Former One Direction singer Zayn Malik’s family are encouraging his fans to donate to Palestine instead of giving flowers, as the singer recovers in hospital from a reported heart condition. The British-Pakistani singer pulled out of several...
A top Israeli general has warned that rising Jewish settler violence in the occupied West Bank could trigger a violent Palestinian uprising. Major General Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli military's Central Command, described the phenomenon...
Israeli forces on Thursday chased, assaulted, and detained a Palestinian child identified as Mahdi al-Arabi, who has Down syndrome. In footage that has since been widely circulated on social media, four armed Israeli soldiers can be seen chasing...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) “I was arrested weighing 120 kilos, now my weight is 60 kilos, the prisoner’s food is not enough for a cat.” With these heavy words, the liberated journalist prisoner Ali al-Samoudi began his story, as one who summarizes a...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Jerusalem enters the month of May amidst a state of anticipation tinged with caution, with expectations of escalating tension in the vicinity of al-Aqsa Mosque during three consecutive Fridays, coinciding with Israeli religious and national occasions, amidst warnings...
Hezbollah has adopted a new field strategy in southern Lebanon centred on close-range engagement with Israeli forces, according to sources close to the group who told The New Arab that the approach was being deployed...
Israeli forces have killed at least 20 people in Lebanon in the last 24 hours, as the US urged for a face-to-face meeting between Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . The toll includes...
The story of the Sumud Flotilla highlights how the management of international waters in the Mediterranean is a realm of unstable conflict. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su How control of the Mediterranean...
Scores of activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters off Crete disembarked on a Greek island on Friday, as international condemnation intensified over what was described as an act of...
In recent remarks to Fox News, Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined a plan to task the Lebanese army with disarming Hezbollah — an effort that could spark civil war in Lebanon. “That’s what we’re working towards establishing, is a system...
In the wake of the American-Israeli war on Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory missile and drone attacks on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, Gulf Arab states are reassessing their long-held assumptions regarding the U.S. security umbrella. While it remains unlikely that...
An Israeli rights organisation petitioned Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday to demand the immediate release of 14 Palestinian doctors from Gaza who have been held without charge for more than a year. Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) said...
Flotilla members said Israeli troops used ‘extreme violence’ during the midnight raid, smashing engines and leaving damaged vessels abandoned in open Read Article HERE (Photo credit: Photo: Global Sumud Flotilla) The post The Cradle: Apartheid without borders’: Israel abducts...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have killed at least 16 people, including children and women, and wounded several others, according to the National News Agency (NNA) on Thursday. In the town of Jebchit, three people were killed and seven wounded...
As Israel expands its war on Lebanon and openly discusses a new "northern border", many are once again confronting a question that has overshadowed the republic since its independence: why has the south so often been left to...
"When we boarded that plane, it felt like something was being ripped out of my chest… like I'd never see my family again… It was like something pulling at me with pliers, ripping a vein from my heart." These are the...
By Mark CURTIS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Because they’re part of it. Britain’s national media fails to recognise the influence – and even the existence – of an Israel lobby, our new...
GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation government has prevented representatives of the international stabilization force from entering the Gaza Strip to conduct a field tour in Rafah. Israel’s political echelon vetoed a planned field tour in the Gaza Strip by representatives of the...
Organisers of a Gaza -bound aid flotilla on Thursday said Israel's army had "kidnapped" 211 activists including a Paris city councillor in a raid in international waters off Greece. Helene Coron, a spokeswoman for the Global Sumud France,...
A large group of Israeli settlers stood atop a building in the Syrian village of Al-Hader in the occupied territory of Quneitra last week, waving the Israeli flag and chanting songs calling for the settlement of...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced the terrorist attack carried out by the Israeli occupation navy against “Global Sumud Flotilla” boats heading for the besieged Gaza Strip, while they were in international waters near the Greek island of Crete. “This...
Israel's army arrested around 175 activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters off Greece, the Israeli foreign ministry and the flotilla's organisers said on Thursday. The ministry said in a statement it had intercepted more than 20...
Some of the UK's leading humanitarian and human rights groups on Thursday are calling on the British government to suspend its trade agreement with Israel following the passing of its controversial death penalty law , which they warn is...
An Israeli court on Tuesday extended the detention of renowned Palestinian doctor Dr Hussam Abu Safiya without any charges or trial, as calls for his release grew after more than a year in Israeli prison under harsh conditions. The...
It has been a month since the Knesset approved a law that allows the execution of Palestinian prisoners , but in reality, Israel never really refrained from this practice. Already, during more than two years of genocide in Gaza, over...
If one wants to read a tale written with striking candour and a story that will evoke those feelings obscured deep within, then one should read Hannah Lillith Assadi's third novel, Paradiso 17 . Inspired by the life of...
The UK government has played a quiet intelligence role in the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran, satellite data analysed by Declassified suggests. Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) sent its first earth imaging satellite, named Tyche, into space in August...
Permanent war on its neighbours may appear to be a projection of strength, but Israel is fraying. Andrew Hammond currently teaches Turkish history at the Australian National University. He is the author of Popular Culture in North Africa and the Middle...
The image of an Israeli army soldier destroying a statue of Jesus in South Lebanon with a sledgehammer garnered international media attention. However, it did not receive sufficient outrage, given its wider significance in relation to the attitude...
Ukraine and Israel traded diplomatic blows on Tuesday as President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned what he said were grain purchases from occupied Ukrainian territory "stolen" by Russia and threatened sanctions against those attempting to profit from it. Kyiv considers all...
JAFFA, (PIC) An Israeli court has extended the detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip, without leveling charges against him, a rights group said. Abu Safiya, a pediatric consultant, was detained on December 27,...
GAZA, (PIC) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has accused the Israeli occupation authority of using access to water as a weapon against Palestinians and systematically depriving people in Gaza of water in a campaign of collective punishment. According to a report published on...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended Israel's daily assaults in Lebanon despite a ceasefire covering the country, and claimed that Washington was ensuring that attacks are "proportionate and targeted". In the interview, the Secretary of State...
An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian boy in an area east of Khan Younis on Tuesday, as Israeli forces continue their assault on Gaza despite a ceasefire coming into force in the enclave in October. The child was identified...
By HMGS Palihakkara COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Apr 28 2026 (IPS) As delegates from 191 countries, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, gathered Monday at UN headquarters for a month of diplomacy at the Review Conference of the...
A Palestinian family was waiting for Israeli officials to return their son’s body. Inside a mourning tent, a group of American foreign policy leaders sat with them. It was August 2025, and Ilan Goldenberg — a former adviser to Vice President...
GAZA, (PIC) The deputy minister of economy in Gaza, Hasan Abu Rayala, has affirmed that the Israeli genocidal war on the Strip “has not ended, but has merely shifted in its tools and methods,” describing the blockade as “one of the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) At all hours, day, night, and dawn, Israeli military raids across the West Bank have become a routine, organized pattern. Armored vehicles lead the incursions, followed by house searches, arrests, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, all framed...
Earlier in April, Israel’s security cabinet approved the establishment of 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank. It was the largest single announcement on record, bringing the total number of Israeli settlements okayed by the current...
Israeli forces carried out a series of large-scale raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank overnight on Sunday and throughout Monday, amid continued Israeli violence in the Palestinian territory. Israeli military troops raided the Qalandia refugee camp...
Relatives of dozens of Syrians detained in the southwestern province of Quneitra by Israeli forces held a protest on Sunday outside the foreign ministry building in Damascus, demanding the government make efforts to secure the release of their...
Relatives of dozens of Syrians detained in the southwestern province of Quneitra by Israeli forces held a protest on Sunday outside the foreign ministry building in Damascus, demanding the government make efforts to secure the release of their...
Israel's military strategy in Gaza has evolved beyond direct occupation into a fragmentation campaign, backing at least five Palestinian armed groups in an attempt to dismantle Hamas governance and create a chaotic security vacuum that deepens control over the...
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem on Monday said he "categorically rejects" the Lebanese leadership’s efforts to engage with Israel in direct talks, amid repeated Israeli attacks and continued hostilities. Qassem said in a statement that these talks "do not...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has defended his decision to engage directly with Israel following criticism from Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem on Monday, stressing that he would not accept a "humiliating agreement". Speaking at the presidential palace during...
By Philip GIRALDI Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Using America’s sons and daughters to devastate the world Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the...
The Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, co-sponsored by the United States and tasked with coordinating aid to Palestinians, met last week with representatives of the Palestinian Authority and the so-called Board of Peace. Yet behind this carefully staged humanitarian...
By Farwa Imtiaz On 20 April 2026 the Jerusalem District Planning Committee approved an 11-storey ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious school known as Or Somayach, or the Glassman Yeshiva, in the heart of Sheikh Jarrah (Occupied Jerusalem). The project will rise on five...
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