(2024-07-17). Day 284 Update: Israel Kills At Least 50 in Relentless Bombardment of Civilian 'Safe Areas'. imemc.org 
On Tuesday, July 16th, day 284 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip. At least 50 Palestinians were killed, and many more wounded. The Israeli army committed a new massacre by bombing a school housing displaced people in the Nusseirat camp, which resulted in the death of 23 …
(2024-07-17). Israel massacres civilians to maximize pressure on Hamas. electronicintifada.net Flow of arms, international impunity prolong genocide in Gaza.
(2024-07-17). Hamas: Israel's attack on school 'shameful act, scar on humanity'. presstv.ir "This is a brutal and shameful act that is a scar on humanity," the Palestinian resistance movement said.
(2024-07-17). Haredi 'mob' attacks Israeli officers amid anger over draft. newarab.com 
A group of ultra-Orthodox Major General David Zini, head of the Training Command and General Staff Corps, and Brigadier General Shay Tayeb, head of the Ground Force's Personnel Division, were in the ultra-Orthodox area of Bnei B…
(2024-07-17). CODEPINK's Palestinian-American Staff Member ARRESTED on False Accusation of Assault by Member of Congress. dissidentvoice.org 
Milwaukee, WI — In an incident of political thuggery and intimidation at the RNC, CODEPINK's Palestinian campaign organizer, Nour Jaghama, has been unjustly arrested by police on accusation of assaulting a member of Congress. While peacefully waiting in line to enter the event, Nour, a visibly Palestinian woman, was intentionally bumped into by a bald, white …
(2024-07-17). Iran Refutes Allegation of Involvement in Trump Assassination Bid. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry refuted the story about Iran's role in a recent assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump.
(2024-07-17). Australian Labor government exploits Trump assassination bid to intensify witch hunt against anti-genocide protests. wsws.org Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and key ministers have maliciously linked the Trump shooting to the ongoing protests in Australia against the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
(2024-07-17). Iran blasts Trump assassination plot claims. aljazeera.com US media reports claim that Iran plan to target Republican presidential hopeful is unrelated to attack in Pennsylvania.
(2024-07-17). Iran rejects claim about Trump assassination, asserts will pursue Soleimani case legally. presstv.ir Iran roundly rejects claims of devising any plots to assassinate Donald Trump, but vows to pursue him legally over the assassination of General Soleimani in 2020.
(2024-07-17). With Media Enamored by Presidential Race, Israeli Massacres in Gaza Get Even Deadlier. scheerpost.com 
(2024-07-17). Nasrallah says Israel faces 'worst days', warns military of 'extensive damage' in case of war. presstv.ir Hezbollah's secretary general warns the Israeli regime about an extensively destructive response should it launch a ground invasion of Lebanon.
(2024-07-17). Present Generations in Gaza to Eradicate Israel: Nasrallah. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The people of Gaza will remove the "cancerous tumor" of Israel, the secretary general of Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement said.
(2024-07-17). Is support for Hezbollah growing in Lebanon. newarab.com 
(2024-07-17). Nasrallah: Israel is cancerous tumor, it will be removed. presstv.ir The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement says the "cancerous tumor" of Israel will be removed by the current Palestinian generation.
(2024-07-17). Mossad chief urges Gaza deal, informs Israeli ministers Netanyahu truce conditions could prevent hostage release. haaretz.com Israel intensifies central Gaza strikes; ‚ñ Gantz to Netanyahu: 'You delayed Rafah offensive' ‚ñ Hezbollah chief threatens to attack deeper into Israel if strikes on civilians intensify ‚ñ IDF: Forces attacked in Gaza Strip's north as response to Tuesday's barrage toward Sderot ‚ñ IDF spokesman to Al Arabiya: Hamas leaders' obstinacy is preventing us from reaching an agreement…
(2024-07-17). Hezbollah launches retaliatory attacks against Israeli positions. presstv.ir Hezbollah fighters pound several Israeli settlements and military sites with rocket barrages in response to the regime's attack on southern Lebanon.
(2024-07-17). Hezbollah warns will strike new Israel areas if civilians killed. newarab.com 
Five civilians, all Syrians and including three children, were killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday and at least three Lebanese civilians were killed the day before, according to state me…
(2024-07-17). Israel kills dozens across Gaza, at least five in southern Lebanon. peoplesdispatch.org The Israeli occupation army continues with its genocidal multi-front war despite suffering from a serious shortage of personnel and weaponry, and in spite of the mounting international and local pressure for a ceasefire…
(2024-07-17). Three Syrian children among 5 dead in Israeli strikes on Lebanon. newarab.com 
Lebanese official media said separate "Three Syrian children" were killed "in an enemy raid that targeted farmland in the village of Umm Toot", the Nationa…
(2024-07-17). IDF: Dozens of rockets fired at northern Israel in latest barrages from Lebanon. haaretz.com Defense Minister Gallant says 'window of opportunity created' for hostage deal ‚ñ IDF believes it killed half of Hamas' military leadership ‚ñ Reports in Gaza: 15 killed in strike on UNRWA school; 17 in Khan Yunis ‚ñ Israeli arrested on suspicion of being contracted by Iranian intelligence ‚ñ Palestinian reports: Exchange of gunfire between IDF and militants in the Balata refugee camp, West Bank…
(2024-07-17). Lebanon 'a hell with no return' for Israel if war breaks out, warns Iran. presstv.ir Iran's interim foreign minister has warned that Lebanon will "definitely be a hell with no return for the Zionists," if the Israeli regime attacks the Arab country.
(2024-07-17). Russia Worried about Possible Israeli Aggression against Lebanon. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed Moscow's concern about the escalation of Israeli onslaught on Gaza and a possible spread of fighting into Lebanon.
(2024-07-17). Yes, the EU has subsidized the forced return of Syrians to Assad. newarab.com 
A mere two months after the announcement of the €1 billion EU-Lebanon Already, dozens
(2024-07-17). Israel's border with Lebanon remains unsafe, but these families return home anyway. haaretz.com After many long months in hotels, and without expecting a return to normalcy, evacuated families are coming home to a scary reality…
(2024-07-17). Shias in Lebanon and Iraq commemorate Ashura amid Gaza war. newarab.com 
Shia Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated The rift between Islam's two…
(2024-07-17). Three Syrian children killed in 'horrific' Israeli attack on Lebanon. aljazeera.com UN condemns Israeli attack that killed children who were reportedly playing outside their home in south Lebanon.
(2024-07-17). Headlines for July 17, 2024. democracynow.org "Where Is the World?": Gaza Mourns Victims as Israel Continues to Target Humanitarian Refuges, CCR Files FOIA Request for Gov't Communications Around ICC's Israeli War Crimes Case, Israeli Attacks in Southern Lebanon Kill 5 Syrians, Incl. 3 Children, Federal Jury Convicts New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez on All 16 Corruption Counts, Milwaukee Community Outraged After Ohio Police Kill a Black Man, Samuel Sharpe, 1 Mile from RNC, RNC Dominated by Xenophobic Hate Speech on Day 2 as Republicans Line Up Behind Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff Warns Dems Could Lose Presidency and Senate If Biden Remains in t…
(2024-07-17). No pride in genocide: Disability rights activists demand justice for Palestine. workers.org 
Somerville, Massachusetts — Dozens of disability justice and pro-Palestine activists gathered outside Somerville City Hall, on July 11 to demand an end to U.S support for the ongoing Zionist genocide in Gaza, which has killed and disabled hundreds of thousands of people. Disabled Palestinians are being disproportionately harmed, lacking even . . . |
(2024-07-17). Delas report exposes PSOE-Sumar-Podemos collaboration with Israeli genocide in Gaza. wsws.org It is another devastating exposure of the imperialist militarism and support for genocide of the Socialist Party-Sumar government and of its accomplices in Podemos.
(2024-07-17). US 'actively assisting' Israel's genocide in Gaza: Jewish peace group. presstv.ir The Jewish Voice for Peace says the Biden administration is "actively assisting" Israel in committing genocide in Gaza.
(2024-07-17). Israel in Palestine, Rwanda in DRC. libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: UNICEF/Arlette Bashizi Palestinians and Congolese both find themselves victims of a genocide that they did not commit and that did not take place on their territory. After October 7, 2023, as Israel began bombing Gaza and the world reacted in horror,…
(2024-07-17). Thousands protest GOP agenda at Milwaukee RNC, demanding justice and equality. nationofchange.org Protesters condemned U.S. politicians on both sides of the aisle for sending weapons to Israel amid what they described as genocide in Gaza.
(2024-07-17). Defending Democracy: When Wars Come Home. counterpunch.org 
The elected majorities of both political parties argue Israel's genocide of Palestinians must be supported because Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. $175 billion, in just 2 1/2 years, has been appropriated for war in Ukraine to defend democracy. The GOP and the Democrats have brought about a needless and reckless cold
(2024-07-17). Israel displaces more Palestinians amid operations in north, south Gaza. presstv.ir Israeli forces conducted military operations in Gaza City in the north and the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis in the south.
(2024-07-17). Israel attacks 'safe areas' in Gaza again, kills 50 Palestinians. presstv.ir The regime's forces once again attacked a UN-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp. 23 people were killed.
(2024-07-17). 'They are trying to buy this seat': Can Cori Bush beat AIPAC? mondoweiss.net 
AIPAC spent $15 million to help defeat Jamaal Bowman and now they have their sights set on Missouri's 1st district, where Cori Bush faces a primary challenge. Can she beat the Israel lobby?>
(2024-07-17). US Naval Efforts Falter as Yemen's Blockade Bankrupts Israel's Eilat Port. mintpressnews.com Despite the formation of a multinational naval coalition led by the United States, the Israeli-controlled Port of Eilat has reportedly gone bankrupt and is seeking a government bailout. The situation underscores the failure of U.S.-led efforts against Yemen's Ansar Allah—known pejoratively as the Houthis—blockade in the Red Sea, enforced until Israel ends its war on Gaza. | "It must be acknowledged that the port is in a state of bankruptcy,"
(2024-07-17). Houthi: Yemenis humiliate US, spare no effort in supporting Palestine. presstv.ir The leader of the Ansarullah resistance movement says Yemenis have humiliated the United States.
(2024-07-17). Malaysia's Strategic Comeback in International Relations. infobrics.org Malaysia aims to regain lost international influence by adjusting strategies and forming new alliances to challenge Western dominance…
(2024-07-17). India-Russia Consolidate Strategic Partnership Amidst Chaos a Chaotic World. infobrics.org Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Russia for a bilateral summit with President Vladimir Putin has underscored the depth and resilience of India-Russia relations…
(2024-07-17). Washington seeks to overturn Indonesia's traditionally non-aligned position. infobrics.org Indonesia continues developing deep economic ties with China.
(2024-07-17). Torture, hunger, humiliation: Freed Palestinians recount Israeli jail conditions. presstv.ir The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has treated 13 people, including an elderly woman, who were released at the Kissufim checkpoint in central Gaza.
(2024-07-17). Philadelphia: Health care workers rally against Israel's starvation of Palestinians. workers.org 
Philadelphia Healthcare Workers for Palestine demonstration, July 14, 2024. Philadelphia The Philadelphia chapter of HealthCare Workers For Palestine (HCW4Pal) and Drexel University College of Medicine for Palestine held a rally at Rittenhouse Square in center city Philadelphia on July 14. The purpose was to call attention to the illegal use . . . |
(2024-07-17). FIDH International Bureau resolution: in Gaza, act or watch the Palestinian people die. fidh.org
(2024-07-17). West wants to eradicate Palestinians. presstv.ir EU foreign policy Chief Josep Borrell expresses his "utter dismay" at the plight facing Palestinians, but again stops short of indicating any sanction against the Israeli regime.
(2024-07-17). Israel's legalization of settlements in the northern West Bank, explained. themaad.org
(2024-07-17). Why Israel's 'Gaza Security Bubbles' Will Fail. libya360.wordpress.com Mohamad Hasan Sweidan Tel Aviv's plan to launch a political phase in its ill-conceived Gaza war is likely to end in strategic disaster, just as US artificial constructs failed in Vietnam. One cannot simply sidestep complex social dynamics and strong local resistance to erect false leaders atop synthetic 'bubbles.' On 23 June, Israeli Defense Minister…
(2024-07-17). IDF believes military pressure is paying off, but says Hamas isn't defeated yet. haaretz.com Senior Israeli commanders believe that condition are now better to strike a deal with Hamas ‚ñ Meanwhile, Netanyahu and the far-right wing of his government are showing no signs of greater flexibility in the negotiations…
(2024-07-17). Israel's restrictions on movement in al-Khalil hurdle to 'essential services': ICRC. presstv.ir The ICRC says intensified restrictions imposed by Israel in the southern occupied West Bank city hamper "essential service."
(2024-07-17). Israeli airstrike destroys UN school sheltering displaced Palestinians. presstv.ir An Israeli airstrike has destroyed a UN school building housing displaced Palestinians.
(2024-07-17). Families demand clarifications after Netanyahu reportedly says hostages 'suffering, but not dying'. haaretz.com Netanyahu's remarks are 'factually inaccurate and dangerously irresponsible,' the Hostages Families Forum Headquarters says…
(2024-07-17). At least 50 Palestinians killed as Israeli air strikes pound Gaza. presstv.ir Israel has ramped up its brutal aggression on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.
