August 2024

670 Palestinians, 150 children killed in West Bank since Oct.7: CNN
Al Mayadeen: More than 670 Palestinians, including 150 children, have been killed in the West Bank and occupied al-Quds since October 7, according to CNN, which noted that this represents the highest death toll in 15 years. Read More

Israeli forces detained 10,300 Palestinians in West Bank since Oct. 7
Al Mayadeen: Israeli occupation forces detained 25 Palestinians, including freed prisoners, from across the occupied West Bank from Wednesday night through Thursday morning, announced the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs. Read More

The West Bank: Israel’s other genocidal war in Palestine
 Al Jazeera: On Wednesday, Israel launched a major military assault on the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army deployed hundreds of soldiers, armoured vehicles, bulldozers, drones and fighter jets to try to destroy the armed resistance in the regions of Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas. At least 18 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, and scores have been injured. Foreign Minister Israel Katz has called on the Israeli army to force Palestinians to evacuate from the northern West Bank. The military has announced a “voluntary evacuation”. This Israeli talk of forced expulsion masked under the humanitarian term “evacuation” is raising fears that the West Bank will follow the fate of Gaza in terms of massive destruction and displacement. Read More

Timing of Yemeni retaliation 'will be a surprise': Sayyed al-Houthi
Al Mayadeen: The recent developments in Gaza, extending to the West Bank, clearly reveal the criminal nature of the Israeli occupation entity, indicated the leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. In his weekly speech on Thursday, Sayyed al-Houthi said that the aggression against Gaza and the West Bank, along with the assaults on al-Quds, illustrate "Israel's" true intention to reshape the scene in Palestine under American protection and support. Read More

The Middle East is on fire
BY MUHITTIN ATAMAN: Colonial divisions and interventions have kept the Middle East in perpetual conflict and instability. As one of the most penetrated regions in the world, the Middle East is still open to the intensive intervention of global powers, and the fate of the regional nations is largely determined by the very same global powers. Read More

God wants me to save the world – Trump
RT.COM: US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said it was God who spared his life in last month’s assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The GOP firebrand claimed that he has a mission to save America, and perhaps the whole world. Trump narrowly escaped death when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at him on July 13. The would-be assassin had taken position on a nearby rooftop that gave him an unobstructed view of his target. Crooks fired off several shots, one of which grazed the former president’s right ear. One rally attendee was killed and two others were seriously injured. The shooter was subsequently killed by return fire from the Secret Service. Read More

At least 10 killed as Israel launches major raid on occupied West Bank
Al Jazeera: At least 10 Palestinians have been killed after Israel launched a large-scale ground and air attack on the northern part of the occupied West Bank, according to health officials in the territory. The incursion, which began early on Wednesday, involved hundreds of ground soldiers supported by fighter aircraft, drones and bulldozers, targeting three areas simultaneously – Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas – in the largest assault in two decades. Read More

Israel and the US plan to destroy Palestine and the Arab leaders just waiting for the end game
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: The so-called Arab leaders – the authoritarian “puppets” of the US never had the capacity to think outside the decadent box and question the Master about this stigma of war and its ultimate purposes to dominate the Arab world. The US and Israel are moving around all quagmires and forging it to ensure continued killing of the people of Gaza under false pretext of terrorism and allowing new settlements by settlers to strengthen Israeli command over the West Bank and to put a finished answer to Palestine freedom movement. Read More

Massive Israeli military ops across West Bank kill 10 Palestinians
Daily Sabah: Israel killed at least 10 Palestinians on Wednesday when it launched large-scale military operations across the occupied West Bank. Two Palestinians were killed in the city of Jenin, four others in a nearby village and four more in a refugee camp near the town of Tubas, said the Red Crescent's Ahmed Jibril. He added that 15 others had been wounded. The Palestinian Health Ministry also confirmed that seven people were killed early Wednesday in Tubas and another two in Jenin. Read More

Israel's army claims to free Bedouin man held hostage in Gaza
The Israeli military claimed Tuesday that it rescued a man held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, as conflicting narratives emerged about the man's release. A military statement said the army carried out a joint "complex operation" with the Shin Bet domestic security service to free the hostage from the southern Gaza Strip. It identified him as Farhan al-Qadi, 52, from a Bedouin community near the southern city of Rahat, saying his health condition was good, but he was taken to the hospital for a check-up. Read More

UN forced to suspend food distribution as Israel places 89 percent of Gaza under evacuation orders
WSWS: In the latest stage of the US-Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Israeli officials ordered the evacuation of parts of the city of Deir al-Balah, cramming the displaced and starving population of Gaza into an ever-smaller portion of the territory. Gaza’s population, which stood at over 2 million before the start of the genocide, is now crammed into an area that is just 41 square kilometers, or 11 percent of Gaza’s total area, with the remaining 89 percent being placed on evacuation orders by the Israeli Defense Forces. Read More

