Israeli forces killed a paramedic and wounded a woman in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, medical sources reported. The paramedic, named by Wafa news agency as Ibrahim Saqr, was killed in an air strike near the...
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Rivalry Within Limits
Full ArticlePicture alliance/AA/Royal Court of Saudi Arabia. Source: International Politics & Society The war with Iran is exposing deep fractures beneath the surface of Gulf unity. Still, cooperation remains the only viable option. By Sebastian Sons BONN, Germany, Apr 29 2026...
MSF report says Israel using water access as “weapon” in Gaza, calls for immediate restoration
Full ArticleJERUSALEM /PNN/ A new report by Médecins Sans Frontières says Israeli authorities have used access to water as a “weapon” in Gaza, depriving Palestinians of essential supplies in what the group described as a systematic campaign with severe humanitarian consequences. The report,...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred on Wednesday morning after being shot by Israeli forces during a raid on the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. According to local sources, 37-year-old Abdul-Halim Hammad was shot...
Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equity in their closing speeches. It is one of countless restrictions aimed at blocking the activists from...
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war – but the reality is more complex. Not that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would object to such an arrangement. On the contrary, his relentless...
The Palestinian Football Association has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against FIFA's decision not to sanction Israel over clubs based in West Bank settlements , a senior PFA official said on Tuesday, as visa issues affecting...
A new website established by the Israeli government through a contract with Trump’s former campaign manager seeks to manipulate AI platforms into denying established accounts of Hind Rajab’s killing. Israel has created nine English language websites explicitly aimed at manipulating...
GAZA, (PIC) Former US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has held the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for what she described as a “genocide” in Gaza, accusing the United States of being complicit. In an interview with Bloomberg,...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies has highlighted the Israeli authorities’ denial of essential medical assistive devices to prisoners, exacerbating their suffering and limiting their ability to cope with disabilities and various injuries. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the...
GAZA, (PIC) A spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thameen Al-Kheetan, has urged Israeli authorities to lift all restrictions affecting basic necessities of life and allow the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza...
A Hamas operative who was killed during the recent war with Israel founded a Gaza-based charity that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars online. The charity continues to solicit donations, including through a New York-headquartered platform. The post...
Shahad Ali – Palestinians in Gaza Want to Rebuild Food Systems. Israel Isn’t Letting Them.
Full ArticleA major part of the genocide is to eliminate the ability of Palestinians in Gaza to feed themselves. Shahad Ali is an English literature student and writer from Gaza. Cross-posted from ScheerPost Before the Israeli war began, Gaza’s agricultural sector...
Permanent war on its neighbours may appear to be a projection of strength, but Israel is fraying. Andrew Hammond currently teaches Turkish history at the Australian National University. He is the author of Popular Culture in North Africa and the Middle...
Last month, a data analyst at financial tech giant Intuit showed up to a company Zoom call in full IDF uniform. Intuit’s products include the widely-used tax return program TurboTax. This article was originally published by Do Not Panic! The...
The image of an Israeli army soldier destroying a statue of Jesus in South Lebanon with a sledgehammer garnered international media attention. However, it did not receive sufficient outrage, given its wider significance in relation to the attitude...
GAZA, (PIC) When a survivor emerges from beneath the rubble, they do not come out alone. They carry with them a destroyed home, a silenced voice, and faces that the final moments failed to save. For this reason, the stories of...
Ukraine and Israel traded diplomatic blows on Tuesday as President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned what he said were grain purchases from occupied Ukrainian territory "stolen" by Russia and threatened sanctions against those attempting to profit from it. Kyiv considers all...
Reining in the Pentagon
Full ArticleRight at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial complex (aka the war machine). The only comparable period in our history was the buildup to World War II,...
JAFFA, (PIC) An Israeli court has extended the detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip, without leveling charges against him, a rights group said. Abu Safiya, a pediatric consultant, was detained on December 27,...
Middle East and North Africa military expenditure reached $218 billion in 2025, marking a near-standstill with just 0.1% growth from the previous year – a dramatic slowdown after the region's unprecedented 15% spending surge in 2024, according to...
Britain on Tuesday sought to uphold a ban on pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action , which it has designated a terrorist organisation, after a court ruling that the move unlawfully interfered with freedom of expression. Palestine Action, which had increasingly targeted...
GAZA, (PIC) What many believed marked the end of the Israeli war in Gaza has instead proven to be a fragile illusion. Nearly 200 days after a ceasefire came into effect in October 2025, the reality on the ground remains complex,...
Israeli prison officials are deliberately depriving Palestinian detainees from accessing some vital health care equipment and services, leaving prisoners in agony or deprived of basic human rights, such as functioning hearing aids. The prison policy is in line with...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Tuesday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to the Islamic...
