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Gaza's first elections in more than two decades are set to take place in Deir al-Balah amid Israel's ongoing offensive, as the latest drone strike killed five Palestinians, including three children, despite a ceasefire reached last October. Voting in...

MENA

In Gaza, the issue of missing children has become one of the most painful and alarming humanitarian crises facing thousands of Gazan families. Made worse since the outbreak of Israel's genocide in Gaza in October 2023, the...

Society

RAMALLAH, (PIC) Arab Prisoners’ Day, observed annually on April 22, comes amid a marked rise in the number of Arab detainees in Israeli prisons. This follows Palestinian Prisoners’ Day on April 17, during what is described as one of the harshest...

News, Arab prisoners, Israeli jails

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli violations in Gaza do not begin at the moment of bombardment, nor do they end with the announcement of a ceasefire on paper. What unfolds on the ground tells an entirely different story: repeated gunfire, targeting of areas...

Reports, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

GAZA, (PIC) At least five Palestinian civilians were martyred and several others were injured, including a woman and a girl, on Wednesday evening, in Israeli attacks in separate areas of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter said that five...

News, Israeli ceasefire violations, Israeli genocide

The Palestine movement in the United Kingdom has begun preparations for a Nakba Day march despite British police not yet approving the planned route. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign , one of the movement’s largest organisations, announced that this...

World

The BBC , Guardian and Sky News have repeatedly used language, tone and framing that dehumanises Palestinian casualties, a UK media monitor has said. By analysing 11,295 excerpts from 686 articles covering the same events across...

World

Credit: UNFPA Lebanon By UN Population Fund CAIRO, Egypt, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) Six weeks into the 2026 Middle East military escalation, UNFPA Arab States Regional Office warns that its impact on 161 million women and girls living in conflict-affected areas...

Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Democracy

In a sign of mounting pressure on European leaders over Israel’s violence in occupied Palestinian territories and beyond, more than a million EU citizens have called for suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement via a European Citizens' Initiative — a...

Iran-war, Gaza-war, Lebanon-war

A two-year-old speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he suggested that Turkey should take a more assertive posture toward Israel, recently recirculated online as if it were a fresh threat of military attack against Israel. Pro-Israel X...

Trump, Israel, Turkey

Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli airstrike targeted a group of civilians in a northern part of the Palestinian territory late on Wednesday, killing five people including three children. Gaza remains gripped by daily violence despite a 10...

MENA

According to Israel’s new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take some by surprise, or even be dismissed as an exaggeration. Sadly, it is neither. The death penalty law,...

Uncategorized

GAZA, (PIC) Several civilians were injured on Wednesday after Israeli forces opened fire east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Al-Awda Medical Complex in Nuseirat reported receiving three injured individuals following an attack by Israeli quadcopter drones targeting...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

NEW YORK, (PIC) The Executive Board of UNESCO, at its 224th session, unanimously adopted a resolution concerning the follow-up on the implementation of the organization’s decisions regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip. The resolution highlighted the damage inflicted on hundreds of...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli settlers shot dead Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the third victim of deadly gunfire in two days. The ministry said 25-year-old Awda Atef Awawdeh was killed by settler gunfire...

MENA

The Israeli Knesset voted 62 to 48 to approve a law that makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians convicted in military courts of killing Israelis. The result is a system of capital punishment...

Perspectives

WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred on Wednesday evening, succumbing to serious injuries from live bullets fired by armed Jewish settlers during their terrorist attack on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah in the occupied West...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

Top British universities been revealed to have paid a private firm to "spy" on pro-Palestine protesters and academics, drawing backlash from activists. Twelve institutions, including the University of Oxford, King's College London (KCL), University College London, the London School...

World

Israeli involvement in the delivery of humanitarian aid to a besieged south Lebanon border village has raised questions over the relationship between Israel and the organisation behind the shipment, following an investigation by The New Arab. The...

MENA

Without understanding the astonishing network of power exercised by the United Arab Emirates you would have no idea why the UAE was hit particularly hard by Iran in recent weeks. Nor would you know what fuels chaos from Libya to...

Geopolitics, Article, Eugene Doyle

US efforts to install a post-Hamas administration in Gaza are in danger of unravelling as obstruction by Israel threatens to collapse the nascent Palestinian committee before it even enters the devastated territory. At least four of the...