7 years of Rohingya crisis: International community must be serious in the crisis resolution
Presenza: The Rohingya crisis has lasted for seven years, and there still seems to be no sign of an end in sight. More than a million Rohingya people in Myanmar crossed the border to seek refuge in Bangladesh in 2017 as a result of systematic ethnic cleansing operations carried out by their government, which the world appears to be allowing to continue apace. This represents one of the worst cases of human rights violations in recorded history. The violent crackdown by the Myanmar government in 2017 also led to 9,000 fatalities and widespread destruction. Read More

Israel and Hezbollah step Back from War, but for how Long? All eyes are now on Iran’s next Move
The Conversation: For weeks, Israel had been anticipating a major attack from Hezbollah in retaliation for its killing of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Lebanon at the end of July. In the early hours of Sunday, that attack finally came – and Israel was apparently ready. The Israelis claim to have thwarted what could have been a large-scale Hezbollah assault. At the same time, Hezbollah also claimed success. So, what can we make of the latest tit-for-tat between the two sides, and where does the region go from here? Read More

Morocco: Popular anger against Israel’s war on Gaza Spills into the Streets
BY MOHAMED JEGHAM: Over 40 Moroccan cities, including Fez, Marrakesh, Agadir and Tangier, saw regular demonstrations in favor of Palestine this summer. In early August, the Israeli assassination of the head of the civilian Hamas politburo provoked large crowds to come into the streets. Earlier, in Tangier, Morocco, thousands of protesters had filled the streets chanting “Gaza is not alone” in protest at an Israeli ship docking in Tangier. The Israeli newspaper Globes revealed that “The new Israeli Navy landing ship INS Komemiyut docked at the port of Tangier, Morocco, for supplies while sailing from the United States to Israel.” Read More

For first time, Israeli gov't to finance storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by illegal settlers
Yeni Safak: The Israeli government will finance for the first time the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied East Jerusalem, local media reported on Monday evening. According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, the office of Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu - an extremist minister known for being anti-Palestinian - will allocate 2 million NIS ($545,000) for the project which is expected to be implemented in the coming weeks. Read More

Israeli minister's synagogue proposal inside Al-Aqsa Mosque further inflaming tensions, UN warns
Yeni Safak: The UN on Monday denounced Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's recent remarks on building a synagogue inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque site in occupied East Jerusalem, saying they were "highly counterproductive." Read More

Palestine to apply for BRICS membership after upcoming Kazan summit
Yeni Safak: Palestine is expected to submit its application to join the BRICS, a group of emerging economies, after its upcoming summit in October in the city of Kazan, southwestern Russia.  Russian state news agency TASS quoted the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow, Abdel Hafiz Nofal, as saying that Palestine will lodge its application for joining BRICS after attending the summit. Read More

Israel's impunity threatens the international liberal order
by İhsan Faruk Kılavuz: The impunity granted to Israel has evolved into a dangerous dimension, increasingly threatening the foundational pillars of the liberal international order. The West, led by the United States, is turning a blind eye to the political fantasies of Israel’s far-right government, driven by theocratic motivations. Read More

Day 326 of Israeli genocide in Gaza: 40,476 killed, 93,647 injured
Al Mayadeen: On day 326 of the Israeli genocide in Gaza,the total number of Palestinians killed since the Israeli onslaught started on October 7 has risen to 40,476, and those injured to 93,647, according to the Gaza Health Ministry's daily report. Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation forces committed three massacres across the Gaza Strip, killing 41 Palestinians and injuring 113 others. Read More

‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 325:
As ceasefire talks falter, Israeli army orders evacuation of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital
Mondoweiss: The only running hospital in central Gaza is threatened with closure after an Israeli evacuation order amidst ongoing military operations Read More

Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo end with no breakthrough
Hamza Hendawi: The latest push for a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas ended in Cairo with no breakthrough, sources told The National, allowing the devastating war in the Palestinian enclave to continue and opening the door for further regional tension.The two days of talks, brokered by mediators from the US, Egypt and Qatar, ended on Sunday with Israel and Hamas still at odds over issues that include the return of displaced Palestinians to Gaza and the fate of a strip on the Egypt-Gaza border that Israel captured in May and is refusing to withdraw from, the sources said. Read More

'Israel' withholding the bodies of 552 Palestinians
Al Mayadeen: The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli occupation has escalated its practice of withholding the bodies of Palestinian martyrs since launching its genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people on October 7, 2023. Read More

Israel launches major attack on southern Lebanon
By Andre Damon: Israel launched its largest attack on southern Lebanon since 2006 on Sunday, involving over 100 air force fighter jets. The Israel Defence Forces claimed that the attacks involved over 40 targets. Shortly afterward, the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon announced that it was beginning an attack on Israeli military positions in retaliation for the assassination of Fuad Shukr, its senior military commander, in an attack on Beirut last month. Israel’s strikes on Lebanon are part of a US-backed military escalation throughout the Middle East, with the central target being Iran. Read More