GAZA, (PIC) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has accused the Israeli occupation authority of using access to water as a weapon against Palestinians and systematically depriving people in Gaza of water in a campaign of collective punishment. According to a report published on...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Ministry of Health has warned of the danger of the only functioning oxygen generation plant in Gaza and the northern governorates shutting down. This plant is the primary source of oxygen supply for patients, especially those with...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A sharp escalation in the detention of Palestinian children has been recorded since the outbreak of the genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, with more than 1,800 minors arrested, according to a report by the Palestine Center for...
‘The American population has a crisis of literacy’
Full ArticleBy United World International Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Speech by Diane Sare, Independent Candidate for President of the United States, and Founder of the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus at the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called on the international community and all concerned parties to take immediate action to stop what it describes as “demolition massacres” in Occupied Jerusalem and to pressure the Israeli government to end its daily...
Gaza's bread crisis deepens with 50% production cuts
Full ArticleBefore dawn breaks over Gaza's sprawling displacement camps, thousands of Palestinians begin a daily ritual: searching for bread. At 4:00 am, Fadi Abu Shamala, 39, walks through the sandy pathways of Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, carrying...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist settler groups stormed different areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian residents and property, according to media sources on Tuesday morning. In the eastern areas of Jerusalem, settlers chased shepherds and harassed them in an attempt to...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended Israel's daily assaults in Lebanon despite a ceasefire covering the country, and claimed that Washington was ensuring that attacks are "proportionate and targeted". In the interview, the Secretary of State...
An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian boy in an area east of Khan Younis on Tuesday, as Israeli forces continue their assault on Gaza despite a ceasefire coming into force in the enclave in October. The child was identified...
RAMALLAH /PNN / The international campaign for the release of Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti said that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a petition calling for his immediate release, becoming the first sitting head of state to join the initiative. Ramaphosa’s...
GAZA, (PIC) Four Palestinian civilians, including a child, were martyred and a woman was injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 201st consecutive day. According to media sources, three people were killed in...
GAZA, (PIC) In the Gaza Strip, unemployment is no longer a chronic economic issue; it has become an all-encompassing reality that haunts an entire generation of young people. This transformation did not happen in isolation it is the direct outcome of...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and early Tuesday morning, raiding homes and kidnaping Palestinian citizens. In al-Khalil, Israeli forces stormed the town of Idhna to the west, raided a guest...
In a dimly lit room in Gaza, powered by a flickering solar lamp, Israa Abu Libda sits at an ageing sewing machine, guiding red and black threads through embroidered fabric while pressing the pedal with her remaining foot. She pauses...
Israel using water access as 'weapon' in Gaza: MSF
Full ArticleIsraeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday, decrying a campaign of "collective punishment" against Palestinians. The extensive destruction of civilian water infrastructure in Gaza, coupled with...
Solidarity for Whom?
Full ArticleCredit: UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi   The niqab is a full-body Islamic piece of clothing, worn by some women in devout Muslim communities, and which covers the whole body, leaving only a narrow slit for the eyes. French full-body veil ban, violated...
A Palestinian family was waiting for Israeli officials to return their son’s body. Inside a mourning tent, a group of American foreign policy leaders sat with them. It was August 2025, and Ilan Goldenberg — a former adviser to Vice President...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli violations in the West Bank escalated on Monday, ranging from settler attacks on residents south of Nablus to demolition orders targeting dozens of structures north of Occupied Jerusalem, alongside road closures and the bulldozing of agricultural land...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli authorities have issued exclusion orders against Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948-occupied territories, and Sheikh Kamal Khatib, head of the Freedoms Committee. The orders bar both men from entering Aqsa Mosque for a...
Kosovo has moved toward contributing forces for the International Stabilization Force (ISF) mission in Gaza, sending a military team to assess a future deployment area and coordinate with local and multinational officials. The security situation in Gaza remains tense despite...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Mahmoud Mardawi, a senior Hamas official, said that the escalating Israeli actions in Occupied Jerusalem, including home demolitions, raids, and abuses against Palestinians, reflect an “eliminationist” approach aimed at displacing residents and imposing a new demographic reality. In a...
Hezbollah-launched suicide drones, have proven to be an "obstacle" for Israeli forces stationed in southern Lebanon. The Israelis are still launching attacks there in violation of the ceasefire agreed upon earlier this month . A drone attack on Sunday killed soldier...
GAZA, (PIC) The deputy minister of economy in Gaza, Hasan Abu Rayala, has affirmed that the Israeli genocidal war on the Strip “has not ended, but has merely shifted in its tools and methods,” describing the blockade as “one of the...
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