MENA

The United Arab Emirates says it has dismantled an Iran-linked “terrorist organisation” targeting the Muslim Shia community of the UAE. But the evidence made public so far tells a different story — one that raises serious questions about whether these...

Daily Digest, Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Foreign Affairs

Syrian and Palestinian rights monitors have denied reports of a fresh wave of arrests targeting Palestinian refugees in Damascus, clarifying that the detentions being discussed took place about a week ago and that no new campaigns have...

MENA

Restrainers in the West have found themselves homeless. President Donald Trump ’s catastrophic decision to launch a war against Iran has displaced the non-interventionist voices on the American right . In Europe, meanwhile, the bland Atlanticist centrism and,...

Column, Europe, Middle East

WEST BANK, (PIC) The number of Palestinian women in Israeli jails has surged to 90 prisoners as of April 2026, according to the Palestine Information Center (Mo’ta). In a statement released on Wednesday, Mo’ta explained that most Palestinian female prisoners are held...

News, Detained women, Israeli prisons

A Palestinian Authority team tasked with looking into the fate of more than 11,000 Palestinians missing and forcibly disappeared from Gaza commenced its work on Tuesday. The first meeting was chaired by Justice Minister Sharhabil al-Zaeem , in...

MENA

Republicans are at it again , and it’s hard to overstate how chilling this is and what it tells you about the direction people in this party want to take America. Texas Rep. Chip Roy is preparing to introduce legislation he’s...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

MPs have called for sanctions against an Israeli charity, after it was caught on camera by Declassified offering to help UK citizens move to an illegal settlement in the West Bank. Last week, our undercover investigation revealed...

Archive, Middle East, Charity Commission

Los casos se multiplican, incluyendo los de muchos prisioneros que denunciaron haber sido desnudados por completo y mantenidos así durante horas o incluso días, en condiciones degradantes. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su A...

Español, Gaza Strip, Human Rights

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,562 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

GAZA, (PIC) One Palestinian civilian was martyred and others were injured on Wednesday in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 195th consecutive day. Local sources said one civilian was killed and several others were injured...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Restrainers in the West have found themselves homeless. President Donald Trump’s catastrophic decision to launch a war against Iran has displaced the non-interventionist voices on the American right . In Europe, meanwhile, the bland Atlanticist centrism and,...

War & Peace, iran war, Pedro Sanchez

GAZA, (PIC) A senior medical official in Gaza has warned that the territory’s healthcare system has effectively collapsed, now functioning as a “formal structure without real substance” amid severe shortages and ongoing restrictions. Bassem Zaqout, director of medical relief services in southern...

News, Gaza Strip, Health crisis

BETHLEHEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have issued more than 30 demolition orders targeting Palestinian residential homes and two housing complexes in the town of al-Walaja, west of Bethlehem, in one of the largest such campaigns in the area in...

News, Demolition policy, Israeli violations

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday morning and later in the afternoon. According to local sources, at least 508 settlers entered the Mosque in groups through its Maghariba Gate and toured...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

Seven Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces over the past 24 hours, the local health ministry said on Wednesday, as Israeli forces continue to violate the October ceasefire with Hamas. Several others were injured...

MENA

Israel's observer status at the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly could be suspended after the country passed a new law calling for the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of some offences. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...

World

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Haroun Nasser has warned that the daily desecration of the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards by extremist Jewish settlers reflects an escalation in the ongoing religious war being waged by the Israeli occupation regime. In a statement on...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Hamas Movement

WEST BANK, (PIC) In a serious field incident, a group of armed settlers stormed the area surrounding the boys’ school in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, on Tuesday in the middle of a regular school day, opening live fire...

Zionist Terrorism, IOF attacks, Settler crimes

On February 20, the New York Times reported that over 60 U.S. military aircraft were stationed at a base in central Jordan, around triple the usual number parked at the site. Satellite imagery revealed an increase in U.S. F-35 jets...

Jordan, Overseas-bases, Us-military-bases

GAZA, (PIC) Several civilians were injured on Tuesday evening following an Israeli strike targeting a group of people in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northwestern Gaza Strip. The PIC correspondent reported that at least two individuals were wounded by Israeli...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

NABLUS, (PIC) A young man was injured on Tuesday evening after being assaulted by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the village of Iraq Burin, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its teams transported...

News, Israeli crimes, Israeli violations
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