April 2024
New ceasefire proposal includes retreat in Israeli position
By Al Mayadeen: The document presented to the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas over a new ceasefire proposal in Gaza included positive points and a retreat in the Israeli position, a well-informed Palestinian source told Al Mayadeen on Tuesday. The source said that Hamas still needs to verify key issues, especially regarding the ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip. Read More
Day 207 of Israeli aggression: 34,535 killed, 77,704 injured in Gaza
By Al Mayadeen: Over the past 24 hours, the Gaza Strip Ministry of Health records five massacres committed by the Israeli forces targeting families in Gaza, resulting in 47 martyrs and the hospitalization of 61 injured individuals. Tragically, there are still victims trapped under rubble and in inaccessible areas where ambulance and civil defense crews are either unable to or barred from reaching. The overall toll of the Israeli aggression has now reached a staggering 34,535 martyrs and 77,704 injuries since the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Read More
Mass Grave Discovered At Hospital In Gaza's Khan Younis, With Nearly 200 Bodies
Weekly Trust: Palestinian civil defense crews have uncovered a mass grave inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza's Khan Younis, with 180 bodies recovered so far, Al Jazeera has learnt, as Israel has continued bombardment of the devastated coastal enclave for more than six months. Read More
Hamas-Fatah meeting in China included talks for temporary government
By Al Mayadeen: Palestinian sources revealed to Al Mayadeen Tuesday the outcomes of the meeting held between the two Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, in the Chinese capital Beijing. The sources confirmed that the two factions agreed on the importance of unifying the Palestinian position regarding the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, emphasizing the importance of a ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from the Strip. Read More
US condemns International Criminal Court investigation of Israeli war criminals
by Andre Damon: The Biden administration Monday condemned an ongoing investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of senior Israeli figures who masterminded the Gaza genocide. Israeli media sources reported in recent days that ICC arrest warrants could be imminently issued against Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We’ve been really clear about the ICC investigation. We do not support it. We don’t believe that they have the jurisdiction,” said White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre. Read More
US-Saudi security pact for normalization with 'Israel' nears 'completion'
Al Mayadeen: The United States is close to finishing a security pact with Saudi Arabia that would be offered if it signs a normalization agreement with "Israel", Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday. "The work that Saudi Arabia, the United States have been doing together in terms of our own agreements, I think, is potentially very close to completion," Blinken said in Riyadh. Read More
Israeli proposal meagre, no decision to be reached, PIJ official says
Al Mayadeen: The proposal presented to the Resistance in the negotiations is not as generous as the Americans, who are trying to deceive the world, are claiming it to be, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) politburo member Ihsan Ataya told Al Mayadeen on Monday. "The proposed offer has major loopholes and malicious plots," Ataya stressed. "The proposal presented is three and a half pages long and talks about details in three stages," he revealed. Read More
Yemeni forces target US warships, vessels in support of Palestine
Al Mayadeen: The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) conducted a series of operations in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance, the spokesperson for the Yemeni military Brigadier General Yahya Saree stated. In their operations, the Yemeni Unmanned Air Force targeted two United States warships in the Red Sea, Saree revealed. Read More
Netanyahu Awaits ‘Arrest Warrant’ Against Him
by Dr Marwan Asmar: The Jewish Maariv daily based on senior sources says Benjamin Netanyahu is deeply worried the ICC is on the verge of issuing a warrant for his arrest and other senior politicians in his government. The newspaper stated Netanyahu is “unnaturally afraid and worried” about the upcoming arrest warrant accusing him of genocide in Gaza. Read More
Palestinian Resistance: Heroic example of the battle for national freedom
Alexander Tuboltsev: In our time, colonial Westernization has changed but remains with the same main goal: to deprive other peoples of their own culture and impose on them a Western view of the world. Read More
Sermon for Gaza
By Chris Hedges: This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary. Read More
Pakistan: Indicted Criminals Disguised as Leaders
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: Pakistan needs an urgent navigational change but few Generals and judges are part of the problem. The current state of Pakistani affairs reflects a complete societal breakdown and march towards self-annihilation. Despite the hollow claims of few Generals, no moral and ethical behavior is seen in the sudden and inexplicable plunge to human wickedness highlighting the affairs of the besieged nation. They would claim democracy at work when the majority winning party (PTI) is being blocked to form the next legitimate government and masses are outraged and oppose the Generals and Judges lacking respect, professional integrity and impartiality to serve the nation. The new generations of conscientious Pakistani will curse a few Generals and the Chief Justice for their alleged conspiracy to dehumanize the Islamic culture of rights and obligations of the masses. All they could get in return from the US covert operation is dry milk, used clothes and perhaps green cards to migrate to the US and keep their identities secret for reasons of pending justice and futuristic legal accountability. Have they not learned what happened to Saddam Hussein, Khadafi, Musharaf and the Shah of Iran? Read More
