More UK members of parliament and human rights groups are urging the British government to use its leverage over Israel to secure the release of detained Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya , with campaigners telling...
WASHINGTON, (PIC) A new AP-NORC poll has found a sharp decline in public support for Israel in the United States amid growing criticism of its war on Gaza and widening divisions within both major political parties over US policy. The survey, conducted...
Good afternoon, and welcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle East. You can track developments earlier today by visiting our previous live blog here . Here are the key developments so far today: • Funeral ceremonies...
Good afternoon, and welcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle East. You can track developments earlier today by visiting our previous live blog here . Here are the key developments so far today: • Tensions have risen...
GAZA, (PIC) Power outages in the Gaza Strip are no longer merely a disruption of basic services. As summer approaches and temperatures continue to climb, the hardships of daily life have intensified. Families, already exhausted by war, now find themselves trapped between...
GAZA, (PIC) The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, released a new video as part of its documentary series Aqmar Al-Tufan, focusing on the life of field commander Ahmad Salim Al-Maghari, who was martyred late last year during clashes with...
US President Donald Trump says he will decide on a potential sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, as he begins a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit in Ankara. “It’s a decision we’re going...
As evening fell, the scene across the war-torn Gaza Strip looked very different from what organisers of the so-called ‘June 26 movement’ had envisioned. While small gatherings did take place, the public squares designated for demonstrations remained largely empty,...
ATLANTA, (PIC) Egypt national team coach Hossam Hassan renewed his solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza ahead of Egypt’s World Cup last-16 match against Argentina, saying his support was based on humanitarian principles rather than politics or religion. Speaking at a press conference,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Tuesday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to the Islamic...
Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su By Jennifer KINGS As Israel intensifies attacks on Lebanon and seeks to entrench its occupation of southern Lebanese territory despite repeated ceasefire violations, another front of...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian citizen was martyred and at least four children were injured in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. According to media sources, an Israeli drone targeted a gathering of civilians in the al‑Mawasi area of Khan...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched a wide arrest campaign across various areas of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, kidnaping more than 20 Palestinians, including a woman, after raiding dozens of homes and interrogating residents. According to local...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Several Palestinian citizens sustained injuries and an elderly man was detained by Israeli forces on Tuesday following a violent attack by extremist Jewish settlers in the east of Yatta town, south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank. According to...
On Sunday, healthcare workers in Chicago held a vigil to mark more than a thousand days of genocide as a way to honour those who have lost their lives and to raise awareness of the ongoing assault on...
Egypt coach Hossam Hassan broke away from discussing his team's upcoming World Cup round of 16 match against Argentina to give an impassioned monologue about the plight of the Palestinian people. Hassan, who waved a Palestinian flag after...
On Tuesday, NATO will showcase a series of new military projects worth billions of dollars in an attempt to convince US President Donald Trump that the allies are stepping up defence spending and converting investment into...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished on Tuesday two Palestinian houses under construction in the West Bank province of Ramallah, claiming they were built with no permits. Local sources reported that bulldozers escorted by Israeli soldiers stormed the al Attari...
Welcome, This page is now closed. We're continuing to track developments on our new live page here . Here are the key updates earlier today: - Funerary ceremonies for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Khamenei got underway in the holy...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has threatened to fight a Supreme Court order regarding a media regulator, reigniting a judicial dispute that shook Israel in the months leading up to Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack . The decision comes ahead...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli forces and settlers intensified their violations in Occupied Jerusalem during June 2026, carrying out 540 documented violations against Palestinians, their property, and Islamic holy sites, according to the Ma’ta Palestine Information Center. The center reported that more than...
GAZA, (PIC) The head of the national coalition of Palestinian tribes, clans, and families, Alaa Al-Din Al-Aklouk, on Monday called for the national committee for Gaza administration to be allowed to begin its work in the Gaza Strip, saying there is...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday called on Israel to immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, describing his detention as “arbitrary.” In a statement, the UNHRC said Israel’s...
A Gaza doctor was abducted and has been held captive in an Israeli dungeon for more than 550 days, for the crime of trying to save Palestinians caught up in the Israeli slaughter. James Smith is a lecturer in Humanitarian Policy...
‘France’s political elites have made vague criticisms of Benjamin Netanyahu but refused to denounce the genocide in Gaza. Now left-wing lawmaker Rima Hassan has been dragged to trial because she defends Palestinians’ right to resist occupation.’ In Jacobin . Read...
