Category: 1. Palestine

In recent months, Israeli forces and settlers have intensified efforts to expel roughly 2,500 Palestinians living in a cluster of villages in the southern West Bank region of Masafer Yatta. In early May, when the military razed most of Khilet Al-Dabe’, it was the largest demolition in the area to date. Now, a new military directive threatens to fast-track the destruction of a dozen more…

Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor signals a seismic shift in US politics. The victory of the Ugandan-Indian American state assemblyman confirms what has been quietly building for years: A new working-class immigrant politics, rooted in organising, solidarity, and a sharp critique of inequality, is taking hold within the Democratic Party. Mamdani’s campaign – focused on rent freezes, universal childcare, public transit, and green…

So much has happened since Israel launched strikes on Iran on June 13th, and there are so many questions about what could happen next. So #AJStartHere’s Sandra Gathmann has been talking to Mike Fitzpatrick, a former US diplomat and an expert on nuclear issues, to try to make sense of it all.

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The resolution now requires final ratification by the Supreme National Security Council to take effect.

Iran’s parliament approved a bill on Wednesday to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian media reported.

During an open session of the Parliament, MPs unanimously carried a motion to consider a report from the National Security and Foreign…

As the Israel-Iran ceasefire staggered into effect on Tuesday, all of the combatants launched a plausible argument for victory.

In the United States, President Donald Trump claimed that both his diplomatic and military interventions had largely been responsible for halting the fighting, while the leaders of Iran and Israel each claimed to have secured a decisive win in a regional contest that dates back decades.

In Israel, however, the emerging narrative is that the end result of the…

After bombing Iran, United States President Donald Trump tried to turn down the temperature in the Middle East with a ceasefire declaration on Truth Social. The all-caps announcement fell flat as Israel continued striking Iran. How long can a truce hold when each side insists the other broke it first?

Berlin (Quds News Network)- A Palestinian-Jordanian mother with German residency has been separated from her one-year-old son after German authorities labeled her child a “security threat,” according to a report by Middle East Eye.

Dima*, a trained nurse, moved to Germany from Jordan in 2017. In 2023, she gave birth to her first child. A year later, she and her husband traveled with their son to Jordan so their families could meet the baby. But when they tried to return to…