The Trump-backed Board of Peace's proposed Gaza roadmap is unlikely to bring about an end to the war, analysts say, as the continued stalemate over Hamas's disarmament chips away at the ceasefire. The plan, outlined by the...
The Democratic National Committee’s long-awaited "autopsy" into Kamala Harris’s 2024 election defeat has sparked backlash after critics noted that the 192-page report entirely omits the war on Gaza and US support for Israel . The omission...
The world recoiled in horror this week as Israel's far-right minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, personally administered abuse to international activists detained and tortured by his government after intercepting their life-saving flotilla mission to Gaza. Western foreign ministers made...
RAFAH, (PIC) A report by Al-Araby Al-Jadeed has raised growing concerns in Gaza over plans by Palestinian companies to take part in UAE-funded reconstruction projects in Rafah while the city remains under Israeli military control. The report said recent leaks suggested that...
London /PNN/ PSC welcomes the news that a £50m Metropolitan police deal with the notorious US tech company Palantir has been blocked by the London mayor, Sadiq Khan. Prior to today’s announcement, over 1,000 PSC supporters in London emailed the...
Two legal organisations have filed a complaint against three senior barristers from a prominent pro-Israeli organisation , two of whom are members of the House of Lords, alleging misuse of professional status in a campaign targeting Palestine solidarity organisations...
By Ramzy BAROUD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and...
When the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declares, once again, that “the only way” out of the Israeli-Palestinian impasse runs through two states, one is reminded less of a policy proposal than of a Latin Mass. The words are sacred....
Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza -bound aid flotilla have reported that they were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, flotilla organisers said on Friday, with at least 15 reporting...
Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza -bound aid flotilla have reported that they were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, flotilla organisers said on Friday, with at least 15 reporting...
London mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a controversial £50 million deal between the Metropolitan police and US spy tech firm Palantir , accusing the company of breaching procurement rules. Khan expressed "serious concerns" after the Met said it agreed...
Israel has ordered the UN's World Food Programme on Friday to suspend its work in Gaza with a Turkish NGO it designated as a "terrorist organisation". "WFP has been instructed by the Israeli authorities to suspend fuel provision...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Around 75,000 Palestinians performed Friday prayers at Aqsa Mosque amid tightened restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation. The Jerusalem Governorate said in a statement that tens of thousands of worshipers arrived at the Mosque since the early morning hours,...
Skin infections in Gaza , mostly linked to parasites and rodents, have increased dramatically in recent months, as Israel continues to prevent the entry of medicine and essential items into the Strip and key infrastructure remains destroyed. A...
GAZA, (PIC) Gaza City Municipality issued an urgent warning over the risk of overflow at the Sheikh Radwan rainwater collection pond in northern Gaza City, amid severe deterioration of sewage infrastructure and the inability of municipal crews to operate vital facilities...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian mother Ghadir Hajila monitors the features of gradual recovery on the face of her child Muhammad, who is three years old, after he sustained burns and deformities from an Israeli raid that targeted a shelter center for...
GAZA, (PIC) The Wall Street Journal reported that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) compiled lists of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza to be targeted for assassination or arrest over alleged involvement in the Oct. 7, 2023, Al-Aqsa Flood operation, as part of...
Gaza, Lebanon, Iran… Our daily newsfeeds are constantly updated with horrifying reports from conflict zones across the Middle East, yet only fragments of information reach us from Yemen. Since 2014, Yemen has been devastated by civil war ,...
British nationalism has now become so synonymous with Anti-Muslim sentiment that it’s almost impossible to disentangle national pride from Islamophobia. The “Unite the Kingdom” march that was organised by Tommy Robinson this past weekend exemplifies this shift towards...
ISTANBUL, (PIC) Three Turkish Airlines planes landed at Istanbul International Airport on Thursday carrying 422 activists participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, following their release by the Israeli authorities and their deportation through Ramon Airport, after being detained following the interception...
GAZA, (PIC) The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that Gaza’s healthcare system continues to operate under catastrophic pressure amid severe shortages of medical supplies, fuel, and maintenance materials, calling for the urgent entry of essential...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation fire in Rafah as Israeli forces continued violating the Gaza ceasefire agreement through artillery shelling, gunfire, and demolition operations targeting several areas across the Strip, particularly east of Khan Yunis and north...
A poll by The New York Times/Siena found that 74% of voters aligned with the Democratic Party oppose US military and economic assistance to Israel , as support for the country dwindles amid wars in...
When Safaa Nidal joined dozens of women gathered outside Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza , she held a handwritten sign that read: "We want to live with our families." Unlike others at the protest, Safaa...
