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After weeks of bombardments in southern Lebanon that have killed more than 2,000 people and displaced more than one million residents, Israel has announced a ten-day ceasefire with Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, vowed to keep Israeli troops...

Opinion, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza War

Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday that Israeli fire killed four people, including one child, in different locations across the Palestinian territory. Israeli violence continues despite a ceasefire in the Gaza war that came into effect on October 10. Saleh...

MENA

While presenting itself as a victim on the international stage, the United Arab Emirates silently entered the war against Iran on the side of Washington and Tel Aviv. From sharing data from AI-powered radar systems, to bombing Iranian civilian targets,...

Daily Digest, Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Foreign Affairs

Many of the National Basketball Association’s biggest stars are quietly allying themselves with the State of Israel, making official visits to the country, meeting IDF troops, and investing in its national security industry. Meanwhile, individuals criticizing Israel and supporting Palestinian...

Front Page: National, Investigations, National

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli authorities forced a Jerusalemite resident on Thursday to self-demolish his own home in the town of Silwan in Occupied Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Governorate reported that resident Omar Abdul Majeed Abu Rajab was compelled to carry out the...

News, demolition, Israeli violations

GAZA, (PIC) Two civilians, including a child, were killed on Thursday evening by Israeli gunfire in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, and in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The PIC correspondent confirmed that the 9-year-old Saleh Badawi was...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, first lady Rama Duwaji , will be skipping this year’s Met Gala, one of the most star-studded events of the year. The move breaks with tradition that saw...

MENA

The Iran war put Israel’s air defences to the test. The multilayered billion-dollar system, among the most advanced worldwide, can combat a multitude of threats, from ballistic missiles in space flight to small rockets launched from nearby Gaza...

In-depth

The United States Constitution provides two paths for removing a sitting president from office: impeachment and the procedures outlined in the 25th Amendment. Both approaches are being raised again, and with increasing fervor , as ways to bring an...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

In the aftermath of last week’s big meeting of the Democratic National Committee in New Orleans, supporters of the U.S.-Israel alliance have been quite content. “We’re pleased that the DNC Resolutions Committee rejected a set of...

Activism, Column, Middle East

Israel's currency, the shekel (NIS), hit a 30-year high against the US dollar on Wednesday, approaching the symbolic barrier of three shekels to the dollar. According to Bank of Israel data, the shekel traded at 3.014 to the dollar...

Economy

GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said that Palestinian prisoners are going through “the most dangerous phase in the history of the Captive Movement,” amid physical and psychological torture, real starvation, and sexual assault. He also warned of the consequences of...

News, Israeli violations, Palestinian prisoners

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has distanced himself from intervening in a dispute between pro-Palestine organisers and British police over plans for a Nakba Day march after police in London refused to accept a protest...

World

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The anniversary of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day this year does not pass like other years, but arrives weighted with shocking facts and dangerous shifts that affect the core of the prisoners’ cause. At a time when violations are escalating inside prisons,...

Zionist Terrorism, Execution law, Palestinian prisoners

Last September, trade minister Sir Chris Bryant sat alongside foreign minister Hamish Falconer at a parliamentary hearing about arms exports to Israel. By this time, the death toll in Gaza had surpassed 64,000, and the Labour government’s...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

Lebanon on Thursday buried paramedics killed in Israeli "triple-tap" strikes in the south, a tactic widely condemned as a war crime for deliberately targeting rescuers. The method, which involves striking the same location multiple times to maximise casualties...

MENA

A Palestinian asylum seeker has been released from US immigration detention after a federal court ordered his freedom, ending more than 20 months in custody despite prior legal protections against deportation. Mohammed Abushanab, 27, was released on...

World

For decades, Israel's strategic objective was clear: neutralise Iran and dismantle its network of proxies. After 7 October 2023, that ambition appeared, briefly, to be within reach . Hamas was devastated, Hezbollah’s leadership was decimated , Bashar...

Analysis

The Palestinian Authority has handed over Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Adra, known as "Hisham Harb", to French authorities , according to family sources who spoke to The New Arab . The handover took place on Thursday morning, with...

MENA

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager near Jerusalem on Thursday morning, amid a surge in violence in the occupied West Bank , heightened by fragile Iran ceasefire tensions. According to the Jerusalem Governorate, 17-year-old Muhammad Murad Rayyan...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) Palestinian groups have called for widespread participation in Palestinian Prisoners’ Day events, urging mass mobilization in support of detainees held in Israeli prisons, amid warnings of escalating abuses and systematic killings. National and Islamic factions called on Palestinians and supporters...

