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A prominent Muslim civil rights organisation in the United States is suing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after he designated the group as a terrorist organisation for a second time. DeSantis announced on Wednesday that his administration was placing the...

World

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian citizen was martyred last night and others were reported injured today, Sunday, following Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. According to media sources, an Israeli strike last night killed a civilian in the west of Jabalia refugee camp...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

The life of a prominent Palestinian doctor held in Israeli detention without charge is in "imminent danger" following months of abuse and solitary confinement, an Israeli rights group warned on Saturday. Hussam Abu Safiya , the head of...

MENA

WEST BANK, (PIC) Palestinian human rights institutions have warned that the lives of detained Palestinian doctors Hussam Abu Safiya and Marwan al-Hams are in grave danger due to their exposure to daily torture in Israeli prisons. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and...

Jerusalem, News, Detained doctors

ISTANBUL, (PIC) The delegation of the “Palestine Flotilla” in Türkiye announced the completion of its preparations to launch the Flotilla from France on July 26, in a land journey aiming to reach Palestine, within the framework of a movement aimed at...

News, Anti-siege journey, Flotilla activists

US President Donald Trump has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off from attacking a strategic ridge in southern Lebanon, which Israeli forces have for weeks been trying to capture from Hezbollah. Citing what it said were informed sources,...

MENA

Israel said on Sunday it has named its first-ever resident ambassador to Slovenia , signalling a diplomatic reset after Ljubljana's change of government. Ties between Israel and Slovenia had soured under the previous centre-left government of prime minister...

World

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Sunday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources,...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir , has cancelled a planned trip to New York next week following calls for his prosecution and plans for protests against his visit, various reports said on Sunday. Ben-Gvir was expected to...

MENA

Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday, but Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as Iran's supreme leader, did not make an appearance. State...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has warned of an imminent threat to the lives of nearly 650 kidney failure patients in the besieged Gaza Strip due to the depletion of sodium bicarbonate, a key component in dialysis...

News, Dialysis patients, Gaza Strip

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed last night and at dawn Sunday different areas of the West Bank, breaking into homes and kidnaping Palestinian citizens. According to local sources, Israeli forces confiscated a tractor and kidnaped its driver as...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

Europe is rejecting peace with Russia and seeking war. The US and Israel Want War with Many – Thoughts Introduction In 1959, Ingeborg Bachmann concluded that the truth is something people can be expected to handle, since they are quite capable...

Guest Contributor

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) When Jerusalem is mentioned, we do not speak of an isolated city of antiquities separated from its present, but rather of an arena of confrontation over meaning, identity, and sovereignty. Any guide to holy sites in Jerusalem is...

Jerusalem, Aqsa Mosque, Church of Holy Sepulcher

GAZA, (PIC) Israel’s “yellow line” is a de facto partition that cuts through the Gaza Strip, granting the Israeli military control over approximately 60% to 70% of the territory, including vital farmland. It confines more than two million Palestinians into a narrow,...

Infographic, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

RAMALLAH, (PIC) A Palestinian family narrowly escaped what local sources described as an attempted mass killing early Saturday morning, after a group of extremist Jewish settlers set fire to their home in the village of al-Tayba, east of Ramallah in the...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

Israeli forces and settlers demolished Palestinians homes in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank earlier this week despite an Israeli Supreme Court order temporarily freezing the demolitions, Haaretz reported on Saturday. The Israeli Civil Administration,...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian civilian was martyred and several others were injured Saturday evening in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza City, amid ongoing ceasefire violations. Local sources reported that a civilian was killed and several others were wounded when an Israeli...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

ISTANBUL, (PIC) The Palestine Scholars Association (PSA) has warned that the Israeli occupation regime has transitioned from targeting the Palestinian people and their land to a new phase of warfare directed at Islamic rituals and holy sites. “[Israel’s] attacks on mosques, the...

News, Holy sites, Islam

Israel may have been plotting to kill Iran’s top negotiators while peace talks were underway, US officials have said, with experts telling The New Arab that the incident has revealed greater cracks in US-Israeli interests and relationship. Former...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,090 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The ban on raising the call to prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil city is no longer an isolated or temporary measure, rather it has become part of a series of escalating steps aimed at changing the historical...

Reports, al-Khalil, Ibrahimi Mosque

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) More than 1,403 Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem over the past week under heavy protection from Israeli police and special forces, amid a sharp rise in incursions and growing attempts to...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Judaization

Egypt’s renowned football coach Hossam Hassan dedicated the team’s win against Australia on Friday evening to the Palestinian people, waving their flag as crowds roared with jubilation. “Good things happen because of good people, in Egypt and all over the...

MENA

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked the homes of al-Masri family in the Khillet al‑Homs area south of Yatta in the occupied West Bank on Saturday morning, injuring two Palestinian residents. Local official Osama Makhamra said that Israeli forces...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) confirmed on Friday that they are reviewing a legal submission alleging that an Australian citizen serving in the Israeli military committed war crimes in Gaza, as the onslaught on the besieged Palestinian enclave passed...

World

GAZA, (PIC) The secretary-general of the Palestinian Sports Media Association (PSMA), Mustafa Siyam, said the Israeli occupation army has killed around 1,012 Palestinians from Gaza’s sports, youth and scouting sectors since the start of the genocide on October 7, 2023. In a...

News, Gaza sports, Gaza Strip

Iranians began to gather on Friday for the funeral ceremonies of slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei, as officials and international dignitaries paid their last respects to the man who ran the country for three-and-a-half decades. Iranian authorities have planned...

MENA

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s national team may have bowed out of the World Cup after being eliminated by the United States on Wednesday, but their fans will be remembered for giving a platform to the Palestinian cause at...

Sports

The con of neoliberalism has gutted our democracy and paved the way for fascism. 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...

Corruption, Economics, Lobbying

Israel's Security Cabinet has approved a plan to establish 13 new settlements in the occupied West Bank , with Palestinian officials warning that the expansion will deepen territorial fragmentation and further isolate occupied East Jerusalem. According to...

MENA

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has condemned the killing of Palestinian goalkeeper Saleem Khader Al-Ashqar by Israeli forces in Gaza this week, renewing calls for accountability amid Israel's killing of hundreds of athletes and sportspeople. In...

Sports

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian child was martyred and another wounded on Friday morning after an Israeli drone dropped a bomb on them in the Old City, east of Gaza City. Gaza’s Civil Defense said an Israeli quadcopter dropped the explosive device on...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

The British cosmetics retailer Lush has launched a new product on Thursday in support of the right to protest amid draconian measures within UK courts that threaten pro-Palestinian activism. Lush's new limited-edition "Resilience" bath bomb was designed...

World

Nearly eight months after the Collège de France cancelled the " Palestine and Europe , The Weight of the Past and Contemporary Dynamics" conference, organised by the Paris branch of the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies, an administrative...

World

A recent investigation by Haaretz has renewed scrutiny of the growing influence of religious Zionism within Israel's military after officer cadets described what they said was a right-wing ideological shift within the army's training...

MENA
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