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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) About 60,000 worshippers performed the Isha and Taraweeh prayers on Thursday evening in the courtyards of Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem. The Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem said that around 60,000 people attended the prayers despite strict restrictions imposed...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

GAZA, (PIC) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Thursday that humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip continue to deteriorate amid ongoing restrictions on aid access, stressing that the scale of needs far exceeds what...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

GAZA, (PIC) Gaza’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday that two people were killed and four others injured over the past 24 hours as a result of ongoing Israeli attacks, with all casualties transferred to hospitals across the Strip. In its report,...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

AMMAN, (PIC) Despite the announcement by the Israeli occupation authorities to end to its activities, the head of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders mission in the Palestinian territories, Philip Ribeiro, said the organization will continue its work...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli restrictions

Around the world, Muslims rejoice with anticipation and excitement for the blessed month. They get to wake up before dawn with lights on for suhoor, set “Ramadan goals,” deepen their relationship with the Qur’an, stand shoulder-to-shoulder in taraweeh prayers, retreat...

#Current Affairs, Anti-Muslim Bigotry, featured

Americans oppose a war with Iran—and that opposition has grown since last summer. After U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025 , Quinnipiac found that the country was only narrowly against joining further attacks (51 percent to...

War & Peace, Iran, protest

It’s a rainy Wednesday evening in Mayfair and we’re waiting outside the BAFTA building where a historic event is about to take place. Inside, American tech firm Palantir is holding a drinks reception for British politicians and military officials to celebrate...

Archive, Corporations, Middle East

A new study published in the medical journal The Lancet Global Health estimates that the death toll from Israel's war on Gaza was 50 percent higher than registered up to January 2025. The study, titled 'Violent and...

MENA

HAVANA — Cuban women cooking dinner in the dark with charcoal. Images of these scenes have become representative of the especially harsh period the country is going through at the moment, but they also highlight resourcefulness and resilience. “Blackouts are...

Americas, Global Voices, Military

Israeli authorities have announced a series of new restrictions on Muslim worshippers seeking to access the al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the holy month of Ramadan , a move Palestinians and rights groups say undermines the decades-long status...

MENA

The US-backed Palestinian committee established to take control of Gaza from Hamas militants opened applications for a police force for the enclave on Thursday, as President Donald Trump convened the inaugural meeting of his international Board of...

MENA

Israel critic Tucker Carlson has claimed he was detained at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport following an interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Carlson, a right-wing US political commentator, told The Daily Mail...

MENA

By Stefan MOORE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Amid the largest genocide of this century in Gaza and the violent ethnic cleansing on the West Bank, two prominent Jewish historians believe that...

Editor's Choice, Conflict, Gaza Strip

If occultism doesn’t publicly profess everything it believes in, is it possible that militant atheism is the exoteric layer of a Hermetic religion? Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Epstein Files revealed...

Society, Ideology, Jeffrey Epstein

GAZA, (PIC) With the Rafah crossing reopening in a limited manner, the return of Palestinians who have been stranded outside the Gaza Strip for more than two years continues, in a scene that reflects residents’ determination to return to their homeland...

Reports, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

More than 150 former foreign ministers, ambassadors and senior diplomats from around the world have signed an open letter accusing France's foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot , of spreading disinformation about Francesca Albanese over remarks she made on...

MENA

Diplomats are preparing to attend the inaugural meeting of US President Donald Trump 's controversial Board of Peace , despite growing international condemnation of Israel's expanding annexation of the occupied West Bank. The first meeting will take...

MENA

JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished a Palestinian home under construction in the village of Ein al-Beida in the northern Jordan Valley, east of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, on Thursday. Local sources said IOF, accompanied by bulldozers, entered...

News, demolition, Israeli violations

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Jerusalem Governorate said the killing of 20-year-old Nasrallah Mohammed Jamal Abu Siam from the village of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, constitutes a “fully-fledged crime” within what it described as escalating organized settler violence carried out under...

News, Martyr, Occupied Jerusalem

The Palestinian Prisoners Club said Wednesday that, as the holy month of Ramadan begins, Israeli occupation authorities are holding more than 9,300 Palestinian and Arab detainees . They face policies of torture, starvation, and slow...

