November 22nd, 20250Over the past week, significant developments unfolded on multiple fronts across the Middle East. As Tel Aviv escalated its attacks on Lebanon amid growing threats of launching a full-scale war in response to Hezbollah’s refusal to lay down its arms, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the occupied Syrian south, accompanied...
October 10th, 20250SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — After several days of negotiations in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh over the details of U.S. President Trump’s plan to end the devastating war in Gaza — and coinciding with the second anniversary of Israel’s genocidal war launched in response to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack on October 7...
October 3rd, 20250In a move closer to a threat than an offer, President Trump has unveiled his plan to end the war in Gaza — a proposal resembling an upgraded version of his earlier “Deal of the Century.” The initiative aims to disarm the Palestinian resistance and place Gaza under international trusteeship, with Arab states serving as a nominal...
September 19th, 20250After a feeble Arab–Islamic summit that limited itself to verbal condemnations of the Israeli aggression on Doha and vague calls to review diplomatic and economic relations with the occupation state, the Israeli army — under orders from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with an American green light — began an invasion of Gaza...
September 12th, 20251From Gaza and the West Bank to Lebanon, Syria and Yemen — and even reaching Qatar — Israeli arrogance continues to violate Arab lands and their sovereignty without restraint, while the U.S. administration appears either helpless or complicit with Benjamin Netanyahu’s madness. He has escalated his “eternal war” into a new phase...
August 1st, 20250Amid reports that hundreds of Palestinians have died from malnutrition in the besieged Gaza Strip since May, a group of prominent Jewish Democratic lawmakers — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (New York) and Senator Adam Schiff (California) — is spearheading efforts to pressure President Trump’s administration to...
May 23rd, 20250There was a time when Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to have all the cards. The Palestinian Authority was largely passive, the occupied West Bank was relatively calm, Israel's diplomatic reach was expanding, and the United States seemed ready to bend international law to accommodate Israel's desire for complete control over Palestine.
The...
January 26th, 20250The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.”
Regardless of the reasoning behind this statement, which the article divides into fourteen points, it suggests a shattering and unprecedented event in the 76-year history of the State of Israel. The consequences of this realization will...
January 17th, 20251Finally, on Wednesday, January 15, a detailed ceasefire agreement was announced, bringing a much-needed end to the suffering in Gaza after 467 days of brutal Israeli aggression. During this period, Israel employed all forms of killing and destruction, but Gaza’s resistance stood firm. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip endured unimaginable...
November 22nd, 20241Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself under mounting international and domestic pressure as he continues his aggressive attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. Despite failing to achieve his stated war objectives, Netanyahu persists in his policy of "forward escape," attempting to deflect attention from his legal troubles. He is...
October 18th, 20240Yahya Ibrahim Sinwar was born in October 1962 in the Khan Younis refugee camp for Palestinian refugees in the southern Gaza Strip. He joined the "Hamas" movement, founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, before the first Palestinian intifada in 1987.
Sinwar received his education in Khan Younis camp schools, completing his secondary education...
October 18th, 20240Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him unknowingly in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was Israel’s most-wanted man.
Lebanon's Hezbollah group...
August 30th, 20240UNITED NATIONS – The Israeli military and Palestinian group Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio, a senior WHO official said on Thursday.
The vaccination campaign is due to start on Sunday, said Rik Peeperkorn,...
July 5th, 20240On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Biden he has decided to send a delegation to resume stalled negotiations on a hostage release deal with Hamas, their administrations said.
A source in the Israeli negotiating team, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was a real chance of achieving...
June 14th, 20240Israeli tanks advanced deeper into the western area of Rafah, amid one of the worst nights of bombardment from air, ground and sea, forcing many families to flee their homes and tents under darkness, residents said on Thursday.
Residents said the Israeli forces thrust towards the Al-Mawasi area of Rafah near the beach, which is...
March 22nd, 20240Israel's spy chief was due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the U.S. planned to put a resolution calling for an immediate truce in Gaza to a vote of the U.N. Security Council, intensifying pressure on its ally.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday in Cairo he believed talks mediated by the...
March 1st, 20240
On Thursday, Israeli occupation forces fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to get food off an aid convoy in Gaza City, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza to more than 30,000, according to health officials. Israel said many of the dead were trampled...
February 28th, 20240The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself.
It has existed for thousands of years. The Canaanites referred to it as Rafia, and Rafia has been almost always there, guarding the southern frontiers of Palestine, ancient and modern.
As the gateway between two continents and two worlds,...
January 19th, 20240On 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...
January 5th, 20240The 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,...
December 15th, 20230GENEVA — On Thursday, the head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency said that crowds of hungry people were stopping its aid trucks in Gaza and helping themselves to the food, making it almost impossible to continue delivering aid.
The U.N. World Food Program has said half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million is starving as Israel's...
December 15th, 20230On Wednesday, Israelis said that their army should not back off its unrelenting offensive to crush Hamas, despite the U.N. General Assembly's ceasefire call, the growing list of troop casualties and a spiraling Palestinian death toll in Gaza.
Israel's military suffered one of the deadliest days in the two-month-old Gaza war on Tuesday,...
October 27th, 20230
By Rowaida Abdelaziz/ Huffpost
Muslim and Jewish congressional staffers signed a letter Thursday urging Congress to back a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in light of “anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiment on the rise nationwide.”
The letter, which HuffPost has learned has been signed by 411...
October 13th, 20230
Under a barrage of more than 3,000 rockets, hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Oct. 7, on motorbikes, paragliders and four-wheel drives, unleashing unprecedented attacks on nearby towns and villages of Jewish settlers.
Hundreds of trained Palestinian militants appeared...
October 13th, 20230The deep divisions among Michigan Democrats about the war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza's governing entity, have prompted the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to so far block action on resolutions offering symbolic support to Israel in the wake of Hamas' attack on Israeli settlements near the Gaza borders.
In the House,...
October 13th, 20230DEARBORN – Chanting "Free Free Palestine", more than 1,200 Arab Americans jammed an auditorium at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn on Tuesday evening to show their support for Palestinians as the death toll increased in Gaza after Israeli strikes.
Speakers at the Dearborn rally focused on decades of...
October 13th, 20230 On Thursday Israel and the White House condemned remarks by Donald Trump in which he praised the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over an attack by Palestinian Hamas militants that killed more than 1,300 people in Israel.
Trump, a former Republican president who is the front...
October 11th, 20232Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats to Israel's “security.”
The Israeli military, too, has contributed to the Israeli hasbara that Tel Aviv would be able to face several threats at all fronts, from Gaza, to the West Bank, to Lebanon...
