Houthis’ leader: Yemen vows to step up strikes in Red Sea, using “submarine weapons”
February 23rd, 20240 On Thursday, Yemen claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.K.-owned cargo ship and a drone assault on an American destroyer, and it targeted Israel's port and resort city of Eilat with ballistic missiles and drones. The statement by a Yemeni representative on social media site X came shortly after the group's leader said it was...
Efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza appear to gain new momentum
February 23rd, 20240 International efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appeared to gain new momentum Thursday as the White House said a visit by a senior envoy with Israeli leaders was “going well” and other mediators reported encouraging signs from the warring parties. The new signs of progress came ahead of an expected summit this...
The unrepentant West: Olaf Scholz and the right to commit genocide in Gaza
February 17th, 20240 On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an official visit, aimed at working jointly with the United States to make “sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself.” If such a statement was made soon after the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation of October 7, one may cognize its logic, based on the well-known,...
Hezbollah strikes at northern Israel in retaliation for deadly day in southern Lebanon
February 16th, 20240 BEIRUT — On Thursday, Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at a northern Israeli town in a "preliminary response" to the killing of 10 civilians in southern Lebanon, the deadliest day for Lebanese civilians in four months of cross-border hostilities. The United Nations urged a halt to what it called a "dangerous escalation" of the...
U.N. warns Israel as international pressure mounts: Rafah invasion could “lead to slaughter”
February 16th, 20240 UNITED NATIONS – On Tuesday, the United Nations warned against an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, saying an offensive could "lead to a slaughter" in the southern region of the Palestinian enclave where more than 1 million people are sheltering. Israel says it wants to flush out Hamas militants from hideouts in...
Yemen’s Houthis vow to continue attacks in solidarity with Palestinians
February 16th, 20240 Yemen's Houthis will press on with attacks on Red Sea shipping in solidarity with the Palestinians as long as Israel continues to commit "crimes" against them, their leader said on Thursday. "Our operations have a big impact on the enemy, which constitute a great success and a real triumph," Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a televised...
Saudi Arabia rejects normalization with Israel without end to Gaza war and a credible path to a Palestinian state, contradicts Biden admin claims
February 9th, 20240 In a sharply worded rebuke likely to postpone any talk of expanding the Abraham Accords until after the U.S. election, Saudi Arabia said unequivocally it will not normalize relations with Israel as desperately hoped for by the Biden administration in Washington, and would only consider it if the war in Gaza stops and an independent...
Europe exposed: Is the EU a direct partner in the Israeli genocide in Gaza?
February 4th, 20240 Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to a genocide. In fact, Europe remained silent when the word “genocide” quickly replaced the earlier reference to the “Israel-Hamas war”, starting on October 7. Those familiar with Europe’s political discourse...
Arab citizens are livid over Gaza. The U.S. ignores them at its peril
February 2nd, 20241 By DANA EL KURD, The Nation Nearly four months have passed since Hamas attacked Israel and Israel launched its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The scale of the tragedy in Gaza is impossible to comprehend: over 26,000 killed, 70 percent of homes destroyed, 90 percent of the people of Gaza displaced. Famine in Gaza has begun, with a...
ICJ ruling: Key takeaways from the court decision in Israel genocide case
January 27th, 20240 THE HAGUE – On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire. The top United Nations court for handling disputes between states was ruling in a case brought by...
World health leaders warn of pandemic 20 times worse than COVID
January 27th, 20240 At the recent World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization issued a warning to world leaders, saying the world could face a pandemic 20 times worse than COVID-19 in the future. Scientists call it Disease X, a term that recognizes the next global pandemic could come as the result of an unknown pathogen rather than the spread...
WHO chief breaks down describing “hellish” Gaza conditions
January 27th, 20240 GENEVA – The head of the World Health Organization called for a ceasefire and a "true solution" to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in an emotional plea to the global health body's governing body on Thursday, where he described conditions in Gaza as "hellish." WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who lived through war as...
