Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar will attend US President Donald Trump's first formal Board of Peace meeting on 19 February, two Israeli officials said on Saturday. US officials told Reuters this week that Trump will announce...
Palestinian Finance Minister Estephan Salameh warned on Saturday that 2026 will be the most financially difficult year in more than three decades, accusing Israel of seeking to “destroy” the Palestinian Authority (PA) by imposing a "financial siege". Speaking to the official...
Two residents of Jerusalem have been forced to demolish their own homes following Israeli orders, amid continuing raids and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank . Rami al-Bakri, a resident of Beit Hanina north of occupied Jerusalem,...
GAZA, (PIC) The electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip is no longer a temporary service failure, it has become one of the clearest manifestations of economic collapse, following the complete power outage since October 2023 and the destruction of most of...
A judge declared a mistrial on Friday in a case of five current and former Stanford University students related to the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests when demonstrators barricaded themselves inside the school president's office. Twelve protesters were initially charged last...
Over a hundred top figures from the world of entertainment signed an open letter Saturday in support of UN Palestinian human rights expert Francesca Albanese who faces calls from Israel's allies to resign over comments about the war...
The Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza risks shutting down due to the breakdown of generators amid a continued Israeli siege on the territory . The government hospital had previously been operating on two main generators that have since...
The "extermination" of the Palestinian people must end, the chairman of the African Union Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf said on Saturday as he launched the organisation's 39th summit. "In the Middle East, Palestine and the suffering of its people...
The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza on Saturday called for full administrative, civil and policing powers to enable it to carry out its duties in the besieged enclave "efficiently and independently", as it seeks to assume...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, has called on Arab and Muslim nations and their leaders to support Jerusalem and assume responsibility for protecting Al-Aqsa, warning that the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
More than 50,000 foreign nationals have served in the Israeli army as of March 2025, including at least 2,069 British nationals. A report by investigative outlet Declassified UK has found that 50,632 soldiers serving in the...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian ministry of agriculture has reported that 777 trees were uprooted and destroyed by Israeli forces and settlers across the occupied West Bank in a single week, estimating the resulting losses at over $761,000. In a report released Saturday,...
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for the removal of "all obstacles" he said Israel has imposed on implementing phase two of the Gaza ceasefire. "We emphasise the need to lift all obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a large-scale overnight raid campaign across multiple areas of the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, early Saturday, detaining numerous Palestinians and clashing with residents. In Bethlehem, the IOF stormed al-Dheisheh refugee camp south...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,051 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Australian authorities were fully aware that inviting Israel’s president for a visit was going to ignite unrest and furious opposition. They invited him anyway, and sent in the police to assault the protesters. By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Join us on Telegram...
GAZA, (PIC) The Al-Haris platform affiliated with the resistance’s security apparatus revealed new details in a security case involving an agent who exploited the humanitarian conditions of prisoners’ families in the Gaza Strip, within what security sources describe as a war...
NAZARETH, (PIC) The Israeli occupation military has, for the first time, released detailed official data on the number of soldiers who hold foreign citizenship in addition to Israeli nationality, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. The data show that 50,632 soldiers...
A transatlantic row over the future of Gaza erupted into public view at the Munich Security Conference, with senior European officials openly challenging Donald Trump’s controversial "Board of Peace", the Guardian has reported. EU leaders...
GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinian civilians, including a woman and a child, were injured by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, amid other ceasefire violations persisting for the 126th consecutive day in different areas of the coastal enclave. A medical source...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas said that the scenes broadcast by the “criminal Israeli occupation showing brutal abuse against Palestinian prisoners in the Ofer Prison under the supervision of the extremist criminal Ben Gvir represent a new war crime and a blatant challenge...
Islam Times - The European Union presents itself as a standard-bearer of peace and human rights, yet its practical conduct toward Iran, the war in Ukraine, and the crisis in Gaza paints a different picture. A simultaneous examination of sanctions,...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different West Bank towns on Friday and attacked local residents in some areas. In Bethlehem, local sources reported that Israeli forces stormed in the evening the town of al‑Khader and patrolled multiple streets,...
Berlin has provided political cover and actively supported with arms deliveries the genocide that has turned the Gaza Strip into a wasteland and cost the lives of well over 70,000 people. Now Klöckner has openly declared her solidarity with the...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Mustafa al-Barghouthi, secretary‑general of the Palestinian National Initiative, has called for necessarily rallying around a national struggle program to confront the Israeli occupation’s dangerous schemes targeting the Palestinian people. In a statement on Friday, Barghouthi underscored the importance of resilience,...