Al-Qassam Brigades fire rocket at Tel Aviv for second time in month
Yeni Safak: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced Sunday that they targeted the Israeli city of Tel Aviv with an M90 rocket in response to Israel's attacks against civilians in Gaza. The armed wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas said in a Telegram post that the attack was in retaliation for the “Israeli massacres against civilians and the deliberate displacement of our people.” Read More

Ten months of the Gaza genocide: The way forward in the fight against war
WSWS: As millions of students are re-entering their classrooms in schools and on college campuses across the United States, a blunt warning must be issued: The threat of world war and fascism is greater today than at any point since the 1930s.  In the Middle East, the genocide in Gaza is intensifying, as Israel and the US continue to provoke a broader war with Iran. In Europe, the proxy war by US and European imperialism against Russia in Ukraine has cost the lives of an estimated half a million Ukrainians and tens of thousands of Russians. The recent invasion of Russian territory by NATO-armed Ukrainian troops raises more directly than ever the prospect of a direct clash between NATO and Russia, which threatens a nuclear war. Read More

The Muslim American vote matters and it can no longer be taken for granted
Al Jazeera: As the United States presidential election approaches, the race to attract voters has intensified. Among the different constituencies the Democrats and Republicans are battling over, there is one that stands out: the Muslim community. Although Muslims constitute roughly 1 percent of the American population, they are an important voting bloc because they are concentrated in swing states, which are often narrowly won in elections. Read More

What’s behind Pakistan’s deadly Balochistan attacks, which left 74 dead?
Al Jazeera: Nearly two dozen civilians travelling from Pakistan’s Punjab province were pulled from their vehicles and shot dead by armed gunmen, as a series of at least six deadly attacks battered the country’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday night and Monday morning. At least 74 people were killed in the attacks that marked an escalation in violence even for Balochistan, a region where a decades-long armed separatist movement has meant frequent clashes between fighters and security forces. Read More

The political lessons of Sri Lanka’s 2022 uprising for Bangladesh 2024
WSWS: Just two years after the April-July 2022 popular uprising in Sri Lanka, neighbouring Bangladesh has been convulsed by mass protests during July-August 2024, sending shock waves through the ruling classes around the world. Whatever the particular differences in origin, both uprisings were driven by the same crisis of global capitalism affecting every country. They are part and parcel of the upsurge of class struggle developing internationally as governments heap the burden of the economic crisis onto the backs of workers and the poor. Read More

Gaza: Expanding Israeli operations in Deir al-Balah threatens the lives of one million people
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: The illegal evacuation orders that the Israeli army has been enforcing in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, and Mawasi al-Qarara, west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, have raised fear of additional forced displacement and an attack on an area in which nearly two million people are crammed. Read More

Prolonging Genocide as a Smokescreen: On Israel’s Other War in the West Bank
By Dr Ramzy Baroud:  Promises of “absolute victory” in Gaza are nothing but “gibberish”, according to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Gallant’s comments were not meant to be public, but somehow were leaked and published by Israeli media on August 12. The explanation of why Netanyahu is pursuing a losing war in Gaza has been largely confined to the prime minister’s personal interests: avoiding the outcome of his corruption trials, preserving his extremist government coalition and avoiding early elections. Read More

Lebanon says 564 killed in Israeli attacks since Oct. 8
Yeni Safak: At least 564 people have been killed and 1,848 others injured in Israeli attacks in Lebanon since Oct. 8, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Over 110,000 people displaced due to Israeli attacks in Lebanon, Health Ministry says. Read More

Yemen’s million-man rallies demand 'devastating' Resistance response
Al Mayadeen: Several Yemeni provinces saw Friday million-man demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in rejection of the ongoing Israeli genocide against the people of Gaza. Under the slogan "With Gaza and Al-Aqsa... Jihad and Steadfastness Until Victory," mass rallies were held Friday afternoon in the al-Sabeen Square in the capital, Sanaa, as well as in over 200 main and subsidiary locations across Yemeni provinces, reiterating solidarity with the Palestinian people and support for the Yemeni Armed Forces’ operations in defense of Gaza. Read More

Bangladesh’s right-wing interim government moves to consolidate its power
By Keith Jones: Two-and-a-half  weeks after a popular uprising forced the flight of long time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s military-installed interim government continues to consolidate its authority and press for the resumption of “normal life” in a country marked by grinding poverty, savage worker exploitation, and gaping social inequality. Read More

Why Has The Gaza Genocide Failed to Move The Arab Street?
Dr Marwan Asmar: The ongoing genocide on Gaza over the past 11 months have failed to move the Arab Street even one iota. This is an Israeli genocide but the Arab world continues to look on helplessly and hopelessly unable to fathom of what to do to stop it. Despite the intensity of Israel’s war on the whole of the Gaza Strip since 7 October, 2023, and the consequent daily massacres perpetrated by the Zionist army, literally committed nonstop, the popular streets across the Arab world has largely been dormant, lethargic and ineffective, spectators to a deadly bloody match with vastly unequal partners. Read More

