OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli forces have issued demolition orders for 23 residential and agricultural structures in the town of Abu Dis, southeast of Occupied Jerusalem, in a new escalation targeting the Palestinian presence around the city. The Israeli forces raided the...
Participants observe a visual montage linking Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Award ceremony, the Sant’Egidio interfaith forum in Rome and the Astana Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions — symbolizing the emerging “rehearsal space” where religion, civil society and state...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the Jabal Jales neighborhood in southern al-Khalil under heavy military protection, taking control of five old buildings in what residents described as an unprecedented development in the area in decades. Residents believe the takeover...
Ranked among the many issues for which the winter of 2025-26 might be remembered in the United States – ranging from explosive exposes of abusive tycoons linked to a country whose genocide of Palestine Washington has long supported, to a...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the opening of the 61st session of the Human Rights Council at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva. Meanwhile, Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses (below) at the opening of the...
Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, carried out a series of raids in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank early on Tuesday. The settlers arrived at Joseph’s Tomb , a religious site located on...
Inside the dusty shell of one of the oldest libraries in the Palestinian territories, a group of Gazan volunteers work diligently to salvage what remains of their ancient cultural heritage. The Great Omari Mosque library sustained terrible damage during Israel's...
On Thursday , President Donald Trump hosted the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, a body created by Trump to oversee the security and redevelopment of the Gaza Strip. His son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is on the founding...
At 9:30 pm on 14 November 2025, a plane from Kenya touched down at OR Tambo International Airport. Onboard were 153 Palestinians — children, infants, adults and elderly survivors of the recent Gaza genocide — seeking refuge in...
Declassified has won a seven-month battle to report from Parliament, after officials were accused of a “partisan attempt to suppress investigative journalism”. Westminster authorities initially rejected our application for a press pass in June, claiming there wasn’t enough space. But we...
An unreleased internal autopsy of the Democratic Party's failed 2024 presidential campaign by then-Vice President Kamala Harris could shed light on a Gaza policy that likely had an important impact on the election. Those on the left are generally...
More than a dozen international humanitarian organisations have petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to block an imminent order that would force 37 NGOs to cease operations in Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem, warning of...
By Joe LAURIA Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The U.S. secretary of state is reviving the language and intent of 19th century colonialism to deter what he sees as “the forces of...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement on Tuesday accused the Israeli occupation government of disregarding the ceasefire agreement and ignoring diplomatic efforts aimed at maintaining calm, warning that Israel would bear responsibility for any renewed escalation. The remarks came after Israeli Finance Minister...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished three homes and an agricultural facility in the town of Beit Liqya, west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, on Tuesday amid an increase in demolition operations. Eyewitnesses reported that IOF soldiers stormed...
GAZA, (PIC) An independent international investigation has found that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired nearly 1,000 bullets at Palestinian emergency and relief teams in Rafah in southern Gaza in March 2025, documenting what researchers describe as the field execution of humanitarian...
Jamal Zahalka, head of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, said in an interview with Al Araby al Jadeed , the Arabic-language sister publication of The New Arab , that Palestinians in Israel...
The sun might be shining in Manchester today, a rare enough occurrence, but a part of this city is in the thick of a storm in UK politics as a pivotal by-election looms. One of the people...
The future By the time we get to the speech of Cypriot-Israeli real estate businessman and billionaire Yakir Gabay at the Board of Peace’s first meeting on February 19, we already have a comprehensive image of the future of Gaza....
Lebanon's foreign minister said Tuesday his country feared its infrastructure could be hit by Israeli strikes if the situation with Iran escalates. The comments from Youssef Raggi came amid a massive US military buildup in...
Maqbula Ahmed sits on a plastic stool in Khan Younis , scrolling through photos and video clips of her two eldest sons on her phone. She does this most days, shifting between the floor and a broken chair, tears streaming...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The International Al-Quds Foundation and the Association of Palestinian Scholars have warned of what they describe as a renewed Israeli escalation at the Aqsa Mosque aimed at imposing new realities on the site, particularly in its eastern section,...
Officials from US President Donald Trump's ' Board of Peace ', tasked with overseeing post-war Gaza , are considering establishing a cryptocurrency for the enclave in an alleged attempt to jumpstart its recovery after being devastated by...
Hamas on Tuesday called for sanctions against Israel, welcoming a joint condemnation by nearly 20 countries of new Israeli measures aimed at tightening control over the occupied West Bank. Israel has approved a series of initiatives...
- - - - Ever since US President Donald Trump formally established his Board of Peace on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in January, it has endured concerns over a variety of issues, not least its potential to...
