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GAZA, (PIC) Nine Palestinian citizens, including a child, were injured on Friday evening following Israeli airstrikes on a house in ash-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. According to local sources, an Israeli warplane struck the house near Hamid Street in ash-Shati...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Schiacciata tra l’austerità dell’UE, la pesante penetrazione tedesca nel suo tessuto economico e l’ostilità turca a fasi alterne, Atene, consapevole di possedere l’invidiabile posizione geografica di porta balcanica dell’Europa (cosa che l’ha resa anche particolarmente indifesa di fronte ai flussi...

Italiano, China, Diplomacy

GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said that the Movement is holding ongoing talks with mediators, especially Egypt, regarding the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israel, saying that Tel Aviv’s insistence on disarmament before other tracks represents “a...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian man and his child were injured on Friday in a settler attack in the Shuweika area near the town of al-Dhahiriya, south of al-Khalil. Local sources said a group of settlers assaulted the man and his child,...

News, Israeli violations, settler attack

Islam Times - The upcoming elections in the Occupied Territories are taking place under circumstances in which the Zionist regime is confronted with simultaneous security, economic, and political crises. Benjamin Netanyahu’s declining popularity, the protracted nature of the wars, and...

Palestine

UNICEF and partners established the first Primary Health Care (PHC) Centre and Child-Friendly Space/Learning Space in Jabalia, North Gaza on 12 January, 2026. Credit: UNICEF/Rawan Eleyan By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, May 8 2026 (IPS) Despite the implementation of a ceasefire...

Aid, Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice

Over 300 Christian leaders from states across the US called on Congress this week to stop funding Israel and allow unimpeded aid into Gaza. Christian leaders from New York, California, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland, among others,...

MENA

Pro-Palestine activists disrupted Barclays’ Annual General Meeting in London on Thursday in protest against the bank’s financial links to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza . Demonstrators accused the banking giant of "bankrolling genocide" and demanded it end its role...

World

Thursday’s UK local election results have seen Keir Starmer’s Labour Party suffer major setbacks just two years after securing a landslide general election victory, amid the rise of the right-wing Reform UK Party as well as gains by...

World

- - - - Photo by De'Andre Bush on Unsplash No, I’m not talking about Mark Hamill’s retarded post about President Trump, at least not at first. His whole “if only” with a picture of Trump in...

UK leader Keir Starmer said Friday he took responsibility for "very tough" local election results that saw the hard-right make big gains, but vowed to carry on as prime minister. "I'm not going to walk away and plunge the country into...

World

As in previous years, MENA films are once again spread across the Cannes Film Festival programme . This year includes one title in Competition, two in Un Certain Regard, a Special Screening, and one film each in Critics'...

Culture

In the summer of 1998, I traveled to the northeast region of China to visit a unique educational institution. The Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST), founded six years before, was the first private and the first foreign university...

Democracy & Governance, Christinaity, Kim Il-Sung

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque amid strict Israeli security measures. In a statement, the Jerusalem Governorate said that tens of thousands of worshipers had arrived at the Mosque since the early...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

DOHA, (PIC) Khalil al-Hayya, head of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, said Israel’s attempts to impose its will through assassinations and attacks on political leaders and their families “will fail,” following the assassination of his son Azzam...

News, Israeli assassinations, Khaled Mishaal

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and wounded at least four others in strikes targeting Gaza City on Thursday, as Hamas slammed what it called "the repetition of scenes from the genocide". Local sources told The New Arab...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) In light of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip for more than 30 months, heart patients no longer face only their illness, but also face a collapsed health system that is almost unable to keep them alive....

Zionist Terrorism, Gaza Strip, Heart patients

In Gaza, the mission to save lives is inseparable from the mission to save heritage — Israel's ongoing genocide targets both people and culture with equal devastation. Against this backdrop, Haneen Alamssi, 33, an architect from Gaza City, has...