Hamas says it received Israel’s response to its ceasefire proposal
Arab News: Hamas said it had received on Saturday Israel’s official response to its latest ceasefire proposal and will study it before submitting its reply, the group’s deputy Gaza chief said in a statement.“Hamas has received today the official response of the Zionist occupation to the proposal presented to the Egyptian and the Qatari mediators on April 13,” Khalil Al-Hayya, who is currently based in Qatar, said in a statement published by the group. Read More
Hamas ‘serious’ about captives’ release but not without Gaza ceasefire
Al Jazeera: Palestinian group Hamas has said it remains committed to achieving an agreement with Israel to end the war on Gaza, but only if its conditions including a lasting ceasefire are met. Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the group’s political bureau, said that Hamas “is serious about releasing Israeli captives within the framework of an agreement” that also ensures the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. He told Al Jazeera Arabic in a televised interview on Thursday that Hamas will not accept a truce without a permanent ceasefire and a complete halt of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. Read More
Israel council discusses avoiding ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant, Halevi
Middle East Monitor: The Israeli National Security Council (NSC) yesterday held a secret session during which it discussed the possibility that international arrest warrants could be issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Galant and Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi “in the coming days”. They decided to take a series of measures, including launching a diplomatic pressure campaign and activating Israel’s international tools to prevent the International Criminal Court (ICC) from issuing arrest warrants. Read More
‘First Rafah, Then Hezbollah, Then Iran’: Israel’s Government Plans for More War
By Ravit Hecht: This government has a busy schedule of wars planned for us, even though the worst disaster in Israel’s history occurred on its watch and more than half the public loathes it and doesn’t believe a word its leader says. “First Rafah, then Hezbollah, then Iran,” one minister said of its plans for yet more reserve duty and suffering. It’s just a pity that the target bank devised by ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Yitzchak Goldknopf doesn’t also include Russia and China. Read More
Israeli pressure delayed Freedom Flotilla’s departure for Gaza
By Federica Marsi: A flotilla of ships set to depart for the Gaza Strip on Friday to bring aid to Palestinians has been stranded in Turkey due to administrative roadblocks, as organisers say Israel has been exerting political pressure to impede the voyage. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said Israel was pressuring the Republic of Guinea Bissau to withdraw its flag from its lead ship, the Akdeniz, which triggered a request for an additional inspection by the flag state. Read More
202 Days of Israeli aggression: 34,356 killed, 77,368 injured in Gaza
Al Mayadeen: The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Friday that the number of Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Strip since October 7 has now reached 34,356, with 77,368 injured as the war reaches its 203rd day. Additionally, the ministry stated that the Israeli occupation committed in the past 24 hours five massacres against families in the Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom of 51 people and the injury of 75. Read More
Former Israeli Major General: Hamas working on Israeli ambush in Rafah
Al Mayadeen: Former Israeli occupation forces Major General, Israel Ziv, said that Hamas is working on a strategic ambush for the IOF, which would constitute a "disaster for Israel." Read More
Israel escalates war with Lebanon, plans Rafah invasion, as Nasser hospital atrocity details emerge
Thomas Scripps: Israel’s conflict with Lebanon is entering a “different phase” of “higher-intensity conflict”, in the assessment of Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Marjayoun in southern Lebanon. She writes that, on Wednesday, “Israel carried out the largest number of strikes in a single day,” hitting 40 separate targets with fighter jets and artillery. The assault continued into the early hours of Thursday morning, targeting not just southern Lebanon but also the east of the country. Read More
Palestine is the future
Mikhael Marzuqa: The understanding of the rights and catastrophe of the Palestinian people at all levels in countries and international organizations has awakened as never before. Read More
Carceral Imperialism: Torture, Abu Ghraib, and the Legacy of the U.S. War on Iraq
Maha Hilal: “To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about the 16 months he spent at that notorious prison in Iraq after being captured and detained by American troops on October 31, 2003. In the wake of his release, al-Majli has continued to suffer a myriad of difficulties, including an inability to hold a job thanks to physical and mental-health deficits and a family life that remains in shambles. Read More
