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Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli airstrikes killed four people on Thursday, in the latest violence to hit the war-shattered Palestinian territory despite the ceasefire. It came as Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened for...

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Artificial Intelligence once felt like humanity’s most benign creation—writing poetry, painting pictures, making films, composing music, helping scientists collaborate across labs. Then it crept into corporate boardrooms, assisting executives with organizational restructuring and employee layoffs. Panic set in. Would machines...

War & Peace, artificial intelligence, iran war

Gaza's border crossing with Egypt reopened on Thursday for a limited number of people, Palestinian and Egyptian officials told AFP , for the first time since Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran. An Egyptian...

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Aid shipments into Gaza have plunged by 80 percent since the start of the Iran war , as Israeli authorities throttle deliveries into the devastated territory. Figures from the US-led Civil Military Coordination Centre show that just 590...

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities have continued the full closure of the Aqsa Mosque for the 20th consecutive day on Thursday, preventing worshipers from entering the site, with authorities confirming the shutdown will remain in place until the end of...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Eid al-Fitr

GAZA, (PIC) More than 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza are marking Eid al-Fitr under worsening humanitarian conditions, amid ongoing Israeli restrictions, widespread destruction, and severe shortages of basic necessities. According to the Government Media Office, the holiday comes with little sign of...

News, Eid al-Fitr, Gaza Strip

GAZA, (PIC) Amid an escalating water crisis that goes beyond natural scarcity, Palestinian women face compounded burdens in managing resource shortages, alongside warnings of an almost complete collapse of the water system in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Water Authority issued a...

Reports, Gaza Strip, Water crisis

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) arrested pro-Palestine activists against its own internal guidance, documents seen by Declassified suggest. The files, obtained through Freedom of Information requests, also show that the force is cracking down on the use of Arabic...

Archive, Middle East, Top Stories

GAZA, (PIC) As regional dynamics accelerate and conflict fronts increasingly overlap, the Gaza Strip has returned to the center of Israeli calculations. The recent escalating attacks targeting police personnel in the enclave, as political readings suggest, are part of a broader Israeli...

Zionist Terrorism, Gaza police, Israeli ceasefire violations

How the Israel/US unprovoked war of aggression is transforming into a world war. 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 Cross-posted from...

Geopolitics, Media, Media Influence

The Egyptian army has launched a comprehensive crackdown on "unauthorised gold mining" along the border with Sudan , raising speculation that unrest in the southern neighbouring country is seeping into Egypt. Footage of clashes between Egyptian border guards,...

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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) saw its first wins along with several losses in this week's Illinois Democratic primaries, showing the lobby group's continued strength but also its limitations. The state had multiple primary races on Tuesday that...

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GAZA, (PIC) Al-Majd Security website announced on Wednesday that an assassination attempt targeting a resistance leader in central Gaza was thwarted following a “high-level intelligence operation.” The site stated that security forces arrested two individuals involved in the plot and seized weapons...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

GAZA, (PIC) A 14-year-old boy was killed on Wednesday evening after a wall collapsed on him in Gaza City. According to the PIC correspondent, the victim, Adham Al-Attar, was a displaced child who died when a wall fell due to strong winds...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces carried out pre-dawn raids on Thursday across multiple areas of the West Bank, detaining more than 11 Palestinians, including a journalist. In the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, Israeli forces conducted a large-scale incursion,...

News, Arrests, Israeli violations

Iran says Israel struck facilities in the huge South Pars gas field on Wednesday in a major escalation in the US-Israeli war that sent oil prices shooting higher. Iran then attacked oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf,...

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Falling shrapnel that struck a hair salon in the occupied West Bank killed at least three women on Wednesday, marking the first Palestinian deaths of the ongoing Middle East War. The deaths came shortly after Israel's military reported another round of...

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HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / Four women were killed and at least six others wounded on Wednesday evening when rocket shrapnel struck the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, Palestinian medical and security officials said. The Palestine Red Crescent...

