Category: 1. Palestine

By Robert Inlakesh

Hussein al-Sheikh, long seen as Mahmoud Abbas’s right-hand man, is a deeply controversial figure widely viewed by Palestinians as a symbol of collaboration and repression.

Late last month, a man by the name of Hussein al-Sheikh was selected, by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, deputy chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). This move made al-Sheikh the next in…

NABLUS, (PIC)

The young man Omar Abu Leil was killed Friday morning by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) after besieging his house in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of Omar Mustafa Abu Leil, 39, at the hands of IOF soldiers this morning in Balata camp, east of Nablus, noting that the IOF detained his body.

Earlier, the IOF encircled a house at the entrance of the refugee camp, dispatched military reinforcement into it,…

Washington-Kyiv deal absolves Ukraine of past ‘debt’ for aid, but does not give security guarantees against further Russian aggression.

United States Vice President JD Vance has said his administration sees no end to the war in Ukraine, despite preparations in Kyiv to ratify a minerals deal with Washington.

Vance told Fox News on Thursday that the Ukraine war prompted by Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022 was “not going to end any time soon”.

The comments came a day after…

Aid workers trying to deliver supplies to Gaza were left stranded on a burning ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea after they say it was attacked by drones. The ship was part of an attempt to challenge Israel’s two-month blockade of Gaza.

Valletta (Quds News Network)- A Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists heading for Gaza was attacked in international waters off the coast of Malta early Friday. The FFC has accused Israel of carrying out the attack, amid reports that an Israeli Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft departed from Israel on Thursday afternoon and was tracked en route to Malta.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international NGO, said, “At 00:23 Maltese time, the…

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

Tens of thousands of worshipers performed Friday prayers at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the Israeli occupation forces’ restrictions and heightened measures at military checkpoints surrounding Jerusalem, the Old City, and the mosque itself.

The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Department confirmed that tens of thousands gathered for Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, also offering absentee prayers for the souls of martyrs from Gaza and the West Bank.

The…

Classification, based on attempts to ‘undermine free democratic order’, opens way for surveillance of party and likely to revive discussion of a ban.

Germany’s domestic intelligence service has designated the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “right-wing extremist” group.

The designation, made public by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on Friday following an audit by the BfV security service, makes the party subject to surveillance. It could also…

British retail giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the iconic Knightsbridge department store, Harrods, have become the latest to be hit by cyberattacks in the UK.

Online orders at M&S, one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent high-street stores, remain paused and the attack has already cost the company millions of pounds in lost revenues.

Here is what we know about the incident, its effect and where things stand.

What happened in the cyberattack on Harrods and Marks and Spencer?

• April 21:…