Four weeks into the war, Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon is facing fierce resistance that it has struggled to break. Despite more than 15 months of sustained airstrikes across Lebanon, entering the ground assault with control of...
Palestinians held a vigil on Tuesday in Gaza City against Israel's newly-approved law allowing for the execution of Palestinian inmates accused of "terror" offences. The demonstration, which took place in front of the International Committee of the Red...
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law allowing the death penalty for Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israeli targets, with two Arab lawmakers among those who voted in favour. The Knesset approved the legislation late on Monday...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Arab and Muslim foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israeli restrictions on freedom of worship in Jerusalem, denouncing the continued closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque and limitations imposed on access to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. In a joint statement,...
The outgoing head of the United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday he wanted an investigation into the killing of nearly 400 UNRWA staff during the Gaza war . "I believe that we need to have...
Each year on 30 March, Palestinians mark Land Da y, which commemorates the events of 1976 when Israeli authorities confiscated thousands of dunams of land in the Galilee, the Triangle, and the Negev. The widespread theft sparked widespread protests among...
Reports of airstrikes targeting water desalination facilities in Iran, Bahrain, and Kuwait have heightened concerns over a dangerous escalation in an already volatile conflict. In one of the world’s most water-scarce regions, such attacks threaten a...
I am not easily shocked by the mendacity of UK arms export policy. As a long-time observer of British involvement in the arms trade, I have seen sniper rifles described as ‘crowd control goods’, repeated instances of civilian harm reduced...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Israeli Knesset’s final approval on Monday of a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, passed in its second and third readings, has sparked broad Palestinian and factional outrage, alongside warnings of dangerous humanitarian and security repercussions, amid...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) In a context that goes beyond security concerns to reshape the religious and political reality in Occupied Jerusalem, Israeli authorities have continued to close Aqsa Mosque for the 32nd consecutive day, preventing worshipers from accessing the site. This prolonged...
President Donald Trump has told his aides that he is willing to end the war on Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains under Iranian blockade, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces have continued to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip for the 173rd consecutive day, carrying out artillery and airstrikes, as well as gunfire from military vehicles and naval warships. The attacks have been accompanied by...
On Monday, the courtyard of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip was filled with a mixture of tears, laughter, and long-held anticipation. Eight Palestinian families had come together for a moment they...
BEIRUT, (PIC) The National Commission for Palestinian Popular Action condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Israeli occupation authorities’ enactment of the so-called Prisoner Execution Law. This legislation represents a perilous and unprecedented escalation in the policies of repression and collective punishment...
NAZARETH, (PIC) The Israeli Knesset has given final approval to a law permitting the execution of Palestinian prisoners, passing it in its second and third readings on Monday evening. The legislation was approved by 62 members, with 48 voting against and one...
NABLUS, (PIC) What happened to Palestinian child Mohammed Saif Wasif Hanani, 12 years old, is not an isolated incident. It belongs to a growing pattern of violence against Palestinian children, one that stretches across geography, from Gaza to the occupied West...
UMM AL-FAHM, (PIC) Dozens of residents of Umm al-Fahm, within the Green Line, took part on Monday in marking the 50th anniversary of Land Day, observed annually on March 30. Participants held a gathering at the city’s main roundabout, organized by the...
Israel's parliament passed a sweeping death penalty law targeting Palestinians on Monday, triggering widespread international condemnation - as lawmakers celebrated with champagne inside the Knesset . The bill, approved by 62 of the Knesset's 120 members with...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out widespread raids across the West Bank early Tuesday morning, storming dozens of homes and arresting a large number of Palestinians, including former prisoners. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported that IOF troops searched...
“Nablus is at the centre of a huge prison, surrounded by fourteen Israeli settlements and many checkpoints which are closed by the army most of the time. How much longer do we have to suffer? They’ve destroyed Gaza...
GAZA, (PIC) Six Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed and others injured over the past 24 hours after Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians near Al-Shafi’i Mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, alongside sporadic gunfire across...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 31 2026 (IPS) While media coverage of Iran’s restrictions on passage through the Hormuz Straits focuses on fuel prices, partial closure is also disrupting crucial fertiliser...
