The United Nations has placed Israel on its “blacklist” of entities suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict , placing the Israeli Prison Service and multiple other Israeli entities on the list. The UN's move follows...
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan took part in the Hajj pilgrimage while New York’s Zohran Mamdani participated in public celebrations this week marking Eid al-Adha , the most important festival in the Islamic calendar. Khan shared a photo...
When you benefit from an unjust system it can be difficult to recognize you’re living in one. It’s our job to continually point that out. By Joe LAURIA Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and on Thursday morning, raiding homes and kidnaping and assaulting Palestinian citizens. In al-Khalil, Israeli forces kidnaped six Palestinians and assaulted women and children during...
GAZA, (PIC) Eid al-Adha has arrived for the third consecutive year for the children of the Gaza Strip amid ongoing Israeli aggression, and an almost complete absence of manifestations of joy and rituals that were associated with this occasion in previous...
Former Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah died on Wednesday, 27 May, in London at the age of 74. Al-Attiyah was considered one of the leading figures behind the development...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian families on Wednesday in the Khalayfa area east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Local activist Fares Kaabneh said that the settlers assaulted Palestinian families in the Khalayfa area near the...
The United States has reimposed sanctions on the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese , just days after quietly lifting the measures that had targeted her over her advocacy for Palestinian rights...
Everything is bigger in Texas. On Tuesday, the state's closely watched primary runoff races saw important results that highlight some of the most important campaign issues of 2026 —from MAGA to AIPAC to dark money. In one of...
“Acting on instructions from President Vladimir Putin, Sergey Lavrov notified the US side that the Armed Forces of Russia, acting in response to the Kiev’s regime continued terrorist attacks on civilians and civilian facilities in the Russian territory are launching systematic and...
GAZA, (PIC) At least 10 civilians were martyred and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City on Wednesday night. The Red Crescent said its crews recovered the bodies of 10 martyrs, including four children and...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement and its armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, have mourned commander Mohamed Awda, who was assassinated in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza on Tuesday evening. In a statement released on Wednesday, Hamas said that Awda, the Brigades’ chief...
Donald-Trump-asleep-in-Oval-Office I am going to start wearing a neck brace… Trump’s conflicting comments about the peace negotiations with Iran have given me whiplash. Today at a Cabinet meeting , President Trump asserted that Iran is “ negotiating on fumes...
The emerging deal between the United States and Iran represents an existential danger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future. With his coalition fracturing and elections approaching, Netanyahu can’t survive a peace that leaves Hezbollah intact and Iran’s nuclear...
Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. 962 days since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began, and 227 days since a ceasefire took effect through the implementation of the first phase of Donald Trump’s “Peace Plan”, Nickolay Mladenov, the Bulgarian former UN official...
RAMALLAH / PNN/ Economist Nabil Koukali said the Bank of Israel’s decision to cut interest rates to 3.75% reflects growing concern over an economic slowdown amid the impact of war and regional tensions, warning of direct repercussions for Palestinians closely...
As Israel launched a new bombardment of Lebanon on Tuesday, its far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir suggested that it was trying to derail ongoing peace negotiations between US President Donald Trump and Iran. During a press briefing on Tuesday, the influential settler-politician railed against...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A limited number of Muslim worshipers observed the Eid al‑Adha prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil City, south of the occupied West Bank, amid tight Israeli security measures. According to local sources, Israeli forces closed the gates of the...
“Democracy” is a slogan, a value-judgement more than it is a description, and a term of praise and abuse in political debates more than a defined programme. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Licensed under the...
Israel said on Wednesday that it had killed Mohammed Odeh, the reported new chief of Hamas ’s military wing, in a series of overnight air strikes on Gaza City, marking the latest in a string of targeted...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police kidnaped a Palestinian girl after assaulting her and forcibly removing her hijab near the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. A video showed the moment police officers chased the girl near the Bab al-Hitta...
Malcolm Ducker, a British former RAF pilot, set sail earlier this month towards the Gaza Strip in the hopes of reaching the devastated enclave in an act of solidarity with the long-suffering people there. Ducker, who departed from Sicily,...
Four activists could be sentenced as terrorists next month despite not being convicted of terrorism offences. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani are among several Palestine Action activists accused of raiding an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol in...
Palestinians marked Eid al-Adha in the West Bank amid continued economic recession and ongoing Israeli raids and attacks However, families have tried to hold on to their holiday traditions despite arrests, displacement and loss caused by the Israeli occupations. Despite...