201 Days of Israeli aggression: 34,262 killed, 77,229 injured
Al Mayadeen: The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Wednesday that the number of Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Strip since October 7 has now reached 34,262, with 77,229 injured as the war reaches its 201st day. The Health Ministry states that the Israeli occupation committed six massacres against Palestinian families in the last 24 hours, killing 79 Palestinians. Read More
Russia, China dump the dollar as Moscow announces new trade corridors
By Maya Krainc: Russia announced this week that its bilateral trade with China has almost completely moved away from using the U.S. dollar, highlighting the two countries’ commitment to reducing their reliance on the U.S.-led economic system. Aside from reducing dependency on the Western-dominated global currency, these ‘de-dollarization’ efforts allow Russia and China to avoid the myriad sanctions now preventing Moscow from doing business on the international market. Read More
Final Nail in America’s Coffin?
By Ron Paul: When future historians go searching for the final nail in the US coffin, they may well settle on the date April 20, 2024. On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars, hand what’s left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA, and give the US president the power to shut down whatever part of the Internet he disagrees with. The nearly $100 billion grossly misnamed “National Security Supplemental” guarantees that Ukrainians will continue to die in that country’s unwinnable war with Russia, that Palestinian civilians will continue to be slaughtered in Gaza with US weapons, and that the neocons will continue to push us toward a war with China. It was a total victory for the war party. Read More
Global military spending hits ‘all-time high’ of $2.4 trillion: SIPRI report
By Tim Martin: The US remains the world’s largest defense spender, outlaying $916 billion last year, a 2.3 percent annual increase, ahead of China in second place, which spent an estimated $296 billion, a 6 percent increase over the same period. Read More
Over 280 bodies found in mass grave at hospital in Gaza's Khan Younis
Anadolu Agency: Health workers have uncovered at least 283 bodies of people from a mass grave at the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, Gaza's civil defense agency said Monday. “Civil defense crews retrieved 73 more bodies from the mass grave, bringing the total figure to 283 bodies since Saturday,” the agency said in a statement. Read More
Türkiye, Iraq, Qatar, UAE sign deal on Development Road project
Daily Sabah: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al Sudani on Monday oversaw the signing of a preliminary agreement between Türkiye, Iraq, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to cooperate on the Development Road project. The deal on the landmark road and rail project that is expected to consolidate economic ties between the two neighbors came on the sidelines of Erdoğan's long-awaited visit to Baghdad, the first by a Turkish leader since 2011. Read More
Iraq launches $17B project to link Asia, Europe through Türkiye
Daily Sabah: Iraq launched a $17 billion project on Saturday to link a major commodities port on its southern coast by rail and roads to the border with Türkiye, in a move designed to transform the country's economy after decades of war and crisis. The Development Road aims to tie the Grand Faw Port in Iraq's oil-rich south to Türkiye, turning the country into a transit hub by shortening travel time between Asia and Europe in a bid to rival the Suez Canal. Read More
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 198: Israeli strikes on Rafah kill 22, mostly children
Daily Sabah: Overnight airstrikes by Israel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah claimed the lives of 22 people, including 18 children, according to health officials on Sunday. Concurrently, the U.S. to approved billions of dollars in additional military aid to its ally. Rafah has been a frequent target of Israeli air raids, with over half of Gaza's 2.3 million residents seeking shelter there from ongoing conflicts elsewhere. Read More
President Erdogan meets with Hamas leader Haniyeh
Yeni Safak: Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday received Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyaﾠin Istanbul to discuss Israel's attacks on Palestinian lands, especially besieged Gaza. During the meeting, the leaders discussed measures for ensuring adequate and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and how to achieve a fair and lasting peace process in the region. Read More
Zionism must be exposed and discredited
Mondoweiss: Zionism threatens political freedom in the United States and international order. There is only one way to fight this ideology. Those who oppose it must explain the truth to Americans: Zionism is racist. Read More
Arab Leadership Complicity to Support American-Israeli War on Gaza
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: Israelis friendly Arab leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and others were silent spectators, not challenging the wicked actions professed by the US diplomacy. They were submissive to the Master, not safeguarding the interest of their own people. Many Arab leaders including the Saudi and the UAE princes have investments in Israel via Jared Kushner- son-in-law of Donald Trump. America and Israel view all the Arab States as vulnerable to besiegement and political supremacy. Read More
How Arab Leaders Betrayed Islam and Defied the Logic of Political Change, Peace and Security?
