Rights groups have raised alarm over a government-backed proposal that could restrict political activity in Israeli universities, warning it risks undermining academic freedom and further silencing Palestinian voices on campus . Speaking to The New Arab on Saturday, Index on Censorship...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A Palestinian woman detained in Israeli jails told lawyer Hasan Abbadi that prison guards have escalated their assaults and violations against women prisoners. Shahd Muhammad Adi, 23, revealed her testimony regarding the escalation of assaults and violations that Palestinian women...
An Israeli drone strike on Friday wounded staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, in the latest Israeli attack targeting healthcare facilities . At least three "civilians" were injured inside the hospital courtyard, according to Palestinian news...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Muata Center documented 1,183 violations by Israeli occupation forces and settlers across the West Bank between July 3 and 9, 2026. According to the center’s data, the violations resulted in the killing of one Palestinian and the injury...
GAZA, (PIC) At least two Palestinian civilians were martyred and others were injured following Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 274th consecutive day. According to media sources, one citizen was killed and several others...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Jerusalem Committee of the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad condemned the Israeli occupation forces’ detention of Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine and preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, from inside the Mosque after...
By Medea BENJAMIN Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su “I just want to say there was tremendous love in that room,” President Trump declared as he wrapped up the 2026 NATO summit in Ankara. But anyone looking...
Israeli authorities have banned the grand mufti of Jerusalem from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for one week. Sheikh Muhammad Hussein was arrested by Israeli forces after he delivered his sermon during Fridays prayers on 10 July, the Jerusalem Governorate said...
US Democratic lawmaker Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that he said was an unfiltered look at the human toll of Israeli occupation as he weighs...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza condemned repeated Israeli attacks on medical staff and health facilities, calling for an end to the occupation army’s continued assaults on healthcare workers. An Israeli quadcopter drone dropped an explosive device on Kamal Adwan...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Settler attacks in the West Bank are escalating at an unprecedented pace, amid direct protection from the Israeli occupation forces, in a scene that has come to embody a daily reality lived by Palestinians between attacks on lives...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A Palestinian citizen was injured on Saturday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at him in the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Red Crescent reported that Israeli forces and settlers attempted...
GAZA, (PIC) Humanitarian aid trucks in the Gaza Strip no longer transport only food and medicine, but they have come to carry the possibility of death with them on every journey. The drivers who leave their homes before dawn, hoping to...
The man who defied empires for 36 years is gone—but the torch of 1979 burns on. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Ode to the heroes On the morning of February 28, 2026, shortly after 8:00 a.m.,...
The legislative body of the Church of England is set to discuss a report calling for solidarity with Palestinian Christians at a time when communities face "settler colonialism, illegal occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide". The General Synod, who is scheduled...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,221 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different West Bank areas and carried out raids and arrests last night and on Saturday morning, amid settler attacks on citizens and their property. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped a young...
EU foreign ministers will discuss imposing an import ban on products from Israeli settlements , after pressure from a raft of member states for the bloc to take action, diplomats said Friday. Diplomats said the debate at a meeting in Brussels...
LONDON, (PIC) The Red Ribbons Campaign has addressed a message to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) asking for the use of all appropriate humanitarian means within its mandate to secure prompt, regular and meaningful access to Palestinian detainees...
Two women have told a court how they felt compelled to join the Palestine Action protest group after watching “a live-streamed genocide” of Israeli attacks in Gaza. “I would see mothers scrape up tiny pieces of their children,” 53-year-old Hannah Davidson...
GAZA, (PIC) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, warned of the continued deterioration of health and environmental conditions in shelter centers in the Gaza Strip, confirming that more than half of the displaced families live in...
Britain’s prime minister-designate Andy Burnham has admitted Labour "didn’t get it right" on Gaza and signalled a tougher approach towards Israel, including potential sanctions, in what he described as a need to "strengthen" the UK’s response to the war. In a...
More than two-and-a-half years after he was killed, the remains of a Gazan doctor were finally recovered from the rubble of his levelled home on Thursday, as thousands of missing Palestinians remain unaccounted for amid Israel's continued bombardment. Dr Maysara Azmi...
As UK retailers rapidly expand facial recognition technology across hundreds of UK supermarkets to tackle shoplifting, campaigners are warning that shoppers' biometric data could be entangled with the same Amazon cloud infrastructure used by the Israeli military in its war...
As UK retailers rapidly expand facial recognition technology across hundreds of UK supermarkets to tackle shoplifting, campaigners are warning that shoppers' biometric data could be entangled with the same Amazon cloud infrastructure used by the Israeli military in its war...
