GAZA, (PIC) In a scene that summarizes the cruelty of displacement in the Gaza Strip, the child Lana Al-Sab lost her life while sleeping inside her tent in a displacement area in the city of Deir al-Balah, after she was run...
ANKARA, (PIC) A high-level delegation from the Hamas Movement met on Tuesday with Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara City and discussed with him different issues of mutual interest. The Hamas delegation included Khalil al-Hayya, head of the Movement in Gaza,...
BRUSSELS, (PIC) The European Union’s foreign policy chief has expressed deep concern over a new Israeli law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, urging Israel to abide by its obligations under international law. In a statement on Tuesday, foreign policy chief Kaja...
Credit: UN Photo/Pasqual Gorri By UN Development Programme AMMAN / NEW YORK , Apr 1 2026 (IPS) New estimates by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) suggest the military escalation in the Middle East, now into its fifth week, may cost...
As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters a more “ dangerous and unpredictable ” phase, regional powers are scrambling to contain the fallout. With energy markets already rattled and the risk of spillover across the Persian Gulf and beyond...
Israel will reduce its military imports from France "to zero" in retaliation for French policies it deems hostile towards its interests, a defence ministry spokeswoman told AFP on Tuesday. "The Director General of the Ministry of Defence,...
It’s difficult to overestimate the extent to which this war is re-making the world order. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host , The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are published by CounterPunch Books. Ben Norton is editor of the Geopolitical...
A very important film about Palestinian history has just come out. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and...
In the view of General de Gaulle, “Treaties are like young girls and roses; they last while they last.” By that standard, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization seems to be wilting pretty fast. The Israeli-U.S. war on Iran has opened...
Bethlehem/PNN/ Addameer for Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Commission of Detainees Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoners Club on Tuesday sent an urgent letter to European Union countries regarding Israel’s recently passed death penalty law targeting Palestinian prisoners. The...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday confirmed the killing in a US-Israeli airstrike of a brigadier general sanctioned by the US in 2025 over an international network shipping oil to China and using profits to fund...
Islam Times - Europe’s hasty reaction to the attack on UNIFIL forces in Lebanon, contrasted with its telling silence on the large-scale killing of civilians in Gaza and across the region, has once again exposed the selective and instrumental nature...
GAZA, (PIC) A large protest took place in Gaza on Tuesday outside the International Committee of the Red Cross, where families of Palestinian prisoners, former detainees, and advocacy groups voiced strong opposition to new Israeli legislation, particularly the proposed “prisoner execution...
Yesterday, 30th March, Apartheid Israel passed a new law to mandate the death penalty for Palestinians, and only Palestinians, ‘convicted’ of lethal ‘terrorism’. The death penalty is an immoral and abhorrent form of punishment, but has an added...
Palestine Legal is deeply appalled by last week's foiled assassination plot against Nerdeen Kiswani, a 31-year-old Palestinian activist and mother who has been a prominent voice and organizer for Palestinian liberation in New York City for over a decade. We...
DOHA, (PIC) Hamas Political Bureau member Hussam Badran called for a comprehensive national mobilization, intensified resistance, and widespread public uprising to confront the “prisoner execution law.” Badran said that Palestinians face a historic test that goes beyond condemnation and requires concrete action,...
GAZA, (PIC) Abu Obeida, spokesperson for Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, has called on Islamic resistance in Lebanon to step up efforts to capture Israeli soldiers in order to secure the release of Palestinian and Arab prisoners held in Israeli jails, particularly following...
WEST BANK (PIC) A group of Jewish settlers installed mobile homes (caravans) on Palestinian land in the village of Bireen, southeast of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank. Farid Barqan, head of the Bireen village council, said that settlers set up the...
Four weeks into the war, Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon is facing fierce resistance that it has struggled to break. Despite more than 15 months of sustained airstrikes across Lebanon, entering the ground assault with control of...
Palestinians held a vigil on Tuesday in Gaza City against Israel's newly-approved law allowing for the execution of Palestinian inmates accused of "terror" offences. The demonstration, which took place in front of the International Committee of the Red...
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law allowing the death penalty for Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israeli targets, with two Arab lawmakers among those who voted in favour. The Knesset approved the legislation late on Monday...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Arab and Muslim foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israeli restrictions on freedom of worship in Jerusalem, denouncing the continued closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque and limitations imposed on access to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. In a joint statement,...
The outgoing head of the United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday he wanted an investigation into the killing of nearly 400 UNRWA staff during the Gaza war . "I believe that we need to have...
