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Palestinian authorities said Sunday that local elections in a single Gaza community and the occupied West Bank were a success and called them a step toward a long-delayed presidential election in the territories and eventual statehood. The Palestinian...

An Israeli police officer confiscated a Hungarian flag from a protester during a demonstration in Israel last week on the grounds that it bore too much resemblance to a Palestinian flag , and that it could cause "provocation". The protester...

Israeli security officials and residents near the border with Egypt have raised concerns over planned Egyptian military exercises involving live fire close to the frontier, according to Israeli media reports. The concerns follow what was described...

Loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas won most races in Palestinian municipal elections , election officials said on Sunday, in a vote that for the first time in nearly two decades included a city in the Gaza Strip...

By Mehmet PERINCEK Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Cuban Revolution and anti-colonialism in historic perspective. Speech held at a round table discussion titled “Fidel Castro and World Politics: The Cuban Experience...

Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip experienced moments of respite and joy this week, as dozens of couples got married in a charity-sponsored mass wedding on Friday. As many as 20,000 people gathered in the central city of...

On 8 December 2024, after more than five decades in power, the Assad regime in Syria was overthrown. Syrians, at home and abroad, erupted into celebrations and were joined by people across the region, including many Palestinians. Despite cultivating a pro-Palestinian...

BEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli military escalation in southern Lebanon has intensified, raising fears of a collapse of the fragile ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, as airstrikes, displacement, and broader political tensions converge on the ground. Israeli forces launched a series of...

The controversial negotiations between Lebanon and Israel that took place on 14 and 23 April expose the contradictions sustaining conflicts in Lebanon and across the region. Direct talks were requested before the current war by Lebanon as part...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The reopening of the Sanur settlement is not merely about a handful of buildings perched on a hill in the northern West Bank, it carries a clear political message: what was once dismantled under past pressures can now...

The Global Sumoud Fleet has completed preparations in Italy to set sail on Sunday in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid, organisers said. The civilian initiative,...

GAZA, (PIC) The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported more than 17,000 cases of infection among displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip linked to rodents and external parasites since the beginning of the year, as health and humanitarian conditions continue to...

Israeli forces stormed a polling station during Palestinian local elections in the occupied West Bank on Saturday evening, injuring six people, as wider raids and settler attacks were reported across the territory. The vote formed part...

Il Litani non è soltanto il principale fiume del Libano: è una linea di vita per acqua, agricoltura ed energia, ma anche uno spazio conteso da oltre un secolo. Oggi il progetto israeliano di controllo fino al fiume ripropone in...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and extremist Jewish groups assaulted Palestinian citizens in different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem on Saturday evening, injuring a number of them. In southern al-Khalil, six citizens were injured on Saturday evening...

GAZA, (PIC) In the Gaza Strip, Raghda ash‑Sheikh, a mother of three, is living through a compounded tragedy that started when the Israeli genocidal war broke out on October 7, 2023, but continues to unfold today as her family remains divided...

GAZA, (PIC) A woman giving birth by the light of a mobile phone. A mother searching desperately for clean water for her child. A family rationing the last handfuls of flour to survive barren days ahead. This is only a fragment of...

132 academics, writers and other public figures have signed a letter to the UK Court of Appeal in protest at the ban on Palestine Action , risking arrest in the UK in the process. The letter, dated 24th April, reads...

Pro-Palestine protesters in the UK city of Leicester broke through the roof and abseiled down into a factory owned by Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems on Friday. The activists, who are part of a group called "People...

GAZA, (PIC) In the far north of the Gaza Strip, where fear meets the frontlines, hundreds of displaced Palestinians in Halawa camp endure a daily reality that stretches beyond the limits of human endurance. Here, life is no longer measured by days...

The Seerah preserves moments that reveal the depth of the Prophet’s ﷺ humanity and the strength of his trust in Allah . Among the most poignant of these is the period known as ʿĀm al-Ḥuzn — the...

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By Clifford A.KIRACOFE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The United States must drop its cynical power politics, militarism, and imperialism. President Donald Trump, in his first and second administrations, broke with American tradition...

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and parts of the Gaza Strip voted in municipal elections on Saturday. The elections are taking place under conditions of war, political division, and widespread public disillusionment. Polling stations opened at...

LONDON, (PIC) Leading international academics, clinicians, and policy experts convened in London for the two-day conference “Advancing Health Care Education and Delivery in Palestine”, to address the escalating challenges facing healthcare education and medical practice in Gaza, and to call for...

GENEVA, (PIC) The UN has warned of the growing dangers posed by unexploded ordnance in the Gaza Strip to the lives of civilians, especially children, stressing that it hampers long‑term reconstruction efforts. Gaza, which has suffered widespread destruction due to the war,...

Israeli forces killed at least 13 Palestinians on Friday in a series of airstrikes targeting the north and south of the Gaza Strip in the latest deadly violation of the ceasefire that was reached last October. Israel's attacks...

Palestinians in the West Bank and a central area of Gaza cast their ballots in municipal elections Saturday in the first vote since the Gaza war , marked by a narrow political field and widespread disillusionment. Nearly 1.5...

Palestinians in the West Bank and central Gaza voted Saturday in municipal elections , the first since the war in Gaza erupted, with low turnout and a limited political field. Nearly 1.5 million people are registered to vote in the...