(2024-07-17). Resisting Israeli Scholasticide and Academic Apartheid. counterpunch.org 
Israel's genocidal war is both massacring Palestinians and destroying their physical and social infrastructure. In particular, Israel has targeted Palestinian educational institutions. In late April, UN experts concluded, "with more than 80% of schools in Gaza damaged or destroyed, it may be reasonable to ask if there is an intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system, an action known as 'scholasticide'."1 The aim of this settler-colonial project is to eradicate the physical, intellectual, and political reproduction of the Palestinian people. As Maya Wind documents in her new boo…
(2024-07-17). Palestinian prisoner lost half his body weight in Israeli prison. newarab.com 
Like someone who emerged from a cave after an eternity, with deteriorating health and a dilapidated body, bodybuilding champion His family, which was waiting for him at the gate of Ofer Military Prison, saw an emaciated man who couldn't walk, supported by another man. | Both appeared exhausted, their shaggy hair and long beards making them look like they had come out of a grave. | Since October 7th, it has become co…
(2024-07-17). Israeli army to issue thousands of draft notices to ultra-Orthodox men, sparking protests. haaretz.com The Israeli army is expected to send around 6,000 draft notices to ultra-Orthodox men who are working or have dropped out of yeshiva. About 150 men from an extreme ultra-Orthodox sect blocked a highway in protest after the army's announcement…
(2024-07-17). Israel's largest land grab since Oslo sparks annexation fears. newarab.com 
Israel has approved the The declaration of 12.7 square kilometres (almost 5 miles) of the According to…
(2024-07-17). As Trump taps America First VP, top Jewish Republican insists GOP is the 'only pro-Israel party'. haaretz.com 'Trump will rebuild the U.S.-Israel relationship after four disastrous years under President Biden,' Republican Jewish Coalition chief Matt Brooks tells cheering crowd at the Republican National Convention, telling reporters he's part of the 'battle' inside the GOP to 'make sure the Tucker Carlson-wing of the party doesn't get a foothold'…
(2024-07-17). Families of Israel soldiers held captive in Gaza plead for peace. newarab.com 
(2024-07-17). Netanyahu 'ordered recording turned off' at war cabinet meetings. newarab.com 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to turn off recording at the army's command centre where meetings Under normal circumstances, everything that takes place at the army headquarters' command centre is automatically recorded by a system in operation there. | However, Netanyahu order that only his office would be allowed to record war cabinet and othe…
(2024-07-17). 500 health workers killed in Gaza, including doctors with rare specialisations. muslimmirror.com By Muslim Mirror Staff Israeli attacks have killed 500 health workers in Gaza since October, including several specialised doctors. The specialist doctors killed include a plastic surgeon specialising in wound care, a reconstructive surgeon, an obstetrician/gynaecologist, an orthopaedic surgeon, a fertility doctor, and the only liver transplant doctor in Gaza, according to AP news agency. …
(2024-07-17). Israel says Hamas still capable of bombing Tel Aviv, al-Quds. presstv.ir The Israeli military says the Palestinian resistance movement can still strike Tel Aviv and the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
(2024-07-17). An 'escalation of measures': Netanyahu, Gallant's rift peaks amid hostage talks. haaretz.com Even members of the most extreme right wing of Netanyahu's coalition see that his policy is just another trick, meant to foil any deal. Officials believe that if Netanyahu indeed foils the deal, Gallant will again face the public to warn against him…
(2024-07-17). 'That amazes me, I didn't know': Netanyahu 'surprised' to hear what happened at Israeli army base on October 7. haaretz.com Channel 12 News aired recordings from Netanyahu's meeting with families of the female IDF spotters who were killed at the Nahal Oz military outpost, showing the prime minister didn't know that the soldiers were unarmed, and that officials visited the families…
(2024-07-17). Army Abducts Two Young Men In Jenin. imemc.org 
On Wednesday dawn, undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated Jenin city, in the occupied West Bank's northern part, surrounded a home before many army vehicles invaded the area, and abducted two young Palestinian men. Local sources said the soldiers infiltrated Jenin in a truck carrying Palestinian license plates, before the soldiers surrounded the home of Aziz Shalabi …
(2024-07-17). UK: Labour MP Zarah Sultana tables amendment calling for end of Israel arm sales. middleeasteye.net 
UK: Labour MP Zarah Sultana tables amendment calling for end of Israel arm sales | Proposed amendment to the first King's Speech under Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls on British lawmakers to uphold international law | | Sultana is considered to be on the left wing of the ruling Labour Party (Briti…
(2024-07-17). Saturday 7/20: Film Plus Food – Palestine-Israel. indybay.org Mukunda Studio walk from Civic Center Bart | 1250 Folsom Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94103…
(2024-07-17). Israeli Forces Dropped 2,000-Pound Bombs on Gaza "Safe Zone," Killing 90. themaad.org
(2024-07-17). Top Jewish Republican uses GOP convention to make case for Trump to U.S. Jews. haaretz.com 'Trump will repair and rebuild the U.S.-Israel relationship that has deteriorated after four disastrous years under President Biden,' Republican Jewish Coalition chief Matt Brooks tells cheering crowd at Republican National Convention…
(2024-07-17). Gaza Death Toll Rises As Israeli Strikes Kill 81 in 24 Hours. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — At least 81 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza during the latest 24-hour period, according to the most recent update by health officials in the besieged and bombarded territory.
(2024-07-17). Army Abducts Three Palestinians in Tulkarem and Bethlehem. imemc.org 
Israeli forces abducted three Palestinians, two in Tulkarem and one near Bethlehem, in the northeastern and southern parts of the occupied West Bank, in addition to damaging vehicles near Tubas in the northeastern part. Occupation forces abducted two Palestinian young men in the Shweika neighborhood, north of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the West …
(2024-07-17). Rashid Khalidi: The Neck and The Sword. newleftreview.org Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the political and intellectual history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the 'peace process', Israel's grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations—or miscalculations—of Hamas.
(2024-07-17). IDF believes military pressure is paying off, but says Hamas isn't defeated yet. haaretz.com Senior Israeli commanders believe that conditions are now better to strike a deal with Hamas ‚ñ Meanwhile, Netanyahu and the far-right wing of his government are showing no signs of greater flexibility in the negotiations…
(2024-07-17). Top court criticizes Israeli army for utilizing 'closed military zones' to prevent West Bank clashes between settlers, Palestinians. haaretz.com The court requested data from the state on the number of closure orders issued, the instructions for issuing them, and the circumstances under which a closed military zone is declared. A Justice said hundreds of such cases indicate that the IDF sees this as a 'magic solution'…
(2024-07-17). Angered by Palestine recognition, Israel rejects Norway FM visit. newarab.com 
Israel's Foreign Minister In May, Spain, Ireland and Norway Katz said Eide had requested several times to visit since then. | The Israeli ministe…
(2024-07-17). Israeli Army Shoots Two Palestinians, Abducts One, Near Nablus. imemc.org 
Israeli forces shot, on Tuesday, two Palestinian young men and abducted another in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. Media sources said that undercover Israeli agents (Musta'ribeen) infiltrated the "Al-Tirawiyah" neighborhood in the Balata camp, and surrounded a citizen's home, while firing many live rounds. According to Ahmad …
(2024-07-17). Citing Israel and Iran, Nikki Haley urges Republicans to unite behind Trump. haaretz.com Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations lauded Trump's foreign policy: 'Between Israel and Hamas, Donald Trump is clear who is our friend and who is our enemy'…
(2024-07-17). Israel charges one, detains two, for Iran intelligence links. newarab.com 
Israeli authorities on Tuesday charged one Israeli and detained two others for The agency said Iran has sought in recent months to recruit Israelis to carry out missions in the country and that the person charged had been asked, but refused, to carry out a murder and set fire to a forest. | "Shin Bet and the police international inquiries unit have arreste…
(2024-07-17). Assessing the Flames of Protest. counterpunch.org 
It began with Aaron Bushnell and a visceral response of mine: Why would anyone do such a thing? Bushnell was the 25-year-old active-duty airman who set himself ablaze on February 25th in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest that country's brutal war in Gaza. The first question was tough enough, but
(2024-07-17). Israeli Airstrikes Intensify in Gaza, Claiming 57 Lives Amid Cease-fire Efforts. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-17). Citing Israel and Iran, Nikki Haley urges Republicans to unite behind Trump. haaretz.com Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations lauded Trump's foreign policy: 'Between Israel and Hamas, Donald Trump is clear on who is our friend and who is our enemy'…
(2024-07-17). Ultra-Orthodox Draft in Israel To Start Next Week, IDF Says. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-17). Gaza: UNSC, UNGA must swing in action to rein in Israel. ummid.com UN Security Council (UNSC), UN General Assembly (UNGA), and all international justice institutions must act swiftly and decisively to compel Israel to cease its frequent, systematic military assaults against shelter centres housing internally displaced people in Gaza.
(2024-07-17). Negotiating for American Hostages Overseas and in Gaza. indybay.org Former Israel Defense Forces special operations officer Mickey Bergman, who has been engaged in the delicate art of international high-stake hostage negotiations for the release of Americans being held overseas for the past 18 years, spoke of his experiences at the Stimson Center in introducing his new book "In The Shadows."
(2024-07-17). Labour Friends of Israel backs UK's restoration of Unrwa funding with caveats. middleeasteye.net 
Labour Friends of Israel backs UK's restoration of Unrwa funding with caveats | The influential group wants the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to eventually transfer its functions to the Palestinian Authority | | Palestinians flee from a Unrwa school targeted by an Israeli air strike (Reuters/Ra…
(2024-07-17). Human Rights Watch Details War Crimes in Hamas-Led Attack on Israel. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-17). Palestinian-Israeli Choir Moves Judges and Audience on 'America's Got Talent'. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-17). Body of six-year-old found in central Israel, mother suspected of murder. haaretz.com Before the discovery of the body, a 33-year-old woman was arrested at the entrance to the Herzliya mall after she attacked a security guard with an axe and lightly wounded him. The police suspect that she is the boy's mother and that she is mentally disturbed…
(2024-07-17). Israel bombs Gaza after US criticises high civilian toll. newarab.com 
Authorities in Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the three air strikes killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens within an hour across the war-tor…
(2024-07-17). Human Rights Watch: At least five Palestinian groups committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Oct. 7 attacks. haaretz.com The group's new report rebuts Hamas' claims that its combatants were instructed not to harm children, women and the elderly and states that the killing of civilians was systematic, premeditated and deliberate…
(2024-07-17). 'An almost daily occurrence': UN says Israel keeps attacking Gaza schools. presstv.ir Commissioner-General of UNRWA Lazzarini says Israel has attacked at least eight schools in the last 10 days.
(2024-07-17). 'Shameful' BBC story on Israel's killing of disabled man revised. newarab.com 
A BBC report published on Tuesday on the killing of a The
(2024-07-17). Who will stop Israel's illegal annexations of Palestinian land ? fidh.org The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) condemns Israel's plans to annex and expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, actions that constitute war crimes under the Fourth Geneva Convention. Third countries must uphold international law for the Palestinian people, or it will eventually cease to exist. FIDH call on all states to deploy all the necessary efforts in order to end Israel's settler-colonialism and apartheid, and work towards the realisation of the Palestinian (…) | – | /…
(2024-07-17). Watchdog slams families' weeks-long wait for Israel's social services ministry. haaretz.com Families wait weeks or even months to get help from the Social Affairs Ministry agencies where parents considered a risk to their children can hold supervised meetings with them, in part because most of the agencies work fewer hours than required…
(2024-07-17). Huddud's House: The post-Arab Spring novel on the Syrian war. newarab.com 
(2024-07-17). Iraq invites private companies to operate Baghdad airport. newarab.com 
In September, the government signed an agreement with the
(2024-07-17). The rise and fall of Syrian business tycoon Baraa Katerji. newarab.com 
(2024-07-17). Turkey's border closures threaten north-west Syria with disaster. newarab.com 
(2024-07-17). Bystander killed as armed groups clash in Libya seaside town. newarab.com 
Armed groups clashed in a seaside town outside the Libyan capital late Tuesday, killing a woman bystander and sowing panic among beachgoers, emergency services and media reports said. | "The woman died after being hit in the head" by a stray bullet, emergency services spokesman Oussama Ali told Al-Ahrar television. | Libyan media reported that the clashes broke out after fighters of o…
(2024-07-17). Oil slick off Yemen after Houthi tanker attack: charity. newarab.com 
An oil slick stretching nearly the length of Yemen's Satellite imagery from the European Space Agency showed the slick on Tuesday near the location of the The apparent slick, measuring 220 kilometres…
(2024-07-17). Syria's Assad says he will not meet with Turkey's Erdogan. newarab.com 
Syrian dictator "The problem is not the meeting, but its content," a video clip released by the p…
(2024-07-17). Iran 'revenge' plot led to increased protection of Trump. newarab.com 
A threat from Upon learning of the threat, the Biden administration reached out to sen…
(2024-07-17). Iran rejects accusations implicating it in plot to kill Trump. newarab.com 
Iran on Wednesday rejected what it called "malicious" accusations by US media implicating it in a plot to kill former US president CNN said the alleged plot was…
(2024-07-17). Gulf states condemn rare Oman attack claimed by IS group. newarab.com 
Monday's shooting killed at least six people – four Pakistanis, an Indian and an Omani police officer – and wounded 28, police said. | It was the first known operation claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group in the sultanate w…
(2024-07-17). Iraqi justice ministry denies allegations of 'secret executions'. newarab.com 
The Iraqi Ministry of Justice on Monday denied allegations it is conducting Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Laibi Abdul Hussein in a
(2024-07-17). Protesters target sale of stolen Palestinian land. workers.org 
A large group of people gathered in Kew Gardens in Queens, New York, on July 14 to protest the sale of stolen Palestinian land. This sale, held at a private residence, was open only to vetted Zionists who went through an extensive and discriminatory registration process. As PAL-Awda NY, the . . . |
(2024-07-17). Fatah, Hamas reported to meet in China, 'showing nation's constructive role'. ecns.cn China will work together with all parties within Palestine to promote reconciliation, amid reports that representatives of Fatah and Hamas are due to meet again in Beijing within days.
