Category: 1. Palestine

Donald Trump has painted Iran as a hateful nation, saying people even chant ‘death to America’. But are Iranians really lusting for American tragedy, or does it mean something else? Soraya Lennie breaks it down.

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Early on a recent Sunday morning, Saher figured he had a rare opportunity. Expecting Israeli forces to be distracted by the fallout from Iranian rocket attacks, he started to climb Israel’s separation wall.

He needed about 15 minutes to get to the other side. But as he climbed, an Israeli patrol suddenly appeared.

“I panicked, let go of the rope, and fell.”

He dropped from the top of the wall – a concrete barrier, in some places 8 metres (26 feet)…

Doha, Qatar – After a night of fear and uncertainty following Iran’s attacks on the United States military base in Qatar, life in the Gulf state has swiftly returned to normality.

Iran fired 19 missiles at the US’s Al Udeid airbase on Monday. The Qatari defence forces intercepted 18, Ministry of Interior officials confirmed in the hours after the attack.

The base is located 35 kilometres (21 miles) from Doha, but the incoming barrage of missiles flew over the capital, which had become…

The world has welcomed the ceasefire agreed by Israel and Iran but remains wary that the peace remains fragile.

Israel and Iran were reported to have agreed early on Tuesday to the phased ceasefire plan announced overnight by United States President Donald Trump, but both sides threatened swift retaliation in the event of the other breaking the deal, and tension remains high.

Shortly after Israel signalled its agreement, Defence Minister Israel Katz said he had ordered the military to strike…

By Robert Inlakesh

While the deception is expected from Israeli and American officials, the real issue with the use of these numbers and analyses based upon them, is that Western corporate media accept the figures blindly and treat Israel’s military as a credible source.

Israel’s ever-changing estimates about Iran’s missile stockpile, air defense and defense capabilities demonstrate that it has no clear understanding…

The sentence sees most opposition leaders behind bars as the ruling Georgian Dream squeezes critics and rivals.

A Georgian court has sentenced an opposition leader to seven months in prison, as a crackdown by the governing party on its rivals continues.

The Tbilisi court imposed the sentence on Giorgi Vashadze, a leader of the Strategy Builder party, on Tuesday for failing to cooperate with a commission investigating abuse of power by a former government.

The jailing means that nearly all of…

US President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Israel and Iran have reached a ceasefire, hours after Iran launched a missile attack on the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar – the largest United States military base in the Middle East.

“The ceasefire is now in effect. Please do not violate it!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Monday.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has agreed to the truce proposal, and Iranian state TV reported that the ceasefire had…