The Palestinian Authority has established a liaison office headed by Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa to coordinate with the office of the High Representative for Gaza , Nickolay Mladenov, Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh announced on Saturday. Al-Sheikh said the...
Over 1,000 politicians across Britain’s range of political parties have vowed support for the 'Pledge for Palestine' petition ahead of the crunch May local elections set to test many Labour -run councils. According to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign...
The International Olympic Committee will take no action against its member Gianni Infantino for a possible breach of political neutrality rules over aligning FIFA with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace . The IOC said Saturday the matter is...
Jordan has condemned remarks by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee suggesting it would be acceptable for Israel to take control of the entire Middle East, from the Nile to the Euphrates, in the first formal Arab...
NABLUS, (PIC) The Hamas Movement on Saturday sharply condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA) over the continued detention of political prisoners in al-Juneid Prison in Nablus, holding its leadership fully responsible for the lives of nearly 150 detainees on an open-ended hunger...
As Lent begins and Palestinian Christians mark a season of repentance and prayer in the run-up to Easter, many are doing so under the shadow of intensifying settler violence and deepening Israeli control across the occupied West...
GAZA, (PIC) Two Palestinian citizens were martyred and four others were injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, amid other ceasefire violations persisting for the 133rd consecutive day in different areas of the war-ravaged coastal enclave. A medical source...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) 11 Palestinian families from the al-Khalayel Bedouin community in the village of al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, dismantled their crude homes and began preparing for renewed forced displacement following escalating settler attacks and ongoing restrictions on their livelihoods. Local sources reported...
Bethlehem / PNN / The Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) said a new Israeli land settlement and registration plan in the occupied West Bank represents a shift from a technical administrative procedure to what it described as a political and...
By Sania Al-Hussein english.ahram.org.eg Israeli policies in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and in Gaza form part of an integrated strategic vision intended to fundamentally alter the situation in Palestine in a way that will be difficult to reverse. Official and...
GAZA, (PIC) In a scene where the sounds of takbir blend with the buzz of aircraft, and supplication mingles with the scent of rubble, residents of the Gaza Strip welcomed the nights of the month of Ramadan by holding the Isha...
GAZA, (PIC) Nearly 40,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents in what UNICEF has described as the largest orphan crisis in modern history, leaving a generation struggling without family support in the aftermath of Israel’s two-year genocide. Amid devastated...
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has said it would be “fine if they took it all” when asked whether Israel has the right to control land stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, invoking an alleged biblical...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,070 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Politics and accusations of censorship linked to Palestine dominated the 76th Berlin Film Festival , diverting attention from the 22 films competing for top honours. Gaza has been a point of heated debate since the first day of the festival,...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Thousands of Palestinians performed the first Friday prayer of the blessed month of Ramadan at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of al-Khalil, in the southern occupied West Bank, under strict Israeli measures that restricted worshippers’ access to the...
GAZA, (PIC) The tragedy of cancer patients in the Gaza Strip is worsening with the near total collapse of the health system, at a time when the beginning of the current month was supposed to bring the occasion of World Cancer...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens and searched homes during a campaign, which started last night and continued into the early hours of Saturday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped a citizen and...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The UN secretary-general’s spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, has said that settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have displaced about 880 Palestinian families. This came in the spokesman’s daily press briefing on Friday. Dujarric warned that continued violence and other...
BEIRUT, (PIC) At least 14 people were martyred and around 30 others were wounded in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting areas in the Beqaa region of eastern Lebanon on Friday evening. The attacks targeted the towns of Rayaq, Bednayel, Qasrnaba, and...
During Iran’s internet blackout, state violence unfolded unseen with competing propagandists filling the digital void Originally published on Global Voices Advox Protesters gathering in the streets in Iran. Photo by Mamlekate on Wikimedia Commons . ( CC BY-SA...
As an American attack on Iran seems increasingly inevitable, America’s allies in the Persian Gulf — the very nations hosting U.S. bases and bracing anxiously for an Iranian blowback — are terrified of escalation and are lobbying Washington to stop...
The Trump administration appears to be moving closer to a U.S. war with Iran, and there are plenty on the right, including inside MAGA, rallying against it. Unfortunately, they seem much more drowned out this time around. Marjorie Taylor Greene...