Why Arab regimes' betrayal of Palestine may come back to haunt them
Abdullah Al-Arian: On August 2, funeral prayers for Ismail Haniyeh drew thousands to Doha's Imam Muhammad ibnAbd al-Wahhab Mosque to honour the assassinated Hamas leader. Among them were dozens of emissaries from across the Arab and Muslim worlds who travelled to Qatar to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people amid Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza that has inflamed much of the region. Notably absent from the funeral were representatives from the governments of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Morocco. Read More

War on Gaza: Why Arab states are failing the Palestinian people
Ussama Makdisi: Today, despite Israel's genocidal assault being live-streamed around the world, leading Arab states have not carried out diplomatic or economic sanctions against Israel, let alone sent military forces to defend the Palestinian people, as their forebears did in 1948. After decades of a successful US-Israeli drive to marginalise the Palestinian cause, regional leaders have fallen in line - but Arab peoples have not.Read More

Gaza war: Arab regimes ignore popular support for Palestine at their perilMohamad Elmasry: Pushing ahead with these Israel normalisation deals could prove risky, amid unprecedented Arab support for the Palestinian cause. Anew survey from the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies has found that Arabs are more pro-Palestinian than they have been at any point since 2011, the year the organisation began systematically polling Arab public opinion on Israel-Palestine and other issues.Read More

Israeli forces dig deeper into Gaza as truce talks hit brick wall
Daily Sabah: Israeli forces advanced further into the central and southern Gaza Strip as they continue their relentless pounding of Palestinians in the enclave. Palestinian health officials reported Thursday that Israeli air strikes had claimed the lives of at least 22 people across the region. Read More

Day 321 of genocide in Gaza: 40,265 martyrs, 93,144 injuries
Al Mayadeen: On day 321 of the genocide in Gaza, the total number of Palestinians killed since the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Palestine, has risen as "Israel" continues to commit massacres amid global inaction. Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation forces have committed four massacres against families in Gaza, resulting in 42 martyrs and 163 injuries, all of whom have been transported to hospitals. Read More

Day 320 of Israeli genocide in Gaza: 40,223 killed, 92,981 injured
Al Mayadeen: On day 320 of the genocide in Gaza, the total number of Palestinians killed since the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip started on October 7 has risen to 40,223, in addition to 92,981 injuries, according to the daily report published by the Health Ministry in Gaza on Wednesday. "Israel" committed four massacres in 24 hours, killing 50 Palestinians and injuring 124 others. Read More

Gaza is in Rubble now; But it was a great Intellectual Hub of the Roman Empire
By Christopher Mallan The years 2023 and 2024 will certainly be remembered as some of the darkest in the long and often violent history of Gaza. The recent destruction of schools and universities in the Gaza strip has attracted the attention of the media and concern from the United Nations, which has raised the question of whether the damage may be considered “scholasticide”. Such reports are cause for reflection on the intellectual history of the city – something rarely discussed outside academic circles. This is a shame, as there was a period in the late Roman Empire (5th and 6th centuries CE) when Gaza was one of the great intellectual centres of the Mediterranean world. Read More

Israel, Gaza, and the “Merchants of Death”
by Ramin Mirfakhraie: On July 24, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, where nearly half of the House and Senate Democrats were not present. In his address, which was presented in terms of a binary opposition between barbarism (“Iran’s axis of terror”) and civilization (“America, Israel, and our Arab friends”), and riddled with false and unsubstantiated claims, he tried to defend his government’s horrific war on Gaza, as a result of which tens of thousands of Gazans, mostly women and children, have been killed or injured, nearly 2 million have been displaced, and the entire civilian infrastructure has been destroyed. His address to Congress was later followed by separate meetings with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, who did not preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress, and former President Donald Trump. Read More

Resistance's 'painful' response delayed for planning: Sayyed al-Houthi
Al Mayadeen: The Israeli occupation has been carrying out the crime of the century against the people of the Gaza Strip for 321 days now, confirmed the leader of the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, stressing that this Israeli crime is being committed in partnership with the United States and with Western support. Read More

Nightmare at Sde Teiman: the untold story of Ibrahim Salem 
Mondoweiss: Ibrahim Salem was detained by Israeli forces in Gaza and held for 8 months, including 52 days at the now infamous Sde Teiman torture facility. In an interview with Mondoweiss Salem recounts the torture he endured, including physical abuse, starvation, and electrocution. Read More

Ukraine war cements decline of the West
By Jan Ksrikke: Conflicted Western leaders have encouraged and armed Ukraine to fight a war it has no chance of winning. Apart from Ukraine itself, the West is the war’s big loser. Ruled by a generation of neoliberals and Atlanticists for whom ideology trumps economic, military and historical common sense, they have encouraged and facilitated Ukraine to fight a war against a nuclear and industrial-military superpower it had no chance of defeating. Read More

