Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed seven people on Saturday, the devastated territory's civil defence said on Saturday, in the latest deadly violation of the ceasefire which has theoretically been in place since October last year. Civil defence...
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The US had agreed to release Iranian frozen assets held in Qatar and other foreign banks, welcoming the move as a sign of "seriousness" in reaching a deal with Washington in talks in Islamabad , according to a Saturday...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement welcomed a two-week ceasefire agreement between Iran and the US, as negotiations began Saturday in Pakistan aimed at ending the US-Israeli war on Iran. In a statement, Hamas said Israel had sought through the war to reshape...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that more than 21,000 patients in Gaza are awaiting urgent treatment abroad, accusing Israel of blocking their travel and worsening the health crisis in the Strip. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry rejected...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,328 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
RABAT, (PIC) Protests were held in Morocco and Türkiye over the past two days in support of Palestinian prisoners and in rejection of a recently approved Israeli law allowing the execution of Palestinian detainees, as well as ongoing Israeli military actions...
GAZA, (PIC) Thousands of families in the Gaza Strip are living in harsh humanitarian conditions, deprived of the simplest requirements for a dignified life, foremost of which is the availability of safe health facilities, as a result of the continuation of...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers set fire to a Palestinian home, while the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out raids on several houses and kidnaped eight citizens in the West Bank at dawn Saturday. In Nablus, settlers set fire to a...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A Palestinian young man sustained injuries on Friday evening after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the town of Birzeit in northern Ramallah. Local sources reported that Israeli forces fired rubber bullets at young men during a raid in the...
GAZA, (PIC) Six citizens were martyred at dawn on Saturday following an Israeli attack on al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Local sources said that Israeli aircraft targeted a security checkpoint near Taiba Pharmacy in Block 9 of al-Bureij camp,...
The photograph above tells even the casual observer that Iran is entering the next round of negotiations with the United States with its eyes wide open while holding the ultimate trump card… The Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians are shrewd...
Donald Trump's Board of Peace has received only a tiny fraction of the $17 billion pledged for Gaza, preventing the U.S. president from pushing ahead with his plan for the shattered Palestinian enclave's future, sources told Reuters . Ten days...
Muslim Capitalism And The Rise of Tech and VC Culture: Are We Going Down The Technological Lizard Hole?
Full ArticleA critique of how tech culture and venture capital are reshaping Muslim priorities, urging a return to spiritually grounded progress. “You will tread the same path as was trodden by those before you inch by inch and step by step...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Quds Foundation has called on the Arab and Islamic world, both at the official and popular levels, to take urgent action to confront the escalating threat of the Judaization of Aqsa Mosque. It emphasized the need for...
GAZA, (PIC) Doctors Without Borders has warned that the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has not ended the worsening humanitarian crisis, stressing that residents continue to face harsh living conditions and severe shortages of basic necessities months after the truce began. In...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A Palestinian resident of Occupied Jerusalem was forced on Friday to begin emptying his home near the Aqsa Mosque in preparation for demolishing it himself under an order issued by Israeli occupation authorities to avoid the high costs...
Ramzy Baroud – In Bombing Lebanon, Netanyahu Asserts That War and Peace Are His Decision Alone
Full ArticleFailure, for Netanyahu, is never an endpoint. It is a trigger. With no victory to claim and no strategic gains to present, he turned—once again—to Lebanon. Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle....
Pawel Mościcki – The Clash of Messianisms
Full ArticleAre we facing a global religious war? Or is this an opportunity to reestablish the relationship between revolutionary politics and religion? Paweł Mościcki is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the author...
Israel’s Shin Bet chief David Zini has been accused of minimising settler violence against Palestinians, with ex-military and intelligence officials sounding the alarm over growing extremism. A report published by Haaretz on Thursday said staff within...
Israeli settlers have increasingly tried to smuggle animals to sacrifice at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in recent days, around the Jewish holiday of Passover, triggering widespread fears of an attempt to take over one of the holiest sites in...
Many in the Middle East and the world want to believe that we are on the brink of peace, but it is worth reminding ourselves why we find ourselves here in the first place. In simple terms, we are here because...
TULKAREM, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detonated a residential building on Friday inside Tulkarem refugee camp, located east of the city of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. Eyewitnesses reported hearing a powerful explosion that echoed across the city and its surrounding...
ISLAMABAD, (PIC) Pakistan’s defense minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif escalated his criticism of Israel, describing its policies as a threat that extends beyond the Middle East, as Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon continue despite a US-Iran ceasefire mediated by Islamabad, which is set...
Hamas is engaged in ongoing talks in Cairo with the US-backed "Board of Peace’s" High Representative for Gaza, Nikolay Mladenov , as well as representatives from mediating countries including Turkey, Qatar, Egypt and the United States, as Gaza marked...
Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei has been selected to take part in a torch-lighting ceremony for Israel's 'Independence Day', alongside a rabbinical judge who has publicly boasted about demolishing buildings in Gaza , according to Israeli...
Supporters of Palestine in Britain have launched a campaign to defend British-Palestinian plastic surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah, amid concerns that the General Medical Counci l (GMC) is seeking to bar him from practising due to his role in exposing...
For more than five hours, experts and specialists in Washington discussed US President Donald Trump’s second term , focusing on US foreign policy in the Middle East, the war on Iran , and its implications for midterm elections,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Around 100,000 worshippers performed Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque, marking the first Friday since the end of a 40-day closure imposed by Israeli authorities under the pretext of “emergency conditions.” Thousands of Palestinians from Occupied Jerusalem and 1948-occupied...
GAZA / PNN/ Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said conditions in the Gaza Strip remain “catastrophic” six months after a ceasefire took effect, warning that ongoing violence and restrictions on aid are continuing to cost lives. In a statement marking...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has warned of a dangerous and unprecedented escalation in violations by Israeli occupation forces and settlers across the West Bank and Jerusalem, calling for unity to confront them. Hamas political bureau member Hussam Badran said on...
The loaf of bread, a daily battle whose millstones have returned to rotate harshly in Gaza
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) The bread loaf crisis has returned to the forefront once again in the Gaza Strip, to impose a harsh daily reality on the residents, who have been lining up since the dawn hours in front of bakeries and points...
Sexual violence and threats of abuse against Palestinian men and women are part of the Israeli occupation forces' toolkit for oppression. A new report by NGO Equality Now cited one woman detainee who said an Israeli soldier threatened...
El principal imperativo sigue vigente —y concierne a todo el planeta—: cómo encontrar una cura para ese cáncer en Asia Occidental. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su Esto siempre ha tenido que ver con...
Five Palestinians, including a schoolgirl, were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Thursday, as journalists mourned the killing of an Al Jazeera reporter. The victims were killed in separate Israeli attacks amid a "ceasefire" theoretically...
America’s Moral Suicide
Full ArticleBy Michael BRENNER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The United States – the cynosure of Western society — has committed moral suicide in Gaza; and the death certificate was issued in Iran,...
Large protests erupted in cities and towns across the United States following US President Donald Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran and Israel’s large-scale bombing of Beirut this week. In dozens of cities on Wednesday, thousands of protesters marched through...
The Americans announced victory and negotiations—the Iranians did the same. Israel couldn’t care less and continues its murderous rampage. I’ve never been more skeptical in my life and believe this is all a mirage. I hope I’m wrong. By Peter...
French prosecutors have dropped an investigation into alleged drug possession by European Parliament member Rima Hassan , as scrutiny intensifies over her arrest on separate charges linked to a social media post. The Paris prosecutor's decision on Thursday to...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement said that reports revealing the Israeli cabinet’s approval of a plan to build 34 new settlement outposts across the occupied West Bank once again confirm the Israeli policies and crimes aimed at Judaizing Palestinian geography. In...
GAZA, (PIC) In a morning that did not complete, the child Retaj Rehan, aged nine, became a martyr inside her educational tent in the north of the Gaza Strip, while she was holding her notebook and pen and preparing to receive...
GAZA, (PIC) The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza said on Thursday that Nikolay Mladenov’s statements about the entry of 602 trucks into the Strip are inaccurate, lack credibility, and contradict documented facts on the ground. In a statement, the GMO said...
The conscience of humanity resists “everything for us, nothing for others,” the creed of the predatory empire erected on the corpses of nations. The shameless rapacity and insolence have reached their zenith, and Trump’s threats illustrate the depraved spirit of...
WEST BANK, (PIC) One Palestinian was injured and several others were arrested during a series of military raids carried out by Israeli forces on Friday across different areas of the West Bank. Local sources reported that Israeli forces arrested two brothers during...
Families across Lebanon are searching for missing relatives and mourning loved ones after Israel dropped 160 bombs throughout the country in ten minutes on 8 April. The strikes hit hundreds of residential buildings without warning. The barrage came hours...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank continues in multiple forms, no longer limited to residential, agricultural, or pastoral construction, but extending to include industrial projects that carry economic and political dimensions at the same time. In this context,...
Between Bombardment and Poverty: Two Different Crises, One Human Cost by Dr. Nabil Kukali
Full ArticleIn the Middle East, crises are often measured in missiles launched or economies weakened. But there is another metric—more precise, yet far less visible: how people actually feel while living through these crises. This question, simple on the surface, reveals...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hamas has called on Palestinians in Occupied Jerusalem and within the Green Line to mobilize and head to Aqsa Mosque, urging them to revive and maintain a constant presence there following its reopening after being closed by Israeli...
GAZA, (PIC) Factional sources reported that an upcoming meeting will bring together Hamas and other Palestinian factions with the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, along with mediators, in the coming days to discuss arrangements for...
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