Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has pointed to a strong possibility that the United States and Iran could reach a diplomatic solution , despite the publicly declared differences between them. In...
Jenin / PNN/ The Palestinian Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP), together with the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), the European Union (EU), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the German Development Bank (KfW), and the Jenin West Water Utility (JWWU), signed...
Israeli military aggression has “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese report (which does not consider the impacts of Israel’s latest barrage of attacks this spring). In her foreword, Lebanon’s minister for the...
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are both very much victims of the war, but each has an entirely different approach to finding a working solution – if the Trump-Iran deal holds. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK...
GAZA, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad described the course of negotiations over the Gaza Strip as long and complex, particularly given what he called dealing with a “criminal and fascist state committing genocide.” In statements to Al Jazeera Mubasher, Hamad said...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have leveled large areas of agricultural land east of al-Khalil and uprooted thousands of fruit-bearing trees during operations ongoing for three days, under the pretext of expanding Route 60. The PIC correspondent reported that Israeli...
GAZA, (PIC) The director of the Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons, Nada Nabil, said the center documented more than 500 cases of missing persons, while it received about 4,000 reports regarding missing persons in the Gaza Strip. Estimates...
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called today for the release of two Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) organizers who were kidnapped by Israeli forces last week and have been held in Israel since. Saif Abu Keshek...
Trump today seems torn between the prospect of ‘heavy’ military escalation and an extended Hormuz blockade Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal Putting two sides...
CAIRO, (PIC) Member of Hamas’s political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk has accused the Israeli occupation regime and the US administration of failing to honor the signed agreements over the Gaza Strip, stressing that “this came as no surprise.” In recent press remarks...
As millions of Brits are set to choose their local councillor on Thursday, many factors, including the cost of living, the rise of the far right, and the Gaza war, are likely to influence voters' decisions. While the governing...
The leader urges the EU to protect independence of the international court and the UN and their ‘actions to end’ Gaza genocide Middle East Eye is an independently funded digital news organisation covering stories from the Middle East and...
An Israeli court has upheld the continued detention of Global Sumud Flotilla activists Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek, despite legal challenges arguing their arrest in international waters was unlawful, as campaigners revealed Avila’s mother died while he...
PARIS / PNN/ The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, represented by its president Nasser Abu Bakr, has been elected first vice president of the International Federation of Journalists during the organization’s world congress held in Paris, with broad participation from media unions...
Spain has become one of the most vocal European critics of Israel’s war on Gaza. Under Pedro Sánchez, Madrid has moved beyond rhetorical discomfort and tried to translate outrage into policy: recognition of Palestine , intervention at the International...
Contempt of court proceedings against a top human rights barrister are having a “chilling effect” across the British bar, leading lawyers tell Declassified . Rajiv Menon KC is accused of violating the judge’s orders in the trial of six...
GENEVA, (PIC) The UN Human Rights Office has called on Israel to “immediately and unconditionally release” two activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, who were kidnaped by Israeli forces in international waters recently. “Israel must immediately and unconditionally release Global Sumud Flotilla...
Pro-Palestine groups and anti-racism organisations in Britain have intensified their mobilisation efforts for a major march to mark Nakba Day set to take place in London on 16 May after reaching an agreement with police over the...
The Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom has asked the Foreign Office to intervene in the British Museum's removal of references to Palestine from exhibits in response to pressure from pro-Israel groups. References to 'Palestine' and 'Palestinian' were removed...
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has pointed to a high possibility of a diplomatic solution between Washington and Tehran despite continuing tensions and publicly divergent positions between the two...
BRUSSELS /PNN/ The Palestinian ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg, Amal Jadou Shakaa, called for stronger European action to uphold international law during a lecture at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel attended by more than 200 students and researchers. Speaking...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A video clip documented the moment Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted a Palestinian child with Down Syndrome in Shuafat refugee camp northeast of Jerusalem, and used him as a human shield during a military incursion, in a scene that...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has offered condolences to Brazilian activist Thiago Avila following the death of his mother, while he remains in Israeli detention after participating in the Freedom Flotilla mission aimed at breaking the blockade on Gaza. In a statement...
Talks in Cairo over the future of Gaza’s ceasefire have stalled after days of discussions between the Board of Peace's High Representative Nickolay Mladenov and Palestinian officials, heightening concerns that Israel could soon resume large-scale military action...
Israeli forces on Tuesday attacked Palestinian Christians marking the Feast of St. George in the town of Al-Khader south of Bethlehem , the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. A convoy of Israeli army vehicles stormed the...
GAZA, (PIC) One Palestinian civilian was killed in an Israeli strike on Wednesday, while three others succumbed to injuries sustained in previous attacks. According to media sources, a young man identified as Mohamed al-Attar succumbed to injuries he sustained two days ago...
More than 400 former diplomats, ministers, and senior officials on Wednesday urged the European Union to "act now" against Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank . The open letter comes as Israel intends to move forward with...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, has warned of a “dangerous escalation” targeting the holy site, amid growing pressure from Israeli right-wing politicians and extremist Temple groups to expand settler incursions into the holy site later...
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...
BRUSSELS, (PIC) More than 400 former European diplomats, ministers, and senior officials urge the European Union (EU) to “act now” against Israel’s “illegal” settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. The open letter comes as the Israeli occupation government intends to move...
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...
GAZA, (PIC) In a worn-out tent near Khan Yunis, Mohammed Tayseer no longer sleeps on the cold sand as he has been used to for two years. A simple wooden bed, made from neglected aid shipping planks, now separates his body...
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. 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...
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