Netanyahu pitched the war as a repeat of Israel’s apparent ‘audacious feat’ of smashing Hezbollah. The US president should have noted instead Israel’s moral and strategic defeat in Gaza. Trump’s speech tonight, Wednesday 1 April, will be interesting in light...
As the entire international economic, political and military balance is upended, and governments are going to find themselves in a frightening new world, unlike anything they have ever known, and where neither Powerpoint nor mythical and symbolic politics can help...
Atouf, West Bank - In the Jordan Valley village of Atouf, Palestinian farmers are hauling ladders, fences, and other agricultural equipment into their pick-up truck - preparing to leave their lands. “I invested NIS 150,000 [$48,800] in planting...
No one is betting that most GCC petro-monarchies in West Asia have seen which way the wind is blowin’. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su China and Pakistan released a joint 5-points statement...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers performed Talmudic prayers in the Bab al-Sahira area of the Old City of Occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday evening to mark the “Jewish Passover,” amid ongoing restrictions on Muslim worshipers. The Jerusalem Governorate said...
Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham, two prominent pro-Palestine activists in the UK, were found guilty of public order offences on Wednesday, in what has been described as a chilling measure against pro-Palestine activism. Standing trial at Westminster Magistrates Court...
By Jonathan COOK Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A coalition of institutions across the Arab and Muslim worlds has launched an international campaign under the slogan “Al-Aqsa is calling for help,” in protest against the closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque and efforts to impose Israeli control over...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A comprehensive strike paralyzed various aspects of life across the cities and towns of the occupied West Bank today, Wednesday, in rejection of the prisoner execution law approved by the Israeli Knesset, amid a state of widespread popular...
What remains of the U.S. presence in Iraq had already been targeted by the PMF, writes Eduardo Vasco. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Another country has joined the war against the United...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is determined - "perhaps more than ever" - to pass controversial legislation that would exempt most draft-age Haredi Jews from conscription, sources close to the prime minister have told Haaretz...
Pope Leo XIV is preparing to celebrate Easter for the first time as pontiff a year after his predecessor's death, as concerns grow among Christians over the Middle East war. Holy Week began with a clash in the Holy Land...
Indonesia has called on the United Nations to investigate the killing of three of its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon in Israeli attacks, as war between Israel and Hezbollah rages. The call came in a Tuesday statement delivered by Indonesia's...
The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the United States had used negotiations as a decoy for a surprise attack. On the pattern of Germany’s invasion of Poland in...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Latin Patriarchate in Occupied Jerusalem has said that following international pressures and reactions, the Israeli police have reversed their decision to bar Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of the holy city, from entering the Church of...
Israel's passing of a new law enabling the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis has sparked a wave of online backlash - but not on human rights grounds. Analysis of around 18,000 social media posts and 600,000...
Discussions are underway for a United Nations investigation into the killing of more than 390 UNRWA employees during the two-year Israeli war on Gaza , the deadliest conflict in the agency's history, the organisation's head said Tuesday. "I...
The occupied West Bank witnessed a near-total shutdown on Wednesday due to a general strike in protest against Israel’s recently approved death penalty law targeting Palestinians . Public and private institutions, including schools, universities, banks, and shops,...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian citizen succumbed to wounds sustained in a recent Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, while the Israeli occupation army continued to launch attacks in separate areas on Wednesday. A local source reported that Mohamed Abu Mohsen died of...
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has increasingly portrayed its military operations as a war unfolding across multiple arenas. Israeli officials and commentators frequently describe the conflict as spanning seven fronts: the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq,...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) In a step carrying deep political and legal implications, reflecting a rapid shift toward greater hardline and extremism within the Israeli establishment, the Knesset approved, on Monday evening, a law allowing the imposition of the death penalty on Palestinian...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called for staging massive rallies next Friday to protest the ongoing closure of the Aqsa Mosque and support Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas urged the Palestinian masses everywhere and...
The vice chair of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) has been found in breach of parliamentary rules, after failing to declare an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel. Labour MP Peter Prinsley has now admitted he didn’t mention the trip because he was...
TEHRAN, (PIC) The US-Israeli war on Iran has entered its second month, with US President Donald Trump announcing a possible withdrawal of American forces within weeks, even as fighting intensifies across multiple fronts, including Iran and Lebanon. US withdrawal and political statements Trump...