It is difficult to imagine anything more uncomfortable and embarrassing for leaders of Iraq than clandestinely established Israeli military bases on Iraqi territory. Two such bases were revealed recently when an Iraqi shepherd stumbled upon one of them in the...
The Gaza high representative of US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" warned on Thursday that the status quo in the divided and devastated territory - including an imperfect ceasefire - risks becoming "permanent" reality. In its first report...
JENIN, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday shut down the headquarters of the Jenin Central Zakat Committee in Jenin in the northern West Bank after raiding the building, vandalizing its contents, and confiscating some of its property. Witnesses said IOF...
ISTANBUL, (PIC) Three Turkish Airlines planes carrying 422 activists from the “Global Sumud Flotilla” arrived at Istanbul International Airport on Thursday. The activists were released by Israeli occupation forces after being detained earlier this week in international waters while attempting to break...
BRUSSELS, (PIC) Members of the European Parliament have called for far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to be sanctioned under the European Union’s Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime following his publication of footage showing the abuse and humiliation of activists...
In a statement from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s US arm, organisers say Israeli forces carried out a prolonged assault on civilian aid boats in international waters, using gunfire, water cannons and violent boardings against unarmed volunteers attempting to reach Gaza Read...
In July 2000, Mohamad Hammoud and his brother ran a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling operation in the US by transporting $7.9 million worth of cigarettes from North Carolina to Chicago – taking advantage of different tax regimes to turn...
The Islamic Society of San Diego Tragedy struck the Muslim community of San Diego in a murderous attack by a pair of armed teenagers who killed three people, including a security guard, before shooting themselves at a mosque on 18...
RAMALLAH /West Bank — PNN Economist Nabil Kukali said the strengthening of the Israeli shekel against the U.S. dollar and the Jordanian dinar is intensifying economic pressure on Palestinian households, amid a deep economic slowdown and structural...
Texas Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo has called for American politicians who accepted money from pro-Israel groups to face treason charges, as a new report by rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) renewed scrutiny of the deep...
ANKARA, (PIC) Following global outcry over their inhumane treatment in custody, the Israeli occupation regime deported on Thursday all the foreign activists kidnaped by Israeli forces from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla earlier this week. According to different media sources, the Global Sumud...
Dr. Mansoor Malik is a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins. For most of his career, his work has been what you’d expect from a clinician-educator at a major academic medical center: healthcare worker wellbeing, peer support programs, minority physician...
GAZA, (PIC) Hazem Qassem, spokesperson for Hamas Movement, said that the request by Nikolay Mladenov, the so called High Representative of the “Peace Council” in Gaza, for the UN Security Council to pressure Hamas by all means to fulfill its commitments,...
GAZA, (PIC) In Gaza, forced evacuation does not seem to be an emergency event read within a limited military context, but rather turns with each new wave into a moment of complete collapse of daily life, and a forced resetting of...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Hamas leader Mahmoud Mardawi stated that what prisoners, especially female detainees, are subjected to in Israeli prisons, particularly Damon prison, reflects a dangerous escalation manifested in repeated raids on women’s sections and what he described as brutal repression, alongside...
Israeli forces beat Brazilian activist Thiago Avila unconscious, threatened to kill him and subjected activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla to torture and abuse after intercepting the Gaza-bound aid mission in international waters last month, Avila...
Long before today’s attacks on leftist politicians and Palestine solidarity movements, Zionist leaders sold their movement as a defence against socialism and communism Joseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, New York Cross-posted from...
As drones dominate warfare in the Middle East, Ukraine and beyond, civilians are caught in the crosshairs. Hailing the machines as the future of war , the Pentagon is pouring funds into their development and procurement, as are other militaries...
Two British nationals are among five activists who were forcibly brought into a Stuttgart courtroom by police on Wednesday after statements they wished to read were seized from them. This was the latest escalation in a case that their lawyers have...
The majority of Jews worldwide could be living in Israel within the next decade, according to a new report by the UK-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research . The report, written by Professor Sergio Della Pergola and published on Wednesday,...
GAZA, (PIC) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Thursday the recording of more than 125,000 cases of skin infections linked to rodents and parasites in the Gaza Strip, during the first five months of...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers committed a series of crimes on Thursday in the occupied West Bank, reportedly stealing dozens of sheep and attacking Palestinian civilians and vehicles. According to local sources, a group of armed settlers infiltrated a sheep pen...
A Hezbollah drone attack in southern Lebanon on Wednesday seriously injured an Israeli military commander from the army unit identified as responsible for the killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza City. Colonel Meir Biderman, 41, is...
Pro-Palestine activists abducted and detained after Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) in international waters are being transferred for deportation to Turkey amid mounting allegations of abuse and mistreatment, according to Israeli legal advocacy group Adalah. In a...
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