What Marx thought about the role of the individual in history. Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War Made Invisible: How America...
Israel is only at the beginning of a "revolution in settlement" building, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday, declaring that the government's expansionist ambitions would extend beyond the occupied West Bank to the Naqab and Galilee. "I...
GENEVA, (PIC) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has warned that Israeli authorities are turning the Gaza Strip into a “genocidal ghetto,” imposing a tragic reality whose severity and intensity surpass that of the infamous Srebrenica enclave. “Israel is legitimizing and enforcing a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party has become ideologically inseparable from its far-right coalition partner Otzma Yehudit, Israeli and Palestinian politicians and analysts told The New Arab , after a Likud minister publicly acknowledged there were...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies (PCPS) has affirmed that 25 Palestinian prisoners have been held continuously in Israeli jails for more than 25 years. In a statement released on Monday, PCPS said that eight of these detainees were arrested...
After 20 years ruling over the Gaza Strip, Hamas dissolved its government on Monday, the movement announced in a statement . The head of Hamas’s government emergency committee and the government follow up committee is stepping down, and the emergency...
The Israeli government blocked the creation of a specialist prosecution unit designed to dismantle organised crime networks in Palestinian communities inside Israel , reigniting long-standing accusations that successive governments have failed to seriously confront spiralling violence...
Israel’s continued imprisonment of prominent Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya is "political, not legal" and keeping him behind bars despite mounting evidence of torture brings him "closer to death", Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has told...
A jury has acquitted an activist of violent disorder at an Israeli-owned arms factory targeted by Palestine Action in August 2024. William Plastow, 35, was acquitted on Monday at the Old Bailey due to what presiding Judge Patrick Field said was...
GAZA, (PIC) The announcement of the resignation of the head of the Government Work Follow-up Committee in the Gaza Strip, and the dissolution of the government emergency committee, constitutes a political and administrative development that goes beyond the procedural dimension to...
Hundreds of thousands gathered in Tehran for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral on Monday as Hamas announced it would dissolve Gaza's governing body and back a technocratic administration. In what is the biggest day yet in a week...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has appealed to mediators and regional partners to step up pressure on the Israeli occupation regime to halt its ongoing crimes and violations in the Gaza Strip, affirming that the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza would remain...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights (GCHR) said Israel’s continued control over around 70% of the Gaza Strip, alongside the daily killing of civilians across the territory, shows that the occupation is no longer merely imposing forced displacement and...
It was freezing in the Netherlands, and Renad Atallah was still tucked into bed, a beanie pulled over her head, wrapped in warmth. I was on the other side of the world, in Australia, talking to her through a screen....
A claim by a Lebanese newspaper that Tiffany Trump may have obtained Lebanese citizenship through marriage has fuelled speculation that the daughter of US President Donald Trump could one day run for parliament in Lebanon, despite...
The Hamas-run government in Gaza announced the dissolution of its emergency committee and transfer of control to the "National Committee for the Administration of Gaza." At a press conference in Gaza City, Ismail Thawabteh, the head of...
With Hormuz still squeezed and White House factions at war, who’s really playing whom? Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Plan ‘A’ was to topple the Islamic Republic which was seen as...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli settlers have established a new pastoral settlement outpost near the Ma’azi Jaba Bedouin community north of occupied Jerusalem, marking another step in the rapid expansion of outposts consuming Palestinian land. Pastoral outposts have become a central tool in...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,098 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Monday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Sada Social Center documented 911 digital violations targeting Palestinian content in June 2026, including abuses by users on social media platforms and direct restrictions imposed by technology companies. In its report, the center said 891 violations were carried out by...
GAZA, (PIC) Government authorities in Gaza have officially dissolved the government emergency committee to facilitate the transfer of administrative control to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), following arrangements with Palestinian factions. The decision, which was announced on Monday,...
Despite being billed as a “reset” to the Gaza peace process, no major shifts emerged from the Board of Peace meetings convened in Cyprus last week. But the gathering in Larnaca — which brought together board officials and Gaza’s new...
Military cooperation between Egypt and Turkey has rapidly ascended to heights not seen in decades, if not altogether unprecedented ones. The increased cooperation between these two heavyweight Middle Eastern powers has caused some consternation within Israel. In June, Egypt hosted...
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