Between Secularism and Stigma: The Islamophobic Politics on Social Media
by Syed Wajahat Ali: The emergence of social media platforms has brought about a significant transformation in the political discourse, opening up new channels for the dissemination of ideas and the establishment of virtual communities. One of the more alarming developments in this digital realm is the increase in Islamophobic speech and advocacy. This paper looks at the relationship between Islamophobia, stigma, and secularism on social media platforms and how these ideas interact to influence political debate online and have practical effects on Muslim communities. Read More

Why Arab regimes' betrayal of Palestine may come back to haunt them
Abdullah Al-Arian: On August 2, funeral prayers for Ismail Haniyeh drew thousands to Doha's Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque to honour the assassinated Hamas leader. Among them were dozens of emissaries from across the Arab and Muslim worlds who travelled to Qatar to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people amid Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza that has inflamed much of the region. Notably absent from the funeral were representatives from the governments of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Morocco. Read More

War on Gaza: Why Arab states are failing the Palestinian people
Ussama Makdisi: Today, despite Israel's genocidal assault being live-streamed around the world, leading Arab states have not carried out diplomatic or economic sanctions against Israel, let alone sent military forces to defend the Palestinian people, as their forebears did in 1948. After decades of a successful US-Israeli drive to marginalise the Palestinian cause, regional leaders have fallen in line - but Arab peoples have not. Read More

Gaza war: Arab regimes ignore popular support for Palestine at their peril
Mohamad Elmasry: Pushing ahead with these Israel normalisation deals could prove risky, amid unprecedented Arab support for the Palestinian cause. Anew survey from the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies has found that Arabs are more pro-Palestinian than they have been at any point since 2011, the year the organisation began systematically polling Arab ublic opinion on Israel-Palestine and other issues. Read More

Al-Qassam, al-Quds Brigades assume responsibility for Tel Aviv operation
Al Mayadeen: The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Resistance movement, and the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, claimed responsibility for the martyrdom operation in Tel Aviv on Sunday. In a joint statement, the Resistance factions said martyrdom operations in the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories will return to the forefront so long as occupation's massacres, displacement of civilians, and assassinations are ongoing. Read More

Day 318 of Israeli genocide in Gaza: 40,139 killed, 92,743 injured
Al Mayadeen: On day 318 of the genocide in Gaza, the total number of Palestinians killed since the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip started on October 7 has risen to 40,139, with 92,743 injuries, according to the daily report published by the Health Ministry in Gaza on Monday. Read More

Over 16,400 children killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since Oct. 7
Anadolu Agency: At least 16,480 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since last Oct. 7, local authorities said on Monday. “The victims included 115 babies,” Ismail Thawabteh, who heads Gaza’s government media office, told Anadolu. Read More

Hezbollah drones strike Israeli Yaara, St. Jean bases
Al Mayadeen: The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, Hezbollah, announced on Monday that it launched a coordinated aerial attack on the Israeli military bases of Yaara and St. Jean. The assault, carried out by swarms of one-way drones, targeted Israeli assembly points, resulting in several casualties. Read More

Hamas says Netanyahu set new conditions hindering completion of cease-fire deal
Yeni Safak: Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said on Sunday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set new conditions in the Gaza cease-fire and hostage swap proposal that was negotiated in Doha on Thursday and Friday, preventing the completion of the deal. Read More

'Israel' kills Palestinian journalist in Gaza, death toll reaches 170
Al Mayadeen: "Israel" has killed Palestinian journalist Ibrahim Muhareb during its genocidal campaign in Gaza, the Strip's government media office reported, bringing the total death toll of journalists killed killed by the occupation since October 7 to 170. Read More

Israeli army targets Türkiye's TRT team in Khan Younis 'safe area'
Daily Sabah: The Israeli army targeted a vehicle carrying a news team from the Turkish public broadcaster TRT on Sunday in what it claimed was a "safe area" of Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, according to the channel. TRT Arabi reporter Sami Barhoum and his team were shot at with long-barreled weapons, with five bullets hitting their vehicle. While there were no casualties, Barhoum sustained minor injuries. Read More

Türkiye tests cruise missile Kara Atmaca in longest trial yet
Daily Sabah: Türkiye's latest defense innovation, the Kara Atmaca long-range surface-to-surface cruise missile, has undergone its longest-range and longest-duration flight test yet, a senior official said on Monday. Powered by the domestically developed KTJ3700 engine, the missile successfully hit a floating target after being fired from a mobile launcher, according to a video shared by its developer, Roketsan, on Sunday. Read More

Arshad Nadeem Is A Legend Overnight
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: Paris Olympics 2024, which concluded on August 11, brought cheers to millions of Pakistanis as Mian Channu village boy Arshad Nadeem hurled the javelin to a distance of 92.97 metres to clinch gold medal and create a new Olympic record in the process. Read More