Saudi Arabia will help Turkey build solar plants capable of powering more than two million homes, under a deal the two countries signed Friday that aims to deepen energy cooperation between the key regional players. The signing ceremony...
- - - - ‘President Donald J. Trump holds a joint news conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ in February, 2025. Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock President Trump has spent two months ordering a rapidly...
At least six people were killed and 25 wounded in Israeli strikes in Lebanon 's Bekaa Valley on Friday, the Lebanese state news agency reported, after the Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah sites in the Baalbek area. The...
At least 10 people were killed and 50 wounded in Israeli strikes in Lebanon 's Bekaa Valley on Friday, two security sources told Reuters , after the Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah sites in the Baalbek...
A dozen people were killed and scores injured in separate Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon on Friday as Israel intensified its aggression against its northern neighbour. At least 10 people were killed and 50 wounded in Israeli strikes in the...
A US war with Iran may not be a repeat of Venezuela. 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...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Around 100,000 worshippers performed the Isha and Taraweeh prayers on Friday evening at Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem, despite strict military measures imposed by Israeli forces at the Mosque’s entrances and surrounding areas. The Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem...
Taher M. El-Sonni, Permanent Representative of the State of Libya to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 2026 (IPS) A new UN report...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas spokesperson in Gaza, Hazem Qassem, said on Friday that, in response to the “Peace Council” meeting, Israeli forces have intensified demolition, destruction, and airstrikes in eastern Gaza since early this morning. In a press statement, Qassem said this...
Hamas said any discussions on Gaza must begin with a total halt to Israeli "aggression" as Donald Trump's " Board of Peace " maps out the territory's future, with Israel insisting on the militants' disarmament before reconstruction...
Norway and the international humanitarian industrial complex Glenn Diesen is professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway Cross-posted from Glenn’s Substack Norwegian Crown Princess Mette Marit hanging out at Epstein’s house, years after he...
Killings, arrests, displacement and aid restrictions have continued under the ceasefire. The violence has not ended – it has been reorganised and made less visible. Refaat Ibrahim is a Palestinian writer from Gaza and the founder of The Resistant Palestinian Pens...
As US President Donald Trump convened the Gaza Board of Peace for its inaugural meeting in Washington, DC, the IDF continued to report numerous ceasefire violations in the territory. Israel also struck the Ain al Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near...
Spain ’s government has said that it is continuing to work towards "zero technological dependence" on Israel despite currently considering the purchase of an alternative European defence system partly owned by Tel Aviv. The centre-left government led by Prime...
On Thursday, President Trump hosted the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, a body created by Trump to oversee the security and redevelopment of Gaza. His son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is on the founding Executive Board overseeing the Board...
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has defiantly rejected calls for her to step down following a coordinated smear campaign led by pro-Israel politicians, insisting she retains "the trust of the UN Human Rights Council" and will not...
FIFA is set to spend $75 million to rebuild Gaza's football infrastructure, US President Donald Trump announced during the first meeting of his 'Board of Peace' on Thursday. Trump said that he was "pleased to announce that FIFA...
GAZA, (PIC) Citizens in the Gaza Strip performed the first Friday prayer of the month of Ramadan amid the rubble of mosques and destroyed buildings, under harsh living conditions and an acute shortage of food supplies, while the Israeli occupation forces...
An Israeli strike in south Lebanon hit the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp on Friday, killing at least two people, according to Lebanon's health ministry. The official National News Agency (NNA) later reported "heavy strikes" in the...
Dozens of right-wing Israeli settlers crossed into Gaza overnight in a coordinated campaign openly advocating permanent Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory. The group, which included men, women and children, was led by extremist Knesset Member Limor...
US President Donald Trump's ' Board of Peace ' has committed to spending $17 billion as part of efforts to rebuild Gaza following the inaugural meeting of the board on Thursday. Trump committed $10 billion from the...
The Trump administration is set to build a military base in Gaza to house part of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) that will be deployed as part of the ceasefire deal reached last October. The base, which...
Israeli authorities have restricted Palestinian access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, allowing only a fraction of the crowds seen in previous years. Officials said no more than 10,000...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Strip emerged from the war burdened by extensive urban destruction, but the deeper loss was not only in stone, it was in the economy, which appeared to have been taken completely out of service. The situation is no...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called for intensified Palestinian presence at Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, urging worshippers to protect the holy site from what it described as Israeli efforts to impose new restrictions and advance settlement agendas. In a statement...
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