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: Most of the Arab leadership families are the former colonial agents hired by the British, French and US Empires to control and manage the oil export business. They pay to the Masters for protection of their palaces, but not of the people. Even a common person cannot think outside the capsule of secret police apparatus. Read More
The aftermath: Winners and losers in Iran’s retaliation against Israel
Burak Elmali: While Iran’s retaliation may not have been a complete response to Israel’s consulate attack, it did earn a reputational advantage among sympathizers in the region, especially within the so-called Axis of Resistance. Tehran reinforced its image as an actor capable of directly striking Israel, a feat only accomplished by Saddam Hussein during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. By the same token, Tehran’s emboldened status allows Israel to secure ongoing political and military support from the West, ensuring continued US presence. Read More
Analysts assess military coalition’s role in Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel
By Rabia Ali: Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel over the weekend has shed new light on the level of coordination between a military coalition of Israeli allies which played a crucial role in interception and damage limitation. Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles on the night of April 13, a retaliation for the April 1 Israeli airstrike on its diplomatic compound in Damascus that killed several Iranian officials, including senior commanders. Almost all of the projectiles were reportedly intercepted by Israeli air defenses and a coalition of forces, led by the US and including the UK, France and Arab states such as Jordan. Read More
Israel or Iran: Who should we blame first?
By Muhittin Ataman: Western countries did not even condemn the Israeli attack against the Iranian Consulate building. For instance, when asked, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has refused to condemn the Damascus consulate bombing. In other words, the attack was recorded as another red-line violation by Israel. However, all Western countries strongly condemned the Iranian drone attack against Israel. Many Western politicians have even painted Israel as the victim of unprovoked aggression. Thus, they remain totally indifferent to all of Israel's longstanding transgressions. In spite of putting pressure on Israel to stop its atrocities in Gaza, the Western countries have increased their support to Israel. Read More
Who’s involved in the Israel-Iran proxy war?
TRT World: Tehran used to rely on foreign proxies against Tel Aviv until the Israeli attack on its consulate in Syria which brought about a significant shift in the terms of engagement between the long adversaries. Read More
US’ Regional Bases to Get Hit If They Aid Israel, Iran Warns
Tasnim: The Iranian foreign minister said the regional countries hosting American military bases have been given a warning that if their airspace or territories are used by the US for supporting the Israeli regime in any action against Iran, those bases will be inevitably targeted by Iran. Read More
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 193:
Israel ‘considers’ strike against Iran, continues to deny entry of aid into Gaza
Mondoweiss: Israel says it is considering a strike against Iran “that would not lead to a war” as it continues to restrict aid access to the Strip. Meanwhile, settlers in the West Bank escalated attacks against villages, killing two Palestinians. Read More
Israel kills 46 Palestinians over 110 hours
Israel considers a strike against Iran that ‘does not lead to war’
UN says Israel continues to restrict entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip
Israel's ‘weakest enemy' Hamas inflicts worst damage, War Cabinet minister says
Yeni Safak: Israel's “weakest enemy” Hamas has inflicted the worst damage on Tel Aviv, War Cabinet Minister Gadi Eisenkot said on Monday. The Hamas attack represented a “fatal failure” for Israel, Eisenkot, a former army chief, said in statements carried by Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. Read More
Global reaction to Iranian missile attack on Israel
Media Reports: All parties were urged to exercise maximum self-restraint to prevent any further escalation that could threaten the region's stability. Algeria has become the first government to officially declare its support for Iran's attacks on Israel. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia called the attacks “predictable”, adding that “we’re now in the prelude to World War III precisely when humanity should rebuild its economy towards the rapid goal of de-carbonization.” Read More
How did Iran launch a historic attack on Israel?