(2024-07-17). HK council's water safety report kicks up legal row. ecns.cn Nongfu Spring Co Ltd, China's largest bottled water supplier in terms of market share, issued a lawyer's letter to the Consumer Council of Hong Kong on Tuesday.
(2024-07-17). What Do Voters Want? counterpunch.org 
The Right is resurgent! The Left is Back! The Center is on the march! It's always tempting to declare, on the basis of a few elections, that a political tendency is on the ascendant. I should know: I've done it myself. But the only commonality in the most recent consequential elections—France, the UK, and Iran—is
(2024-07-17). An Ear For An Ear Leaves The Whole World What? counterpunch.org 
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." —Shakespeare, from Julias Ceasar, spoken by Marc Antony "A proposition might fall kindly on your ear." —Prop Joe, The Wire But do you condemn Thomas Matthew Crooks? With or without their ears, none of the ruling class hears the
(2024-07-17). China Stops Arms Control Talks With the US Over Arms Sales To Taiwan. news.antiwar.com The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that Beijing had stopped arms control talks with the US over continued US arms sales to Taiwan and other steps that go against China's "core interests." The US and China held consultations on arms control back in November 2023. A reporter asked Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian about …
(2024-07-17). Jury Convicts NJ Senator Bob Menendez of Taking Bribes from Egypt & Qatar. democracynow.org 
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of corruption on all 16 counts he faced. He was found guilty of bribery, wire fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice, conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt. Award-winning investigative reporter Bob Hennelly, who has been covering Menendez for decades, says it's a "condemnation of the political culture of New Jersey that's corrupt."…
(2024-07-17). Biden makes first campaign trip since assassination attempt on Trump. geo.tv 
US President Joe Biden speaks during the 115th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Convention in in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 16, 2024. — AFP
(2024-07-17). Trump says Taiwan should pay US for defence. geo.tv 
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, April 2, 2024. — ReutersTAIPEI: Taiwan should pay the US for its defence as it does not give the country anything, Republican presidential candidate…
(2024-07-17). Biden makes first campaign trip since assassination attempt on Trump. geo.tv 
US President Joe Biden addresses the North America's Building Trades Unions legislative conference at the Washington Hilton on April 25, 2023 in Washington, DC. — AFP
(2024-07-17). Azerbaijan: Family receives remains of missing loved one, honours with a burial after 30 years. icrc.org
(2024-07-17). Afghanistan: Wheelchair basketball empowers people with disability. icrc.org
(2024-07-17). Bangladesh: 15th Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition 2024 — Call for Registration. icrc.org
(2024-07-17). Wednesday 7/17: Virtual Teach-In about Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | http: //tinyurl.com/PalestineWednesday…
(2024-07-17). Saturday 7/27: E-Sim Disco Fundraiser. indybay.org Barrios Unidos (back entrance), 1823 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz…
(2024-07-17). Thursday 7/25: From Asian America to Palestine: A Teach-In on Zionism, Empire, and Hindutva. indybay.org Zoom | bit.ly/AA2PALI…
(2024-07-17). Wednesday 7/31: Webinar: Reimagining Education in Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1yVVmWJUR0amu3ZVqU_dEg?mc_cid=b0f22221ce&mc_eid=79ecc31bb7#/registration…
(2024-07-17). NIA arrests 4 men suspected to be part of international human trafficking syndicate. muslimmirror.com By Muslim Mirror Staff The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested four key accused involved in luring and trafficking Indian youth to foreign countries on the pretext of offering them jobs, according to an official statement issued on Tuesday. The accused arrested on Monday have been identified as Manjoor Alam alias Guddu of Delhi, Sahil …
(2024-07-17). Russia and Iran are interested in boosting ties, FMs state. plenglish.com Moscow, Jul 17 (Prensa Latina) The foreign ministers of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, and Iran, Ali Bagheri Kani, expressed their willingness to strengthen relations between their countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on its official website on Wednesday.
(2024-07-17). Iran's president-elect, Saudi crown prince discuss closer cooperation. presstv.ir During a telephone conversation, the two sides placed a premium on closer cooperation.
(2024-07-17). Iran condemns deadly shooting attack in Oman. presstv.ir The shooting was during a Shia Muslim ceremony marking Ashura.
(2024-07-17). Heavy rains kill 47 in Afghanistan's Nangarhar; death toll likely to rise. presstv.ir Heavy rains have left 47 people dead and 350 others injured in eastern Afghanistan, a local official says.
(2024-07-17). Iranian cleric, media activist detained in Saudi Arabia released. presstv.ir Saudi authorities release Iranian cleric and media activist Seyyed Kazem Rouhbakhsh, whom they detained in the kingdom during his Hajj pilgrimage.
(2024-07-17). Samsung Electronics' main South Korea union to go on indefinite strike. presstv.ir Samsung Electronics' main South Korea union will go on an indefinite strike.
(2024-07-17). Samsung workers' union in South Korea kicks off three-day strike. presstv.ir Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea braved the rain on Monday, to chant slogans and raise their fists in unison as they kicked off a three-day strike demanding better pay.
(2024-07-17). It's now West's turn to prove honesty in interaction with Iran: Tehran. presstv.ir Bagheri Kani says the presidential election in Iran was a testament to national stability.
(2024-07-17). 4 Pakistanis killed, several injured in shooting near Oman mosque. presstv.ir A shooting near a mosque in the Omani capital Muscat has killed at least four Pakistanis and wounded multiple others.
(2024-07-17). US airbase in Iraq targeted by drones in second such attack in months. presstv.ir The Ain al-Asad air base housing US troops in Iraq has come under a fresh drone attack.
(2024-07-17). Iraqis protest over summer blackouts, water shortages. presstv.ir Hundreds of Iraqis in the southern province of Diwaniyah protest against power cuts and water shortages during the extreme heat of summer.
(2024-07-17). JCPOA after unilateral pullout of US. presstv.ir One of the greatest feats of diplomacy and multilateral relations in history, the Iran Nuclear Deal, the JCPOA, was unilaterally rescinded in 2018 by the United States under President Donald Trump.
(2024-07-17). India plans to realise the concept of smart villages. tvbrics.com 
Officials intend to use 5G technology to improve the quality of life in rural communities…
(2024-07-17). Improving relations between Russia and Iran at the municipality level within BRICS+ framework. uwidata.com On June 21, the founding meeting of a new organization, the Association of Cities and Municipalities of the BRICS+ countries, took place in the Russian city of Kazan. The meeting of the new body was attended by more than 200 mayors, vice-mayors and leaders of associations of municipalities of the BRICS states and cooperating countries: …
(2024-07-17). Meet Usha Vance, child of Indian immigrants and Trump VP pick J.D. Vance's lawyer wife. scmp.com The wife of Trump's VP nominee J.D. Vance is a graduate of Yale law, where the couple met, and has worked for two US Supreme Court justices.
(2024-07-17). Bangladesh students defy orders, occupy universities as tensions spiral. aljazeera.com Students and police are locked in a tense standoff on campuses across the country with neither backing down.
(2024-07-17). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.
(2024-07-17). Iran's Support for Resistance Groups in Accordance with Int'l Law: Senior Diplomat. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The support that Iran has provided for resistance groups is legitimate within the framework of international law and pursues the purpose of ending the Zionist regime's acts of occupation and aggression in the region, Caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri said.
(2024-07-17). By-Election Results July 2024: INDIA: 10, BJP: 02, Ind: 01. ummid.com Giving a big jolt to the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) INDIA alliance candidates won 10 of the 13 Assembly Seats that went to the polls Thursday July 11, 2024.
(2024-07-17). Improving relations between Russia and Iran at the municipality level within BRICS+ framework. unitedworldint.com On June 21, the founding meeting of a new organization, the Association of Cities and Municipalities of the BRICS+ countries, took place in the Russian city of Kazan. The meeting of the new body was attended by more than 200 mayors, vice-mayors and leaders of associations of municipalities of the BRICS states and cooperating countries: …
(2024-07-17). State Library cracks down on pro-Palestine social media content. independentaustralia.net 
(2024-07-17). US says ISIL trying 'to reconstitute' amid uptick in Syria, Iraq attacks. aljazeera.com In the first six months of the year, the group has claimed 153 attacks in Syria and Iraq.
(2024-07-17). Deaf and Dumb Man Arrested for Public Indecency on Bus in Bekal. devdiscourse.com A 50-year-old deaf and dumb man was arrested near Bekal for allegedly flashing a woman on a bus, police announced on Wednesday.
(2024-07-17). Pakistan: Deadly Twin Terror Attacks Leave 15 Dead. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-17). Thailand: Killing of prominent human rights defender Roning Dolah. fidh.org
(2024-07-17). The Iran Notes – Protests in Iran: Systematic and violent repression of freedom of assembly. fidh.org
(2024-07-17). Trump says Taiwan should pay US for defence: 'they took about 100% of our chip business'. scmp.com The US presidential candidate said Taiwan 'did take about 100% of our chip business' — sending shares of chip maker TSMC down on Wednesday.
(2024-07-17). Bangladesh shuts schools and universities after six killed in protests. aljazeera.com Students rallying against quotas in public sector jobs clash with government supporters and police.
(2024-07-17). Cambodia: Convictions and prison sentences of ten members of Mother Nature Cambodia. fidh.org
(2024-07-17). Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Attack on Shia Omani Mosque. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-17). 5,000 cr wedding in a country where 80 cr wait for free ration to survive. ummid.com The Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant marriage which is likely to cost Rs. 5,000 crore may be seen by some as India's growing economic prowess similar to the claims of India being the 5th largest economy, it however hides more realities than it reveals.
(2024-07-17). SATIRE: Woman Grimly Accepts Lifetime Responsibility Of Liking Every One Of Sister-In-Law's Social Media Posts. theonion.com 
WICHITA, KS—Calling the task "a heavy burden, but one I must shoulder nonetheless," local woman Raven Wilson told reporters Wednesday that she had grimly accepted the lifelong responsibility of liking every one of her sister-in-law Jessica Denbow's social media posts. "Her job is to post, mine is to like it," said…
(2024-07-17). Former CIA analyst charged with being South Korea's 'secret agent'. aljazeera.com Indictment says Sue Mi Terry received luxury handbags and dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants in exchange.
(2024-07-17). Belarus: Three years after their arbitrary arrest, Viasna members must be immediately released. fidh.org On July 14, 2021, the Belarusian authorities detained Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Viasna chairperson Ales Bialiatski, FIDH Vice President Valiantsin Stefanovic and Viasna lawyer Uladzimir Labkovich in an unprecedented raid against Belarusian civil society. Convicted on fabricated charges to heavy prison terms, to this day, the three human rights defenders remain unlawfully imprisoned, and are regularly subjected to severe harassment and ill-treatment. On the third anniversary of their (…) | – |
(2024-07-17). SC verdict will create more problems for divorced women: Muslim Panel. ummid.com Emphasizing that the Supreme Court verdict vis-à -vis maintenance to divorced women is against the Islamic Law or Shairiah, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Sunday said it will created more problems for the woman who has already suffered.
(2024-07-17). Iran's Non-Oil Exports Up 7% in Three Months. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Iran's export of non-oil goods in the first three months of the current Iranian calendar (started March 21, 2024) reached $13.5 billion, registering a 7.1 percent growth compared to the same period last year.
(2024-07-17). Singapore varsity announces 3rd Syed Ahmad Khan AMU Memorial Award. ummid.com The National University of Singapore (NUS) has announced its prestigious "Syed Ahmad Khan AMU Memorial Award" for the year 2024.
(2024-07-17). Iran-Kuwait Ties Serve Regional Stability: Baqeri. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Closer cooperation between Iran and Kuwait is a key factor in ensuring and strengthening regional stability, the caretaker foreign minister of Iran said.
(2024-07-17). Iran Nuclear Sites Remain Intact: Eslami. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran dismissed any connection between the country's nuclear sites and the images purportedly of an explosion in central Iran.
(2024-07-17). Victim of broad daylight robbery says laptop, money, and credit card were taken. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have identified the victim of a broad-day robbery incident on Jinja Road as Josh Keshav, a 32-year-old Indian national. Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) video showing Keshav being robbed by thugs who trailed him on six motorcycles has gone viral on social media. Keshav told Nkrumah Road Police that he …
(2024-07-17). 'Akin to terrorist attack': Asad Owaisi on Kolhapur Mosque vandalisation. ummid.com Asaduddin Owaisi, Member of Parliament and President of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), termed an incident similar to "terrorist attack" the vandalisation of mosque in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra Sunday.
(2024-07-17). Ayatollah Jannati Retains Senior Post at Iran's Constitutional Council. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Members of Iran's Constitutional Council re-elected Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati as the secretary of the influential body for another year.
(2024-07-17). Iran: Report on the human rights situation for the Universal Periodic Review. fidh.org On 17 July 2024, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) submitted a report for the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Iran.