NAZARETH, (PIC) On the fiftieth anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians find themselves in what is described as one of the bloodiest and most complex phases in the history of their cause, with the ongoing assault and blockade on Gaza and the...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Strip has recently been experiencing a worsening crisis in the availability of vegetables and fruits, accompanied by a sharp increase in their prices, further increasing the suffering of residents already living under difficult economic and humanitarian conditions. Specialists...
The attempt to revitalise the smear tactics which successfully brought down Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party won’t work this time. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium...
Keir Starmer is determined to turn a blind eye to Trump’s demands to join the war. Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy...
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry and Israel's military said. The military told AFP that a man armed with a knife began running towards...
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged US President Donald Trump on Monday to stop the Iran war, saying only he could do so, and warned that fears of the oil price going above $200 a barrel were not...
What should the American people , especially the hundreds of millions of their voters, expect former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden to do against the vicious, serial law-violating, violent, corrupt, agency-dismantling...
GAZA, (PIC) On the 50th anniversary of Land Day, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, affirmed that “our people are deeply rooted in their land and will remain steadfast, defending it by all means, until they reclaim all their rights and achieve...
The Israeli army has admitted to photoshopping an image of Ali Shuaib , a journalist killed in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon on Saturday, after accusing the veteran reporter of being affiliated with Hezbollah. Shuaib, a correspondent...
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The US needs to help Israel harm people or else the people who are mad about being harmed might harm Israelis. It’s circular reasoning...
TULKAREM, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) gunned down a 31-year-old Palestinian man at the Anab checkpoint to the east of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank on Monday, claiming that he was planning a car-ramming attack against IOF soldiers. Abdulrahman Abu al...
The Palestine Digital Activism Forum opened on Monday, bringing together activists, journalists, and technologists to examine how control over digital narratives has become a struggle for survival in today’s online spaces . Organised by 7amleh , The Arab...
LONDON, (PIC) The British capital is preparing to host a landmark scientific and humanitarian event as King’s College London opens its doors on April 24–25, 2026, for the Annual Scientific Conference of the PalMed Academy. This year’s summit convenes under the...
GAZA, (PIC) Skin diseases are spreading at an alarming rate among children in the Gaza Strip due to the collapse of sanitation systems, extreme overcrowding, and a lack of clean water during the ongoing conflict. The World Health Organization (WHO) and local...
Anger is mounting among Israelis fleeing the war with Iran via Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula , after authorities raised border crossing fees and hotels increased prices, according to Israeli media reports. The newspaper Israel Hayom said Egyptian...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli authorities announced on Monday that they would permit limited prayer at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in occupied Jerusalem, while continuing to keep Al-Aqsa Mosque closed. The decision follows international criticism from Italy, France, Spain, and the...
A Metropolitan Police officer who was filmed “intimidating” Al Jazeera journalists in London has been suspended, after he was identified by Declassified . Special Constable David Soffer was at the front of a mob that surrounded the film crew last...
The Interior Ministry on Sunday released a video featuring a recorded interview with Ali Mahmoud Mohamed Abdel Wanis, who described his implication in militant operations for the Hassm movement. The ministry stated in the video that it had arrested Abdel...
By Ramzy BAROUD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su I have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see themselves as deeply...
Israel's military said Monday it had pulled and suspended a battalion out of the West Bank after a soldier assaulted a CNN photojournalist last week in a village in the occupied Palestinian territory. A CNN...
In a move that could turn the regional conflagration ignited by the Iran war into an inferno, the Houthis in Yemen have entered the conflict by resuming missile and drone attacks against Israel and threatening to close the...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) On the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinian officials warned of an unprecedented escalation in Israeli settlement activity and land control across the West Bank. Moayyad Shaaban, head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said current policies aim to...
Hezbollah’s continued participation in the coalition government may be numbered, due to the offensive of reactionary forces against it, in alliance with Israel. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The current government of...
Israel has said that the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem will regain access to the Holy Sepulchre, after triggered international condemnation by blocking him from Christianity's holiest site. Israeli forces prevented Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from entering the church,...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem has affirmed that the Israeli escalation of daily killings against the people of Gaza has not stopped since the ceasefire was announced. Instead, it has been accompanied by a tightening of the blockade, despite the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli authorities have intensified home demolitions in occupied Jerusalem, forcing Palestinian residents to either demolish their own homes or face heavy financial penalties, while carrying out additional demolitions across several neighborhoods. On Sunday, Israeli authorities compelled Jerusalem resident Atiya...
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