NABLUS, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a large‑scale raid in the eastern area of Nablus City late Monday night to secure the access of extremist Jewish settlers to Joseph’s Tomb under the pretext of performing Talmudic rituals. Video footage...
GAZA, (PIC) Heavy rains flooded tents of displaced families in different areas of the Gaza Strip overnight and on Tuesday morning, intensifying their humanitarian plight. Images and video footage showed multiple tents and personal belongings in Gaza damaged by rainwater. Most of Gaza’s...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) January 2026 witnessed a significant escalation in the scale and severity of violations committed against Palestinian journalists, according to documentation by the Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS). These violations ranged from killings, arrests, live fire, threats at...
GAZA, (PIC) The transformations being imposed on the Gaza Strip are accelerating in ways that go far beyond humanitarian relief or reconstruction. What is unfolding is an attempt to reengineer the population’s entire economic and financial architecture. Human rights advocates warn...
NABLUS, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has denounced Jewish settlers for carrying out an arson attack on the Abu Bakr al‑Siddiq Mosque in the village of Tell, west of Nablus, and for scrawling graffiti on its walls, calling it a “fascist crime.” In...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers performed on Monday the Isha and Tarawih prayers at the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on the seventh night of the holy month of Ramadan. According to local sources, about 50,000 Palestinian citizens...
This article is part of a special series recognizing the four-year anniversary of the Ukraine War. Helping Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion was an appropriate policy, and sending Kyiv the weapons to carry out the task itself made sense. Unlike...
Islam Times - Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim about the formation of a new axis in the Middle East, coming on the eve of Modi’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, appears less grounded in reality than a propaganda display aimed at...
Islam Times - Recent remarks by Mike Huckabee about Israel’s alleged right to territory “from the Nile to the Euphrates,” coinciding with Donald Trump’s unveiling of a Gaza Peace Council, reveal a strategic contradiction—one that reflects a gap between the...
Washington’s political class tends to measure its commitment to Israel by the volume of its applause — how loudly it cheers Jerusalem, how quickly it moves an embassy, how swiftly it tears up an arms agreement with Tehran. By that...
Following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel has conducted a consistent military campaign against Palestinian terrorist groups in Lebanon. The Israeli military’s recent attack against a Hamas command center in the Palestinian camp of Ayin al...
Nearly 20 countries on Monday condemned Israel's recent moves to tighten its control over the occupied West Bank , characterising them as attempts to annex the territory and undermine Palestinian statehood. Israel has approved a series of initiatives this month...
The so-called ‘peace plan’, ruled over by Trump through his so called ‘Board of Peace’ is an Orwellian colonial monstrosity. Juan Cole teaches Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. His newest book, “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace...
Saudi Arabia feels itself being boxed-in by UAE and Israel, and is building new alliances to re-balance Middle Eastern power. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has warned that the escalating abuses taking place in Israeli prisons, particularly in Negev Prison during the holy month of Ramadan, reflect an official policy aimed at breaking the will of Palestinian detainees. These practices include...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian shepherd was assaulted on Monday by armed settlers in the Masafer Yatta desert, south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank, after stealing his sheep. Local sources reported that armed settlers chased Haitham Aayed Mar, blocked his...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A Palestinian shepherd was assaulted on Monday by armed settlers in the Masafer Yatta desert, south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank, after stealing his sheep. Local sources reported that armed settlers chased Haitham Aayed Mar, blocked his path...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli authorities on Monday delivered demolition notices targeting a number of residential and agricultural structures east of the town of Abu Dis, south of Occupied Jerusalem. According to the Jerusalem Governorate, the Israeli forces distributed 23 demolition notices in...
GAZA, (PIC) The month of Ramadan in the Gaza Strip was never a passing occasion, it was a social, spiritual, and economic season in which the rhythms of life changed, the streets grew crowded before sunset, and tables expanded as hearts...
Three-time former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri hinted at a possible political comeback during his speech at Martyr Square in Beirut to mark the 21st anniversary of his father Rafic Hariri’s assassination, four years after leaving Lebanon’s political...
Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that Palestinian group Hamas may soon be given a deadline to lay down its weapons . "We estimate that in the coming days, Hamas will be given an ultimatum to...
A British court has postponed the final hearings in the trial of two prominent Palestine solidarity movement leaders until Thursday, in a case widely seen as a major test for the future of protest rights in...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Media Forum on Monday strongly condemned a decision signed by Israeli war minister Israel Katz designating several Palestinian online media outlets under what Israel calls its “counterterrorism law,” effectively banning their operations. In a statement, the Forum said...
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