Israel’s parliament passed on Monday a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel who are convicted of lethal attacks labelled as “terrorism.” The amendment to Israel’s Penal Code bars any possibility of...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,289 martyrs, according to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and at dawn Wednesday and kidnaped at least 11 Palestinian citizens from homes. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped three young men after raiding...
GAZA, (PIC) In a scene that summarizes the cruelty of displacement in the Gaza Strip, the child Lana Al-Sab lost her life while sleeping inside her tent in a displacement area in the city of Deir al-Balah, after she was run...
ANKARA, (PIC) A high-level delegation from the Hamas Movement met on Tuesday with Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara City and discussed with him different issues of mutual interest. The Hamas delegation included Khalil al-Hayya, head of the Movement in Gaza,...
BRUSSELS, (PIC) The European Union’s foreign policy chief has expressed deep concern over a new Israeli law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, urging Israel to abide by its obligations under international law. In a statement on Tuesday, foreign policy chief Kaja...
Credit: UN Photo/Pasqual Gorri By UN Development Programme AMMAN / NEW YORK , Apr 1 2026 (IPS) New estimates by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) suggest the military escalation in the Middle East, now into its fifth week, may cost...
As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters a more “ dangerous and unpredictable ” phase, regional powers are scrambling to contain the fallout. With energy markets already rattled and the risk of spillover across the Persian Gulf and beyond...
Israel will reduce its military imports from France "to zero" in retaliation for French policies it deems hostile towards its interests, a defence ministry spokeswoman told AFP on Tuesday. "The Director General of the Ministry of Defence,...
It’s difficult to overestimate the extent to which this war is re-making the world order. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host , The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are published by CounterPunch Books. Ben Norton is editor of the Geopolitical...
A very important film about Palestinian history has just come out. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and...
In the view of General de Gaulle, “Treaties are like young girls and roses; they last while they last.” By that standard, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization seems to be wilting pretty fast. The Israeli-U.S. war on Iran has opened...
Bethlehem/PNN/ Addameer for Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Commission of Detainees Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoners Club on Tuesday sent an urgent letter to European Union countries regarding Israel’s recently passed death penalty law targeting Palestinian prisoners. The...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday confirmed the killing in a US-Israeli airstrike of a brigadier general sanctioned by the US in 2025 over an international network shipping oil to China and using profits to fund...
Islam Times - Europe’s hasty reaction to the attack on UNIFIL forces in Lebanon, contrasted with its telling silence on the large-scale killing of civilians in Gaza and across the region, has once again exposed the selective and instrumental nature...
GAZA, (PIC) A large protest took place in Gaza on Tuesday outside the International Committee of the Red Cross, where families of Palestinian prisoners, former detainees, and advocacy groups voiced strong opposition to new Israeli legislation, particularly the proposed “prisoner execution...
Yesterday, 30th March, Apartheid Israel passed a new law to mandate the death penalty for Palestinians, and only Palestinians, ‘convicted’ of lethal ‘terrorism’. The death penalty is an immoral and abhorrent form of punishment, but has an added...
Palestine Legal is deeply appalled by last week's foiled assassination plot against Nerdeen Kiswani, a 31-year-old Palestinian activist and mother who has been a prominent voice and organizer for Palestinian liberation in New York City for over a decade. We...
DOHA, (PIC) Hamas Political Bureau member Hussam Badran called for a comprehensive national mobilization, intensified resistance, and widespread public uprising to confront the “prisoner execution law.” Badran said that Palestinians face a historic test that goes beyond condemnation and requires concrete action,...
GAZA, (PIC) Abu Obeida, spokesperson for Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, has called on Islamic resistance in Lebanon to step up efforts to capture Israeli soldiers in order to secure the release of Palestinian and Arab prisoners held in Israeli jails, particularly following...
WEST BANK (PIC) A group of Jewish settlers installed mobile homes (caravans) on Palestinian land in the village of Bireen, southeast of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank. Farid Barqan, head of the Bireen village council, said that settlers set up the...
Four weeks into the war, Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon is facing fierce resistance that it has struggled to break. Despite more than 15 months of sustained airstrikes across Lebanon, entering the ground assault with control of...
Palestinians held a vigil on Tuesday in Gaza City against Israel's newly-approved law allowing for the execution of Palestinian inmates accused of "terror" offences. The demonstration, which took place in front of the International Committee of the Red...
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law allowing the death penalty for Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israeli targets, with two Arab lawmakers among those who voted in favour. The Knesset approved the legislation late on Monday...
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