Culture

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces on Friday continued violating the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip for the 211th consecutive day through artillery shelling, gunfire, and attacks targeting civilians in several areas across the territory. Local sources reported that Israeli tanks opened...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli forces carried out a series of raids across the occupied West Bank on Friday, including arrests, while settlers attacked Palestinian property by setting a vehicle on fire and spray-painting racist slogans east of Ramallah. In Nablus, Israeli forces...

News, Arrests, Israeli violations

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Jerusalem resident Mohammad Mahmoud Al Abbasi began emptying his house in the town of Silwan, south of Al Aqsa Mosque, on Thursday in preparation for demolishing it himself. This was in compliance with a decision issued by the...

News, Demolition orders, Occupied Jerusalem

A good assessment of the current stand-off in the Iran war Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent contractor, he...

Economics, Geopolitics, Article

As I pointed out in my last article, someone in the Trump administration who has been briefed on Trump’s upcoming statements about the war in Iran made a financial killing yesterday. This is part of a continuing pattern of deliberate...

Larry C. Johnson

An Israeli settler suspected of kicking and wounding a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem will go on trial for assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group, Israel's justice ministry said on Thursday. The assault on the nun, a...

MENA

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called for US authorities to relaunch their investigation into the Israeli military's killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh , who was gunned down while reporting for Al Jazeera...

MENA

Left-wing Democratic lawmakers have called on the United States to break its silence on Israel's suspected nuclear weapons programme , shattering a decades-long bipartisan reticence in Washington on the sensitive issue. Israel is widely believed to have developed nuclear weapons...

World

GAZA, (PIC) In Cairo, words are reviewed with precision, and clauses are discussed sentence by sentence, while mediators attempt to extract a formula that keeps the political path alive, even at a minimum level. However, in Gaza, there was another path...

Zionist Terrorism, Gaza Strip, Israeli assassinations

Spain summoned Israel's top envoy in Madrid to protest the "unacceptable and intolerable" detention of a Spanish activist from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, the foreign minister said Thursday. The countries' latest diplomatic clash came as Spain decorated the...

World

On Thursday 14th May the Dáil will debate a People Before Profit Bill that would impose a series of comprehensive sanctions on the State of Israel for its continued violations of international law, including apartheid, illegal occupation and genocide. The...

Action Item, International Law, Irish Government

Spain's Prime Minister awarded the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine with its highest civilian honour on Thursday for her work documenting atrocities in the Gaza Strip. Francesca Albanese was awarded the Order of Civil Merit, an...

World

The reigning Miss Israel launched a social media rant after claiming she was "shunned" during an encounter with Rama Duwaji at a coffee shop in Brooklyn over the weekend, accusing the New York first lady of...

World

Voters across the UK began casting ballots on Thursday in long-awaited local elections widely viewed as a major test for the government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. With polls predicting difficult results for the ruling...

World

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Jerusalem Governorate has warned that the Israeli occupation government will approve next week a project to build a Jewish heritage center on the site of the abandoned Jerusalem International Airport in the town of Qalandia, north of...

News, Jerusalem Airport, Judaization

France's far-right leaders have met the ambassadors of Germany and Israel in recent months as their party, once deemed antisemitic, seeks to court foreign envoys in the run-up to next year's presidential elections. Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration National...

World

The film “Everyday in Gaza” has won Best Short Film at Italy ’s most prestigious awards, the David di Donatello – often regarded as the Oscars of Italian cinema. Directed by Palestinian filmmaker Omar Rammal, the 16-minute movie...

World

RAMALLAH, (PIC) Criticism of the PA security forces in the West Bank has intensified following accusations that they continue to pursue a policy of political arrests and the targeting of resistance members and activists, alongside ongoing security coordination with Israel. The...

News, PA violations, Political detainees

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli forces and settlers escalated attacks Thursday against Palestinian agricultural land in the northern Jordan Valley, southern al-Khalil, and northwest of Nablus through the demolition of agricultural greenhouses, destruction of crops, harassment of farmers and shepherds, and the...

News, Israeli violations, settler attack

GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinian police officers were killed and several others were injured on Thursday in an Israeli strike targeting a security site west of Gaza City, amid ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement and growing threats to resume the...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement
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