News, Execution law, Israeli jails

BEIRUT, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have intensified airstrikes and artillery attacks across southern Lebanon, expanding operations beyond border areas in a widening military escalation, as concerns grow that Israel is replicating its Gaza genocide strategy in the Lebanese arena. Lebanese...

News, Hezbollah, Israeli aggression

RAMALLAH, (PIC) Human rights and media calls are escalating for the release of Palestinian journalists detained in Israeli occupation prisons, coinciding with the commemoration of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, in light of warnings of the expanding policy of targeting media professionals since...

News, Detained journalists, Prisoner Day

Gaza's battered health system is rapidly unravelling due to an illegal blockade by Israel , which has unleashed restrictions, supply shortages, and the systematic destruction of medical infrastructure, leaving hundreds of thousands of patients trapped. What was...

MENA

As Lebanon commemorates the fifty-first anniversary of the start of its destructive civil war of 1975-1990, its presidency and government have embarked on direct negotiations with Israel, a development that is feared to potentially lead to the renewal...

Voices

GAZA, (PIC) Two brothers were killed on Thursday after an Israeli drone targeted them in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces continue to violate the ceasefire. A local source told the PIC correspondent that Israeli aircraft targeted a...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The child Muhammad Murad Rayan (17 years old), from the town of Beit Duqqu northwest of Jerusalem, was killed by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire, who then withheld his body. The Jerusalem Governorate said that Rayan was martyred and another...

News, Child martyrs, IOF crimes

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called for mass participation in protests and solidarity events in support of Palestinian prisoners, urging Palestinians and international supporters to escalate pressure to improve their conditions in Israeli prisons. In a statement marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day,...

News, Hamas Movement, Israeli violations

BBC’s executive committee met nine times with Jewish community groups and only once with a pro-Palestinian organisation during the first year of the Gaza genocide, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The FOI request, filed by the UK-based Campaign...

Archive, Media, Middle East

GAZA, (PIC) The General Directorate of Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip has called on the United Nations and international humanitarian organizations to pressure Israeli authorities to reveal the fate of the bodies that remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a series of raids across various areas of the West Bank on Thursday, accompanied by arrests in Jenin, Nablus, and Ramallah. In Jenin, local sources reported that the IOF stormed the town...

News, Israeli violations, Occupied Jerusalem

On the surface, the launch of Israeli-Lebanese negotiations earlier this week seems like a big deal. In the first face-to-face talks between Lebanese and Israeli officials in more than 30 years, ambassadors from all three countries met under the auspices...

Diplomacy, Israel, Iran

Several recent developments suggest that the longstanding dominance of the global arms market by the United States could be poised for decline, including in the Middle East. Given the way U.S. arms have been used in the region in this...

Global-markets, Arms-sales, Weapons-sales

By: Ainur Rohmah - - - - In a moment of mounting global uncertainty marked by intensifying great-power rivalry, persistent conflicts in the Middle East, and the recalibration of alliances across the Indo-Pacific, Indonesia appears to be quietly adjusting the...

Another effort to limit U.S. arms shipments to Israel failed in the Senate on Wednesday as the body voted down a pair of measures that would block certain military sales to the country. The two joint resolutions of disapproval —...

Israel-gaza, Iran-war, Bernie-sanders

A Kuwaiti migrant went on trial Wednesday in a London court charged with planning a knife attack on Israel's London embassy just days after his UK asylum application was refused. Abdullah Sabah Albadri, 34, of no fixed...

MENA

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Settlement Observatory documented 31 settler violations across various areas of the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem over the past 24 hours. These included incursions into Aqsa Mosque, assaults on residents, land bulldozing, and property destruction. Aqsa raids...

News, Settlement activity, settler arttack

Security forces in Syria have detained more than 40 Palestinians during a security campaign carried out in recent days in the Damascus and Damascus countryside governorates, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the Action Group for...

MENA

The future of the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire between the United States, Israel, and Iran remains deeply uncertain. Whether it marks a fleeting pause in what may prove to be a protracted conflict , or the first fragile step toward...

Analysis

By Dr. Rassem Bisharat Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages affirms that the on-the-ground realities in the area extending between Al-Sawahra al-Sharqiya, Abu Dis, and Al-Eizariya, along with the surrounding small and scattered Bedouin communities, indicate...

Jerusalem, Judaization, Occupied Jerusalem
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