Jordan's foreign ministry on Wednesday called on Israeli authorities to reopen the Al-Aqsa compound in east Jerusalem, which has been closed for almost two weeks of the holy month of Ramadan . Authorities have prevented Palestinian Muslim worshippers...
At the remarkable age of 100, Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi passed away on Sunday, 8 March. Gone but never forgotten, we pay tribute to “the historian of the Palestinian cause,” whose groundbreaking research chronicled the Nakba and...
Palestinian group Hamas condemned Israel’s continued closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex for the 11th consecutive day on Tuesday, warning that the move threatens freedom of worship during the holy month of Ramadan. In a statement, the group...
World War III will not start with an exchange of nuclear weapons. It won’t ignite from the jostling of great empires. Nor will it result from a single madman (or two) bent on taking over the world. It won’t be any...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Tuesday that controversial legislation exempting ultra-Orthodox men from military service will be shelved for now, citing the soaring costs of Israel’s war with Iran. According to...
An Irish-language singer from punk-rap group Kneecap will not face a terrorism charge after UK prosecutors lost a High Court challenge Wednesday against a judge's decision to dismiss the case. Liam O'Hanna was charged in May last...
The southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Wednesday bid farewell to Lebanese Red Cross paramedic Youssef Assaf, who died of wounds sustained while carrying out a rescue mission after an Israeli strike on the town of...
If the United States and Israel succeed in destroying Iran, Turkey may be next. This is no longer a speculative provocation whispered on the margins of Washington’s think‑tank ecosystem. It is increasingly an articulated narrative, voiced by senior Israeli political...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi has warned that the Israeli occupation’s establishment of a new settler outpost on Mount Ebal, overlooking Nablus City, is part of a broader settlement plan aimed at swallowing more West Bank land to...
In the dim hall that once housed the historic library of Gaza's Great Omari Mosque, a thin beam of sunlight slips through a jagged hole in the ceiling, illuminating piles of torn pages , burned book covers,...
NABLUS, (PIC) Israeli settlers seized a Palestinian house under construction in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus in the West Bank, on Wednesday, while another group established a new settlement outpost on Mount Ebal north of the city, reflecting the...
Spain permanently withdrew its ambassador to Israel on Tuesday as a diplomatic standoff worsened between the two countries over Spain's opposition to the US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Ana Maria Salomon was officially relieved of her duties on Tuesday at...
"We had barely begun to come to terms with the deadly January protests, and now this new bloodshed unfolds," begins Avishan Chanani, an Iranian humanitarian consultant based in Lisbon. Born in Iran, she left during the Iran-Iraq war in...
TULKAREM, (PIC) Dozens of Palestinian women staged a sit-in on Tuesday outside the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, expressing solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, particularly women held in Israeli prisons. The protest...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Three Palestinian citizens were injured and several others were kidnaped last night and at dawn Wednesday after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem. According to local sources, two young men were...
By Bashaer Abu Muammar Inside a hall made of nylon sheets and tarpaulin, journalists sat shoulder to shoulder. This time, however, their tools were set aside. Open copies of the Quran rested before them as voices rose one after another in...
Senior British military and intelligence figures including two former UK security ministers and a head of special forces are advising a US organisation that has long supported military action against Iran and is now congratulating Donald Trump for his war...
Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians in northern Gaza and opened fire on civilians elsewhere in the enclave, local media reported on Wednesday. An Israeli army spokesperson said that the Palestinians were shot dead for allegedly crossing...
The UK government has banned an annual pro-Palestinian march planned for Sunday, which London police claim is organised by a group "supportive of the Iranian regime". Interior minister Shabana Mahmood said late Tuesday she had approved the rare police...
"You're under arrest for blasphemy. Please go inside and get what you need for a few nights in jail. We'll wait." With these words, the world of philosophy professor Sara Tarek Al-Ahmed begins to implode as she heads into the custody...
By Alan MACLEOD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Сorporate media of all stripes have rushed to support the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, throwing objectivity and accuracy by the wayside in order to...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Jerusalem Governorate warned on Tuesday of changes recently monitored in the maps displayed on the website of the Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem, related to the reclassification of parts of the town of Silwan and attaching them...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army has recently uprooted hundreds of trees, mostly olive, in various areas of the West Bank, particularly in Ramallah and northern Jerusalem, inflicting severe economic losses on local residents. The Israeli army also issued two military...
Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Israel was staged as a triumph of “strategic partnership,” but it landed as something more cynical: political cover for an Israeli leadership facing unprecedented legal and diplomatic scrutiny. Modi addressed the Knesset, met Benjamin...
JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC) Israeli forces and settlers laid siege to a Palestinian Bedouin community in the village of Atuf, northwest of Tubas, while other settlers set fire to homes in the hamlet of Khirbet Yarza in the northern Jordan Valley. Local official...
Hussein Shikha is a multidisciplinary Iraqi artist known for his textile art, interactive installations, experimental film and animation. Born in 1995 in Baghdad, he relocated to Antwerp, Belgium, in 2009, where he is currently based. Hussein draws inspiration from ancient...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Hamas Movement warned on Tuesday that the ongoing Israeli closure of Aqsa Mosque for the eleventh consecutive day, along with the prevention of Tarawih prayers and spiritual retreat (i‘tikaf) during the holy month of Ramadan, represents a...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said that Israel’s continued closure of the Rafah crossing under false security pretexts constitutes a serious and blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement. In remarks on Tuesday, Qassem stated that keeping the crossing closed confirms Israel’s...
GAZA, (PIC) At least one Palestinian was killed, and two others were injured in an Israeli strike on Tuesday evening targeting a house in central Gaza. According to the PIC correspondent, one body and two wounded individuals were recovered after an Israeli...
An influential Israeli rabbi from the occupied West Bank with links to the far-right on Monday publicly denounced settler attacks on Palestinians in a rare intervention after four Palestinians were killed . Rabbi Elyakim Levanon wrote in an...
The US-Israel war on Iran has already destabilised the region, causing much death and destruction. The impacts are also being strongly felt in Lebanon. In response to the assassination of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by Israel and the US,...
We should all be worried by how powerful and militarised America’s ‘tech-industrial complex’ is. Janet Abou-Elias is a researcher at the Democratizing Foreign Policy Project at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a founder of Women for Weapons Trade...
Israel has stalled the implementation of the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, using the cover of the Iran war to consolidate control over the Palestinian enclave. Israeli forces have continued attacks on Gaza for months, despite a ceasefire coming...
GAZA, (PIC) Bringing a new child into the world in the Gaza Strip is no longer a routine family decision. For many Palestinians, it has become a step weighed down by fear, uncertainty, and serious risk. As the devastating Israeli war consequences...
Turkey's Halkbank said it had reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to settle a years-long criminal case against the state-run bank over violating sanctions on Iran. Under the terms of a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), the bank...
By Elizabeth VOS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Elizabeth Vos on the social-media suppression of information that could help U.S service people refuse to join the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran as fears...
Protesters gathered outside Columbia University on Monday to mark one year since US immigration authorities detained pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil , who spent iftar with New York mayor Zohran Mamdan i. Students, staff and activists rallied near the institutions,...
When you dance with the devil, the dance isn’t done until you are done. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su When you dance with the devil, the dance isn’t done until you...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli authorities are facing growing international pressure to reopen the Rafah border crossing, as Palestinian officials warn that Israeli delays in implementing ceasefire commitments are worsening the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave. Mohsen Abu Ramadan, a member of the...
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has continued to close the Aqsa Mosque for the 11th consecutive day, on Tuesday, preventing thousands of Muslim worshipers from entering their holy site for prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. The ongoing...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens during raids on homes in the West Bank last night and Tuesday morning. IOF raids involved ransacking dozens of homes, interrogating and mistreating residents, and detaining them for...
Almost half of all articles about Muslims in the UK in 2025 contained "measurable bias", research by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) revealed, in a landmark study examining how British Muslims are portrayed. By analysing 40,913...
TUBAS, (PIC) Three Palestinian families were forced to dismantle their homes and tents in the Atuf area, southeast of Tubas, and leave for another place due to growing settler attacks in the northern Jordan Valley. Local official Moataz Bisharat said that three...
GAZA, (PIC) The number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza has risen to 261 since the beginning of the Israeli genocide against the Strip in October 2023, following the announcement of the death of journalist Amal Mohammed Shamali, who worked as...
As Ramadan started, Israel imposed restrictions on Palestinian worshippers entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied West Bank 's city of Jerusalem , notably barring persons under 55 years of age. Those permitted entry were subjected to searches, detention,...
BETHLEHEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) uprooted hundreds of olive trees in the Wadi al-Hummus area near the town of Dar Salah and the village of al-Khas, east of Bethlehem. Local activist Nidhal Huzaybi said that the IOF bulldozed about 50...
Thousands of Egyptian migrant workers in Gulf countries are unable to return home in the wake of a decision by their country's national carrier, EgyptAir, to dramatically raise return ticket prices, soon after the US-Israeli war against Iran...
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