By Maziar Motamedi: Tehran, Iran – Iran’s use of hundreds of drones and missiles to directly target Israel on Saturday night and Sunday morning set a number of major political and military precedents.It was the single largest drone attack ever carried out by any country, and it was the first time Iran directly attacked Israel after almost a half-century of being archenemies. Read More
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 191: Iran launches retaliatory strikes on Israel as Israeli settlers rampage in the West Bank
Mondoweiss: Iran said that its retaliation for Israel's April 1 attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus would be "deemed concluded," while Biden reportedly told Netanyahu that the U.S. would not back an Israeli counterattack. Read More
Iran launches hundreds of missiles, drones in first attack on Israel
AMP Report: Iran launched a retaliatory strike Saturday on Israel for its attack on Iranian consulate in Damascus killing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) top commander Brigadier-General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and others. Israel said Iran fired over 200 drones and missiles in the attack, which included more than 100 bomb-carrying drones toward Israel followed by a wave of cruise and ballistic missiles. Read More
Israel is Losing its War in Gaza – Jewish Sources
by Dr Marwan Asmar: Gaza no more! All of its 364-kilometers have been totally destroyed and obliterated. If the Israeli army had the capability, they would have wiped it off the face of the earth. But the resistance is another story. They stand strong and unflinching. Israel has barely scratched the surface in “eradicating” Hamas and the other Palestinian groups. By all counts, and despite its colossal destruction, they give as good as they get and even better. Read More
Jordanian protesters demand ending normalization with Israel, despite arrests
Mondoweiss: Despite hundreds of arrests, Jordanian protesters keep coming out to demonstrate in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman. They are calling for an end to Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel in response to the genocide in Gaza. Read More
'Israel attempts to eliminate journalists who document crimes'
Daily Sabah: Turkish Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun condemned Israel for deliberately targeting TRT Arabic journalists in Gaza, in an attempt to not only conduct “ethnic cleansing” but also “eliminate journalists.” Noting that cameraman Sami Shehada underwent a leg amputation due to Israel’s attack, Altun said he extends his sincerest prayers and wishes to the journalist and his team. Read More
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 189:
Israel and U.S. brace for Iranian retaliation as ceasefire talks stall
Mondoweiss: The U.S. and Israel intensify preparations for a potential Iranian strike in response to Iran’s Damascus consulate attack. Meanwhile, Hamas has conditioned a ceasefire and prisoner swap on the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza. Read More
Israel and U.S. prepare for an Iranian strike
Israel and U.S. prepare for Iranian strike Two
Hamas conditions a ceasefire on the return of the displaced to the north
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in Tubas
The US-Israel War against Iran will be the beginning of the end of Western-Zionist Dominance in the Middle East
By Timothy Alexander Guzman: Following Israel’s terrorist attack on the diplomatic building of the consulate of Iran in Damascus, Syria that resulted in the deaths of several officials of the Iranian military including a highly respected IRGC official, Mohammad Reza Zahedi is essentially the beginning of the end for Western-Zionist power structure in the Middle East. Read More
The Origins of the West’s Iran Crisis: Oil, Autocracy and Coup
BY MARC MARTORELL JUNYENT: In their book “The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954”, David S. Painter and Gregory Brew revisit Mosaddeq’s nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, the ensuing tensions with the US and the UK, and the Western powers’ final decision to remove Mosaddeq. As the title of the book already suggests, the oil dispute was the obvious point of contention but the early 1950s events in Iran would not have unfolded as they did absent the weight of much larger conflicts. Read More
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's 3 sons killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza refugee camp
Yeni Safak: Three sons of the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, along with several of his grandchildren, were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in western Gaza City. An Israeli airstrike targeted a car carrying members of the Haniyeh family in the Al-Shati refugee camp as they were giving good wishes to the camp's residents for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, eyewitnesses told Anadolu. Medical sources told Anadolu that the airstrike resulted in the deaths of three of Haniyeh's sons – Hazem, Amir, and Mohammed – as well as several of their own children, in addition to injuring others. Read More
