Aid organisations and rights advocates have warned that Israel 's decision to shut all land crossings into Gaza could have catastrophic consequences for Palestinians in the territory, with experts telling The New Arab that the move risks...
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JENIN, West Bank / PNN/ Israeli occupation forces began large-scale demolition operations on Monday in the village of Barta’a, southwest of Jenin, targeting 15 Palestinian homes on the grounds that they were built without permits, in one of the largest...
GAZA, (PIC) At least six Palestinian civilians were martyred and several others were injured in Israeli attacks in different areas of the Gaza Strip on Monday. According to media sources, a number of civilians were injured when Israeli warplanes targeted an apartment...
Trump Is Losing Control of the Iran War
Full ArticleAmid a rapid escalation between Israel and Iran , Yemen’s Houthis have rejoined the Iran war , launching a volley of missiles at Israel and pledging to implement a “complete and total ban” of Israeli shipping in the...
Moroccan-American actor Ali Louis Bourzgui used his acceptance speech at the Tony Awards on Sunday night to speak out in support of Palestinians , immigrant communities and LGBTQ people after winning Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,980 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Monday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
By Philip GIRALDI Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Israel will benefit enormously and Americans will bear the burden There is near certainty that Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
Lebanon is now playing a key role in any ceasefire deal that Trump might think he has nailed with Iran. But can Hezbollah go rogue on all the main players? Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK ....
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Monday morning and later in the afternoon, amid restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, 71 Jewish settlers...
GAZA, (PIC) The Asra Media Office (AMO) issued on Monday an updated fact sheet entitled “Conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons”, in which it reviewed the conditions of Palestinian and Arab prisoners and detainees in light of the escalating...
Iran said on Monday afternoon it will end the latest round of strikes against Israel following the first exchanges of fire since the April ceasefire. Israel responded to last night's missile attacks with heavy attacks on Iranian industrial sites in the...
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Sunday lashed out at Turkey's Interior Minister, Mustafa Ciftci, after the latter said he hoped to one day see Jerusalem "liberated" and revealed that he had prayed to...
A Metropolitan policeman who was filmed calling a Palestinian journalist a “dog” had already been accused of harassing an Iranian woman in a previous incident, Declassified can reveal. Special constable David Soffer was at the front of...
GAZA, (PIC) Gaza’s Civil Status Directorate said 1,701 newborns and 159 deaths were registered across the Gaza Strip in May, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry on Monday. The data showed that 919 of the newborns were boys, making up...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Hamas warned on Monday of escalating Israeli settlement policies in the West Bank after new military orders and notices were issued to seize large areas of Palestinian land in Tubas and Jenin. In a statement, the Movement said the...
Israeli authorities have released a player on the Palestinian national women's football team following six days in detention after she was summoned by Israel's Jerusalem police, her mother told the press on Monday. Wissam Halawani said Israeli police released...
For the third consecutive day, Palestinian factions and mediators from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey have met in Cairo to address growing disagreements over Gaza's future , especially regarding resistance groups' weapons and governance during the post-war period. Participants...
GAZA, (PIC) Two Palestinian civilians were martyred and others were wounded on Monday morning when an Israeli airstrike targeted tents sheltering displaced families in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter said...
Donald Trump’s attempt to tie an Iran peace settlement to a mandatory expansion of the Abraham Accords reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how dramatically the Middle East has changed since the Gaza war and why old diplomatic formulas no longer...
Absence of Israeli, Syrian ambassadorial appointments sign of close coordination between president, foreign minister
Full ArticleTwo notable absences marked the annual diplomatic postings that were announced via presidential decree on Thursday: neither Syria, nor Israel will see a new ambassador. While the absences were not totally unexpected — Egypt has pursued a cautious engagement with...
Trump tells Iran, Israel to stop 'shooting'
Full ArticleUS President Donald Trump on Monday told Iran and Israel to stop fighting after the two foes attacked each other's territory for the first time since a shaky ceasefire put five weeks of war on hold. After an Israeli...
UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has defended his support for imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti after being targeted by pro-Israel activists over a T-shirt bearing the slogan "Free Marwan", telling The New Arab...
JENIN, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army started carrying out large-scale demolitions in the village of Barta’a, southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank, on Monday, targeting several homes under the pretext of unlicensed construction. Local sources reported that Israeli bulldozers began...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights condemned Israel’s decision to close Gaza’s crossings, including Kerem Shalom and Rafah, amid the military escalation between Israel and Iran, calling it another act of collective punishment against more than two million Palestinians. In...
TEHRAN, (PIC) The Middle East witnessed a sharp military escalation in the early hours of Monday morning as Iran and Israel traded strikes. Iranian missile attacks targeted areas inside Israel, drawing swift retaliatory Israeli airstrikes against sites within Iranian territory. The Israeli...
