The Israeli army launched fresh strikes on Gaza on Monday evening, setting ablaze around 200 tents for the displaced in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, and leaving thousands homeless once again. Residents told...
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GAZA, (PIC) The Jabalia al-Nazla municipality in northern Gaza has issued an urgent appeal to international organizations, relief agencies, and global partners, calling for immediate action to save the area’s collapsing water supply system. In a statement released on Tuesday, local officials...
Smart Farming Is Not the Future. It Is Already Here
Full ArticleSmart farming enables farmers to produce more with fewer resources, make better decisions under uncertainty, and reduce agriculture's environmental footprint. Credit: FAO By Beth Bechdol ROME, Jun 30 2026 (IPS) Farmers today are producing food under pressures that would have been...
CAIRO, (PIC) A Hamas delegation headed by Zaher Jabarin, the Movement’s West Bank chief, arrived in Cairo on Tuesday morning for talks with Egyptian officials and mediators on completing the implementation of the ceasefire agreement. Taher Al-Nunu, political adviser to the head...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) During the past 24 hours, extremist Jewish settler groups launched a new wave of violations and attacks in different areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian citizens, homes, and agricultural property. In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers attacked...
JENIN, (PIC) Israel has killed the Palestinian Tawjihi student, Mohammed Abahra, from Yamun village in Jenin, and is continuing to hold his body for the sixth month. Mohammed’s father, a schoolteacher, announced that he would abstain from participating in supervising this year’s...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Abdullah Al-Zaghari, called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take urgent and serious action to resume visits to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and use all available...
The breakaway state of Somaliland's opposition party has criticised the opening of a diplomatic office in Jerusalem, stating the move violates the constitution and could undermine foreign relations. In mid-June, the President of the self-declared breakaway region, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi,...
Lebanon has extended an exemption allowing non-Lebanese residents who entered the country and wish to depart via land border crossings to do so without penalties. The renewed waiver, announced on Monday by Lebanon’s General Security and valid...
NEGEV, (PIC) Far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Monday the completion of preparations to establish three Jewish settlements in the northern region of the Gaza Strip, pending approval from premier Benjamin Netanyahu. “The settlement administration, under my direction at the...
GAZA, (PIC) The prayer garment in the Gaza Strip is no longer merely an item of clothing women wear while performing their prayers. Amid the continuing genocide, it has become part of everyday life and a constant companion that rarely leaves...
Israel spent £50,000 lobbying Reform
Full ArticleReform UK’s deputy leader said last week that a parliamentary debate into Israeli influence on British politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation and at its core”. “As such, we should utterly reject it,” argued Richard Tice...
When I arrived in Cuba, I did not expect to be speaking Arabic. Organisers from the United States arrived at Mezquita Abdallah hours before the Jummah prayer to deliver bags full of Spanish translations of the Quran, donated by a...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,066 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Tuesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a series of raids across several cities and towns in the West Bank last night and on Tuesday, arresting at least one Palestinian, breaking into homes and forcing businesses to close. According...
We visited Youssef M. in jail at the end of May 2026. The Regional Court ruled to continue to keep them there. On what grounds is Youssef a suspect in the Pardubice arms factory arson? What does their defence lawyer,...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian woman and her child were martyred, and other citizens were injured last night as a result of an Israeli airstrike on tents sheltering displaced families in the south of the Gaza Strip. Local sources said that an Israeli...
At a recent hearing of the House Select Committee on China, State Armor CEO Michael Lucci urged lawmakers to treat Chinese influence in the United States as a national security priority. “The American homeland is contested. States are on the...
Israeli forces killed five people, including a child, in Gaza on Monday after a drone targeted a group of civilians, Gaza health officials said. Israel continues to regularly conduct attacks across Gaza , defying the October ceasefire...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has documented the killing of 54 Palestinian children and teenagers by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank during 2025. In a report published Monday, the organization said that most of the children were...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem condemned the international inaction after a young girl was killed on Monday evening in Khan Yunis, to the south of the Gaza Strip, following an Israeli airstrike that hit tents sheltering displaced families and set...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces committed 11 reported violations of the Gaza ceasefire since dawn on Monday, including airstrikes, live fire, artillery shelling, and the demolition of homes across southern and central Gaza. The incidents left six Palestinians killed, including a child,...
“I have lost my faith in the integrity of how we do our work and our commitment to principled reporting on the facts and application of the law,” wrote Shakir in his resignation letter – after serving as...