Gaza death toll exceeds 33,500 as Israeli attacks continue
Yeni Safak: A total of 33,545 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since last October, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said on Thursday. The Gaza-based Health Ministry made the statement as the Israeli deadly onslaught on Gaza entered its 188th day. The ongoing offensive has also injured 76,094 Palestinians, it added. Read More
Hamas Can’t be Defeated – Israeli Officers Admit
by Dr Marwan Asmar: The Jewish daily Yedioth Ahronoth states Israeli army officers no longer believe that Hamas will be defeated any time soon and in the light of the battles they fought around the 364-Kilometer enclave. They predict, the defeat of HAMAS will not materialize before 2026 and even 2027 which is a great deal of worry for the soldiers, for the politicians and the Israeli economy that has long gone spiraled downwards after 7 October. Read More
Hamas makes military history
Information Clearing House: Despite killing tens of thousands of civilians, Israel has not been able to defeat Hamas or achieve its objectives in Gaza. After six months of brutal fighting and the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, multiple Israeli and western commentators have argued that Hamas is winning the war and making military history in the process. Read More
Saying What Can’t Be Said: Israel Has Been Defeated – a Total Defeat
By Chaim Levinson: The war’s aims won’t be achieved, the hostages won’t be returned through military pressure, security won’t be restored and Israel’s international ostracism won’t end. Read More
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 188:
Tensions rise over potential Iranian response to Israeli attack on consulate in Damascus
Mondoweiss: Israel and Iran escalated threats of war as the U.S. central command chief visited the region on Thursday. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes intensify in the central Gaza Strip. Read More
Israel kills 63 Palestinians, wounds 45 across Gaza
Iran and Israel escalate threats, conduct maneuvers
Israeli settlers attack Palestinian villages in the West Bank, Israeli army raids Qalandia
Israel ‘pulls out troops’ from southern Gaza as attacks enter seventh month
Al Jazeera: The Israeli military says it has withdrawn its ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, including Khan Younis, amid conflicting reports about the scale and duration of the disengagement. It was unclear whether the reported withdrawal would delay a long-threatened incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which Israeli leaders have said is needed to eliminate Hamas. Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, sought to emphasise that an operation in Rafah would take place, without giving details. “The forces are exiting and preparing for their next missions, we saw examples of such missions in the al-Shifa operation, and also of their coming mission in the Rafah area,” Gallant said in a meeting with military officials, according to a statement. The White House, commenting on the partial withdrawal, said it was likely to be an opportunity for troops to “rest and refit”. Read More
Israeli bombing kills six Palestinians in Gaza
WAFA: Six Palestinians were killed on Sunday in a bombing by occupation warplanes on citizens’ homes in the cities of Gaza and Khan Yunis, sources confirmed. Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 33,175 reported fatalities, with an additional 75,886 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children. Read More
The situation in Gaza is simply catastrophic: UN official
WAFA: Jamie McGoldrick, the United Nations' Humanitarian Coordinator for Palestine, has said that the situation in Gaza is "simply catastrophic." "Over the past six months, the people of Gaza have endured unfathomable suffering. More than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed and another 75,000 injured," McGoldrick said in a statement. Read More
Türkiye to mobilize 12-nation aid flotilla for Gaza
Daily Sabah: Nearly 14 years after nine activists headed for Gaza were killed in an Israeli raid in the Mediterranean, Türkiye is planning to dispatch another 'freedom flotilla' that will carry aid and activists from 12 nations as Israel continues pounding the Palestinian enclave. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 182
:Israel says it will ‘temporarily’ allow aid into Gaza
Mondoweiss: WHO chief is “appalled” at the destruction of al-Shifa Hospital. Meanwhile, pressure on Netanyahu increases domestically to strike a hostage deal with Hamas, as the UN Human Rights Council considers an arms embargo against Israel. Read More
Israel kills 54 Palestinians, wounds 83 in the past 24 hours
Israel says it will ‘temporarily’ allow hundreds of aid trucks into Gaza
Israeli police arrest Palestinian worshipers at al-Aqsa mosque
Israeli army kills man in Tulkarem
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood Day 181:`
Child deaths in Gaza on the rise, hostage negotiations stuck