Each year on 30 March, Palestinians mark Land Da y, which commemorates the events of 1976 when Israeli authorities confiscated thousands of dunams of land in the Galilee, the Triangle, and the Negev. The widespread theft sparked widespread protests among...
Reports of airstrikes targeting water desalination facilities in Iran, Bahrain, and Kuwait have heightened concerns over a dangerous escalation in an already volatile conflict. In one of the world’s most water-scarce regions, such attacks threaten a...
I am not easily shocked by the mendacity of UK arms export policy. As a long-time observer of British involvement in the arms trade, I have seen sniper rifles described as ‘crowd control goods’, repeated instances of civilian harm reduced...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Israeli Knesset’s final approval on Monday of a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, passed in its second and third readings, has sparked broad Palestinian and factional outrage, alongside warnings of dangerous humanitarian and security repercussions, amid...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) In a context that goes beyond security concerns to reshape the religious and political reality in Occupied Jerusalem, Israeli authorities have continued to close Aqsa Mosque for the 32nd consecutive day, preventing worshipers from accessing the site. This prolonged...
President Donald Trump has told his aides that he is willing to end the war on Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains under Iranian blockade, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces have continued to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip for the 173rd consecutive day, carrying out artillery and airstrikes, as well as gunfire from military vehicles and naval warships. The attacks have been accompanied by...
On Monday, the courtyard of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip was filled with a mixture of tears, laughter, and long-held anticipation. Eight Palestinian families had come together for a moment they...
BEIRUT, (PIC) The National Commission for Palestinian Popular Action condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Israeli occupation authorities’ enactment of the so-called Prisoner Execution Law. This legislation represents a perilous and unprecedented escalation in the policies of repression and collective punishment...
NAZARETH, (PIC) The Israeli Knesset has given final approval to a law permitting the execution of Palestinian prisoners, passing it in its second and third readings on Monday evening. The legislation was approved by 62 members, with 48 voting against and one...
Israel's parliament passed a sweeping death penalty law targeting Palestinians on Monday, triggering widespread international condemnation - as lawmakers celebrated with champagne inside the Knesset . The bill, approved by 62 of the Knesset's 120 members with...
“Nablus is at the centre of a huge prison, surrounded by fourteen Israeli settlements and many checkpoints which are closed by the army most of the time. How much longer do we have to suffer? They’ve destroyed Gaza...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 31 2026 (IPS) While media coverage of Iran’s restrictions on passage through the Hormuz Straits focuses on fuel prices, partial closure is also disrupting crucial fertiliser...
NAZARETH, (PIC) On the fiftieth anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians find themselves in what is described as one of the bloodiest and most complex phases in the history of their cause, with the ongoing assault and blockade on Gaza and the...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Strip has recently been experiencing a worsening crisis in the availability of vegetables and fruits, accompanied by a sharp increase in their prices, further increasing the suffering of residents already living under difficult economic and humanitarian conditions. Specialists...
The attempt to revitalise the smear tactics which successfully brought down Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party won’t work this time. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium...
Keir Starmer is determined to turn a blind eye to Trump’s demands to join the war. Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy...
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry and Israel's military said. The military told AFP that a man armed with a knife began running towards...
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged US President Donald Trump on Monday to stop the Iran war, saying only he could do so, and warned that fears of the oil price going above $200 a barrel were not...
What should the American people , especially the hundreds of millions of their voters, expect former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden to do against the vicious, serial law-violating, violent, corrupt, agency-dismantling...
GAZA, (PIC) On the 50th anniversary of Land Day, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, affirmed that “our people are deeply rooted in their land and will remain steadfast, defending it by all means, until they reclaim all their rights and achieve...
The Israeli army has admitted to photoshopping an image of Ali Shuaib , a journalist killed in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon on Saturday, after accusing the veteran reporter of being affiliated with Hezbollah. Shuaib, a correspondent...
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The US needs to help Israel harm people or else the people who are mad about being harmed might harm Israelis. It’s circular reasoning...
TULKAREM, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) gunned down a 31-year-old Palestinian man at the Anab checkpoint to the east of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank on Monday, claiming that he was planning a car-ramming attack against IOF soldiers. Abdulrahman Abu al...
The Palestine Digital Activism Forum opened on Monday, bringing together activists, journalists, and technologists to examine how control over digital narratives has become a struggle for survival in today’s online spaces . Organised by 7amleh , The Arab...
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