Israeli forces fatally shot a 15-year-old Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surges in the Israeli-occupied territory. "The child Amir Ahmad Jawad Jaber, 15 years old,...
Anti-Hamas organizers in Gaza had hoped June 26 would bring a wave of large demonstrations against the terror group. However, Hamas worked to lower turnout with arrests, threats, and armed street deployments. The post Hamas suppresses protests, IDF reports 17...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Jerusalem Governorate has condemned the fatal shooting of 15‑year‑old Amir Ahmad Jawad Jaber by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in al‑Bireh City today, calling the incident “part of the ongoing pattern of daily killings and extrajudicial executions...
UN chief Antonio Guterres has condemned the "relentless" expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank , saying in a report seen Monday by AFP they are contributing to the territory's worst displacement crisis since 1967. The...
GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army has committed 3,465 ceasefire violations in the Gaza Strip since the truce took effect 260 days ago, according to the Government Media Office (GMO). In a report released on Monday, GMO explained that these Israeli violations...
Israeli forces are killing Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank at the highest rate since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, according to a new report by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem. In its...
Welcome to our new live page, where we're continuing to track developments in the Middle East. You can track developments earlier today by visiting our previous live blog here . Here are the key updates on Monday: • President Trump...
Welcome to our new live page, where we're continuing to track developments in the Middle East. You can track developments earlier today by visiting our previous live blog here . Here are the key updates on Monday: • Iran's foreign...
Wherever American human rights activist Medea Benjamin goes, she receives an unusually warm welcome. One of the main reasons is that she has become a target of US President Donald Trump and his supporters because of her opposition...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has said that the Israeli occupation army persists in targeting Palestinian students in the West Bank, saying that four high school students were recently kidnaped while in the middle of taking their final exams. In...
The Iran war has laid bare a simple truth about American power: Washington is burning through million‑dollar missiles to shoot down drones that cost a fraction of that – and it can’t afford to fight this way indefinitely. Now...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has defended its approach to determining who qualifies as a journalist, telling The New Arab it has no plans to change its definition following criticism over the removal of Palestinian...
Polish President Karol Nawrocki made headlines recently for stripping his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Poland’s highest honor over Kyiv’s decision to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (known by the acronym UPA), a partisan formation responsible...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A Palestinian child was martyred after being shot by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) during a raid in Bireh City’s Umm al‑Sharayet neighborhood in the central West Bank. According to a medical source, 15-year-old Amir Jaber succumbed to a critical...
It has been and remains to be about one thing: the ethnic cleansing of Gaza Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium . Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter ....
Abu Obeida, the spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, has applauded the Syrian citizens who confronted Israeli forces in the village of Abdin in southern Syria with simple means, describing them as “courageous people.” “They stood firm, refusing to yield to...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The occupied West Bank is witnessing an unprecedented acceleration in the pace of Israeli settlement expansion, as this issue has turned into the most prominent headline of Israel’s policies aimed at deciding the conflict on the ground. The plans...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Monday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources,...
JAFFA, (PIC) Palestinians in Jaffa and Umm al-Fahm held separate protests Sunday against escalating violence and Israeli political interference in their communities. In Jaffa, residents gathered at Al-Ghazazweh Park to condemn a recent surge in killings and organized crime after three people...
Palestinian journalist Mujahed Bani Moflh, an editor with the media network Ultrasawt, was arrested during an Israeli raid on his home in Beita, in the occupied West Bank , on 28 June 2025. He spent the...
How the US-Iran deal has emboldened Yemen's Houthis
Full ArticleWhen the United States and Iran announced an interim peace agreement after weeks of escalating conflict, something shifted in Sanaa. Houthi rhetoric moved, visibly and quickly, into victory-lap mode. The movement's leadership was no longer speaking the language of...
Why the US-Iran deal has emboldened Yemen's Houthis
Full ArticleWhen the United States and Iran announced an interim peace agreement after weeks of escalating conflict, something shifted in Sanaa. Houthi rhetoric moved, visibly and quickly, into victory-lap mode. The movement's leadership was no longer speaking the language of...
Lebanon's US-backed framework agreement with Israel has triggered warnings from legal experts over whether Beirut may be limiting its ability to pursue Israel for war crimes committed on Lebanese territory. The concern centres on Article 13 of the agreement, signed...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,058 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Monday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Where the MOU is leading to Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s Blog Kronborg Castle in Helsingor The provisional surrender document signed by Donald...
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