Since October 2023 , Israel has occupied vast stretches of territory in Gaza, Syria and, most recently, Lebanon. Corporate media have been reluctant to use clear, direct language to characterize U.S.-backed Israeli land grabs in each of these places, preferring...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has congratulated the Palestinian people and the Muslim Ummah on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, calling for the holiday to be a time to strengthen unity and solidarity, and to intensify all forms of support for...
360 Palestinian children and 84 women are spending the Eid al-Adha holiday in Israeli prisons, away from their families and suffering from deprivation, abuse and neglect. In total 9,400 Palestinians are in Israeli custody, amid reports of widespread...
What is hegemony? Is the United States losing it? By Michael BRENNER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su HEGEMONY. “Hegemony, Hegemon everywhere — but not a ‘definition’ in sight.” Talk about American foreign policy is...
After years of pursuit, Israel killed the commander of Hamas’s armed wing, Izz al-Din al-Haddad , in Gaza last week. Describing him as a key architect of the 7 October 2023 attacks, Israel framed the "complex intelligence-driven strike" as a...
Elsa Persson Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su He has criticized Swedish minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M) and does not believe it can be called vandalism when paint is thrown at buildings in connection...
US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has "zero" cash in its official fund, despite member countries pledging billions of dollars, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Trump first conceived of the board to rebuild Gaza, where...
Israel’s latest escalation in Lebanon suggests a deliberate strategy to separate its war on the country from wider regional diplomacy, raising questions about whether any forthcoming US-Iran deal can meaningfully put an end to Israel's attacks there. Israeli...
GAZA, (PIC) After a bloody day in which 14 Palestinians were martyred in Israeli attacks, tens of thousands of Palestinians performed the Eid al-Adha prayer in makeshift prayer areas and streets near the rubble of bombed homes and mosques in the...
Over 100,000 worshippers performed Eid al-Adha prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, amid a heavy deployment of Israeli occupation forces and arrests in the vicinity of the mosque. The Islamic Waqf...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and at dawn Wednesday, the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, raiding homes and kidnaping a number of Palestinian citizens. According to local sources,...
From Guantánamo to Palestine, Washington has a long, brutal history of silencing, blacklisting, and deporting rapporteurs who dared tell the truth. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su When the United States government decided...
Here are the latest updates from this morning: - Lebanon witnessed a bloody night on Tuesday as Israeli forces carried out massacres across the country's south and east, killing at least 31 people, including children, according to the Lebanese Health...
The New Arab's live blog has now concluded. Here are some key updates from today: - A new draft peace deal received by Iran says Tehran would fully restore commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the US would end...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers performed the Eid al-Adha prayer on Wednesday morning at the Aqsa Mosque despite Israeli police restrictions and assaults. The Islamic Awqaf Administration in Occupied Jerusalem said that 140,000 worshippers observed the Eid prayer...
An analysis of the current state of negotiations between Iran and the United States Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an...
JENIN, (PIC) A Palestinian man was shot and killed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday in Jenin refugee camp, north of the West Bank. The Red Crescent reported that its teams received a body from inside the camp and transferred...
Notwithstanding the Al Jazeera report, there are still significant areas of disagreement that make a deal between Iran and the US unlikely. The Pakistan-Qatar mediation channel toward a possible memorandum of understanding remains active. But “active” does not...
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man inside the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank , the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday. "A citizen... was killed by Israeli fire in the Jenin camp, and ambulance...
Israel has issued an expropriation order for land in the occupied West Bank near the site of a Biblical prophet's grave north of Jerusalem, an Israeli NGO reported Tuesday. The site, known as Nabi Samuel, is believed...
On April 10, 2026, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung sparked controversy by sharing a social media video that compared wartime killings to the Holocaust and alleged that Israeli forces had tortured, and thrown from a rooftop, a Palestinian. Because the...
In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed, Wafiq Safa, a senior Hezbollah official and former head of Hezbollah’s Liaison and Coordination Unit, discusses Hezbollah’s conflict with Israel in Southern Lebanon, and provides new details on resistance operations, its...
The idea of Trump and Netanyahu was to destroy Iran as a force within the region, thereby forcing all countries in the Middle East to submit to their colonial plans. That clearly hasn’t happened. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of...
Tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and the US don’t seem to have scuppered a possible deal yet, but long term the threat Israel poses to Lebanon may make any lasting peace impossible. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of...
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