Initial Euro-Med Monitor investigation finds no evidence of military presence at site of Tab’een School massacre in Gaza

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: Palestinian Territory – Initial investigations by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor found no proof or indication of any military operations or combatants at the Tab’een School in Gaza City, whose prayer hall Israel targeted in a brutal massacre that claimed the lives of over 100 Palestinians. Quite the contrary, the location turned out to be a series of narrow buildings, with sections open to each other and lacking any equipment, where dozens of Palestinian families had taken refuge after being forcibly displaced from their homes, some of which have since been completely erased from the civil registry. Read More

How to Unmask the Insanity of War on Gaza and Arab-Muslim Leadership Complicity?
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD: When life and human survival faces critical challenges, the thinking people and global institutions should respond with collective will to stop the insanity of war. Not so, in-waiting are the Arab-Muslim leaders to see if anything would happen out of nowhere to stop the Israeli carnage of planned killing and destruction of Gaza and the rest of Palestine. Read More

President Erdoğan receives sons of late Hamas leader Haniyeh
Daily Sabah: Two sons of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ political bureau who was recently assassinated in Iran, met President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday. Read More

‘We have the right to demand better’: Arab Americans wrestle with the 2024 presidential election
By Samaa Khullar: Arab Americans are viewing the U.S. presidential race with anger and disillusionment. “I just feel like our voices aren’t being heard,” says Palestinian American Mervat Saudi. Both parties “are not in the best interest for my own people.” Read More

Bangladesh coup was US revenge for military base refusal says Sheikh Hasina
RT.COM: Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was forced to resign and flee the country amid mass protests earlier this week, has accused the US of involvement in her ouster. In a message on Sunday cited by the Economic Times, Hasina signaled that she could have retained power if she had agreed to host a US military base in Bangladesh. Read More

Israel Kills 100 People Performing The Dawn Prayers

by Dr Marwan Asmar: More than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, Saturday morning, after Israeli occupation forces bombed the “Al-Tabi’een” school, which houses displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood east of Gaza City. Local sources reported that the occupation warplanes bombed the school while Palestinians were performing the dawn prayer, and they were specifically targeted after the Takbeer of the dawn prayer. Read More

'World must stop Israel': Palestinians beg for help after Gaza massacre
TRT World: Palestinian factions have strongly condemned the "horrific massacre" perpetrated by the Israeli army against displaced Palestinians seeking refuge at the Tabaeen school in the Daraj neighbourhood, central Gaza. The Islamic Jihad movement labelled the attack as a "full-fledged war crime," and said: "choosing the timing of the dawn prayer to carry out this horrific and terrible massacre confirms that the enemy had the intention to cause the largest possible number of martyrs among civilians, including children and the elderly." Read More

Threat of Middle East war on hair-trigger as Israel kills Hamas official in Lebanon
By Jordan Shilton: The danger of a region-wide war in the Middle East continues to loom large, provoked by the aggressive actions of Israel and its American imperialist ally. On Friday, the Israel Defence Forces carried out the targeted killing of a Hamas official deep inside Lebanon, while a Reuters report revealed that Washington will lift a three-year ban on the sale of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia. The Israeli strike on a car killed Samer al-Hajj and two civilians near the Lebanese town of Sidon. Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig, reporting from southern Lebanon, commented: Sidon is roughly just over 50km [31 miles] from Lebanon’s southern border and around 40km [25 miles] from the capital, Beirut, and what it shows is that Israel is going deeper into Lebanon. Read More

Israeli Minister asserts that Starving 2 Million Palestinians is Morally and Legally permitted
By Juan Cole: The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reported this week that the civil administrator of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank and the minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, broached the subject of whether it is legal and moral to starve over two million people to death. Smotrich, the head of the fascist Religious Zionism Party, was addressing a conference of supporters of bringing back the Gush Katif Israel squatter-settlement on Palestinian land in Gaza, which was closed by right wing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Read More

Why does the West support Israel?
By Muhittin Ataman: The West backs Tel Aviv primarily due to Zionist influence at various levels, including: the control of the world financial market by Zionists; the Zionists control of the world media platforms and the longtime comfort provided to Western people by the governments and the pro-Israeli economic lobbies at the expense of non-Western people. Read More

Bangladesh: Worries in Delhi grow if Yunus demands extradition of Hasina
By Saleem Samad: The delay in ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking asylum or stay in destination to North America, the United Kingdom or Europe, has caused the elites in India’s South Block and Indian Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi to bite their nails. With every day passing, Delhi is getting jittery for the unwelcome VVIP guest, who arrived unnoticed on a special military flight from Dhaka to Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad, near the Indian capital Delhi. Read More

