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...
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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...
Indestructible Iran: What does D.C. want from Tehran? Regime change, total collapse, or a deal?
Full ArticleTrump sounds crazy, but he is not. He is, however, the product of an American empire that had gone completely mad. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Trump’s “crazy antics” on Truth Social,...
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...
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...
RAMALLAH / PNN/ A 29-year-old Palestinian man died on Wednesday evening after being shot during an attack by Israeli settlers on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, according to medical and local sources. The victim, identified as Ouda Atef Ouda...
Bethlehem / PNN/ More than 1,000 artists and production companies worldwide have called for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled for May in Vienna, in protest against Israel’s participation. The statement, published on the website of the “No Music for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The EU still has no guts when it comes to Israel
Full ArticleIn 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...
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...
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...
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,...
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump infamously promised to end endless wars and be the president of peace. In office, President Trump has launched illegal regime change wars in Iran and Venezuela; bombed at least five other countries; threatened...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Rise of a European Restrainer
Full ArticleRestrainers 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,...
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...
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...
A Bill That Would Make Joseph McCarthy Blush
Full ArticleRepublicans 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...
UK politicians call for sanctions on Israeli charity
Full ArticleMPs 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...
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...
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...
Israeli forces, settlers storm W. Bank areas, amid restrictions on Palestinian movement
Full ArticleWEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and extremist settler groups intensified their raids and violations in different areas of the West Bank on Wednesday, amid arrests in some areas. In Bethlehem Governorate, settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, stormed...
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...
Pedro Sanchez: Rise of a European Restrainer
Full ArticleRestrainers 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As the ceasefire in Lebanon enters its fifth day, the Israeli army is expanding into border villages in the southern parts of the country, using the agreement to extend control over areas it did not occupy before the...
Jordanians wonder if it's time to kick out US troops
Full ArticleOn 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...
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...
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...
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