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WEST BANK, (PIC) Three women were killed and several others injured on Wednesday evening after missile shrapnel fell on the town of Beit Awa, southwest of al-Khalil. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its teams “handled three victims” who were killed...

News, al-Khalil, missile attack

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out demolition and land-clearing operations on Wednesday, targeting agricultural structures and a water well in the town of Al-Ramadin, south of al-Khalil. Local sources reported that the IOF raided the areas of Treet and Deir...

News, IOF, Israeli violations

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for the Defense of Prisoners said Wednesday that this year’s Ramadan marks one of the harshest periods for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in more than four decades, amid escalating repressive measures. In a statement, the center...

News, Palestinian prisoners, Prisoner

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli police forces arrested Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, on Wednesday evening while he was in Occupied Jerusalem. Witnesses reported that a special Israeli police unit arrested Sheikh Salah while he was in the...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Israeli violations

As the Middle East confronts a rapidly escalating confrontation between the US, Israel, and Iran, the already fragile ceasefire in the war-torn Gaza Strip has returned to the centre of regional political calculations. What once appeared to be a...

Analysis

An international media association on Wednesday criticised an "unprovoked assault" by Israeli police on journalists in Jerusalem, which it said left a CNN producer with a fractured wrist. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) said police officers on Tuesday night...

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Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reportedly used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei’s residence before assassinating him. Israeli military spokeswoman Anna Ukolova has drawn...

Israel-Palestine, Russia, Surveillance

When the governing body of the Democratic Party convenes next month, it will face a challenge to its support for Israel. The Democratic National Committee has evaded the fact that large majorities of Democrats...

Middle East, Opinion, Politics

Denmark 's Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit filed by four humanitarian organisations accusing the Scandinavian country of violating international law by exporting weapons to Israel. The Palestinian human rights association Al-Haq, ActionAid Denmark, and the Danish...

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GAZA, (PIC) In the context of ongoing restrictions on the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation authorities escalated their measures by suspending vital humanitarian shipments, which threatens to deepen the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave. The occupation...

News, Aid ban, Gaza Strip

Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su We had many interesting stories of our own in Nigeria last week, which were worth commenting on, but going into the weekend, they were all dwarfed by...

Editor's Choice, Donald Trump, Iran

Postel was a Catholic priest who intended to reform the Church – but ended up being judged by the Inquisition, considered insane, and forbidden from teaching. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su If...

Christianity, History, Ideology

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities have intensified their policy of banning Palestinians from Al-Aqsa Mosque, issuing a six-month ban against Jerusalem activist Nafisa Khweis as part of a broader crackdown targeting worshippers and activists. Local sources said the decision is part...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Exile policy

WEST BANK, (PIC) More than one million women in the occupied West Bank are living below the minimum daily water requirement, according to a joint report by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and the Palestinian Water Authority released on World...

News, Gaza Strip, Water crisis

For thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip , hope for movement beyond the borders has once again turned into frustration. On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation government reversed its earlier decision to open the Rafah crossing on the...

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For nearly two decades, the Litani River functioned as an informal red line in the uneasy balance between Israel and Hezbollah . Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 , which ended the 2006 Lebanon War, the area south...

In-depth

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has continued to block Muslim worshipers from entering the Aqsa Mosque for the 19th consecutive day, repeating the same security claims to justify its closure of the holy site. Sources from the Islamic Awqaf...

News, Aqsa closure, Aqsa Mosque

Israel said Wednesday its forces had killed another top Iranian official, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, and said its military was authorised to kill any senior figure of the Islamic republic in its sights. The announcement, the day after Iranian security...

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WEST BANK, (PIC) At a highly complex regional moment, where attention is turning to the major hotspots of tension in the Middle East, a harsher equation is taking shape on the ground in the West Bank, its title is the escalation...

Zionist Terrorism, field execution, Israeli crimes

NABLUS, (PIC) A Palestinian woman was injured on Wednesday morning when a horde of extremist Jewish settlers assaulted her near the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus. Local sources and eyewitnesses reported that a group of settlers ambushed the woman while she...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes
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