The report, jointly prepared with the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), highlights the deteriorating human right situation in Iran since the previous UPR in November 2019.
| The report covers the following thematic areas: the judiciary and fair trial rights; the death penalty; civil society and human rights defenders; (…) | – |
(2024-07-17). Jinnah, Shahabuddin and Owaisi -Tackling Muslim's Problems in India. ummid.com This book "Jinnah, Sahabuddin and Owassi – Tackling Muslim's Problem in India" can be submission to the nation that sees Muslim as an obstacle to the national growth but hardly gives any support to the nature and direction to the change.
(2024-07-17). Cyanide poisoning suspected in six deaths at Bangkok hotel. aljazeera.com Authorities appear eager to ensure the six deaths do not affect Thailand's key tourism sector.
(2024-07-17). New Criminal Laws in India: Why They Must be Reviewed and Revised? ummid.com It seems that the BJP has used the opportunity under the cover of colonial baggage to enact more draconian laws that fit well into the ongoing project of Hindu nationalism.
(2024-07-17). Armed Drones Target US-Hosted Airbase in Iraq, Prompting Increased Security Measures. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-17). US learned of Iran plot to kill Donald Trump, no known link to rally shooting. scmp.com The Secret Service boosted the ex-US president's protection after learning of the threat, which Iran has denied.
(2024-07-17). Bahrain: Joint letter on Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace as he exceeds three years on hunger strike. fidh.org
(2024-07-17). Minuto a minuto del asedio israelí contra la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net En varios países continúan realizándose actividades para expresar apoyo al pueblo palestino y condenar el genocidio que comete Israel.
(2024-07-17). El apoyo al sionismo se derrumba en todos los frentes. workers.org 
La admisión del ministro de Defensa israelí, Yoav Gallant, el 1 de julio -que el ejército de su país necesitaba 10.000 soldados más de forma inmediata- podría haber conmocionado al mundo incluso hace un año. Pero desde que Hamás lanzó la operación Inundación de Al-Aqsa el 7 de octubre, el . . . |
(2024-07-17). Defensa Civil palestina denuncia crisis en Gaza y ataques israelíes. radiohc.cu La Habana, 17 jul (RHC) El portavoz de la Defensa Civil en la Franja de Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, denunció hoy la crisis humanitaria que golpea al territorio tras nueve meses de ataques israelíes y condenó los más recientes bombardeos contra centros de refugiados.
(2024-07-17). Narendra Modi celebra su victoria en las elecciones generales. telesurtv.net Narendra Modi necesitará el apoyo de otros partidos para gobernar, algo inédito en sus anteriores mandatos.
(2024-07-17). Irán inicia etapa de calificación de candidatos a elecciones. telesurtv.net Tras el proceso de investigación, el Ministerio del Interior anunciará los candidatos finales el 11 de junio, y los calificados tendrán 15 días, del 12 al 26 de junio, para llevar a cabo sus campañas electorales.
(2024-07-17). Presidente de Siria recibe a canciller de Irán. telesurtv.net Ambos políticos debatieron sobre el estado de las relaciones bilaterales, así como el avance de la agresión de Israel en la Franja de Gaza.
(2024-07-17). ONU condena más de 500 asesinatos de palestinos en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Más de 500 palestinos han muerto desde el 7 de octubre en actos de violencia en la ocupada Cisjordania vinculados al asedio del Ejército israelí de ocupación en Gaza.
Yemen's In a statement on social media platform X, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree identified the two ships as BENTLEY I, a Panama-flagged oil tanker, and the CHIOS LION, a Liberia-flagged crude oil tanker. | The BENTLEY I was attacked with "drone boats, unmanned aerial vehicles, and ballistic missiles", while the CHIOS LION was ta…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers abducted at least twenty-five, including children, Palestinians from their homes, and military roadblocks in various parts of the occupied West Bank. In Qusin village, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the soldiers abducted three children, Mojahed Abdul-Rauf Salman, Mohammad Haitham Yadek, and Mohyeddin Khader, after several military jeeps …
An Israeli air strike on Monday killed Later, Hezbollah said it fired rockets at northern Israel in response. | Israel's military said it had targeted an arms depot and a military installation belonging to the powerful Iran-backed group. | "The Israeli enemy committed a massacre of civilians in the town of Bint Jbeil, with one brother and a sister in the Dagher family ki…
Palestinians have been angered by the coverage of a recent Israeli massacre in Gaza's On Saturday, a series of Israeli strikes killed at least 90 people in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, which it has previously designated a "safe zone" for Palestinian civilians. | The vast majority o…
Today, July 16, 2024, Samidoun's Europe coordinator, Mohammed Khatib, has been called for a hearing before the Belgian asylum office, after he — a Palestinian refugee born in Ein el Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon — has been targeted for political repression, with the Belgian Minister of Immigration, Nicole de Moor, seeking to withdraw his …
The near century of oppression and occupation, massive waves of media coverage and the unprecedented damage Israel has done in its war all play a role in people's dissent. Even more so, frustration grows with the fact that the US could take immediate steps to stop this, but instead actively aids and abets a genocide. 
The UK's governing British Foreign Secretary 
UK ex-minister Alan Duncan cleared of antisemitism allegations | Former foreign office minister says collusion between 'defenders of Israeli extremism' and senior Conservatives led to probe against him | | Former Conservative MP Alan Duncan in London on 1 July 2019 (AFP/Tolga Akmen) | Forme…
For seven days in a row, Mohammed Anan, a Palestinian man from the Speaking to The New Arab, the 45-year-old father of five, said, "The surprise military attack on the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood and the industrial area did not allow me to escape with…
War on Gaza: Palestinians suffering from 'unprecedented mental health crisis' | The Gaza Community Mental Health Programme said Gazans' psychological trauma could endure 'for generations to come' | | Palestinian women react after an Israeli air strike on a UN school sheltering displaced people in Nu…
The CEO of a pro-Israel group in Alon Cassuto, who heads the 
Ceasefire talks on ending the war on Gaza remained stalled on Monday amid reports that the Palestinians had pulled out of Further negotiations between the two sides are expected to take place this week in Doha, sources involved in the mediation efforts told The New Arab's Arabic langua…
The Israeli army is reportedly running out of In filings submitted to the country's 
Thousands of British imperial and allied servicemen and women from the First World War and the Second World War are buried in the The cemeteries have suffered damages from Israeli air and artillery strikes, according to satellite image evidence. Their caretakers have had to flee or are unaccounted for as Is…
A party at an Israeli hotel triggers anger in Morocco | Youth delegation says its visit was aimed at 'fostering peace', but videos of parties, meetings with Israeli officials and food outings cause unrest at home | | Moroccans wave Palestinian flags during a march in solidarity with the…
On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured a Palestinian child in the Shiokh Al-Arroub town, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank's southern part. Several Israeli military vehicles invaded the town, leading to protests, and fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs. Medical sources have confirmed that the soldiers shot …
War on Gaza: Israeli strike on Nuseirat school kills 23 Palestinians | United Nations-run facility the latest school sheltering displaced families to be targeted by Israel | | A displaced Palestinian woman reacts at a UN school used as a shelter by displaced families, foll…
"Israel has been waging a war of revenge against prisoners within the walls of prisons an…
The 
In 1979, I made the first of what would turn out to be decades of periodic visits to Israel and the West Bank. I traveled there for the New York alternative publication The Village Voice to investigate Israel's growing settler movement, Gush Emunim (or the Bloc of the Faithful). The English-language Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, then reported 
Police in The Royal Oman Police said in a statement online the shooting happened in the Wadi Kabir neighborhood of Muscat, the Omani capital. | Police gave no motive nor said who was suspected of carrying out the attack. | "The Royal Oman Police have responded to a shooting incident that occurred in the vicinity of a mosque in the Al-Wadi Al-Kabir area," said a police statement on social media platform X. | "All necessary security meas…
Senior officials from the rival Palestinian groups The Hamas delegation is to be headed by its Qatar-based political chief 
A new Turkish military offensive launched last month has Nearly 200 families have evacuated their villages in affected areas in Duhok governorate as the fighting moves out of the mountains and gets closer to more densely populated areas. | Turkey has encroached on Iraq's territory for years. It operates a network of bases in the Kurdistan Region and regularly conducts cross-border airstrikes, which all too o…
Odious debt and collapse of the state The debt-strapped Greek government is not defending Greece from Turkey or factory tourism. Turkey continues its long-standing manipulation of NATO countries while threatening Greece. Turkish insults and aggressive actions in the Aegean continue. The Turks have the audacity and insolence to advertise to their NATO "allies" and to 
"We were given a genocidal man and a fascist man, and that is a terrible decision to pick from," says one of the protesters who joined a broad coalition of progressive groups and unions to march in Milwaukee against the Republican Party Monday on the first day of the Republican National Convention. We speak with people calling for an end to racist policies supported by the GOP; defending the rights of women, LGBTQ people and abortion access; supporting Palestine and more.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is accompanied by his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance at the first day of the Republican National Convention , at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, July 15, 2024. — Reuters Former United States president Donald Trump on Monday…
Shabana Mahmood, the United Kingdom's new Lord Chancellor can be seen dressed in formal court attire at oath-taking ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on July, 15, 2024. — X/@MoJGovUKShabana Mahmood pledges to be "champion" for rule of law.Birmingham MP took her oath of…
Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump arrives Day 1 of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, July 15, 2024. — Reuters
Oman: Pakistanis and police officer killed in attack on Shia mosque in Muscat | Rare attack in Sultanate targets worshippers marking Ashura, with authorities saying at least three gunmen involved were killed | | Grainy footage shows worshippers fleeing the mosque in the Omani capital on Tuesday morn…
Turkey: Erdogan to skip European summit in UK | The Turkish leader will not attend the European Political Community Summit in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, hosted by new PM Keir Starmer, citing a hectic travel schedule | | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends Nato's 75th anniversary…
The leader of Nepal's largest communist party was inaugurated as prime minister at a ceremony in Kathmandu on Sunday. Khadga Prasad Oli, who heads the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), was named to…
DETROIT—The federal government is investigating United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain and his family as part of what many union members believe is an effort to retaliate against the union for its member-supported call for a ceasefire in Palestine. New reporting based on internal documents reveals that the federally-appointed monitor for the UAW, Neil …
July 13, 2024. The art exhibit, "Neon Dreams: Through the Prism", opened at the Imahika Art Gallery to provide a captivating window into one of the most influential art movements in 20th-Century Art. | Artworks from different artists brought together by Gabo Valenzuela is on display, whose vibrant often larger-than-life pieces incorporate imagery from everyday common objects to advertising, comic books, and video games. | By presenting these artworks, "Neon Dreams: Through the Prism", viewers are invited to reconsider the boundaries between Fine Art and popular culture. | Contemporary tribute to Filipino imaginat…
July 14, Sunday. It was proposed in February this year by the South Korean Ministry of Unification to designate the 14th of July as a national day in honor of North Korean refugees. As such, the first North Korean Refugee Day Festival was celebrated at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, DDP, in central Seoul. The Designation Day initiative is part of broader efforts to raise awareness of human rights issues in North Korea. | The festival was attended by Koreans and foreigners with singing, dance, and business showcases. Various booths hosted by NGOs who work for North Korean defectors were busy handing out gifts, souve…
The project aims to increase the region's self-sufficiency level…
Students grew crops even in temperatures as low as 46 degrees Celsius…
Jazz in the City 2024 will Continue Celebrating Their 20th Season Thursday July 18th from 6pm to 9pm at Schiller Park, Farmer Street, featuring; AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Jazz Collective. Opening will be African Drumming from the Adanfo Ensemble. Syracuse Community Healthcare Village will have screenings and vital health information along with other organizations with wellness support. Arts & Crafters will be there as well along with food vendors including Yum Yum Shack. Attendees are encouraged to bring their lawn chairs. Free Admission and open to the public. More details available at www.cnyja…
By Justin Latif in Suva Despite the many challenges faced by Pacific journalists in recent years, the recent Pacific International Media Conference highlighted the incredible strength and courage of the region's reporters. The three-day event in Suva, Fiji, earlier this month co-hosted by the University of South Pacific, Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the…
Balasingham Skanthakumar looks at the conjuncture in Sri Lanka, two years after the citizens' movement and in the run-up to the presidential election later this year.
