"I was violently handcuffed and forced to lie down on my face," begins Saif Abu Keshek , recounting the abuse he faced at the hands of Israeli forces after being abducted from a Gaza-bound flotilla in international waters...
HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / Palestinian human rights defender Imad Abu Shamsiyeh says years of documenting alleged Israeli military and settler abuses in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron have made him and his family targets of repeated...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Zakaria Ali Qattousah was carrying nothing but the worry of supporting his four children when he headed out at dawn like thousands of Palestinian workers, attempting to cross the separation wall to reach his work inside Israel. However, Zakaria’s pursuit...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Aqsa Mosque witnessed large-scale incursions by Israeli settlers on Thursday morning under heavy protection from Israeli forces, on the eve of the so-called Hebrew anniversary of Jerusalem’s occupation, as Palestinian warnings intensified over attempts to impose new...
LONDON, (PIC) The Arab and Palestinian community leaders in London have addressed an urgent message to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer demanding protection for their planned Nakba anniversary march on May 16, 2026. The message read as follows: “We, the undersigned...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread raids across multiple areas of the West Bank early Thursday and into the morning, triggering confrontations, arrests, and extensive home invasions. Dozens of houses were searched, belongings vandalized, and residents subjected to...
In the sweltering midday heat west of Gaza City , Amina Abu Awda presses a damp cloth against her husband's arms as he lies motionless inside their cramped tent . The fabric clings to his skin for a moment...
Parliamentarians from Africa, Asia, and the Arab world gathered to assess pledges made at last year’s TICAD9 summit in Yokohama. Credit: APDA By Hisham Allam CAIRO, May 14 2026 (IPS) The word heard most often at a two-day parliamentary forum in...
Wendy Sherman, who served as deputy secretary of State under the Biden administration, made headlines in late April when she told Bloomberg that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “led” the United States down the road to “genocide” in Gaza. Sherman...
GAZA, (PIC) The Sumud Flotilla Coalition announced on Wednesday the launch of five ships from a Greek island as part of a broader international effort aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and confronting the impunity enabling genocide,...
GAZA, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim said that Nikolay Mladenov, executive director of the Gaza Peace Board, is unfit to oversee Gaza’s transitional administration, accusing him of adopting “the position of a biased and suspicious individual.” In a post on X...
GAZA, (PIC) The family of Palestinian doctor Hossam Abu Safiya continues to live in constant fear over his fate as he remains imprisoned in Israeli detention nearly 18 months after his arrest, amid reports that he is being subjected to systematic...
GAZA, (PIC) In the midst of the genocide carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces have eliminated each aspect of life and shelter. The attacks have not been limited to activists or even civilians. They have extended to...
What Nicholas Kristof left out of The New York Times. Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. A former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
The UK Home Office has denied visas to all Palestinian artists scheduled to attend and perform at a major Nakba commemoration event in London, forcing organisers to postpone the gathering. "Voices of Solidarity II", a...
The Israeli army has expanded its area of control in Gaza to 64% of the enclave, with a new "Orange Line" replacing the "Yellow Line" marking the new de-facto border, according to Israeli media reports. Israel Hayom , citing an...
Thousands of Israeli extremists stormed Joseph’s Tomb in the east of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. Among them were Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing one of the most serious coalition crises in years after ultra-Orthodox parties signalled they may support dissolving parliament over a long-running dispute on military conscription exemptions for Haredi Jews. The...
A land convoy aid initiative has begun preparations in western Libya ahead of a planned journey east towards Gaza involving hundreds of activists and volunteers, marking the group’s third attempt to reach the Strip. The convoy in support of...
Four Palestine Action activists convicted of criminal damage over a raid at an arms factory in Bristol could now be facing terror charges in a move that was kept secret from the jury in their original trial, it...
The executive director of the Board of Peace for Gaza , Nikolay Mladenov, is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv as discussions continue over whether US President Donald Trump 's Gaza...
A series of leaked audio recordings alleges that Israel helped finance the pardon and release of former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández, while revealing alleged US-Israeli efforts to undermine progressive Latin American governments. Between January...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has so far resisted calls to resign despite more than 80 Labour MPs urging him to make way for a new leader. Starmer appears to have dug in his heels for now, saying...
Israeli cyber intelligence firms have developed technologies capable of tracking Starlink users worldwide and, in some cases, identifying the people behind the accounts, according to an investigation published by Israeli newspaper Haaretz . The report said two Israeli-linked...
Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ will air a classic episode of the sitcom Father Ted instead of broadcasting the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 , as part of a widening boycott over Israel's participation in...
We focus on the numbers. We recite the death toll, the proportion of women and children, the total years of lost life. We share statistics – the number of child amputees, the tons of asbestos-riddled rubble – hoping to shock...