A UN human rights spokesperson expressed concern on Friday about attacks on independent UN experts after several European governments criticised the organisation's special rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, and called for her resignation. This follows condemnation from Germany, France...
Writings and correspondence from jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti will be collected in a new book due out later this year, with his family expressing hope on Friday that it would give a new audience insight into his...
The United States is still not clear about how it sees the future role of the UN Palestinian refugee agency, its chief said on Friday, warning that jettisoning it would create a black hole similar to Iraq after...
Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy said Friday she was withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival over jury president Wim Wenders's comments that cinema should "stay out of politics" when asked about Gaza. Roy said in a statement sent to...
German speaker’s Gaza visit under Israeli military escort excluded Palestinians, reinforcing Berlin’s political backing for Israeli war policy positions. - Bundestag President Julia Klöckner entered Gaza embedded with the Israeli military. - - No Palestinian officials, civil society representatives, or residents were...
Indian author withdraws after jury head, the German Wim Wenders, says film festival should ‘stay out of politics’ Read Article HERE The “Good German” filmmaker Wim Wenders declaring that art should be unpolitical – especially when it comes to the...
GENEVA, (PIC) The Geneva Center for Democracy and Human Rights (GCDHR) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) have warned of the increasing recruitment and arming of underage children in the eastern areas of the Gaza Strip, particularly within the Israeli‑controlled...
GAZA, (PIC) The Aqsa Hospital in Gaza Strip has warned of an imminent threat to its continued operation following the failure of its second main power generator, after the first main generator had already stopped working three months ago. The hospital...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Asra Media Office reported on Friday that female detainees in Damon Prison continue to endure harsh detention conditions that violate their dignity and fundamental rights amid ongoing infringements on their privacy, particularly during nighttime hours, when male guards...
GAZA, (PIC) In a scene reflecting the brutality of war and the violation of the dignity of the dead, families in the Gaza Strip on Friday buried a new batch of unidentified victims’ bodies after they were handed over by Israeli...
Credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters via Gallo Images By Samuel King BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb 13 2026 (IPS) The latest World Economic Forum made clear the current crisis of multilateralism. Over 60 heads of state and 800 corporate executives assembled in Davos under a...
Declassified obtained data on the number of UK nationals in the IDF. We are publishing it for the first time Read Article HERE The post John McEvoy, Alex Morris: Over 2,000 Britons served for Israel amid Gaza genocideAlex MorrisJohn...
A Palestinian woman held in US immigration detention for nearly a year says she was shackled to a hospital bed for three days after suffering her first seizure, describing the experience as "dehumanising" and "terrifying". Leqaa Kordia, 33, is...
Corporate media has persistently refrained from connecting the dots and surfacing this clear pattern of Epsteins services for Israel, to the extent of even obscuring it Thomas Palley is an American economist who has served as the chief economist for the...
The current situation in Gaza Shaimaa Marwan is a journalist based in Gaza. Help support Shaimaa to survive the genocide and continue to work as a journalist by donating to her directly: Shaimaa has just published a booklet “Testimonies of Hunger,...
Activists and rights groups in the UK have welcomed a "monumental victory" after the country’s High Court ruled that a ban on the Palestine Action group was unlawful , citing breaches of free speech and rights to protest. On...
Pro-Palestinian Jewish activists disrupted a speech by far-right politician Nigel Farage at London's Central Synagogue this week, accusing him of racism and warning against the normalisation of extremist politics within the Jewish community. Farage was speaking on Tuesday night...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said transatlantic ties faced a "defining moment" in a rapidly changing world but struck a warmer tone ahead of the Munich Security Conference on Friday after a year of unprecedented...
A Palestinian paramedic from Gaza has died while in Israeli detention amid reports of torture and medical negligence . Hatem Ismail Rayyan, a 59-year-old paramedic, was pronounced dead at the Negev prison, a press statement from...
A trickle of Palestinians have passed through Rafah Crossing since its partial reopening. Those returning face intimidation by Israeli soldiers and the Abu Shabab gang, as well as the confiscation of their belongings. The post ‘I would never do it...
In the weeks following Bashar al-Assad 's fall on 8 December 2024, Israeli forces invaded areas of southwestern Syria beyond the Golan Heights , which they had occupied since 1967, seizing areas inside a UN-monitored demilitarised...
The military court in Lebanon heard testimony from singer Fadl Shaker yesterday, 12 February 2026, in cases related to the so-called "Abra battle" that took place in 2013 in Sidon, southern Lebanon. Shaker was accused...
Authorities in war-torn Gaza have urged the newly established National Committee for the Administration of Gaza to "urgently" enter the enclave as it pledges full cooperation. This came amid reports that a Palestinian ambulance officer from Gaza had died...
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