The U.S. and Iraq will begin talks soon on ending the mission of the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq
January 27th, 20240 The United States and Iraq will begin talks soon to wind down the mission of a U.S.-led military coalition formed to fight ISIS in Iraq, both governments said Thursday. The Pentagon said the size of the U.S. military footprint in the country will be part of the discussions. The announcement comes as U.S. forces in Iraq have been...
Genocide in Gaza as an opportunity: What Ben-Gvir wants in the West Bank
January 25th, 20240 If what is currently happening in the occupied Palestinian West Bank took place before October 7, our attention would have been completely fixated on that region in Palestine. The ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, however, has devalued the important, if not earth-shattering events underway in the West Bank, which is now a stage for...
More than 100 days of war and resistance: Legendary Palestinian resistance will be Netanyahu’s downfall
January 19th, 20240 Law number one in the “law of holes” is that “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Law number two, “if you are not digging, you are still in a hole.” These adages sum up Israel’s ongoing political, military and strategic crises, 100 days following the start of the war on Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin......
Netanyahu tells U.S. he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario
January 19th, 20240 On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected U.S. calls to scale back Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip or take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war, drawing an immediate scolding from the White House. The tense back and forth reflected what has become a wide rift between the two...
Genocide or not, Israel has lost the moral high ground
January 12th, 20241 By Avraham Shama, Opinion contributor to THE HILL Israel will likely be found guilty of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza by the International Court of Justice in the Hague. If so, the court could call for an immediate ceasefire and consider compensation for Gazans. Even if the court would not find guilt, Israel......
A “genocidal maniac”: What is Netanyahu’s ultimate goal in the Middle East?
January 12th, 20240 This article was written shortly before Israel assassinated the deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut on January 2. The assassination is a further illustration of the Israeli government's desire to escape the consequences of its disastrous war in Gaza, by igniting a regional...
At the Hague, South Africa accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
January 12th, 20240 On Thursday, South Africa accused Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza and demanded that the U.N.'s top court order an emergency suspension of Israel's devastating military campaign in the Palestinian enclave. On the first of two days of hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa said Israel's offensive,...
U.S., Britain carry out strikes against Yemen, officials say
January 12th, 20240 The United States and Britain launched strikes from the air and sea against Yemeni military targets in response to the Houthi's attacks on ships in the Red Sea, a dramatic regional widening of the Israeli war on Gaza. As witnesses in Yemen confirmed explosions throughout the country to Reuters, President Biden cautioned in a statement...
Three months later: Still no lessons learned
January 5th, 20240 One day last week, the New York Times printed two separate articles describing Israeli and Palestinian reactions to the ongoing war that, together, paint a disturbing portrait of where we are three months after October 7. The piece about Israelis was headlined “Oct. 7 Is Forcing Israelis to Rethink Their Identity,” with the subhead......
U.S. “not seeing acts of genocide” in Gaza, State Dept says
January 5th, 20240 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. has not observed acts in Gaza that constitute genocide, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, after South Africa launched genocide proceedings at the International Court of Justice over Israel's military operation in the Palestinian enclave. "Those are allegations that should not be...
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel sets up a high-stakes battle at U.N. court
January 5th, 20240 THE HAGUE — South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court alleging that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. The filing and Israel’s decision to defend itself at the International Court of Justice set up a high-stakes showdown before a panel of judges in the Great Hall of......
Nasrallah vows revenge after Hamas leader’s killing, “cannot be silent”, warns Israel against spreading Gaza war
January 5th, 20240 BEIRUT — On Wednesday, the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah said it "cannot be silent" after the killing of Hamas' deputy leader in the suburb of Beirut and warned that his heavily armed forces would fight to the finish if Israel chose to extend war from Gaza to Lebanon. Israeli forces meanwhile kept up their aerial and ground assaults...
“We will come to you in a roaring flood”: The untold story of the October 7 attacks
January 5th, 20240 The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers are not. Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on October 7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier — as done in 2006 — hundreds of Israelis,......