Israel’s Knesset passed a law on Monday establishing a special military tribunal in Jerusalem to try Palestinian fighters accused of participating in the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israeli settlements in the Gaza envelope. The legislation grants the court the power...
Israel's set at the Eurovision semi-finals in Austria was met with booing and pro-Palestine chants on Tuesday, as calls to boycott the song contest continue amid Israel's ongoing siege and bombardment of Gaza and attacks on Lebanon. The crowd...
A digital exhibition in Berlin is giving visitors rare insight into the brutal and sombre architecture of Syria's infamous Sednaya prison , where political prisoners and others were held captive, tortured and executed. Established as Military Prison One...
When Samer al-Haddad arrives at a vegetable cart near the tent where his family now lives in western Gaza City , he carries no wallet and no cash. Instead, he scrolls through an application on his battered...
An illegal auction of stolen Palestinian land at an elite Upper East Side synagogue, and the swift condemnations from groups like J Street launched against New Yorkers who attempted to protest it, reveal the Zionist rot at the heart of...
Schiacciata tra l’austerità dell’UE, la pesante penetrazione tedesca nel suo tessuto economico e l’ostilità turca a fasi alterne, Atene, consapevole di possedere l’invidiabile posizione geografica di porta balcanica dell’Europa (cosa che l’ha resa anche particolarmente indifesa di fronte ai flussi...
In a crowded London auditorium, Nakba survivor Antoine Raffoul and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos sit side by side and talk not about reconciliation or abstract "coexistence", but about genocide, return, and what it would mean to...
A lot of hopes are being pinned on replacing Keir Starmer, but Labour’s problems go much deeper than their leader. Tom Blackburn is a writer from Manchester. A founding co-editor of New Socialist, he has written for publications including The Guardian,...
When Nablus-based journalist Ahmad Al-Bazz received an Israeli travel permit, he rushed to visit nearly 200 villages depopulated in the Nakba. Five years later, his new book offers a powerful visual archive of erasure. The post A Palestinian photographer’s ‘search...
Microsoft has fired the head of its operations in Israel , Alon Haimovitch, and other senior figures, months after revelations about the Israeli subsidiary's use of Microsoft Azure cloud services to spy on Palestinians, Israeli business news...
Just when the world needs it most, the multilateral system is coming apart. The institutional spaces created to confront threats like war, authoritarianism, and ecological disaster are collapsing because of direct attacks and longstanding cracks in their foundations. The old global...
SAO PAULO, (PIC) Brazilian activist Thiago Avila returned to Sao Paulo on Monday following his detention and deportation from Israel, where he was tortured and witnessed abuses of Palestinian prisoners during 10 days in custody. Avila and Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek...
Since 2014, U.S. lawmakers have introduced over 200 bills targeting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The vast majority of these efforts have failed to pass, but more than 30 states have adopted anti-BDS laws. The first...
The United Nations condemned Tuesday the toll from swelling Israeli military operations and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank on children, with 70 Palestinian children killed since early 2025. "Children are paying an intolerable price for...
GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army continued its ceasefire violations for the 215th consecutive day on Tuesday morning by carrying out artillery shelling and gunfire attacks in different areas of the Gaza Strip. According to media sources, Israeli gunboats fired projectiles into...
Genocide denial frameworks identify recurring strategies: minimising victim numbers, victim-blaming, questioning witnesses, and reframing violence as unavoidable. Contemporary discourse surrounding Gaza reproduces many of these strategies, but also extends beyond classical typologies of denial. Unlike historical cases of genocide, which relied...
GAZA, (PIC) The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and its leader in Gaza, Khalil al Hayya, expressed their gratitude and appreciation to all who offered condolences for the martyrdom of his son, Azzam al Hayya, who was killed during Israel’s ongoing war...
Em 1665, Natan de Gaza proclama Sabatai Zevi o Messias. Nasce o sabataísmo, mo-vimento messiânico que abala a diáspora judaica Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su [Estamos vendo a história de Sabatai...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) 22 Israeli ministers and Knesset members signed a petition calling on the police to allow extremist settlers to storm the Aqsa Mosque next Friday, May 15, to mark the anniversary of Israel’s occupation of east Jerusalem. The petition urged...
US President Donald Trump met with his national security team on Monday, raising fears that he could re-launch attacks on Iran and resume the joint US-Israeli war on the country. The meeting came amid weeks of deadlock between Washington...
Israel deported on Sunday two foreign activists seized from a Gaza -bound flotilla, in what a rights group representing them described as a "punitive attack" on a civilian mission. Saif Abu Keshek, a Spanish national of Palestinian origin,...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) In one of the most dangerous legislative shifts within the Israeli political system in recent years, the Israeli Knesset has approved, in its second and third readings, a law that would allow the prosecution of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners...
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