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Israeli troops have carried out several cross-border operations in the south of Syria in recent weeks, invading villages, raiding homes, and detaining civilians. While some detainees were later released, others were taken to undisclosed locations with...
Stephen Walt, Chris Hedges – The Predatory Hegemon
Full ArticleT he abandonment of international allies treaties and norms, Stephen Walt argues, will slowly ostracize the United States and leave the country behind as the multipolar world rises. As Donald Trump’s administration continues down the path of self destruction, it...
David Cronin of The Electronic Intifada – Why is the EU accusing me of “disinformation”?
Full ArticleThis is the problem of having placed Germans in key positions at the EU as they impose their own pro-Zionist policies upon the Union itself David Cronin is an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada Cross-posted from The Electronic Intifada Katharina...
RAMALLAH /PNN/ The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said Wednesday that a reported U.S. decision to expand consular services of its embassy in Jerusalem to include the Israeli settlement of Efrat, south of Bethlehem, violates international law and signals...
A legal rights organisation has documented almost 1,000 incidents in which pro-Palestine voices were targeted in the UK , describing the pattern as a broad crackdown on the solidarity movement. The European Legal Support Center (ELSC)...
One of Syria’s first public opinion polls was released last week, offering invaluable insight into the Syrian public’s attitudes on the progress of the new government and the country’s major developments since the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Hamas Movement on Wednesday marked the 32nd anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre by calling for Israeli leaders to be prosecuted for crimes against Palestinians and their holy sites. In a statement, the Movement said the February 25, 1994...
A Gaza firm has been contracted to build an Emirati-funded compound for tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in a part of the territory under Israeli military control, two Israeli officials and two Palestinian businessmen told Reuters...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement on Wednesday condemned a reported US decision to provide consular services in the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the Gush Etzion bloc in the West Bank, calling the move a “dangerous precedent” and a de...
The head of Israel's prison system has given a group of Jewish settlers a tour of a maximum-security prison, where they were allowed to watch Palestinian detainees handcuffed and forced to lie on the ground. Kobi Yaakobi, the chief...
“I realised I was, in fact, and despite all performance to the contrary, an Arab man who was scared and filled with foreboding, with a force I had not realised was within me.” These are the words of Tareq Baconi...
Palestinian Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent resident of the United States whom the Trump administration is seeking to strip of his residency and deport, addressed a message to the president's administration in a statement to The New Arab...
February has been marked by a significant rise in protests and organised action against the Syrian government’s economic policies, as well as the worsening of living and working conditions. In Damascus and elsewhere in the country, ongoing demonstrations against the...
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a two-day visit aimed at deepening ties with a key trade and defence partner, a trip that has drawn criticism at home. It is Modi's second visit to Israel as...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,082 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Mohamed al-Hindi, Islamic Jihad’s deputy secretary-general, has described the US-led Board of Peace as nothing more than a “theatrical stunt,” saying it is detached from the reality on the ground. In an interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher satellite channel on...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities have issued a new wave of expulsion orders barring Jerusalem residents from the Aqsa Mosque and the Old City, as part of what Palestinian officials describe as an escalating campaign launched ahead of Ramadan. On Tuesday,...
Ramadan on its 8th day, Gaza fasts to the rhythm of loss under a truce without certainty
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) On the 8th day of the month of Ramadan, time in the Strip does not seem to move according to the Hijri calendar, but according to the rhythm of loss. A week of the holy month has passed, but Gaza...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A horde of armed Jewish settlers attacked on Wednesday the house of Palestinian prisoner Khalil al-Manasra in Masafer Bani Na’im, east of al-Khalil, under the protection of Israeli soldiers. According to local sources, settlers from a newly established outpost in...
Since before 1967, Israel has dehumanised Gaza through its colonial policies, a pattern that Trude Strand ’s book, Israel and the Gaza Strip Since 1967: A History of Occupation, Domination and Unilateralism (IB Tauris, 2026), traces to show how...
The US will provide on-site passport services this week in an illegal settlement in the West Bank, marking the first time American consular officials have offered such services to settlers in the occupied territory, US officials said on...
JENIN, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army demolished two buildings and several stores at the entrance of Anza village, south of Jenin, on Wednesday morning. Military vehicles accompanied by bulldozers stormed the village and began tearing down a building and several commercial stores...
Israel was responsible for the deaths of two-thirds of journalists killed across the world in 2025, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The press watchdog said on Wednesday that 129 journalists and media workers were killed...
For Gaza, Israel's genocidal war is measured by sporadic ceasefires but also by the ability of families to light their stoves without worry. Months after the fragile ceasefire supposedly took effect, Palestinian kitchens remain a daily battleground,...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A Jewish settler group set fire on Tuesday evening to Palestinian homes and vehicles in the southern West Bank village of Susya, injuring Palestinian citizens and spreading panic among families. According to al-Baidar Human Rights Organization, extremist settlers stormed...
Iran on Wednesday dismissed US claims about its missile programme as "big lies", after President Donald Trump said Tehran was developing missiles that could strike the US. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump...
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that he was hopeful ahead of the third round of talks with the United States, adding that they could help end the standoff with Washington. "We see a favourable outlook for the negotiations,"...
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that he was hopeful ahead of the third round of talks with the United States, adding that they could help end the standoff with Washington. "We see a favourable outlook for the negotiations,"...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different West Bank areas last night and at dawn Wednesday, assaulting several Palestinian citizens and kidnaping others from their homes. In Nablus, Israeli forces raided the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya for the second...
GAZA, (PIC) Four Palestinian citizens were martyred, including an elderly man, and others were injured in Israeli attacks in different areas of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. According to Palestinian media sources, an Israeli strike in southern Khan Yunis, south of Gaza,...
ILMAN and IMPAC Announce Endorsement of Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District CHICAGO, IL – The Illinois Muslim Action Network (ILMAN) and the Illinois Muslim Political Action Committee (IMPAC) endorse Kat Abughazaleh for the Democratic primary in Illinois’ 9th...
This Ramadan in Gaza, we hold on to hope
Full ArticleAs Ramadan begins, Palestinians in Gaza mark the holy month under a fragile ceasefire and with a hesitant joy. This year, the holy month actually holds the possibility – however delicate – of worship without terror, fasting without fear of...
Bethlehem/PNN/ Escalating repression, starvation and illness in Ofer Prison: testimonies document the continued reality of “systematic destruction” inside prisons New weapons increasingly used in crackdowns, including one that causes burns to the body The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club has issued a...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Approximately 40,000 worshippers performed the Isha and Taraweeh prayers on Tuesday evening at the Aqsa Mosque compound in Occupied Jerusalem, despite restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities, on the eighth night of the holy month of Ramadan. The Islamic Waqf...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli forces have issued demolition orders for 23 residential and agricultural structures in the town of Abu Dis, southeast of Occupied Jerusalem, in a new escalation targeting the Palestinian presence around the city. The Israeli forces raided the...
Can “Human Fraternity” Move Peace?
Full ArticleParticipants observe a visual montage linking Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Award ceremony, the Sant’Egidio interfaith forum in Rome and the Astana Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions — symbolizing the emerging “rehearsal space” where religion, civil society and state...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the Jabal Jales neighborhood in southern al-Khalil under heavy military protection, taking control of five old buildings in what residents described as an unprecedented development in the area in decades. Residents believe the takeover...
Somalis In Firing Line Of American Crackdown
Full ArticleRanked among the many issues for which the winter of 2025-26 might be remembered in the United States – ranging from explosive exposes of abusive tycoons linked to a country whose genocide of Palestine Washington has long supported, to a...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the opening of the 61st session of the Human Rights Council at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva. Meanwhile, Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses (below) at the opening of the...
Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, carried out a series of raids in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank early on Tuesday. The settlers arrived at Joseph’s Tomb , a religious site located on...
Inside the dusty shell of one of the oldest libraries in the Palestinian territories, a group of Gazan volunteers work diligently to salvage what remains of their ancient cultural heritage. The Great Omari Mosque library sustained terrible damage during Israel's...
On Thursday , President Donald Trump hosted the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, a body created by Trump to oversee the security and redevelopment of the Gaza Strip. His son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is on the founding...
At 9:30 pm on 14 November 2025, a plane from Kenya touched down at OR Tambo International Airport. Onboard were 153 Palestinians — children, infants, adults and elderly survivors of the recent Gaza genocide — seeking refuge in...
Declassified wins battle over access to Parliament
Full ArticleDeclassified has won a seven-month battle to report from Parliament, after officials were accused of a “partisan attempt to suppress investigative journalism”. Westminster authorities initially rejected our application for a press pass in June, claiming there wasn’t enough space. But we...
Did Gaza cost Kamala Harris the 2024 election?
Full ArticleAn unreleased internal autopsy of the Democratic Party's failed 2024 presidential campaign by then-Vice President Kamala Harris could shed light on a Gaza policy that likely had an important impact on the election. Those on the left are generally...
More than a dozen international humanitarian organisations have petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to block an imminent order that would force 37 NGOs to cease operations in Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem, warning of...
Marco Rubio’s Cecil Rhodes moment
Full ArticleBy Joe LAURIA Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The U.S. secretary of state is reviving the language and intent of 19th century colonialism to deter what he sees as “the forces of...
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