Category: 1. Palestine

Nine Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) medics in ambulances, as well as some Civil Defence workers, went to help people in Rafah, Gaza, and disappeared on March 23 after coming under attack from Israeli forces.

What followed was a week of Israeli obstruction until international teams were finally able to enter the area where the medics and rescue workers disappeared.

They found gruesome proof of direct attacks on the humanitarian workers. One medic remains missing.

Here’s everything we know…

Paris, France – On Sunday, an opinion poll predicted that Marine Le Pen, the longtime leader of the French far right, would secure up to 37 percent of votes in the 2027 presidential election, more than 22 points higher than in 2022 and 10 points ahead of any other candidate.

The “page has definitely turned”, said Frederic Dabi, the head of pollster Ifop Opinion.

He saw the poll as confirmation that Le Pen’s rebrand had worked. For years, she has sought to normalise the hard right and…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A Knesset member from Israel’s ruling Likud party has said he wants to “cleanse” the Gaza Strip of Palestinians before they launch another deadly attack. Amit Halevi told Radio 103FM on Sunday that “occupation is the nature of war”.

“We want to occupy the territory to cleanse it of the enemy – otherwise, it will kill your children and kidnap your grandchildren again,” he said.

“For many months we have only been dealing with…

An Israeli air strike on a building in the Lebanese capital Beirut targeting a member of Hezbollah has killed at least four people.

The surprise attack came at about 3:30am (00:30 GMT) on Tuesday during the Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday marking the end of the Ramadan fasting month. The second strike on the city in three days has raised fears that the shaky ceasefire between Israel and the armed Hezbollah group that took effect four months ago could collapse.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health said…

In 2025, the world’s largest social media company, Meta, has taken a defiant new tone on the question of whether and to what extent it accepts responsibility for the real-world harm that its platforms enable.

This has been widely understood as a gambit to curry favour with President Donald Trump’s administration, and Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg all but said so in a January 7 video announcing the end of third-party fact-checking.

“We are going to work with President Trump to…

Niall Stanage, a White House columnist at The Hill, talks about the disintegration of the historic alliance between the US and Europe, and what’s behind it.

When the Assad regime fell in December 2024, opposition forces opened prison doors across Syria. For many, Assad’s demise was both a shock and a moment of long-awaited freedom. Yet for those who had endured years of torture, the scars – both physical and emotional – remain. How did they survive the unimaginable?

On this week’s episode of Now You Know, we talk to Maysaa…