BROOKLINE, MA—Expecting at least a temporary moratorium on the subject, sources expressed surprise Tuesday when local woman Gale Dunn's recent divorce failed to slow down her continual pleas for her adult daughter to get married. "Honestly, Cara, when are you going to get serious about finding a husband and settling… 
Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris — Goodbye Why the news media's job is to groom us, by Jonathan Cook America Teeters on the Abyss. Trump shot in assassination attempt in Butler, PA, by Simplicius On the Trump assassination attempt: The establishment strikes — Neoliberal Feudalism The Biden Administration Has Exposed The Brain Rot Of Western Liberals, by Caitlin Johnstone The Distraction of Joe Biden: What genocide? What war? What militarism? by Bill Astore Biden or not, U.S. policy on Palestine stays the same, by Mitchell Plitnick A new Israeli massacre and why the end is near, by Ma…
At least 90 Palestinians were killed in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, and at least 20 were killed in al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, in two new massacres committed by Israeli forces, who have been incessantly attacking the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip for the past 281 days. Medical sources …
Following a horrific massacre in which Israeli forces killed 90 civilians in al-Mawasi 'safe area' on Saturday afternoon, Israeli forces did not cease their relentless and ongoing bombardment of civilian areas in different parts of the Gaza Strip in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, day 282 of Israel's attack on Gaza. A number of Palestinian …
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip have confirmed that the death toll of the Israeli massacres of displaced Palestinians in their tents in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, has reached at least 90, in addition to 300 wounded, including many children and women. The sources said …
A genocidal Jewish supremacist political culture rewards, well, a genocidal Jewish supremacist. That explains Anthony Housefather's recent appointment as Special Adviser on Jewish Community Relations and Antisemitism. On Friday Justin Trudeau rewarded his most openly hostile caucus member with the newly created position. This gives Housefather a bigger platform to promote Israel's holocaust in Gaza. …
Mourners carry the bodies of four Palestinians killed by an Israeli airstrike late Tuesday during their funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, near Tulkarm, Wednesday, 3 July (Mohammed Nasser APA images) At any other time in Palestinian history, the West Bank's resistance to Israel's lethal military raids and colonial encroachments would …
On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers shot a young man on land near the Annexation Wall, northeast of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank's northern part. Media sources said they injured a young man, from Deir Abu Da'if village, after shooting him with a live round in the leg. They added that the young man was …
Image by Koushik Chowdavarapu. | THE TWILIGHT ZONE — Picture if you will the citizens of a small town in Northeast Ohio, facing a daunting toxic threat yet trapped in a maze of regulatory capture at the so-called Environmental Protection Agency. Not the citizens of East Palestine, though they too face a challenging quest for the truth about the environmental health threats they may face. But the citizens in and around Uniontown, Ohio have been trapped in such a quagmire for decades, subjected to a dystopian level of gaslighting from the powers that be in an effort to bury the truth regarding the ultra-ha…
Bodies of 139 likely Islamic State victims recovered from mass grave in Iraq | Remains of 'women and men' discovered in mass grave west of former IS stronghold of Mosul | | An aerial view of the "Khasfa" sinkhole, one of the sinkholes in the Mosul area used by Islamic State fighters as a mass grave,…
Country: occupied Palestinian territory | Sources: Logistics Cluster, World Food Programme | Please refer to the attached Infographic.
The country is moving towards a sustainable economy…
The following article is republished from Monsour Owolabi, a New Afrikan prisoner being held in Texas, which has been laid out into a zine for easy republishing. "International solidarity must not cease or slacken, even in prisons, because a ceasefire is not even the tip of the iceberg in bringing a solution to this conflict." …
Twelve buildings are destroyed every hour in Gaza. This article first appeared on The Electronic Intifada at 
Palestinian territory, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor — During its four-day incursion into the western parts of Gaza City, the Israeli army committed horrific atrocities against Palestinian civilians, including willful killings, extensive destruction and burning of civilian buildings and homes, and forced evacuation as part of the ongoing crime of genocide for the tenth consecutive month. …
Male cops escort Serine Abuelhawa to jail where she was forced to remove her Hijab, Portland, Oregon, June 8, 2024. Portland, Oregon Serine Abuelhawa, a leading Palestinian activist, was arrested at Portland's Grand Floral Parade on June 8 for protesting the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. Abuelhawa said she was . . . | 
According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued the Hannibal Directive that ordered the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas on October 7. The orders were implemented in buildings where hostages were known to be held. Other orders were given to fire on civilian buildings and open areas.
Resist NATO demonstration during NATO Summit, Washington, D.C., July 7, 2024. As the NATO military alliance was meeting in Washington, D.C., Israel bombed four schools in Gaza in four days. At the invitation of President Joe Biden, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz attended the NATO Summit. Israel's latest bombing of . . . | 
US President Joe Biden answers questions about Israel after speaking about the Special Counsel report at the White House in Washington, on February 8, 2024. — AFP The European leaders has tendered their support for US President Joe Biden following the gaffes he made at…
Right-wing former The Yisrael Beiteinu leader slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government's handling of its war on 
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres declared on Friday that there is no alternative to The UN Relief and Works Agency provides education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Since war erupted nine months ago between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, UN officials have stresse…
Israel must make a decision on how to deal with "This way or that, through diplomatic efforts or a military operation, we will have to take care of it," Yuli Edelstein was quoted by Israeli media as telling 23 European ambassadors, consuls, and attachés during a tour of the Kiryat Shmona border settlement. | "It can't drag on forever," the Likud party member said. | Kiryat Shmona is one Israe…
On Friday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers assaulted and injured a Palestinian, and caused damage to many cars in Jericho and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank's northeastern and central parts. Media sources said many colonizers attacked and caused damage to the car of a young man in the Al-Awja Spring area, north of Jericho. They …
American comedian and actor Rob Delaney has highlighted the plight of Speaking on the 10 July episode of show ' 
On Saturday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Um Dar village, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank's northern part, and abducted three young men, including two siblings. Hilala Kabaha, the head of Um Dar Village Council, said several military vehicles advanced into the village before the soldiers invaded agricultural lands near the illegal Annexation Wall. …
Muazzaz Abayat's parents "I came back from the dead," the 37-year-old Palestinian, told AFP at a hospital in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. | Abayat, a butcher by trade, was arrested without explanation on October 26, just over two weeks after the Hamas attack on southern Israel which began the current war on Gaz…
Dozens of media and civil society organisations have called on BBC News, The New York Times, the AFP news agency, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, and the European Federation of Journalists were among over 70 signatories to an open letter calling for access to Gaza. | "We, the undersigned, request that Israeli authorities end immediately the r…
After the UNRWA Pledging Conference, 118 UN member states officially declared their participation in the Joint Commitments Initiative led by Jordan, Kuwait, and Slovenia, to support the important, life-saving word of the UNRWA. The initiative aims to provide support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) …
Local authorities have intensified efforts to ensure coexistence between humans and animals…
Asia Pacific Report The Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights and other protesters took to the streets of Fiji's capital Suva yesterday in a rare demonstration demanding freedom, decolonisation and human rights in Kanaky New Caledonia and West Papua. The peaceful "pre-Bastille Day" protest came after recent events in Kanaky New Caledonia led to 10…
Pro-Palestine activists They are concerned the new 
An Iranian court has ordered the The International Court in Tehran ordered its foe the United States to pay $6.785 billion to patients with epidermolysis bullosa, a disorder that causes the skin to blister easily, the judiciary's Mizan Online website said on Thursday. | Then-president 
Kurien, staggering out of the dusty and rugged railway station with his luggage, gazed at the spools of dust and the dilapidated stone building before him as he got out. The station was small and almost in ruins. He could see a few turbaned shepherds grazing their cattle in the distance. Everything about this place… 
The "Every day, we are working for recognition," said the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), which Turkish Cypriot leaders declared in 1983 but which is recognised only by Ankara. | "Turkish Cypriots h…
ANALYSIS: By Denise Fisher The voters in the second round of France's national elections last weekend staved off an expected shift to the far-right. But the result in the Pacific territory Kanaky New Caledonia was also in many ways historic. Of the two assembly representatives decided, a position fell on either side of the deep…
A traveller at the Cairo International Airport was caught trying to smuggle more than one million Egyptian pounds inside shawarma sandwich wraps. | The individual, whose initials were only revealed, was travelling to Kuwait on an Egyptair flight when airport security grew suspicious of their luggage contents, a source from the airport told local media. | Upon inspection, authorities found 1,253,000 Egyptian Pounds (around $26,100) packaged to appear like shawarma wraps. | The source added that legal measures had been taken against the traveller, an Egyptian national. | No further details were given on the matt…
A number of online meetings attended by well-known figures from the Palestinians residing in 
"The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has partnered with the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Saudi Arabia to host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games 2025 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," the body said. | "The proposal will be made to the IOC Session, which will be held on the eve of the Olympic Games Paris 2024. | "The duration of the partnership between the IOC and th…
ALL OUT FOR GAZA, ALL OF PALESTINE, LEBANON VANCOUVER RALLY, MARCH AND VIGIL FOR THE MARTYRS Saturday, July 13 8 pm Robson Square, south side Vancouver Art Gallery ** Note: We are gathering at 8 pm to reach a new crowd downtown and to provide some relief from the heat. We urge all to come …
WEBINAR: Repression against Palestine in Europe. A deeper look into the repressive apparatus and strategies of confrontation (Languages: English and Spanish) Ever since the 7th of October, repression against the pro-Palestine movement in Europe has taken new levels. From banning demonstrations in multiple countries, the prosecution of activists, the media smear campaigns, up to the …
The Washington halted the bomb shipment in early May when it appeared Israel was on the verge of a major ground operation in Rafah in southern Gaza that the US government strongly opposed, with Israel eventually launchi…
The Global Anti-Apartheid Conference program of action encourages the establishment of activist, grassroots structures in every country to stop the genocide in Gaza.
When people say, "Joe Biden's a decent man," what Biden are they talking about? The man who befriended Strom Thurmond, the man who treated Anita Hill dismissively, the man who plagiarized Neil Kinnock's speeches, the man who crafted the most punitive and racist crime laws of the 20th Century, the man who voted for the Iraq war and armed a genocide? 
Realistic contenders to replace Biden won't be better on Palestine than Genocide Joe. And when it comes to Dems and Republicans, you pick your poison, but there's no healthy choice.
With Yemen fortifying its defenses and Russia offering support, the U.S. faces a growing crisis in the Red Sea. Are Biden and Trump ignoring a looming war?
The window for US President Joe Biden to broker a normalisation deal between According to a Democratic lawmaker and a senior Republican Senate aide, a normalisation deal can not be reached before November. | Saudi Arabia is currently demanding that Israel agree to establish a future Palestinian s…
Turkish President "Until comprehensive, sustainable peace is established in Palestine, attempts at cooperation with Israel within NATO will not be approved by Turkey," Erdogan said at a news conference at the NATO summit. | Turkey also continues its diplomatic efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he s…
The attacker is a member of Israel's diplomatic mission Originally published on TaiwanPlus News" from There is a widespread be…
US President Joe Biden said on Thursday the "That framework is now agreed on by both Israel and Hamas…
Around 60 bodies were found under the rubble of The upsurge in fighting, bombardment and displacement in the eastern district of Shujaiya came as talks were held in mediator US President Joe Biden told reporters that his admi…
On Thursday, the Israeli army continued the bombing of the devastated, destroyed, starved, and densely populated Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians across the coastal enclave. The Israeli army fired many missiles and shells at several parts of Gaza City, especially near the City Park area and the Al-Qattan Center, west of the …
Biden says Israel has occasionally been 'less than cooperative' when allowing aid to Gaza | The Nato summit speech comes as Israel continues bombing all areas of the Gaza Strip | | US President Joe Biden speaking at the 75th anniversary Nato Summit in Washington, DC on 11 July 2024 (Reuters/Leah Mil…
A leading 
LAYANA KHOURY is an editor of Al-Ittihad (The Union), the daily Arabic-language newspaper of the Israeli Communist Party. She is a "48-Palestinian," an Arab woman living inside the borders of the State of Israel established in 1948. Along with its sister publication, the Hebrew-language Zo Haderekh (This is the Way), Al-Ittihad is currently operating under the most difficult and repressive conditions. …
Gaza: Palestinian with Down syndrome 'left to die' by Israeli soldiers after combat dog attack | Muhammed, who was 'like a one-year-old', was separated from his family after an Israeli dog mauled him. His decomposed body was found a week later | | Muhammed Bhar, 24, pictured in his home…
After more than nine months of war, Israeli political and military circles claim that they are "close to eliminating" On 1 July, Israeli Prime Minister 
Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man, on Thursday, assaulted three citizens, and abducted five in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank. At dawn Thursday, occupation forces invaded the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, sparking protests among local Palestinian youths. Medical sources with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society …
The study raises concern over the significant carbon emissions and impact on the environment as a result of Israel's ongoing war on the strip. | The findings state that between October and Febru…
Israel ordered the "Hannibal Directive" on October 7 by ordering the killing of captive Israeli soldiers and civilians. But the U.S. media continues to hide the truth.
