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UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has called for his country to withdraw from its trade agreement with Israel and to impose sanctions on Tel Aviv, following Israel's deadly strikes on Lebanon , which killed over 250...

World

Twenty-one-year-old Waad Al-Shafei recites verses from the Quran as she rocks and pats her son Jawad. Their home is barely fit to live in: cramped and dark even during the day, with worn-out furniture, it is only accessible through narrow passageways...

Society

GAZA, (PIC) The Guardian published a report on Thursday highlighting the suffering of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who lost limbs during the war, saying that many now face complex humanitarian and legal challenges after moving to Egypt for medical treatment. Ola...

News, Egypt, Gaza patients

Whether by design or indecision, Donald Trump continues to keep the world guessing. Even after the Pakistani-brokered, fragile two-week ceasefire, odds are split on whether he sticks to diplomacy or is simply using negotiations as a smokescreen to transition the...

Voices

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities are planning to establish 34 new settlement outposts across the northern West Bank and the al-Khalil area, in what Palestinian officials describe as a major escalation of settlement expansion. Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission head...

News, Settlement expansion, West Bank

As the US-Israel war on Iran continues with no final resolution yet, can anyone still doubt that the state of Israel makes the world less safe? The ferocious US-Israel war on Iran has lasted six weeks, raining death and destruction on...

Voices

A chorus of hawkish Israeli politicians is urging the country’s military to intensify its weekslong ground and air campaign against Hezbollah and pave the way for a more permanent presence in the country’s south. On April 5, 18 Israeli lawmakers...

Courts & Law, Middle East, Military

Beirut, Lebanon - One hundred and sixty bombs in ten minutes. That is how Israel ushered in ‘Operation Eternal Darkness’ - the bloodiest day of the war in Lebanon - with devastating attacks across the...

In-depth

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police in Jerusalem released pro-Aqsa activist Muntaha Amara after arresting her earlier on Thursday morning near the Aqsa Mosque, which was reopened after 40 days of closure. “I came today to perform prayers at the Aqsa...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Entry ban

The Israeli government has quietly approved 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank on 1 April, as ministers accelerate the territory's de facto annexation ahead of this year's elections, according to Israeli media reports. Netanyahu's far-right...

MENA

By Ian PROUD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The U.S.-Israel conflict is not a matter pertinent to NATO for the blindingly obvious reason that Washington is the aggressor and not the victim....

Editor's Choice, Donald Trump, Iran

Worshippers were able to pray again at Jerusalem's holy sites Thursday after Israel lifted restrictions it imposed on large public gatherings throughout the war with Iran nearly six weeks ago. Jerusalem’s police said on Wednesday that they would lift...

MENA

Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem shortly after worshippers were once again permitted to pray at Jerusalem’s holy sites on Thursday, following Israel’s decision to lift restrictions on large public gatherings...

MENA

Israel’s death penalty law constitutes discriminatory regime of capital punishment: UN experts Israel’s new law effectively providing for the death penalty solely against Palestinians constitutes a discriminatory regime of capital punishment and manifestly violates Israel’s obligations under international human rights...

Christian & Muslim, Israel, Middle East

On Wednesday, the Israeli army killed Palestinian journalist Mohammed Wishah , a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher , using a missile launched from a drone that struck his car on Rashid Street near the Nabulsi intersection,...

MENA

BETHLEHEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army uprooted dozens of olive trees in the town of Teqoa, southeast of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Teqoa mayor Mohamed al‑Badan reported that Israeli bulldozers escorted by soldiers uprooted dozens of olive trees in the al‑Baq’ah...

News, Destruction policy, Israeli violations

Israeli forces shot and killed a young female student on Thursday while she was attending a class held in a tent in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, health and education officials said. The education...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Four Palestinian civilians, including a little girl, were martyred on Thursday in Israeli attacks in separate areas of the Gaza Strip, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 180th consecutive day. According to media sources, two brothers called Abdullah and Ahmed...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,317 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Thursday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

Surrendering to sleep requires a profound level of trust, as we voluntarily lower our defences and retreat into vulnerability. It is an inherently intimate act, where the public persona falls away, leaving only the raw, unfiltered rhythms of our subconscious...

Culture

Regardless of the future of the current agreement, Iran has already won. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The announcement of a temporary ceasefire between Iran and the coalition formed by the United...

Middle East, World, Diplomacy

NAZARETH, (PIC) In a move widely described as one of the most dangerous legislative developments tied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel’s Knesset has approved a law permitting the execution of Palestinian prisoners, a step that has triggered sharp Palestinian and international...

Zionist Terrorism, Execution law, Knesset legislation

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation municipality forced a Jerusalemite resident to demolish his own home in al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, south of the Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of building without a permit. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that Ahmad...

News, Demolition policy, Judaization

GAZA, (PIC) Palestinian farmer Ahmed Khudair is launching an agricultural initiative in the northern Gaza Strip, attempting to restore the pulse of the land and confront the escalating high prices, after the Israeli war of genocide destroyed 100 dunums of his...

Reports, Agricultural activity, Gaza Strip

Independentemente do futuro do acordo atual, o Irã venceu. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su O anúncio de um cessar-fogo temporário entre o Irã e a coalizão formada por Estados Unidos e...

Português, Diplomacy, Iran

WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers killed a Palestinian young man, assaulted other citizens, and kidnaped a child in separate areas of the West Bank on Wednesday evening. Local sources reported that 28-year-old Alaa Sobeih was shot and killed by settler gunfire...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

In the sprawling tent camps of the Gaza Strip that house hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians, another threat has begun to emerge from the rubble and garbage: rats. Across the war-torn Gaza , families say rodents are...

MENA

Shaun Hughes (left), WFP Country Director for Palestine, walks amid massive destruction in Gaza. Credit: WFP/Maxime Le Lijour Excerpts from a statement by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, to the Security Council, pursuant to resolution...

Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Democracy

The two-week ceasefire between Tehran and Washington — at least for right now — is allowing a collective global exhale following an intense month of war. As of Wednesday, oil markets were rebounding , with prices dropping significantly from...

Enewsletter, Israel, Ceasefire

Amid its war on Iran — now frozen by a tenuous ceasefire — the Trump administration has been exploiting emergency waivers to fast-track controversial foreign arms sales to Israel and Gulf states, tossing Congressional oversight to the wayside. On...

Arms-control, Arms-sales, Rubio

Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera condemned the Wednesday killing of one of its journalists in an Israeli strike on Gaza, calling the death "a deliberate and targeted crime". "Al Jazeera Media Network strongly condemns the heinous crime of...

MENA

Turkish security forces have arrested nearly 200 people in a nationwide sweep one day after a shootout outside Israel's consulate in Istanbul , Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said Wednesday. Gurlek posted on X that officers had arrested 198 suspects in...

MENA

Iran now knows it has won the war and can drive a hard bargain, but appears to be returning to its pre-war vacillation and trust of Israel and the USA respecting negotiations. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was...

Geopolitics, Article, Chris Hedges

GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation has committed a new crime against journalism by assassinating journalist Mohammed Washah, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher in Gaza. In a press statement, Qassem said the killing is...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel remains prepared to confront Iran if necessary, despite a truce reached between the United States and Iran . "Let me be clear: We still have objectives to complete, and...

MENA

The ceasefire’s durability will hinge on whether Trump can restrain Israel from undermining the diplomatic track. On this point, there should be no illusions Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Cross-posted...

Geopolitics, Article, Trita Parsi
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