Category: 1. Palestine

Bethlehem – WAN-IFRA – 

As violence escalates, the global community must urgently strengthen efforts to protect Palestinian media workers and hold perpetrators accountable. This is not just a fight for journalists. It is a fight for the universal right to know, to speak, and to document reality – and it demands international solidarity, writes Palestinian News Network’s Maram Dorgham.

By Maram Dorgham

Free to republish, with author accreditation

For over a year and a…

GAZA, (PIC)

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a new video on Saturday showing an Israeli captive who appeared to have been severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

“I am detainee number 24. We were bombed after the ceasefire ended, and we escaped death. That’s why we went down into the tunnels. We were bombed again while being underground,” the captive said in the video.

The captive criticized the strategy of the Israeli…

WEST BANK, (PIC)

A horde of extremist Jewish settlers detained three Palestinian journalists and one activist in Ramallah, while the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped four citizens from Bethlehem and injured a child in Jenin on Saturday.

According to local sources, armed settlers got out of a vehicle and detained activist Rabie Abu Naim, and journalists Mohamed Turkman, Karim Khmaisah, and Ahmed al-Khatib while they were documenting settler violations and the demolition of…

Thousands of Israelis have gathered outside the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv, urging the government to prioritise the release of captives still held in Gaza instead of escalating military operations in the Palestinian territory.

The demonstration on Saturday was held as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government authorised the mobilisation of up to 60,000 reserve troops, signalling plans to intensify its assault on the besieged Palestinian enclave.

One protester held aloft a placard…

Mexican president says she told Donald Trump that Mexico ‘will never accept the presence of US army in our territory’.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she rejected an offer from her United States counterpart, Donald Trump, to send US troops to Mexico to help combat drug trafficking.

Speaking at a public event on Saturday, Sheinbaum said Trump had asked her during a call how he could help fight organised crime and suggested sending US troops.

The Mexican leader said she declined,…

‘Oracle of Omaha’ stuns shareholders, but pledges to maintain investments in group and says he will still be ‘hanging around’.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has announced that he will retire from leading his Berkshire Hathaway business group at the end of the year.

Buffet told the group’s annual shareholder meeting on Saturday that he would step down as chief executive at the close of 2025, handing over the reins to vice chairman Greg Abel, already known to be his anointed…