In Palestine, the The link between society and the environment is strong, with the This is why Mazin Qumsiyeh starte…
US considers fresh legal bid questioning ICC jurisdiction over Israel | Exclusive: Secretary of State Antony Blinken directly lobbied UK foreign minister against dropping the ICC challenge | | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) speaks with US president Joe Biden during the working ses…
'I have the prison inside me': The emaciated Palestinian bodybuilder broken by Israel | Muazzaz Abayat speaks to MEE from a hospital bed in his native Bethlehem after spending nearly nine months in Israeli administrative detention | | Muazzaz Abayat, 39, is being treated in a hospital af…
On Thursday, the Israeli District Court in occupied Jerusalem rejected the appeal of four Palestinian Jerusalemite families against eviction rulings in the Batn Al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) and the Batn Al-Hawa Neighborhood …
The strike on the school killed at least 27 Palestinians and wounded 53 others, the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza said. | CNN's team analysed a video of the strike taken by one of their journalists at the scene and ident…
A bill in the The bill in the It would empower the Council for Higher Education in Israe…
On Thursday, Israeli soldiers fatally shot a Palestinian child, and injured two children, in the towns of Methaloon and Saris, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank. Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) medics transported a slain child, Ali Hassan Ali Rabay'a, 15, from the town of Methaloon, to the Turkish Hospital in Tubas, in the …
Erdogan's comments came as NATO leaders huddled in Washington and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was planning "response measures" to contain the "very serious threat" from the alliance. | "The possibility of a direct conf…
The powerful military, in a country that has been ruled by the army for almost half its independent history, can make or break governments in Pakistan, and the new powers for its…
A Chevron-chartered oil tanker that was seized by The Marshall Islands-flagged Advantage Sweet was boarded by Iran's military in the Gulf of Oman in April 2023 after an alleged collision with an Iranian boat. | The US State Department welcomed reports that the vessel has been released and again condemned the Iranian regime's unlawful seizure of the vessel from international waters, an agency spokesperso…
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party candidates contested the Feb. 8 election as independents after it was barred from the polls. They won the most seats but the election commission said independe…
Jordan has announced the opening of a The military alliance's office in Amman is the first in the Arab region and comes as a result of close cooperation and "deep strategic ties between NATO and the kingdom", the statement said. | The decision was made during a historic NATO summit in Washington, which marks the 75th anniversary of the allian…
US President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference at the close of the 75th NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on July 11, 2024. — AFP 
Jeremy Corbyn launches plan to challenge 'stale two party system' | Former Labour leader sets up forum aimed at offering electoral challenge against Labour and Conservatives | | Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses pro-Palestinian in London on 6 July 2024 (AFP/Justin Tallis) | Former L…
Iranian press review: Lawyer supportive of new president jailed one day after election | Meanwhile, a campaign to remove Tehran's mayor gains renewed public attention, and political prisoners warn of a post-election surge in executions | | A woman holds a picture of Iranian r…
$2.5 trillion dollars. That's the amount the United States currently spends on war, per a recent mailer I received from the War Resisters League. This number, is an increase of over $200 billion since last year, despite the end of the long-running war in Afghanistan and the replacement of the bellicose Donald Trump with supposedly …
With the World March for Peace and Non-violence 2024 planning to visit Pakistan in its March for Peace across the globe this October, a Football Festival was organized on July 8 and 9 in Bahria Town, to set things in motion for the World March visit to the country. | The Football Festival featured five teams with around 100 youth and officials involved in the event: | 1) IRWA Eagles FC, Izmir Society, Lahore | 2) Bahria Town Football Academy, Bahria Town Lahore | 3) Al Noor Football Academy, Dream Garden Lahore | 4) Margalla Hills Football Academy, Islamabad | 5) EME — DHA Football Academy, Lahore | HERE ARE…
Country: Philippines | Source: Government of the Philippines | Please refer to the attached file. | I. Situation Overview | On 08 July 2024, heavy rainfall brought by localized thunderstorms caused significant flooding in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte. Said rainfall led to the overflow of Ligasawan Marsh, flooding its tributaries and waterways and affecting several families. | Source: DSWD Field Office (FO) XII | II. Status of Affected Areas and Population | A total of 4,800 families or 10,680 persons are affected in 10 barangays in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte.
Country: Philippines | Source: Government of the Philippines | Please refer to the attached file. | I. Situation Overview | On 08 July 2024 at around 4: 00 PM, heavy rains were experienced in Lumbanao, Iloilo which caused flooding in low-lying areas, particularly in Brgy. Tranghawan. The flood reached households and lasted for about 2 to 3 hours before it eventually subsided. There was also reported landslide incident in Brgy. Pughanan around 7: 00 PM which caused partial damage to one (1) residential house. | Source: DSWD Field Office (FO) VI | II. Status of Affected Areas and Population | A total of 56 fami…
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CHICAGO—Racing to make everything tidy ahead of the quickly approaching visit, local woman Ellen Crandall was frantically cleaning up the entire city before her parents came into town for a visit, sources confirmed Thursday. "I've got to hide all these weed shops," said Crandall, who wiped the sweat off her brow as… 
Paramedics have also been unable to retrieve bodies and bury them due to the dangerous conditions posed by the Israeli army, as war and violence continue to rage. | Additionally, a spokesperson for the Gaza…
According to the column by US journalist David Ignatius, the interim government will commence with phase two and security would be provided by forces trained by the US and backed by "moderate Arab allies".
Israel has made official an illegal outpost in the The Evyatar post was among five illegal outposts to be legalised by the Israeli government recently, after the decision was previously delayed. The land on which the outpost was built on measures 65 dunams, according…
In recent days, Israeli forces have increased raids in northern Gaza as heavy fighting again raged in the far-southern city of Rafah. | Attacks have also intensified in Gaza City, with several shelters for the displa…
On Wednesday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers burnt large areas of Palestinian lands, electricity poles, closed roads leading to farmlands, and fired live rounds at the Palestinians in Yasuf village, east of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank's central part. Wa'el Abu Madi, the head of Yasuf Village Council, said the paramilitary colonizers invaded the Khallet …
The Karkh Criminal Court in "The convicted terrorist detained Yazidi women in her house, who were then kidnapped by ISIS militants in the Sinjar district, west of Nineveh province," accordi…
The West Bank's economic crisis and the expansion of Israel's settlements are connected. Here's how.
French President Macron spoke to Israeli Prime Minister The president warned Netanyahu that Israeli Diaspora Min…
On Wednesday night, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and attacked property, leading to protests. Rami Hamamra, the head of Husan Village Council, said the colonizers invaded the Al-Matina area, in the eastern part of the village, and closed streets, leading to protests. Hamara added that …
On Wednesday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded the Um Safa village, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank's central party and attacked a family in their home. Marwan Sabah, the head of Um Safa Village Council, told the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) that dozens of soldiers invaded the village on foot before storming …
New UK government urged to halt arms sales to Israel and restore Unrwa funding | Six NGOs and an MP pressure Labour to take action ahead of foreign secretary's visit to Israel | | David Lammy (left), the UK's new foreign secretary, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Ima…
Despite rising opposition to "We condemn this deal and any agreement with the Zionist entity […] We demand an official statement and explanation from the government," stated Aziz Hanaoui, a member of the National Front Against Normalisation, to The New Arab. | The head of the Israeli mission in Rabat and Morocco's foreign ministry have yet to c…
Was there any need for this? Australia's Albanese government, harried by the conservative opposition for going soft on pro-Palestinian protests and the war in Gaza while allegedly wobbling on supporting Israel, has decided to bring a touch of bureaucracy to the show. Australia now has its first antisemitism envoy, a title that sits in that odd constellation 
Germany's crackdown on Palestine solidarity activism reached a new level last month when the government announced that the The 
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has extended invitations to Iraqi Interior Mi…
An incident in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri last week sparked a wave of anti-Syrian attacks across Turkey, just as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's The events were 
The Turkish army has been mainly conducting strikes against the 
Pakistan will extend expired registration cards given to almost It was not immediately clear whether the extension of the Proof of Registration (PoR) cards that expired in June would exem…
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War on Gaza: Hamas dismisses reports that breakthrough is imminent in ceasefire talks | Sources from Palestinian movement reject claims negotiations about the framework of the deal are set to yield immediate success | | Palestinians make their way over the rubble of past destroyed buildings in the S…
Putin opposes Iraq as venue for Erdogan-Assad meeting | The Russian president favours a high-level meeting between Turkish and Syrian leaders in Turkey rather than Baghdad | | Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands following a meeting…
How Turkey improved stagnated ties with China | Beijing's decision to invest in the country comes after a flurry of Turkish visits and some changes in Chinese policies | | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C), Wang Chuanfu (L), chairman and CEO of Chinese conglomerate manufacturing compa…
Muslim election campaign group calls for united alliance in future UK elections | The Muslim Vote says vote splitting between candidates with similar pro-Palestine platforms allowed Labour to win in at least six constituencies | | Independent pro-Gaza candidate Vaz Shabir stood in the Keighley and I…
by: Irshad Ahmad Mughal | Preparations for the World March for Peace and Non-Violence 2024 are already underway in Pakistan, involving youth under the age of 13. A Football Festival was organized on the 8th and 9th of July featuring five teams in Bahria Town, with approximately 100 youth and officials participating in the event. | During the tournament, the youth received orientation about the significance of the World March for Peace and were given motivation to denounce any activities promoting violence in the future. | To transcend the competitive mindset of winning and losing, the tournament was structured…
To strengthen creative and artistic connections between the two nations, an international arts festival is scheduled to take place in Moscow…
"My father has kept us away from politics, whether it is me, my brother or any other family member. My little brother returned back from Delhi a few days ago only to campaign and become the voice of our jailed father." These were the words of Abrar, son of the jailed Indian politician Sheikh Abdul… 
Iran's President-elect Massoud Pezeshkian has pledged continued support for Lebanon's Hezbollah and other "resistance" groups in the region in a letter addressed to Hassan Nasrallah cited by In the letter, Pezeshkian said that "the Islamic Republic of He emphasised that this support was rooted in Iran's fundamental pol…
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan headed on Tuesday to "During NATO leaders summit, we will raise massacres of the 
Lebanon's Hezbollah The video, entitled "al-Hodhod 2", shows Israeli intelligence and command bases and newly-established military bases and posts in the area. | The clip ends with a scene showing an Israeli city, which 
A war monitor said an Israeli strike on Tuesday in 
Israel-Hezbollah war would plunge Egypt into further darkness, analysts say | Egypt's energy vulnerabilities and blackouts show just how reliant the country has become on Israeli gas, experts tell MEE | | The sun sets behind electricity pylons in El-Shorouk as planned blackouts began last July…
A government plane carrying Israeli Prime Minister In May, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan said that he was seeking 
War on Gaza: Netanyahu mulls layover in Europe amid fears of arrest warrant | The Israeli PM is considering whether a stopover en route to the US would be feasible, given the ICC indictment application | | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a state memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv on 18 June…
The office, located in Baghdad's Al-Jadriya district near the Green Zone and political headquarters, follows…
On Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Husan village, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and demolished two stores. Jamal Sabateen, the head of Husan Village Council, said a large Israeli military force, accompanied by bulldozers, invaded the eastern and the western parts of the village. Sabateen added that the soldiers demolished a construction …
Israeli forces abducted, on Tuesday, ten Palestinians, including a child, a young woman, an elderly citizen, and a former prisoner, in several regions of the occupied West Bank. Before dawn Tuesday, occupation forces abducted a University student in the village of Jinsafut, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern part of the West Bank. Media sources …
GAZA, | Xinhua | At least 25 Palestinians were killed and some others wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting a school in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said Tuesday. Security sources told Xinhua that Israeli aircraft targeted the gate of the Al-Awda School, which houses hundreds of displaced …
Gaza's government has urged The government media office released a statement late on Monday calling on…
UN rights experts on Tuesday accused Israel of carrying out a "Israel's intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in 
Israeli forces have killed at least nine people in a deadly on Gaza's Residents and reports say that the attack targeted a gathering of civilians near the Abu Rasas roundabout in the camp. | Many of the dead were transported to the 
Israeli Defence Minister His government relies on two 
An envoy on As in many countries, protests and rallies in support of Gaza amid Israel's war on…
On Wednesday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, searched homes, and abducted four Palestinians, including a teenage boy. The soldiers invaded Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and caused damage to several homes. Media sources said many army jeeps …
I love Bernie Sanders. By most measures, he's the greatest senator in the last 50 years. I was very glad to be a Sanders delegate to the 2016 and 2020 Democratic National Conventions. But when Bernie screws up, his progressive base should say so. That happened during the first months of Israel's war on Gaza 
On Wednesday, day 278 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of Gaza, the Israeli bombardment continued non-stop, in what local residents are calling "some of the worst bombardment in 9 months" of the Israeli invasion, resulting in dozens of casualties, especially among children and women. Dozens of Palestinians, most of them children, …
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LAYANA KHOURY is an editor of Al-Ittihad (The Union), the daily Arabic-language newspaper of the Israeli Communist Party. Along with its sister publication, the Hebrew-language Zo Haderekh (This is the Way), Al-Ittihad is operating under the most difficult and repressive conditions. They face constant political attacks from the Netanyahu government and the military censorship of …
UK Prime Minister The move by Starmer — who has come under fire for his own stance on the Gaza war — has been welcomed by some pro-Palestinian activists, while supporters of Israel have slammed it. | The choice also came at the expense of Starmer a…
At least one Palestinian child was injured by Israeli gunfire during a military raid east of Nablus in the An Israeli army force stormed the town of Beit Furik, raiding several neighbourhoods amid clashes with Palestinian residents. | Witnesses told Anadolu Agency that paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society were treating a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the foot. | Israeli troops carried out more raids across the West Bank at dawn on Wednesday, both in the no…
US will shut down 'aid pier' in Gaza this month, report reveals | The $230 million structure, marred by poor weather and security concerns, is set to permanently shut down after just 23 days of operation | | An image grab from a video released by the Israeli army on 18 May shows aid entering the Gaz…
The A statement issued in the name of the Diocese of Jerusalem said the hospital has been "compelled to close by the Israeli army". | On Sunday evening, a large amount of firing from…
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Near zero medical services reportedly in Gaza City; malnutrition and cancer deaths, risks to lives of babies — all as aid trucks sit at the border; Gaza death toll likely far larger than reported; released Palestinian prisoners found dead; Israel reportedly allows shooting free-for-all; accusations that Netanyahu is actively thwarting ceasefire deal; more. By IAK …
WASHINGTON—In the spirit of working-class internationalism and the tradition of "an injury to one is an injury to all," labor unions in the U.S. continue to fight for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Israel's genocidal war on Palestine. They are working to pressure the Biden administration to change policies and end its diplomatic and …
Earlier Wednesday, several Israeli military vehicles invaded Beit Furik town, east of the Nablus in the occupied West Bank's northern part and shot a child with a live round. Media sources said several military vehicles invaded the town, and conducted searches, leading to protests before the soldiers fired live rounds, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. …
Israeli Netanyahu has been charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in 
Macron confronted Netanyahu over 'unacceptable' interference in France's elections | The French president became angry when an Israeli minister publicly and repeatedly praised far-right leader Marine Le Pen | | French President Emmanuel Macron attended a tribute ceremony on 7 February for the 42 Fre…
Shady websites calling for a The murky operation, which began late last year and spans multiple countries, is the largest ever to target the em…
Asaad al-Ghamdi, 47, was arrested in November 2022, in a nighttime raid on his home in the Saudi city of He was convicted on 29 May by Saudi Arabia's Speci…
Foreign ministers of The 
The 69-year-old cardiac surgeon and former lawmaker He was elected to office in a Pezeshkian will replace Ebrahim Raisi, the ultra-conservative seminaria…
Leading figures in Monday's verdict by a 
Country Joe & The Fish — Vietnam Song John Kennedy's Mind vs. Joe Biden's Cheat Sheet, by John Leake The DNC's Main Goal Is to Block Principled Progressives and Systemic Reform, by Bill Astore Who has the power to kill the world? Money is Power is Money, by Sasha Latypova US Inequality Is About Class, Not Generations, by Sam Pizzigati The Big Picture behind Viktor The Mediator's peace shuttle, by Pepe Escobar We Can Defeat the Lobby, by Ilan Pappe 'How Do We Control Palestinians? We Make Them Feel Like We're Everywhere,' by Yves Smith, P Molnar Starmer learnt that the price of power was…
US State Department's spokesperson Matthew Miller speaks to the media in Washington, US on July 9, 2024. — AFP/FileUS closely monitors Taliban's treatment of people: Miller.Taliban's relationship with world depends on their actions.He also laments Kabul's enforcement of "morality…
The country grapples with challenges posed by climate changeGlobal VoicesGlaciers are melting in extreme heat in Pakistan. Photo by This May and June, Pakistan faced an 
Brazil: Bolsonaro accused of embezzling $1.2m in undeclared jewellery from Saudi Arabia | Police reports found links between the former president and a criminal organisation in charge of the embezzlement | | Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Osa…
D.W. Griffith's 1915 Civil War-era epic The Birth of a Nation dealt with Reconstruction, while Korean-American Philip W. Chung's new world premiere play Unbroken Blossoms deals with the deconstruction of Asian imagery in another Griffith movie. Despite its positive public reception, the motion picture pioneer's cinematic spectacle celebrating the Ku Klux Klan provoked scathing scorn …
The nation is bolstering its scientific basis and enhancing the standard of government in the nation…
The centre also provides training for chip designers, assembly and software production specialists…
A purple laser light shines into a night sky that whines. But this is no pyrotechnic show. The whirring noise that sounds like a lawn mower comes from exploding drones that "It's there. I'm following it," a man shouts, his voice urgent. | A Browning M2 machine gun erupts and yellow streaks rip through the air forming a cluster of red dots in the abyss above where .50 calibre bullets tear into an Iranian-made Shahed drone. | Darth Vader brigade…
INDIANAPOLIS—Saying she figured she could do course prep while traveling to away games on the team bus, WNBA star Caitlin Clark told reporters she had begun supplementing her rookie salary this week with a second job as an adjunct professor of basketball. "I'm teaching a freshman-level Intro to Basketball Studies… 
Bulgarian archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer stumbled upon a 6.8-foot-tall marble statue of the Greek god Hermes, which they believe was intentionally placed there in 388 A.D. and covered with dirt, causing it to be remarkably well preserved. What do you think? 
