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Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan’s accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court Jonathan Cook is the author of three books...

A U.S.-backed proposal to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is sparking fear in Gaza about the future of the agency that has shaped every aspect of refugee life for nearly eight decades. Earlier this...

CONTACT: media@palestinelegal.org July 29, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA — Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has opened Title VI investigations into 10 activists, barring 8 of them from campus after they painted pro-Palestinian messages on the university's century-old free speech fence. Today, Palestine Legal...

One small town in the West Bank refused to accept quiet annihilation by the Zionist colonialists and fought back, showing Palestinian resistance is still alive. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author...

As Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Washington, much indicates that he is no longer merely trying to draw greater American support into its war against Russia. Increasingly, it appears to be pursuing something far more consequential: merging the Ukraine war...

Reliance on banking apps and e-wallets has surged in recent weeks in Gaza, despite the strip’s lack of the infrastructure needed to support such a shift. While vendors see digital transfers as a solution to Gaza’s cash shortage crisis, unreliable internet...

The ICC arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu has, to date, been the only serious attempt by the international community to bring the Israeli state to justice for the genocide in Gaza. The person who brought the arrest warrant forward has...

The Central Bank of Ireland looks set to continue enabling the sale of Israel’s genocide bonds throughout the EU. Ireland is the ‘home member state’ of these bonds that fund genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes in Palestine, which means...

CARACAS — The country that in 2008 heard then-President Hugo Chávez say , “Go to hell, damn Yankees,” as he expelled the U.S. ambassador, today watches hundreds of U.S. soldiers patrol the streets of La Guaira, which was devastated by...

Southern Lebanon has been devastated by the Israeli assault; ruins dot the county of Nabatieh. A significant aspect in the ongoing war and negotiations between the United States and Iran has been the related Israeli attack on Lebanon, whose Shia community...

NABLUS, occupied West Bank / PNN / Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas said Israeli military operations and attacks by Israeli settlers across the governorate have killed six Palestinians and left dozens injured or detained over the past two days, describing the developments...

On July 22 , the House of Representatives approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), H.R. 8800, for fiscal year 2027, which includes a provision expanding defense cooperation and integration between the United States and Israel. The vote was 216-212, largely along...

New legislation could kill the freedom to criticize the Jewish state The country that once was the United States of America is now, in its 250 th year, led by a president whose ignorance of history and policy is so profound...

Last month, thousands of migrants across South Africa packed their belongings and left their homes. Parents withdrew children from school, shopkeepers shuttered businesses, employers advised workers to stay away, and families dispersed across provincial borders in search of temporary refuge. The...

The Metropolitan Police Service has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into UK nationals who fought for Israel amid the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed. The 240-page referral was first submitted by the Public Interest Law Centre...

Every bomb dropped on Gaza was, in some part, paid for by American taxpayers. The United States has provided Israel with more military aid than any other country—over $3.8 billion annually under a long-standing agreement, with tens of billions more...

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomes yesterday’s powerful call from Amnesty International for all EU states not to facilitate the sale of Israel Bonds . The clear unequivocal call on Ireland, as home member state, not to approve or transfer the...

RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN / Dr. Ramzi Khouri, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, warned Monday that Israel's accelerating settlement expansion across the occupied...

Israel extended the area under its control along Gaza’s eastern edge earlier this week, carrying out military operations in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah that forced people into displacement, eyewitnesses in both cities told Mada Masr. The two governorates lie adjacent...

Bethlehem / PNN/ The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has launched a new study titled "Algorithms of Violence: Analysis of Behaviors, Representations, and Implications of Organized Crime on TikTok among Palestinian Society in Israel." The study examines the...

The U.S. war with Iran continues to be a major distraction, diverting attention from other problems even within the Middle East. The Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not want it any other way. An image of Iran as...

Elders meet with Danny Seidemann, founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, to discuss the E1 settlement plan and Jerusalem’s holy sites. Credit: Maya Levin / the Elders By the Elders LONDON, Jul 20 2026 (IPS) We have just concluded a visit to the West Bank,...

While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or ‘Israel haters’, the UK state is racing to erect a scaffolding of control to protect itself before we wake up to the deception Jonathan Cook is the author of...

Today, the two-state scenario is far-fetched to the point of delusion if not evasion. Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War Made Invisible:...

For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel’s illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on...

Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in September 1993. The goal was reaffirmed in 2011 when 90 percent of the Senate...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the launch of the preliminary report from the UN Independent Panel on AI. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 2026 (IPS) As the international community continues to weigh the good, the bad and...

The world’s eyes will be on Lionel Messi on Wednesday night, as Argentina face England in the World Cup semi-final. The diminutive superstar has gained a massive following across the planet, not least in Israel, thanks to his numerous business...

Restoring some semblance of a moral core to the Labour Party won’t be easy, but is politically necessary for Andy Burnham. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and...

Bilal Abdul Kareem has spent over a decade reporting in Syria. That Syria would be shed of fifty years of grasping control by a dictator’s family was unthinkable ten years ago, when the war that would eventually see the ouster of...

The Palestinian national soccer team isn’t playing in this year’s World Cup. But despite a national and global crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest and speech, the games have witnessed an outpouring of support for Palestinians. Fans, players, and coaches from the...

PEN America, once a fearless advocate on behalf of persecuted writers around the globe, has become a shill for Zionism and American imperialism. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New...

Chas Freeman summarizes the last 500 years of human history and offers some “fearless predictions” for the future. Ambassador Freeman chairs Projects International, Inc. He is a retired U.S. defense official, diplomat, and interpreter Cross-posted from Chas Freeman’s Substack Photo licensed under the...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Settler attacks in the West Bank are escalating at an unprecedented pace, amid direct protection from the Israeli occupation forces, in a scene that has come to embody a daily reality lived by Palestinians between attacks on lives...

GAZA, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies said Israeli occupation authorities are committing war crimes against detainees from the Gaza Strip inside Israeli prisons, alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023. In a report issued on Thursday, the...

The Trump administration is reviving an imperial application of international law as part of its efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Although it openly denigrates the idea of a rules-based international order, the U.S. government is claiming that Iran must...

Oil is trading near its lowest levels since the war began in late February, with Brent hovering close to pre-war prices even as Gulf producers pump barrels back into a recovering market. The immediate trigger was a Qatari statement that...

GAZA, (PIC) The admission by the Israeli occupation authorities that they are holding the body of a Palestinian detainee from the Gaza Strip who was martyred during his detention has once again brought the file of body withholding and enforced disappearance...