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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Friday that he is forming a committee to investigate the death of Riyad al-Amour, a 56-year-old Palestinian detainee who was released from Israeli custody following years of abuse and neglect and deported...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian citizens and their homes in the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on Saturday evening. Local sources reported that armed settlers stormed the outskirts of the...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

The United Arab Emirates on Saturday condemned what it described as "riots, acts of vandalism, and assaults" outside its embassy and the residence of its head of mission in Damascus . In a statement, the UAE's foreign ministry...

MENA

Christians in the besieged Gaza Strip observed Good Friday amid continued deadly Israeli violations of the ceasefire, with dozens attending mass at the Church of the Holy Family. A member of the Board of Trustees of the Orthodox...

MENA

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of towns in southern Syria on Friday, expressing solidarity with Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and siege and condemning a recently passed Israeli law which allows for the execution of Palestinian prisoners....

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian woman succumbed to injuries sustained from Israeli gunfire, while several others were wounded on Saturday as the occupation forces persisted in their ceasefire violations for the 175th consecutive day. Medical sources said that Samah al-Amour succumbed to injuries...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Earlier this week, a data centre operated by Amazon in Bahrain came under attack from Iran . The strike, which caused an undisclosed amount of damage to the company's facility, came a day after Iran's Revolutionary Guard issued...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,291 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

WEST BANK, (PIC) Two Palestinian citizens were injured and others were kidnaped after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and settlers stormed areas of the West Bank last night and on Saturday morning According to local sources, a man in his 50s was...

News, Arrests, Israeli raids

Israel is escalating its attacks on Lebanon at a dramatic pace , with targets shifting from the front lines to vital infrastructure, in an attempt to isolate areas and undermine the foundations of daily life. Observers widely believe that...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Rights Center (GRC) has warned of escalating dangers from thousands of unexploded ordnance littering the Gaza Strip after 29 months of Israeli attacks. This came in a statement released by GRC on the “International Day for Mine Awareness...

News, Gaza Strip, GRC

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has accused Israeli prison authorities of systematic medical neglect following the death of a former Palestinian detainee, describing the policy as an ongoing crime against prisoners. In a statement released Friday, Hamas’s office for martyrs, wounded, and...

News, Hamas Movement, Israeli jails

CAIRO, (PIC) The Hamas Movement and other Palestinian factions have stressed the need for the Israeli occupation government to fully implement the first phase of the ceasefire agreement over the Gaza Strip, with all its provisions. This came in a statement released...

News, Ceasefire efforts, Egypt

The World Health Organization warned Friday about "multiple attacks on health" in Iran following an airstrike on a facility in Tehran, and launched an urgent appeal to aid health systems affected in the wider region. "Multiple attacks on health...

Health

A French-Palestinian member of European Parliament is to be tried in France in July over allegedly "promoting terrorism" in a social media post , prosecutors have said. Rima Hassan, a 33-year-old politician from the France Unbowed (LFI) party, is an...

World

Despite its domestic displays of strategic bravado, India has flinched in the face of real American pressure. In 2018, India signed a $5.43 billion deal for Russia’s S-400 air defense system, brushing aside the threat of U.S. sanctions....

Democracy & Governance, War & Peace, India

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank on Friday, raiding towns and villages, assaulting residents, and carrying out arrests. In al-Khalil, the IOF stormed the town of Tafuh, where they stopped a...

News, Arrests, Israeli violations

GAZA, (PIC) Six Palestinian civilians were injured on Friday evening in an Israeli airstrike near Abu Sharkh roundabout in northern Gaza as ceasefire violations continue. Local sources reported that an Israeli drone targeted a group of civilians near the roundabout, injuring six...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

In a glass-fronted gallery in Highgate, London, passersby can't help but stop to take in the arresting wall of work by Palestinian artist Malak Mattar and British political artist Peter Kennard . "Occupation is so ugly, but...

Culture

Protests and condemnation of Israel’s death penalty law targeting Palestinians continued on Friday, following similar demonstrations earlier this week. Scores of Syrians gathered at the historic Umayyad Mosque in Damascus after Friday congregational prayers to denounce the...

World

An Israeli Instagram page has sparked anger on social media after it shared an image of a soldier using a detained, blindfolded Palestinian father to advertise its jewellery business. The Instagram page, named ‘Shilo_Jewelry’, published on Friday the image...

MENA

By Dennis KUCINICH Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Tell Your Member of Congress, House and Senate, to “Vote NO $$$$$ for War!” Up to 15,000 of the 50,000 American troops in the...

Editor's Choice, Congress, Democratic Party

China called on Friday for Palestinians' rights to be protected after Israel approved a bill to allow the execution of Palestinians convicted on terror charges for deadly attacks. Under the new law, passed by Israel's parliament on Monday,...

MENA

By George D. O’NEILL JR. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su We spend all that money and are still unable to defend our Persian Gulf bases. The latest American-Israeli aggression against Iran has exposed the...

Editor's Choice, History, Iran

A senior Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo late on Wednesday amid efforts to monitor the ceasefire agreement and ensure it holds, local media reported. The delegation also raised concerns over the escalating Israeli violations as well as the deteriorating...

MENA

Prominent US-based Muslim community leader Salah Sarsour was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on 30 March, the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) organisation reported. Sarsour, who is a board member for the organisation, also serves at...

World

Delicately tackling the themes of exile and the uneasy privilege of survival, Palestinian filmmaker Sawsan Qaoud' s documentary Gaza Grad was just presented at the Open Horizons section of the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival . The film...

Culture

More than half of voters in the Republic of Cyprus want to shut down British military bases on the eastern Mediterranean island, a new poll has found. Britain still militarily occupies three per cent of Cyprus having refused to...

Archive, Europe, Military

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student fighting deportation, have asked Judge Emil Bove to step aside from an appellate panel that could weigh in on his case because of Bove’s previous role as a top Justice...

World

Iran and its allies traded fire with Israel and the United States, as Washington-linked assets across the Middle East were targeted alongside energy and civilian infrastructure - with the month-long war on Friday showing little sign of easing. Strikes...

MENA

Palestinian militant group Hamas has told mediators it will not discuss giving up arms without guarantees that Israel will fully quit Gaza as laid out in a disarmament plan from U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace", three sources told...

MENA

A flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists who attempted to reach Gaza last year said on Thursday they would launch a new mission to the devastated territory from Barcelona on April 12. The Global Sumud Flotilla's first weeks-long journey across the Mediterranean...

MENA

Israel, funded and armed by the United States, is destroying Palestinian life in Gaza, accelerating ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and expanding its war across the region, from Lebanon to Iran. Read Article HERE The post Ali Abunimah:...

Geopolitics, Ali Abunimah, Link
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