India-China border: China's great wall of villages
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: China has put at least one village near every accessible Himalayan pass that borders India, as well as on most of the passes bordering Bhutan and Nepal, the New York Times has reported. China has moved thousands of people to new settlements on its frontiers. It calls them “border guardians.” The New York Times mapped and analyzed settlements along China’s border to create the first detailed visual representation of how the country has reshaped its frontiers with strategic civilian outposts, in just eight years. Read More

Over half of new Car sales in China in July were EVs, as America faces threat of Falling Behind
By Juan Cole: In July, China reached an unprecedented inflection point for an industrialized society, with more electric cars purchased than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. William Gavin at Quartz points out that 3 years ago, only 7% of cars sold in China were EVs. Just this year, EV sales are up 37%. These statistics count both pure EVs and plug-in hybrids. It is true that the Chinese government offers a $2,785 bonus for EV purchases. But that is less than the $7500 federal tax break Americans can receive on some models of EVs because of the Inflation Reduction Act. Read More

Day 306 of Gaza genocide: 39,677 Palestinians killed, 91,645 injured
Al Mayadeen: On day 306 of the genocide in Gaza, the toll of casualties has risen to 39,677 Palestinians killed and 91,645 injured by the Israeli occupation amid the IOF's brutal onslaught, according to the daily report published by the Health Ministry in Gaza on Wednesday. "Israel" committed two massacres over the past 24 hours, killing 24 Palestinians and injuring 110 others. While some were transported to partially functioning hospitals, many victims remain trapped beneath the rubble with rescue crews being unable to reach them. Read More

Yahya Sinwar's long road from Israeli prisons to Hamas leadership
Daily Sabah: Yahya Sinwar, a long-time and key member of Hamas, succeeded the recently assassinated Ismail Haniyeh as the Palestinian resistance group's new political bureau chief Tuesday. The selection of Sinwar, 61, reflects his history with the group. He has served as the resistance group’s top official in Gaza for two consecutive terms, the first starting in 2017 and the second in 2021. Read More

Not enough Iron Domes in world to fend off Hezbollah arsenal: Politico
Al Mayadeen: The Israeli occupation is grappling with a critical shortage of munitions, casting doubt on its ability to repel a major anticipated attack from Iran and Hezbollah amid concerns about whether neighboring Arab nations would offer the same level of support for the Israeli occupation as before, Politico reported on Tuesday. Read More

Pakistan announces intention to supply arms to Iran at OIC meeting – report
Jerusalem Post: Several Arab sources reported Tuesday that if the conflict between Iran and Israel escalates, Pakistan plans to supply Iran with Shaheen-III medium-range ballistic missiles. An emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), requested by Iran and Pakistan, took place yesterday in Saudi Arabia, with Iran examining its response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Read More

Bangladesh at the crossroads: What's next after Hasina's dramatic exit?
TRT World: After weeks of clashes between student protesters and police forces, Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin has dissolved parliament and laid the groundwork for a new interim government. Sheikh Hasina, who ruled Bangladesh for almost 20 years, resigned and fled the country after protests over civil service job quotas turned increasingly violent. At least 300 people have been killed and thousands injured since the protests erupted in mid-July. Hasina's resignation was announced by Bangladesh's army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman, who held talks with major political parties and called for calm. Read More

Pakistan: Let the Nation be Free of Criminals
By Dr Mahboob A Khawaja: The Chief of the Staff, General Assem Munir and Five conspiratorial Generals must see the mirror and realize what went wrong with their thinking, professionalism and honesty as they took oath to serve the nation. They all betrayed the nation and must be punished. Pakistan is fast becoming a trajectory of crime riddle political culture and it signals not just decadence but a downfall of the nation. Read More

Yahya al-Sinwar to succeed Ismail Haniyeh as politburo chief
Al Mayadeen: According to a statement by Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement, Yahya al-Sinwar will serve as its new political leader, succeeding martyred Ismail Haniyeh. "The Hamas Islamic Resistance movement has announced the election of Yahya al-Sinwar as head of the movement's political office to replace the murdered Ismail Haniyeh." The leader of Hamas in Gaza, Al-Sinwar, a former prisoner for 23 years, was a mastermind player in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on Otober 7. Read More

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina flees to India
By Media Reports: Bangalesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned today (Monday) and fled to India by a helicopter after thousands of protesters stormed her palace. Protestors broke through the gates of Sheikh Hasina's official residence, prompting her to flee the country by helicopter. Sheikh Hasina landed at the Hindon airbase near Ghaziabad and is on her way to London, diplomatic sources have said. She was received by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval at the Hindon airbase, according to NDTV. Read More

Gaza receives 80 bodies of unidentified Palestinians from Israel: officials
TRT World: Civil Defence agency in Gaza has said it received the bodies of 80 unidentified Palestinians from Israel, which it buried in a mass grave. "We received 80 bodies inside 15 bags, with more than four martyrs in each bag, each wrapped in a single shroud", Civil Defence Director Yamen Abu Suleiman said on Monday. Read More

