven that they are no longer fit for purpose Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE Photo: Screen Grab These are...
TUBAS, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) uprooted hundreds of trees, including in olive groves, on Thursday in the village of Atuf and al-Baqi’ah plain, east of the Tubas governorate. These bulldozing operations in the area are aimed at building a military...
“As soon as I saw the coach speaking about Gaza, I knew the Egyptian team was finished.” Those were my wife’s words in the immediate wake of Egypt's loss to Argentina in the 2026 World Cup round of 16 match. Those...
GAZA, (PIC) The health ministry in the Gaza Strip has warned that laboratories and blood banks face a complete shutdown due to severe shortages of testing kits and medical supplies, driven by ongoing Israeli restrictions on their entry. Sahar Ghanem, director of...
Benghazi, Libya - On 18 June 2026, Libya’s three main political bodies signed a trilateral power-sharing agreement, setting a roadmap for presidential and parliamentary elections before 17 February 2027, the first such agreement in fifteen years . It was built directly...
The Trump administration is reviving an imperial application of international law as part of its efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Although it openly denigrates the idea of a rules-based international order, the U.S. government is claiming that Iran must...
The life of still another Palestinian doctor abducted in Gaza by the Zionist Nazis is in danger Norman Finkelstein is is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian...
Rahm Emanuel , a Democrat considering a 2028 US presidential run, said on Wednesday that Israel risks jeopardizing its alliance with Washington unless it changes course on Palestinians and the region, because of growing unease with its policies among US...
GAZA, (PIC) At least three Palestinian civilians were martyred and others were injured in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday. According to media sources, a citizen was killed and three others were wounded in a drone strike on a car...
GAZA, (PIC) Dozens of activists and residents held a protest on Wednesday outside Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, demanding the provision of medicines and medical supplies and greater support for the health sector. Participants in the protest, called by...
Welcome, Here are the key updates: - Iran claims attacks on US forces in Bahrain and Kuwait after the US attacked Iranian cities for a second consecutive night, with reports saying at least 14 people were killed by the US attacks on...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army demolished a two-story Palestinian house and finished the destruction of another one in the West Bank on Thursday. In al-Khalil, local activist Osama Makhamra reported that Israeli bulldozers escorted by forces stormed the Khilat al-Maiyya...
Pro-Palestinian activists interrupted a presentation by Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels at the UN's AI for Good summit in Geneva on Wednesday, accusing the company of providing technology used by Israel in its military operations. During Vogels' appearance, one protester...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Thursday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to the Islamic Awqaf Administration, at least 144...
Could gas be a conduit for peace in Gaza? That was the intimation by Egypt's oil minister, Karim Badawi , in June when he called for new efforts to finally develop the Gaza Marine field. The gas - vital to alleviating...
The UK-based charity " Children Not Numbers " told The New Arab that the British government committed to receiving an additional group of sick and injured Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip, along with their families. Children Not Numbers co-founder and...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,118 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Thursday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Gadi Eisenkot’s campaign-launching speech on 30 June set high stakes for Israel’s upcoming elections . “Twice, there was a sovereign Jewish kingdom here in the land of Israel,” the ex-army chief of staff and fledgling politician said, referring to the Hasmonean...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced that the number of Palestinians in the world reached about 15.5 million people by the end of 2025, at a time when the Palestinian society faces an exceptional demographic and humanitarian situation...
GAZA, (PIC) The deputy head of the Association of Private Transport Companies in the Gaza Strip, Jihad Isleem, said on Wednesday the association is moving toward closing the crossings and suspending work in protest against Israel’s continued targeting of drivers. Isleem said...
Pro-Palestine campaigners have launched a landmark legal challenge against the British government, seeking to prevent ministers from using a controversial definition of antisemitism to penalise support for Palestinian rights. The claim, filed on Thursday by the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC)...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem on Thursday, raiding homes and kidnaping a number of Palestinian citizens. In Jenin, Israeli forces stormed the city’s Khillet al-Souha neighborhood and fired stun grenades...
Rights groups have unveiled a five-point blueprint urging Andy Burnham to take a tougher stance on Israel if, as widely expected, he becomes the UK's next prime minister later this month. At a briefing in the House of Lords on Wednesday,...
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