The Israeli military ordered the "Hannibal Directive" on The The directive dates back to the 1980s but was revised after Hamas members abducted…
Palestinians, who fled the eastern part of Gaza City after they were ordered by Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, carry their belongings, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 7, 2024. — ReutersPakistani Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has yet again demanded a…
Given the recent pro-Palestinian protests around the world and on many university campuses, it seems strange if not surprising that neither genocide nor the continuing flow of U.S. weapons to Israel were mentioned during the first (and maybe only) 2024 presidential debate. Nor did the New York Times Editorial Board see fit to cite complicity in genocide while calling for Biden to step down after his poor debate performance. Instead, it declared that Biden has been "an admirable president." 
Big news in both Israel and Ukraine. Let's start with Israel. The intrepid Haaretz reporters delivered a gut punch to Bibi Netanyahu and his persistent effort to blame all the Israeli deaths on October 7 on Hamas terrorism. Gaza Division operations and airstrikes in the first hours of October 7 were based on limited information. The first long moments after the Hamas attack was launched were chaotic. Reports were coming in, with their significance not always clear. When their meaning was understood, it was realized that somet…
The government in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a UN-run The territory's health ministry, which condemned the strike as an "odious massacre", said 50 injured were taken to hospital from Al-Jawni school in 
Since 8 October 2023, daily exchanges of fire between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel have highlighted the ease with which Israel's war on Gaza has Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, has been putting pressure on Israel by forcing the country's military to divert resources from Gaza to counter the Lebanese group on its northern front. | This has highlighted the 
André Rieu ft. Gheorghe Zamfir — The Lonely Shepherd 'My Life's Work Melting Before My Eyes,' by Scott Ritter Roger Waters — The Case Against Genocide, w/Craig Murray (Video) OMG Haaretz Is Hamas Propaganda Now! by Caitlin Johnston Europe Goes Antisemitic! by Kevin Barrett Senior Israeli Lawmaker Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran, by Brett Wilkins "Our" Man in Israel, by Ted O'Keefe A hollow Palestinian state, by Muhannad Ayyash Resistance Recruits Thousands | Bibi's New Conditions | Haaretz: Hannibal Directive — Day 275-Pal Chron The New Desaparecidos: Israel and th…
The newly elected 
UK: Labour to drop ICC challenge over Netanyahu arrest warrant | After Conservatives were accused of obstructing the prosecution of Israeli war crimes, new Labour government believes ICC has jurisdiction over Gaza | | David Lammy arrives at Downing Street on 5 July (AFP) | The UK's new Labour…
The civil defence agency in The Israeli military, which has long accused Palestinian militants of using schools and other civilian infrastructure, confirmed the strike "in the area of the school" in Gaza City. | It claimed in a statement the school complex was used as…
UK: Former employees sue Lloyds TSB after bank fired them for pro-Palestine posts | Two women were dismissed in 2021 after posting messages calling for bank to divest from companies linked to alleged Israeli war crimes | | Customers use cashpoints outside a Lloyds Bank branch in central London…
War on Gaza: Death toll from Israeli assault could exceed 186,000, Lancet warns | Letter published by experts in the British medical journal estimated that some 10,000 people could still be buried in the rubble in Gaza | | Palestinians stand on the rubble and debris of the Latin Patriarchate Holy Fam…
War on Gaza: Palestinians homeless and hopeless as Israel storms Gaza City again | Under heavy Israeli air strikes, thousands of exhausted and confused families are forced into the unknown in the dead of night | | A Palestinian girl reacts as she stands in the grounds of the badly damaged…
British Member of Parliament and barrister Shabana Mahmood was appointed as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice by newly elected Labour Prime Minister While having a history of supporting Palestine, the Member of Parliament has faced critiques from The New Arab looks into who Shabana Mahmood is and where exactly she stands on Palestine and Israel's war on Gaza? | Who…
War on Gaza: Netanyahu accused of sabotaging ceasefire efforts | New 'non-negotiable' demands published by the PM derail talks at a sensitive juncture, Israeli officials and mediators say | | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on…
Marking nine months since the war in Gaza started, Israeli protesters blocked highways across the country Sunday, calling on The demonstrations come as international mediators have renewed efforts to broker a deal, with Hamas over the weekend appearing to have dropped a key demand for an Israeli commitment to end the war, according to Egyptian and Hamas officials who spoke to news agency T…
Abdel Hadi Ghabayen, an uncle of one of the detainees, Kamel Ghabayen, said he set out at 5 am on Sunday looking for his nephew following his arrest by Israeli forces on Saturday. | "I found him left on the ground along with the other two martyrs. They were…
Illegal Israeli colonizers carried out, on Sunday, several attacks against Palestinian citizens and their property in the governorates of Jenin, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. In the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron, occupation forces abducted a local Palestinian citizen and his two children when they attempted to confront invading colonizers, …
Hamas is waiting for a response from Israel on its ceasefire proposal, two officials from the Palestinian group said on Sunday, five days after it accepted a key part of a US plan aimed at ending "We have left our response with the mediators and are waiting to hear the occupation's response," one of the two Hamas officials told Reuters, asking not to be named. | The 
On Monday, day 276 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their bombardment of Palestinian civilian sites. In addition, the Israeli occupation forces issued new forced displacement orders for tens of thousands of residents in the center of the city of Gaza, just minutes before it …
Civilians have now been ordered out of the majority of the Gaza Strip's largest city, where thousands of families had taken shelter from fighting in other parts of the war-stricken territory. | Backed by fighter jet and drone attacks, columns of tanks took up positions around the city, while an army spokesman warned residents of the S…
The Netherlands struck two second-half goals in seven minutes to come from behind to beat Turkey 2-1 on Saturday and set up a Samet Akaydin sent Turkey ahead in the first half but Stefan de Vrij headed the Netherlands level and Murt Muldur turned into his own net under pressure from Cody Gakpo after 76 minutes to hand the Dutch victory. | The build-up to the q…
A pro-Palestine coalition group based in the The 
Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU's climate monitor said on Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to Every month since June 2023 has eclipsed its own temperature record in a 13-month streak of unprecedented "This is more than a statistical oddity and it highlights a large…
President Erdogan's comments come after tensions have mounted over the past week after a mob went on the rampage, vandalising businesses and properties owned by Syrians in a central Anatolian city. | "We may send an invitatio…
Al-Zoubi was arrested on Tuesday by security forces implementing a 2023 court order, which sentenced him to jail over a Facebook post critical of the authorities' response to transportation strikes. | "No one should be imprisoned simply for expressing criticism of the authorities on social media," said Aya Majzoub, Amnesty's…
An outspoken Iranian lawyer who has publicly criticized how the government handled the The unrest at the time followed the death of 22-year-old Her death triggered massive protests that quickly escalated into calls to overthrow Iran's four-decade-old Islami…
UK: First Yemeni British MP Abtisam Mohamed vows to fight for a ceasefire | The Sheffield Central MP is a former lawyer and councillor whose father and grandfather worked in Sheffield's steel mills | | Abtisam Mohamed with Paul Blomfield, whom she replaced as Labour MP for Sheffield Central (X) | Lab…
In UK news An investigation by Liberty Investigates and Metro found that a number of UK universities have been providing intelligence on pro-Palestine student protesters to the police. The investigation described "varying degrees of cooperation and intelligence sharing" in correspondence between universities and police forces. A manager at Queen Mary University of London wrote to …
KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Indian players dominated the Uganda Para-Badminton International 2024 held here from July 2-7. India's Jatin Azad defeated Ibrahim Aliyev of Azerbaijan 21-14, 21-16 in the men's singles SU5 final, while Arati Janoba Patil of India won over her compatriot Latika Latika 21-16, 21-15 in the women's singles SU5 final. Nigeria's …
The truce would give the forces time to recuperate in case a war breaks up between Hezbollah and Israel. — Reuters/FileAs Israel's atrocities increase in Gaza, reports suggest there is a widening rift between the country's military and Prime Minister Benjamin…
As Israel's offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances, with nearly the entire population experiencing high levels of food insecurity, including malnutrition, hunger and starvation. A famine review analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification reported on June 25, 2024, that "a high risk 
On Wednesday, Day 271 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated, destroyed, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli army fired barrages of missiles and shells, and live rounds, especially from drones, at various parts of the coastal enclave, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians. Medical sources said four Palestinians were killed, …
As prospective candidates for the next UK parliament enter their final week of electioneering, it is hard to believe that Israel's relentless slaughter of the Palestinian people has got barely a mention. With the singular exception of the Workers Party, headed by George Galloway, and a number of Independents, the political parties fielding candidates in 
Nearly every sign and chant in the Queer Liberation March, held in New York City on June 30, was in support of Palestine and against Israel's genocide in Gaza. The march, organized by Reclaim Pride Coalition NYC since 2019 to reclaim the spirit of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, is held . . . | 
Far from ending the genocide in Gaza, Israel continues its assault with the military and diplomatic backing of Western states.
Israeli forces shot three Palestinians, including a child, on Tuesday night, in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, and abducted three young men from the Jenin governorate, in the northern occupied West Bank. On Tuesday night, occupation forces shot three Palestinians, including a child, with live rounds, after invading the town of Beita, south …
The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group "If there is a ceasefire in 
Areas of Nine members of the Hamdan family, including women and children were killed alongside three others after fleeing 
Earlier Wednesday, Israeli soldiers abducted a Palestinian, while extremist paramilitary colonizers attacked cars, in the Ramallah governorate, in the occupied West Bank's central part. Media sources said several Israeli military jeeps invaded Ramallah, especially Al-Masayef Street, before breaking into and searching homes. They added that the soldiers abducted Adnan Shqeir, 25, from his home and …
Israel has moved forward with its plan to The new law will make it illegal for Israeli citizens who are not members of proscribed terrorist groups to be held under administrative detention, meaning that the controversial order will effectively only apply to…
Convoy of Israeli Tanks in Gaza | Today's story in the Israel's top generals want to begin a cease-fire in Gaza even if it keeps Hamas in power for the time being, widening a rift between the military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has opposed a truce that would allow Hamas to survive the war. | The gene…
Israeli forces abducted, on Tuesday, seventeen Palestinians, including two children, in the governorates of Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron. At dawn Tuesday, occupation forces abducted two Palestinian young men in the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah in the central part of the West Bank. Media sources said that the army invaded and ransacked the …
Gaza is a grave yard for thousands of children, with more children killed in Israel's siege of Gaza than world conflicts over the last four years.
