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  • Israel in Constitutional Crisis: Cabinet Moves to Oust Attorney General

    Israel in Constitutional Crisis: Cabinet Moves to Oust Attorney General

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    The Israeli cabinet’s controversial push to remove Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara without legal oversight has triggered a full-blown political and constitutional crisis.

    In a move that has ignited widespread legal and political uproar, Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved a resolution that effectively rewrites the procedure for…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Iran says Israeli ‘treasure trove’ of secret documents to be unveiled soon | Politics News

    Iran says Israeli ‘treasure trove’ of secret documents to be unveiled soon | Politics News

    Intelligence Minister Khatib says Tehran having ‘thousands of documents’ will be an understatement.

    Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib has said sensitive Israeli documents related to its nuclear facilities, its relationship with the United States, Europe and other countries, as well as its defensive capabilities, will be unveiled soon.

    Khatib told state TV on Sunday that the documents obtained by Tehran were a “treasure trove” capable of strengthening the nation’s offensive…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • The real reason why Israel is arming gangs in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

    The real reason why Israel is arming gangs in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

    For months, Israel and its defenders have insisted that Hamas is stealing humanitarian aid. They used that claim to justify the starvation of two million people in Gaza – to bomb bakeries, block food convoys and shoot desperate Palestinians waiting in bread lines. We were told this was a war on Hamas and ordinary Palestinians were just caught in the middle.

    Now we know the truth: Israel has been arming and protecting criminal gangs in Gaza that engage in stealing humanitarian aid and…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • An open letter to Mahmoud Khalil and Noor Abdalla’s newborn child – Mondoweiss

    An open letter to Mahmoud Khalil and Noor Abdalla’s newborn child – Mondoweiss

    Dear Deen,

    Before I knew your name, I knew what my government wanted to name you. Criminal. Terrorist. Problem. A threat to national security. Better off dead. Everything they want to name your father: Mahmoud Khalil. Everything except a precious child of God, which you are. 

    When I heard two plainclothes I.C.E. agents abducted your father for protesting the genocide in Gaza, I trembled. When I found out he was captured at Columbia University, where I teach, right in front of…

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    News Source: mondoweiss.net

  • Al-Qassam Details Killing of Two Soldiers as Resistance Escalates War of Attrition

    Al-Qassam Details Killing of Two Soldiers as Resistance Escalates War of Attrition

    A Resistance ambush in Gaza. (Photo: video grab)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    Hamas warns that Israel’s continued aggression is deepening its own military and political crisis, as resistance forces escalate battlefield operations across Gaza.

    The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, announced on Sunday that its fighters killed two Israeli soldiers at close range on Al-Nazzaz Street, east of the Sheja’iyya neighborhood in the Gaza…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Los Angeles unrest: Is Trump allowed to deploy National Guard troops? | Protests News

    Los Angeles unrest: Is Trump allowed to deploy National Guard troops? | Protests News

    United States President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of 2,000 members of the National Guard to Los Angeles County to quell protests against coordinated immigration raids, bypassing the authority of the governor of California.

    The extraordinary development came on Saturday, the second day of protests, amid clashes between law enforcement officers and demonstrators in the city.

    The Los Angeles Police Department said Saturday’s demonstrations were peaceful and that “the day…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • 3 New Studies Remind Us Eating Well Is About More Than Just Weight

    3 New Studies Remind Us Eating Well Is About More Than Just Weight

    If you’ve ever made a genuine, perhaps painstaking, effort to eat healthier, only to find that your weight doesn’t budge, it’s easy to feel like you’re failing. Or like your body isn’t behaving like it should. But a few new studies remind us that this isn’t always true.

    New research published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology by a team at Ben-Gurion and Harvard Universities followed more than 700 adults with…

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    News Source: www.forbes.com

  • Freedom Flotilla’s ‘Madleen’ Nears Gaza amid Israeli Threats of Interception

    Freedom Flotilla’s ‘Madleen’ Nears Gaza amid Israeli Threats of Interception

    The Freedom Flotilla coalition is ready to sail to Gaza. (Photo: via FFC X Page)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    The ship carries essential humanitarian supplies and draws renewed attention to the legality of the blockade and safety of sea-based aid.

    The humanitarian vessel Madleen, operated by the International Committee for Breaking the Siege on Gaza, is now only miles from the Gaza coastline and is reportedly facing increasing Israeli interference. 

    The ship, part of the Freedom…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Colombia’s capital Bogota | News

    Magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Colombia’s capital Bogota | News

    DEVELOPING STORY,

    Buildings reportedly shake and sirens blare around the Colombian capital as people rush into the streets.

    A powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake has shaken the Colombian capital of Bogota, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

    Reporters of the AFP news agency on the ground said buildings shook and sirens sounded around Bogota as people rushed out onto the streets for safety on Sunday.

    The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), however,…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • RFK Jr. Will Shrink The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration. Here’s What That Means For Public Health

    RFK Jr. Will Shrink The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration. Here’s What That Means For Public Health

    Under Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will be consolidated with other organizations into a new Administration for a Healthy America, or AHA….

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    News Source: www.forbes.com