Mondoweiss: WHO chief Ghebreyesus said he was “appalled” at the destruction of al-Shifa Hospital. Meanwhile, pressure on Netanyahu increases domestically to strike a hostage deal with Hamas as the UN Human Rights Council considers an arms embargo against Israel. Read More
Israel kills 62 Palestinians, wounds 91 in the past 24 hours
WHO chief ‘appalled’ at al-Shifa hospital destruction
Israel kills one Palestinian in Jenin and raids several cities across the West Bank
The Israeli-American Crusade beyond Gaza against the Arab-Muslim World
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: The Arab-Muslim world is a world of disguised fantasy - no strength, no power to think intelligently,no policies to defend Islam, dubious spectators watching Western military actions-reactions to assign a finished answer to the Palestinian movement for national freedom. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ day 179:
Israel kills 7 international aid workers in central Gaza, passes law banning al Jazeera
Mondoweiss: The World Central Kitchen called the attack that killed seven of its aid workers “unforgivable” as Israeli forces killed 71 people across the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Israeli government voted to approve a bill banning Al Jazeera. Read More
Israeli forces kill 71 Palestinians, wound 102 across Gaza
Israeli strike kills seven international aid workers in Deir al-Balah
Israeli government votes bill into law banning Al Jazeera
One Palestinian killed in Jenin as Israel continues raids across the West Bank
White House defends Shifa hospital massacre that killed over 400
By Andre Damon: The Israeli army’s withdrawal from Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Monday revealed that the complex had been turned into a killing field, with hundreds of bodies of men, women and children showing signs of mass summary execution, torture and mutilation. The massacre is among the largest in the nearly six-month-long US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has so far killed at least 32,000 people. Read More
Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus kills 7, including 2 IRGC generals
Al Jazeera: Iran has promised to respond after two commanders from its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) were among seven people killed in an Israeli air strike that flattened the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the elite Quds Force of the IRGC and his deputy General Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi were killed in the attack, the IRGC said in a statement on Monday. Since Israel launched its war on the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7 following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas, Israel has ramped up air strikes in Syria against Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia and Iran’s IRGC, both of which support the government of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. Read More
The Most Dangerous Wars: When Local Conflicts become Geopolitics
By Walden Bello: The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global. In the Hamas-Israeli conflict, we see how the maintenance of the Israeli settler-colonial state is intertwined with the preservation of the global hegemony of the United States. In the war in Ukraine, a bloody war of attrition between two countries was provoked by Washington’s push to expand NATO to a country of the former Soviet Union. In the South China Sea, we are witnessing how disputes over territory and natural resources have been elevated to a global conflict by the U.S. effort to maintain its global hegemony against China, to which it is losing the geo-economic competition but over which it continues to enjoy absolute military superiority. Read More
Secular Opposition Crushes pro-Islam AKP in Turkey’s Local Elections
By Arzu Geybullayeva: Turkey’s local elections which took place on March 31, will go down in history as one of its most surprising. Turkey’s demoralized opposition, namely the [secular] Republican People’s Party (CHP), dominated in what many pundits described as the ruling [center-right] Justice and Development Party’s worst defeat of its 22-year existence. For the first time since 1977, the CHP took more votes nationwide. In his televised address afterward, the CHP leader Özgür Özel called the elections “historic.” Scores of supporters took to the streets to celebrate the results across Turkey. Read More
Turkey’s Erdoğan suffers blow in crucial mayoral elections as secular opposition surges
BY ELÇIN POYRAZLAR: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan suffered a major blow on Sunday, with initial results showing the country’s main opposition party notched up regional election victories around the country. The opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) held onto or captured the country’s five biggest cities in Sunday’s vote, which had been seen as a make-or-break moment for a movement still reeling from Erdoğan’s victory in the Turkish presidential contest in May 2023. The CHP won in Istanbul, Ankara, as well as Izmir, Bursa and Adana. Read More
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Abdus Sattar Ghazali
Senior Editor:
Prof. Arthur Scott
Special Correspondent
Maryam Turab
