Category: 1. Palestine

Practice for Formula One’s Japanese Grand Prix heavily disrupted as McLarens take top two spots.

Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris topped the times for McLaren as four red flags, two caused by trackside grass fires, wreaked havoc with the second practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix.

Australian Piastri, the winner of the last race in China, squeezed in a lap of one minute, 28.114 seconds between the last two red flags to take the honours on a sunny but cool day at the Suzuka circuit on…

The latest displacement orders in Rafah and Gaza City have forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee again.

Israel has now restricted Palestinians’ access to roughly two-thirds of Gaza, either by declaring large areas as no-go zones or issuing forced displacement orders, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Among the restricted areas is a large swath of southern Rafah, where Israel’s military issued a new displacement order on March…

“I would rather be born a Jew in Israel or a Palestinian in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. This in-between existence is impossible — it kills me.” 

These were the words of a fellow Palestinian student at Ben-Gurion University, spoken to me during a coffee break on campus about a year ago. They have stayed with me ever since: in their exaggerated simplicity and sense of…

Washington (Quds News Network)- The U.S. Mission to the UN said on Wednesday that it had sent a letter to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, opposing the renewal of Francesca Albanese’s term as UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. The letter accuses Albanese of “antisemitism” due to her pro-Palestine and anti-genocide stance.

“We condemn her virulent antisemitism, which demonizes Israel and supports Hamas,” the US Mission claimef in a post on…

Sanaa, Yemen – On Saturday evening, Ammar Mohammed strolled through the vibrant streets of a modern residential neighbourhood in northern Sanaa. The tall, slim man was nattily dressed and expecting a delicious meal at a relative’s home.

The pleasant spring air, cooled after sunset, carried the rich aromas of home-cooked dishes as families prepared to break their fast on the last day of Ramadan.

The two-storey house of his wife’s relatives, the al-Sharafis, was lit up, as with the other…

Mette Frederiksen visits the Arctic island as the US continues its threats of taking over the region.

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called for increased Arctic defence collaboration with the United States during a visit to Greenland, and firmly dismissed Washington’s desire to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

Frederiksen’s visit follows months of tension between Washington and Copenhagen over US President Donald Trump’s repeated declarations that the Arctic…