On Wednesday dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted nine Palestinians, including a father and his son, and injured many Palestinians, in the Hebron governorate, in the occupied West Bank's southern part. Media sources said the soldiers invaded Yatta town, south of Hebron, stormed and ransacked homes before abducting Anis Mohammad Abu Zahra, Ishaq Mohammad Abu Obeid, Jamil …
An Israeli minister has welcomed French far-right leader Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister 
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished two under-construction Palestinian homes in Yitma village, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank's northern part. Ahmad Snobar, the head of Yitma Village Council, said several army jeeps and two bulldozers invaded the northwestern area of the town after the soldiers isolated it. Snobar added that the soldiers demolished …
A Palestinian teenager and a woman were killed following a seven-hour The victims were identified as 15-year-old Mohammed Ali Sarhan and 47-year-old Nisreen Khaled Damiri, both of whom were residents of Th…
Germany has dispatched the deputy chief of its intelligence service to Lebanon to meet with Hezbollah, days after According to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, which is close to Hezbollah, the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) Deputy Director Ole Diehl met Hezbollah's second in command Sheikh Naim Qassem in Beirut's southern suburbs on 29 June. Berlin and Hezbollah n…
We are former U.S. Government Officials who resigned from our respective positions over the last nine months due to our grave concerns with current U.S. policy towards the crisis in Gaza, and U.S. policies and practices towards Palestine and Israel more broadly. We are subject matter experts representing the interagency. We are a multifaith and multiethnic community of professionals and patriots dedicated to serving the United States of America, its people, and its values. Whether in the civil service, foreign service, armed forces, or as political appointees, each of us has sworn an oath to protect and defend th…
Israeli forces assassinated four Palestinians, before midnight on Tuesday/Wednesday, when an armed drone fired a missile in the center of the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the West Bank. According to medical sources at the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem, four Palestinian young men were killed …
On Tuesday, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated and destroyed coastal enclave, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including many women and children. At least twelve Palestinians were killed, and many were injured when the army fired a missile at a home in Deir Al-Balah city, in …
An Israeli NGO is urging US Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate According to right-wing 
Israeli forces shot at least two Palestinians and abducted two others, on Tuesday, while illegal Israeli colonizers attacked citizens and their property, in the northern West Bank governorate of Nablus. On Tuesday evening, occupation forces invaded the village of Salem, east of Nablus, sparking protests among local Palestinian youths. Media sources said that soldiers opened …
Nearly nine months into the conflict in Gaza, the Hamas-run Health Ministry there reports nearly 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, and more than 87,000 have been wounded. | On the Israeli side, the death toll is estimated to be about 1,100, with dozens of hostages still held captive. Sigrid Kaag, the United Nations Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, spoke about conditions in Gaza, at a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday. | Meanwhile, fighting between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hezbollah have increased at the Lebanon-Israel border. Increased cross-border, ti…
Gaza's "The hospital staff and the patients decided to already evacuate themselves," said…
The Israeli ministerial cabinet is planning to meet in the coming few days to approve the construction of more than 5,000 new colonialist units in the occupied West Bank, and an additional 500 units during the period in which Israeli far-right Finance Minister, colonialist settler Bezalel Smotrich continues his job as a minister in the …
As the Pentagon dangerously increases its military presence in nations close to China in preparation for another imperialist war, a group of U.S. anti-war activists participated in a Peace Mission to the Philippines May 14-29 to expose and oppose U.S. militarism in the Philippines. Organized by BAYAN USA, it included . . . | 
ALBAWABA – Japan released a new currency after 20 years of using the same old currency which was first showcased in 2004. | The new currency is outstanding as it features the three-dimensional (3D) technique; featuring photos of founders of women's financial and educational institutions to prevent fraud. | What is unique about the new currency as per the announcement by Japan National Printing Bureau is the use of the 3D technique that changes based on viewer's angles, which is known to be the first of its kind in the world! | Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda delivers a speech at the start of issuance of new yen…
After NATO's catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9th NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the U.S. Capitol as they did in 1814, and the Germans are still meekly pretending that 
Aftermath of a stampede at a religious gathering in Hathras. — Reuters/File
Former US president Donald Trump. — AFP/File
The Kingdom is implementing the National Environmental Strategy…
They faced South African athletes in the deciding match…
The Summit starts with Belarus' official accession to the SCO…
In total, the ranking includes 29 Islamic states with 270 universities…
A discussion on the global ramifications of Putin's effort to erase Ukraine's right to self-determination and the challenges it pose to those seeking to solidarize with victims of imperialism.
NEW DELHI, India | Xinhua | The death toll in Tuesday's stampede in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh rose to 116, out of which 88 victims' bodies were lying at a local trauma center, 27 at Etah Hospital and one at a hospital in the Hathras town, confirmed a local administration official to Xinhua …
Iran's During a more than two-hour 
In Afrin, northwest Syria, four protestors were killed and more than 20 others injured on Monday during clashes between armed demonstrators and Turkish forces, according to reports from the UK…
On 29 June 2014, the Islamic State (IS) At its height, the group controlled an area half the size of the United Kingdom and attracted tens of thousands of fighters from around the world. | Its rule was characterised by extrem…
Saudi Arabia's entertainment kingpin Alalshikh is a Saudi adviser at the Royal Court and Chairman of the General…
At least two people were injured on Tuesday in a suspected According to a statement by Sulaimaniyah-based security forces (locally known as "Asayish"), an investigation into the incident is underway, with the cause of the b…
Dipankar Bhattacharya — The 2024 elections have delivered a major setback to the BJP. What makes this result look almost like a victory for the opposition is that it came in India's most unequal elections till date.
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) have reported a significant increase in the number of Palestinians who have been wounded by Israeli soldiers before abducting them since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023. The Commission and the PPS have emphasized the additional suffering experienced …
Many folks seem to assume that a massive Israeli military campaign against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon is going to kick off like the start of the Indianapolis 500 — you know, all the cars lined up and a green flag appears and the cars zoom off. Let me suggest that the campaign is already underway. The only thing lacking is video footage of Israeli armor rolling into Lebanon. | Many friends of the Zionists, who still have a lick of sense, have implored Bibi Netanyahu and his Cabinet not to go to war with Hezbollah. But it looks like Bin Gvir and Smotrich, two ultra-Zionists and both convicted terrori…
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister has said that his country is in a state of war as nine months of clashes between Israel and Prime Minister Najib Mikati made the statement during a visit to 
Can Israel Be Restrained? Reports from the Middle East these days have two things in common: All the parties wish to avoid a war, yet all the movement is toward one, centered in Lebanon. Israel's army is preparing to expand the war into Lebanon, where it would face a heavily armed foe very different from 
On the unlikely chance that you needed a reminder that Islamophobia is alive and well in the UK, look no further than the media circus surrounding the upcoming general election on July 4. | Muslim voters participating in legitimate forms of political democracy have been accused of displaying more loyalty towards the Middle East than their constituencies. | Any form of protesting in support of Palestine or against our government's aiding and abetting of genocide is automatically labelled antisemitic and Islamist in nature. Even something as innocuous as holding a placard depicting the Prime Minister next to a c…
On Monday, Day 269 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed and isolated Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continued the bombing of various parts of the coastal enclave, causing dozens of casualties. The army fired many artillery shells and missiles at Khuza'a town, east of Khan Younis, killing at least one Palestinian …
We, the undersigned organisations, are deeply concerned over the prosecution of three activists in Singapore for organising Palestine solidarity action.
War on Gaza: Al-Shifa hospital director released from Israeli detention | Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya says Palestinian prisoners face unprecedentedly harsh conditions and action must be taken to free them | | Al-Shifa hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya is welcomed by relatives after his release, at N…
Israel released the director of Gaza's main hospital on Monday, seven months after the military The release of Mohammed Abu Selmia without charge or trial raised further questions about Israel's allegations regarding Al-Shifa Hospital, which its forces have 
Israeli tanks deepened their incursions into the Witnesses reported constant Israeli tank fire in the district after Prime Minister 
War on Gaza: Al-Shifa hospital director released from Israeli detention | Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya says Palestinian prisoners face unprecedentedly harsh conditions and action must be taken to free them | | Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya after his release on 1 July 2024 (X) | The director of Gaza City's al-Sh…
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it has "fully evacuated" its temporary administrative headquarters in Khan Younis because of Israeli attacks. | The city has been the target of several "The Palestine Red Crescent Society fully evacuated its temporary administrative headquarters in the Mawasi Khan Younis area due to shrapnel falling on the building and direct shelling, which posed a danger to the staff working inside," the PRCS said on…
A tech entrepreneur living in Florida is the key player behind a vast The investigation unmasked Daniel Linden, who has previously co-written a guid…
An Israeli tank ran over a According to Euro-Med Monitor, 65-year-old Safiya Hassan Musa Al-Jamal was run over by a tank after she was injured by Safiya's son, Muhannad Al-Jamal, witnes…
Mia Khalifa appeared to question Israel's 'right to exist' in a new post on "I was asked in an interview the other day whether or not I think Isr*el has a right to exist and I looked him dead in the eyes and asked what percentage of the "Is…
The Israeli authorities have released around 50 detainees from the Gaza Strip, including Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the Director of the Shifa Medical Center in Gaza, showing clear signs of torture and abuse, after the army abducted them during the ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023. Faraj as-Sammouni, one of the …
The Arab Liaison Committee on The committee, form…
UK election 2024: Labour's non-Zionist Jews complain of 'disdain' | Current and former Jewish members of Labour who are pro-Palestinian tell MEE they feel targeted, harassed and discriminated against | | Keir Starmer has made his party more pro-Israel since becoming Labour leader (AFP) | The…
Benny Morris: Israeli historian calls for nuclear strike on Iran | Morris writes that if 'conventional weaponry' can't destroy Tehran's nuclear project, Israel should resort to its 'non-conventional capabilities' | | Israeli plain-clothed military personnel examine a part of an Iranian ballistic miss…
Israel's latest ground invasion of Gaza City's Shujaiya neighbourhood is expected to last for weeks, according to Israeli media reports. | Despite Israeli forces The army says it is eliminating tunnels "that were missed during the first time through" as it did not operate in all parts of the…
The Palestinian health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday in the Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military did not immediately comment on the attack, which official Palestinian news agency Wafa said was carried out with a drone. | The Ramallah-based health ministry said a Palestinian man was killed and five ot…
Representatives of The two-day, UN-hosted meeting in "Preparatory discu…
Barely an hour after guiding India to a thrilling seven-run victory over South Africa in the "This was my last game as well," Sharma said at the press conference after Saturday's final which broke a 13-year long drought for India at major tournaments. "No better time to say goodbye to this format." | Sharma, 37, is the format's highest scorer with 4231 runs in 159 matches for Ind…
Turkish police detained at least 15 protesters in Police declined to comment. | The Istanbul Governor's Office said earlier on Sunday that the Pride March would not be permitted. | Turkish police blocked central Istanbul to prevent the march from taking place, shutting down metro stations and blocking traffic on the main streets.
The Their chief spokesman, 
On Monday, 1 July, Hadeel Shatara, Palestinian educator and an administrator of the graduate program at Birzeit University, was seized by occupation forces as she returned to Palestine from Jordan at the Karameh crossing. She is currently being held incommunicado under interrogation, and her family and lawyer have not been informed of her location. We …
Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader, Rishi Sunak delivers a speech in Leeds, northern England on June 27, 2024, as part of a campaign event ahead of the upcoming general election in UK. — Reuters
An agreement was finally reached after 27 years of negotiations Originally published on 
His critics can now accuse him of hypocrisy Global VoicesThe Kyrgyzstan's president's niece Lazzat Nurkojoeva standing in front of the helicopter that took her to her engagement ceremony. Screenshot from the video 
Turkey hosts mediation talks between Somalia and Ethiopia | Ankara seeks to ease tensions between its East African allies by brokering a deal that could provide sea access to landlocked Ethiopia | | Somalis react during a march against the Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal along KM4 street in Mogad…
Turkey: Syrian businesses set ablaze after reports child was sexually abused | Residents in Kayseri wound police officers in 'attempted' anti-Syrian pogrom | | A damaged car seen in this photo taken on 1 July 2024 after locals rioted and attacked Syrian properties (Halid Abdo/Screengrab) | Violence e…
France elections: Jordan Bardella and the far right 'at the gates of power' | If the National Rally leader becomes prime minister, it would be the first time a far-right government leads France since World War Two | | French far-right National Rally (RN) president Jordan Bardella…
[Britannica's revisionist] distortions of the history of the Vietnamese struggle are just as radical and just as misleading [as those about the Soviet Union]. Here we may draw some valuable lessons about the hidden content of form: how apparently neutral principles of organization may shape meaning.
They believe that replacing internal combustion engines with electric ones will contribute to the country's sustainable development goals…
In UK news Julian Assange has been released from HM Prison Belmarsh after accepting a plea deal with American prosecutors. Assange pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act, for communicating with whistleblower Chelsea Manning and receiving and publishing classified information regarding Guantanamo Bay, the Afghan and Iraq war, and US …
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Pacific results for the first round of French national snap elections yesterday showed a firm radicalisation, especially in the case of New Caledonia. In both of New Caledonia's constituencies, the second round will look like a showdown between pro-independence and pro-France contestants. The French Pacific…