MENA

Palestinian journalists held in Israeli prisons from October 2023 to January 2026 have suffered "systematic abuse," according to a Committee to Protect Journalists report published Thursday. Of 59 correspondents interviewed, "all but one reported being subjected to what...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli settlers targeted the Church of the Visitation in the depopulated village of Ein Karem west of occupied Jerusalem on Thursday. The Jerusalem Governorate reported that a group of settlers stormed the village and wrote racist hostile slogans on...

News, Church, Occupied Jerusalem

When the Maghrib call to prayer echoed across the shattered skyline on the first evening of Ramadan , Um Ghassan, a Palestinian woman from the north of Gaza , laid out a modest iftar from the little food...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hamas has condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ decisions to ban several imams and preachers of Al-Aqsa Mosque from the compound, describing the move as a renewed act of aggression against the holy site and its religious leadership. Haroun Nasser...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Hamas Movement

Israel's increased attacks and forcible transfers of Palestinians "raise concerns over ethnic cleansing " in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the United Nations said Thursday. The UN human rights office said the cumulative impact of Israel's military conduct...

MENA

Donors have committed $7 billion to reconstructing Gaza, US President Donald Trump said at the Board of Peace 's inaugural meeting in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Members of the controversial organisation are gathering in the US capital to discuss the...

MENA

Donors have committed $7 billion to reconstructing Gaza, US President Donald Trump said at the Board of Peace 's inaugural meeting in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Members of the controversial organisation are gathering in the US capital to discuss the...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continue to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip for the 131st consecutive day, through repeated military escalation involving artillery shelling, airstrikes, and live fire across different parts of the enclave. The Israeli violations have further...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOC) carried out a large-scale arrest campaign across multiple areas of the West Bank early on Thursday, detaining more than 24 Palestinians. Local sources reported that the IOF stormed the city of Qalqilya in the...

News, Israeli crimes, Israeli violations

In a quiet suburb of Johannesburg , Sameh Jamal Al-Barawi's flat looks unremarkable from the outside . It blends into the rhythm of the city , another building in a place far removed from the Mediterranean coast...

Yalla! Let’s Eat

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A 19-year-old Palestinian, Nasrallah Mohammed Abu Siyam, died on Wednesday evening from injuries he sustained after being shot by Jewish settlers in the village of Mikhmas, northeast of Occupied Jerusalem, earlier in the day. The Palestinian Ministry of Health...

News, Israeli violations, settler violence

On February 19, the Board of Peace will host its inaugural meeting in Washington, DC. President Trump said it will be “the greatest and most prestigious… ever assembled .” Yet, due to its excessive ambitions and questionable legitimacy,...

United-nations, Board-of-peace, Gaza-war

US President Donald Trump on Thursday will gather allies to inaugurate the "Board of Peace," his new institution focused on progress on Gaza but whose ambitions reach much further. Around two dozen world leaders or other senior officials have...

MENA

A top UN official warned on Wednesday that steps by Israel to tighten control of areas of the West Bank administered by the Palestinian Authority amount to "gradual de facto annexation". Since last week, Israel has approved a...

MENA

Le miserevoli e irriflessive considerazioni di un direttore di quotidiano italiano Segue nostro Telegram . Mario Sechi, con l’editoriale di domenica 15 febbraio 2026 dal titolo “La lezione americana” con cui ha impiastricciato “Libero”, da lui diretto con buona pace...

Italiano, China, European Union

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Thousands of worshippers performed the Isha and Tarawih prayers at Aqsa Mosque on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, despite heightened Israeli restrictions imposed by Israeli forces at the entrances and surrounding areas of the...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Israeli violations

GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday in Khan Yunis, as violations of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip continued through air, land, and sea attacks across various areas, coinciding with the first day of the holy...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

GALILEE, (PIC) A Palestinian teen was killed on Wednesday evening after being shot by Israeli police in the town of Kabul in the Galilee, following a pursuit inside the town. He had been reported in critical condition before being pronounced dead. Medical...

News, Israeli crimes, Israeli violations

Leila Shahid, the first woman diplomat representing Palestine abroad, died in southern France aged 76, her family said Wednesday. "She died today," her sister Zeina told AFP , without providing further details. Born in Lebanon in 1949, Shahid was...

MENA

The Witkoff negotiation enterprise is distancing Russia from its security imperatives Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal This file comes from the website of the...

Economics, Finance, Alastair Crooke

What Aurelien does not appear to understand is that it was the union of workers and middle class that enabled progressive politics. The PMC alone is the Green Party, which eventually becomes far-right. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to...

Austerity, Corruption, Deregulation
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