Abu Safiya’s lawyer: The captive doctor faces harsh conditions and solitary confinement
Full ArticleRAMALLAH, (PIC) Nasser Odeh, the lawyer for the captive Palestinian doctor Hossam Abu Safiya, revealed the deterioration of his client’s conditions inside Israeli occupation prisons, confirming that he faces harsh detention conditions in light of his continued isolation and deprivation of...
GAZA / PNN/ Four Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and several others wounded, some critically, in an Israeli drone strike northwest of Gaza City on Sunday evening. Medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital reported that an Israeli drone fired a missile at...
EIB, European Commission Launch €400 Million Facility to Support Palestinian Small Businesses
Full ArticleBRUSSELS /PNN / The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission have begun implementing a €400 million financing facility for Palestine, first announced in October 2025, through the signing of sub-loan agreements with several Palestinian banks aimed at supporting micro,...
GAZA: ‘If Civilians Can Get This Close to Establishing a Humanitarian Corridor, Then Governments Can Do It’
Full ArticleBy CIVICUS Jun 8 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla on its mission to bring humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza with Musa Roshdy, a humanitarian activist who took part in the flotilla. Musa Roshdy On 15...
Bethlehem / PNN / Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that Israeli forces are approaching control of approximately 70% of the Gaza Strip, as military operations continue and areas occupied by the Israeli army inside the enclave expand. Speaking at...
Downfall of a Superstar
Full ArticlePicture alliance/Anadolu/Selcuk Acar. Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly and former German Foreign Minister. Germany’s humiliating defeat in the race for a UN Security Council seat reveals the price of a foreign policy increasingly seen as hypocritical...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF launched a wide campaign of raids and arrests across the West Bank last night and at dawn Monday. In Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Israeli forces stormed the village of Beitin and kidnaped a young...
Hello, For those just joining us, here are the key updates: - A new round of violence erupted after Israel launched attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday, killing at least two people and wounding 20 others - -...
Israel Crosses Iran’s Redline in a Mission to Prevent Trump From Signing a Peace Deal with Iran
Full ArticleNine days after Iran warned the West, Israel in particular, that any further attacks on Beirut would result in Iran retaliating against Israel, Israel hit the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. The attack on Sunday afternoon sent plumes of smoke rising...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced late last month that he had ordered the Israeli military to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip. Under President Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan, Israeli forces were required to withdraw to a zone encompassing...
The images that have emerged from Gaza reveal the anatomy of a desolate landscape that defies human comprehension. Nothing can prepare the conscience for the sheer suffocating scale of a seemingly endless treeless terrain overwhelmed with millions of tons of...
The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in. This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country’s territory (that is, not Iran). This means that the battle lines have been moved. Iran’s deterrence...
TUBAS, (PIC) Israeli authorities on Sunday issued a military order confiscating 1,292 dunums of Palestinian-owned land in Tubas Governorate in the northern occupied West Bank, claiming the land is needed for “military purposes.” Mutaz Bisharat, the official responsible for monitoring settlement activity...
NAZARETH, (PIC) The legal rights organization, Adalah, has called on Israeli authorities to launch an immediate criminal investigation into testimony from a German journalist who was subjected to sexual abuse, physical violence, and degrading treatment while detained in Israel’s Givon Prison...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli authorities on Sunday forced two Palestinian brothers, Nabil Abu Juma and Sami Abu Juma, to self-demolish a residential building containing two apartments in the town of Al-Tur, east of Occupied Jerusalem. The building had stood since 2000. Over...
Dalla Jugoslavia alla Libia, il messaggio è chiaro: giustizia solo per i nemici dell’America. Segue nostro Telegram . Fatou Bensouda, ex procuratore capo della Corte penale internazionale, ha recentemente rivelato che il Mossad ha esercitato pressioni dirette su di lei...
UN investigators have verified multiple rapes of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces, but have still not verified a single claim of sexual violence against Israelis on or after 7 October 2023. In his latest annual report to the Security...
GAZA, (PIC) 36 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of June, including three children and six women, according to Gaza’s civil defense service. Spokesman for the civil defense Mahmoud Basal said in press remarks...
GAZA, (PIC) Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has applauded the shooting operation that took place on Sunday in the Kochav Yair settlement area near Qalqilya City in the occupied West Bank. In social media remarks today, spokesman for the Brigades...
The Israeli military has used white phosphorus - a chemical that causes severe burns and respiratory problems – in civilian areas of Lebanon during its ongoing offensive in the south of the country, according to new...
The Adalah Centre for Human Rights has called on Israeli authorities to launch an immediate criminal investigation into allegations of rape and sexual assault made by a German journalist who took part in the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)...
GAZA, (PIC) The Jabalia al-Nazla municipality warned on Sunday of the worsening water and sanitation services crisis in the city, as a result of the acute shortage of fuel and oils necessary to operate generators. The municipality confirmed, in a press release,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning and later in the afternoon, amid restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, 123 Jewish settlers...
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