Category: 1. Palestine

Kyiv says deal ‘operational’ in a few weeks, hopes it will revive flagging US support against Russian aggression.

Ukrainian legislators have unanimously voted to ratify a minerals deal with the United States in the hope of securing military assistance to deter future Russian aggression.

The country’s parliament gave its assent to the agreement, which grants the US priority access to Ukrainian minerals and sets up an investment fund for Ukraine’s reconstruction, with 338 members voting…

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has ordered the administrative detention of the Palestinian journalist Ali Samoudi from Jenin, in the northern West Bank, for six months. He has been already imprisoned for 10 days.

His son, Muhammad Al-Samoudi, confirmed that his father’s lawyer informed him that his father had been held in administrative detention without charge for a period of six months, noting that his father appeared before the court last Tuesday, where…

An attack in Kashmir in mid-April has led to the biggest crisis between India and Pakistan for years. What’s going on? Start Here with Sandra Gathmann explains.

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European Parliament Member and Chair of the Delegation for Relations with Palestine, Linnéa Engström, pushed back against Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, stating that the European Parliament did not vote to freeze funding for UNRWA or the Palestinian Authority — a move she described as a defeat for the far right.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Engström wrote: “The European Parliament did not vote to freeze funding to UNRWA or the…

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemns Israeli attacks, says ‘all ceasefire violations must end’.

Israel has launched one of its most intense aerial assaults on southern Lebanon since a truce halted last year’s war with Hezbollah, according to Lebanese officials and the Israeli military.

Air strikes on Thursday targeted several locations across the Nabatieh region, around 12km (7 miles) from the Israeli border. At least one person was killed and eight others injured,…

GAZA, (PIC)

During the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 106 citizens who were martyred in fresh Israeli attacks, along with 367 wounded citizens.

According to Gaza’s health ministry on Thursday, a total of 2,651 people have been killed and 7,223 others have been injured since the Israeli occupation army resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, 2025.

The new fatalities increased the death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, which…

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Civil Defense announced on Thursday that 75% of its vehicles in the Gaza Strip are out of service due to fuel depletion.

The Civil Defense said in a press statement that its teams are suffering from severe shortages of power generators and oxygen equipment in Gaza, accusing Israel of exacerbating the suffering of the Palestinian people in the Strip due to the ongoing war and suffocating blockade.

Late April, the Civil Defense announced that fuel for…

TULKAREM, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their aggression against the city of Tulkarem and its camp for the 102nd consecutive day, and for the 89th day on the Nur Shams camp east of the city, amid an ongoing escalation of raids, searches, and home demolitions and infrastructure.

The Israeli aggression and its ongoing escalation against Tulkarem city and its two camps have resulted in the martyrdom of 13 citizens, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight…