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German carmaker Volkswagen is in talks with Israel's state-owned Rafael Advanced Defence Systems to shift production at one of its factories towards missile defence systems, according to a report by The Financial Times on...

World

An Israeli drone strike has killed two Palestinians and wounded at least four others in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp , medics said, in the latest Israeli breach of a ceasefire for the occupied territory. The strike hit early...

MENA

By Wyatt REED and Max BLUMENTHAL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Trump White House plagiarized its justification for attacking Iran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the main DC outfit promoting...

Editor's Choice, Iran, Israel

Israel continued to launch attacks on southern Lebanese towns as well as the capital, Beirut , on Wednesday, amid fears that the Israeli military would annex Lebanese territory up to the Litani River . Lebanon's state media reported that...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the Israeli Knesset’s initial approval of a bill legislating the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners as a “serious act of state terrorism.” In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas underscored that this Knesset’s approval of the...

News, Death penalty, Hamas Movement

RAMALLAH, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue escalating their targeting of freed Palestinian prisoners released under recent exchange deals, through repeated arrest campaigns, field interrogations, and ongoing questioning, in what appears to be a sustained policy of post-release persecution. The Palestinian Prisoners...

News, Freed prisoners, Israeli violations

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,265 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a large-scale arrest campaign in different areas of the West Bank at dawn Wednesday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped three citizens after raiding their homes in Balata refugee camp near...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

Weeks after an Israeli drone struck the Faculty of Sciences at the Lebanese University's Rafik Hariri Campus in Hadath, a southern suburb of Beirut, killing two prominent professors , the incident continues to fuel national outrage over what many...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A young man was martyred at dawn Wednesday after the Israeli occupation police opened fire at him in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel al‑Mukaber. According to the Jerusalem Governorate, 21-year-old Qasim Shuqairat was killed by Israeli police gunfire...

News, Israeli crimes, Occupied Jerusalem

Iran targeted countries across the Middle East with a fresh torrent of missiles on Wednesday, hours after US President Donald Trump signalled tentative progress in diplomatic efforts to end the war. Iran fired a salvo of "precision-guided" missiles and drones...

MENA

In late October 2023, Massachusetts-based independent publisher Interlink Publishing, one of the few Palestinian-owned publishers in the United States, launched a major promotion of its Palestinian catalogue on Amazon Ads. The aim, Harrison Williams , Interlink's Production and...

Book Club

GAZA, (PIC) Two Palestinians were martyred and several others were injured in Israeli attacks in separate areas of the Gaza Strip last night and on Wednesday morning. According to Palestinian media sources, two people were martyred and others were wounded last night...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

By Asoka Bandarage COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Mar 25 2026 (IPS) Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits member states from using threats or force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. Violating international law, the United States...

Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Democracy

As the Trump administration mulls a ground deployment in Iran, veterans fear a grueling, long-term campaign lies ahead — and that the U.S. military may be ill-prepared to sustain it. First of all, ongoing preparations and deployments suggest the administration has...

Veterans, Iran, Marines

The world has given Israel "a licence to torture Palestinians", a UN expert said Monday, with life in the occupied territories " a continuum of physical and mental suffering ". Francesca Albanese , the UN's special rapporteur on the rights...

MENA

Lebanese state media reported on Wednesday that Israeli strikes killed at least six people in a town and a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Sidon area, and three more in another town. Israel has stepped up its campaign against...

MENA

London's police chief pledged Monday over 250 more officers and "highly visible" armed patrols to protect the Jewish community after an arson attack on four volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation next to a synagogue. The promise of...

World

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian child was killed by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, amid ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement. Medical sources reported that 13-year-old Khaled Saif al-Din Suleiman Arada was killed after...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

Europe is still unable to define and defend its own strategic interests. Dr Alain Gabon is Associate Professor of French Studies and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at Virginia Wesleyan University in Virginia Beach, USA. Cross-posted...

Geopolitics, Alain Gabon, Article

Israel has been ramping up its targeting of Palestinians over the past week in Gaza, killing field commanders from Hamas’s and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wings, despite a months-long ceasefire in place. Yahya Fayez Abu Labda, the commander...

MENA

Israel’s Knesset National Security Committee will be holding a final vote on Tuesday to advance the controversial death penalty bill that enables executions of Palestinians convicted of alleged "terror" offences. The bill, pushed by far-right National Security Minister...

MENA

Israel’s Knesset National Security Committee has approved a proposed death penalty bill against Palestinian detainees, advancing it to the second and third readings ahead of a final vote expected next week. The bill, pushed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar...

MENA

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) on Tuesday called for the Israeli Football Association (IFA) to receive a ban after a FIFA report found "multiple breaches" of its anti-discrimination obligations. "We maintain our right and continue our efforts to ensure...

Sports

The Israeli army used a "double tap" strike when killing five-year-old Hind Rajab in 2024, analysis by a global campaign group found, as calls for accountability continue two years after the Palestinian's killing. The US-based Avaaz NGO revealed that...

World

Videos of young girls punching fiercely into a boxing bag, their bare feet kicking up sand between rows of refugee tents, go viral every time. But they capture more than just exercise in an unlikely setting. For the young girls...

Society

Pakistan could see itself playing a significant role on the international stage should Islamabad successfully mediate a truce between the US and Iran , as the war in the MENA region stretches into its fourth week. US President Donald...

World

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) uprooted dozens of olive trees near the main entrance of Kifl Hares town in northern Salfit and bulldozed swaths of land in eastern Qalqilya. Local sources told the WAFA news agency that Israeli forces...

News, Land grab, Settlement expansion

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) delivered on Tuesday evacuation and demolition notices for seven inhabited homes belonging to Palestinian families in the eastern neighborhood of Qalandia village, north of Jerusalem. The orders require the residents to vacate and demolish...

News, Demolition policy, Displacement policy

"The Week of Resistance Against Israeli Colonialism and Apartheid" officially began today, Tuesday, 24 March, during a conference organised by the Student Frameworks Secretariat at the Media Solidarity Centre in western Gaza City, under the slogan "Palestine Liberates...

MENA

Eighty years ago, Aldous Huxley wrote that “in the field of international politics the gravest decisions are always taken not by reasonable adults but by boy-gangsters.” This metaphor, from his essay Science, Liberty and Peace , implies an immature,...

War & Peace, Aldous Huxley, Cuba

Israel intensified its assault on Lebanon on Tuesday, carrying out waves of strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs and across the south in what residents described a s a "night of terror". Multiple raids hit residential areas, including Bir...

MENA

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank on Tuesday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped five ex-detainees from their homes in Qalqilya City and another citizen in the...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

Five Palestinians have been injured by marauding Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, as residents continue to face a wave of attacks in the occupied territory. Jewish settlers ran over four Palestinian workers heading to work near the...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Over two years of unrelenting Israeli aggression and displacement have pushed children and young people in the Gaza Strip into what the UN has described as a “profound mental health emergency,” with girls facing heightened risks. “We have more than...

News, Gaza children, Gaza Strip

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers stole dozens of livestock from a Palestinian farm in the town of as-Samu, south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank, on Monday evening. According to al-Baidar Human Rights Organization, a group of settlers...

News, Israeli violations, Settler crimes

Americans are divided neatly along party lines on their opinion of U.S. military action against Iran, according to surveys conducted since the Iran war began on Feb. 28. But this is far from the only foreign policy issue dividing Americans...

Israel, Palestine, Russia
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