Occupied Jerusalem/PNN / Israeli occupation authorities issued a one-week ban on Friday preventing Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine and preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Earlier on Friday, local sources said that Israeli...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli occupation authority (IOA) handed Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, the preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and mufti of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, an order on Friday afternoon banning him from the Aqsa Mosque for seven days. Jerusalem sources said...
RAMALLAH /PNN / Israeli Extremist settlers on Thursday demolished the Yanoun Co-educational Primary School in the southern Nablus district, which had been serving 15 students from grades one through six, about eight months after residents of Khirbet Yanoun were forcibly displaced. In...
GAZA, (PIC) Political analyst Wissam Afifa said Gaza’s national administration committee, known as the technocrats committee and headed by Ali Shaath, is facing growing pressure to take on a role different from the one for which it was formed. Afifa said the...
“Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of angry young Muslims questioning Western socio-political hegemony, but amongst Muslims who are convinced that Muslim...
A source familiar with international discussions on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip told The New Arab on Thursday that Israel is studying a phased reconstruction plan that will span several years. The plan would be implemented only if the...
British journalist and documentarian Louis Theroux has described a new film on Gaza's wartime medical crisis as "a testament to something horrific", as he hosted a London premiere amplifying firsthand accounts from international doctors who worked inside the besieged enclave...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday issued a presidential decree setting 28 November 2026 as the date for legislative elections , reviving the Palestinian electoral process after two decades of limbo, while presidential elections are scheduled for the first...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) More than 70,000 worshipers performed the Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque compound in Occupied Jerusalem despite Israeli restrictions. Hundreds of worshipers from Occupied Jerusalem’s Old City and Palestinian communities inside Israel gathered to pray at Aqsa Mosque and...
Pope Leo XIV's decision to declare the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) in schism and excommunicate its bishops and priests has thrust one of Catholicism's most controversial movements back into the spotlight. While the immediate dispute centres on papal...
GAZA, (PIC) The waiting of the family of the martyr Muhammad Abu Khammash turned into a harsh ordeal that lasted nine days, during which it was unable to recover his body from an area east of Deir al-Balah under the control...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies said Israeli occupation authorities are committing war crimes against detainees from the Gaza Strip inside Israeli prisons, alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023. In a report issued on Thursday, the...
Waving flags, singing patriotic songs and carrying banners proclaiming " Egypt's men made us proud", thousands of supporters welcomed Egypt's national football team home on Friday after the Pharaohs produced the finest 2026 World Cup campaign in the country's history. Crowds...
From Arafat in 1988 to Trump’s travel bans, Washington turns the Headquarters Agreement into a weapon. Hosting the UN means spying, co-opting, and silencing. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In 2025, Donald Trump’s administration once...
As Israel's actions continue to divide US Jewish communities nearly three years into its genocide in Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll reveals that some of the biggest gaps are between religious and secular Jews. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Centre...
WEST BANK, (PIC) For Palestinians, the sound of an Israeli bulldozer is no longer just noise preceding the demolition of a wall or a house roof, but has rather become an announcement of the uprooting of an entire life. In just...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the Gaza ceasefire on Thursday, carrying out artillery shelling, heavy gunfire, and demolition operations across several areas of the Gaza Strip. A local source reported that a Palestinian woman was wounded by Israeli military fire in...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli forces carried out a new wave of large-scale military raids and coordinated operations across the occupied West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem overnight and into Friday morning, triggering violent confrontations that left several Palestinians injured. The escalating incursions come...
This live blog has now closed. Here are the key updates from today: - The United States and Iran are lowering tensions following days of strikes between the two. Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz plunged, negatively impacting markets - - Funeral ceremonies...
A major showdown on the House floor seemed imminent. An amendment, advanced by the Rules Committee, was poised to force a rare and telling record vote on stripping Israel of $3.3 billion in annual US military aid. Brought forward by...
NABLUS, (PIC) Jewish settlers on Thursday demolished the Yanon Coeducational Elementary School in the South Nablus Directorate, nearly eight months after the forced displacement of residents from Khirbet Yanon, depriving 15 students of their only local school. In a statement, the Palestinian...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the Gaza ceasefire on Thursday through artillery shelling, airstrikes, and gunfire across multiple areas of the Strip, killing six Palestinians and injuring several others. According to local sources, one person was killed and three others were...
The Committee to Protect Journalists is in damage-control mode amid a furor over a review of Palestinian journalists in its Gaza casualty database and attempts to change the definition of who is a journalist to exclude some Palestinians. net/content/exclusive-cpj-reconsidering-removal-killed-gaza-journalists-database/51505">HERE Relatives mourn Al...
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