30 killed as Israel hits Gaza schools amid failing cease-fire talks
Daily Sabah: At least 30 Palestinians were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on Sunday, Palestinian officials said. In a separate incident, another Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza earlier the same day. Gaza health officials said a total of at least 44 Palestinians were killed on Sunday, the day after a round of talks in Cairo ended without result. Read More

Iranian president meets with Russian Security Chief
Daily Sabah: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian called for expanded relations with Russia, as he spoke with a senior Russian official on Monday. Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's security council, met Iran's president and top security officials as Tehran weighs its response to the killing of Hamas's political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was also the top negotiator in Gaza cease-fire talks. Read More

Day 303 of Israeli aggression on Gaza: 39,583 killed, 91,398 injured
Al Mayadeen: On day 302 of the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli occupation forces committed two massacres against the people of Palestine, killing 33 and injuring 118 others in the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7 to 39,583, in addition to 91,398 injuries, according to the daily report released by the Gaza Ministry of Health. Read More

In 12 hrs., Israel struck 3 Gaza schools, 1 hospital; committed massacres
Al Mayadeen: In a new massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, 30 Palestinians were killed on Sunday following a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted two schools in Gaza City sheltering thousands of displaced people. According to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent, the Israeli airstrikes on the Hassan Salama and Al-Nasr schools in western Gaza City killed 30 Palestinians and injured dozens of others, including many in serious condition. Read More

Turkey’s Erdogan denounces killing of Haniyeh, blocks Israel at NATO
By Juan Cole: The only Middle Eastern country that has taken significant political and administrative actions to protest Israeli war crimes is Turkey. President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the assassination of Hamas Politburo head Ismail Haniyeh at “X,” writing, “I vehemently denounce and anathematize (lanetliyorum) the perfidious assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Hamas Political Bureau, in Tehran. This killing is a vile deed intended to derail the Palestinian Cause, undermine the glorious resistance (şanlı direnişini) in Gaza, and the righteous struggle (haklı mücadelesini) of our Palestinian siblings, undermining their morale and instilling fear among them.” Erdogan called Haniyeh his “dear brother.” Read More

The fallout from Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh demonstrates the Biden administration’s failures
BY MITCHELL PLITNICK: The Biden administration wants a ceasefire deal but is not prepared to put pressure on Israel to make it happen. Netanyahu knows this and is pushing forward with the genocide of the Palestinians, and regional war with the Axis of Resistance. In the space of mere hours, Israel killed the lead Hamas ceasefire negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh; assassinated one of the most senior figures in Hezbollah, Fuad Shukr; saw its citizens, including Knesset members and at least one government minister riot for their “right” to rape Palestinian prisoners; and announced that it had killed the head of Hamas’ Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Mohammed Deif earlier this month, a claim Hamas neither confirmed nor denied. Read More

YAF shoot down US MQ-9 drone over Saada, target ship in Gulf of Aden
AL Mayadeen: The Yemeni Armed Forces' air defense forces managed to shoot down an American MQ-9 drone while it was conducting hostile activities in the skies over Saada province, announced YAF spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree on Sunday. In a televised statement, Saree confirmed that the drone was downed using a homegrown surface-to-air missile, adding that this is the seventh drone of its kind to be shot down since the start of the YAF's military operations in support of Gaza. Read More

Strategic overview: The options the Axis of Resistance is facing
By Ali Jezzini: Following the Israeli assassinations of martyrs Fouad Shokor and Ismail Haniyeh in Beirut and Tehran, respectively, the Israelis looked to many observers as a raging bull who wanted unlimited and unconditional war—but the matter is not that simple. While escalation dominance and the mad rabid dog appearance are both part of the Israeli war strategy in the conflicts they made part of, this time, the dominance is not theirs. The Israelis are currently surrounded by what has been coined as "Soleimani's ring of fire." Read More

German Colonialism in Africa left Hundreds of Thousands Dead: Its Chilling Afterlife
By Henning Melber: Germany was a significant – and often brutal – colonial power in Africa. But this colonial history is not told as often as that of other imperialist nations. A new book called The Long Shadow of German Colonialism: Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism aims to bring the past into the light. It explores not just the history of German colonialism, but also how its legacy has played out in German society, politics and the media. We asked Henning Melber about his book. Read More

Massive rally in Istanbul to mourn Hamas leader Haniyeh, support Gazans
Andolu Agency: Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at Hagia Sophia Square to mourn assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh under banner 'Last Call' Protestors chant 'Free Palestine from the river to the sea', 'Murderer Israel get out of Palestine.' Read More

After 302 days of ‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’:
Nasrallah declares ‘new phase’ of war, vows ‘inevitable’ response to Israeli attack on Beirut

At least 39,550 people have been killed and 91,280 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza, Al Jazeera reported Saturday. According to Mondoweiss, 594+ Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank including eastern Jerusalem. These include 138 children. Read More

Israeli attack on school in Gaza kills at least 15 people
Al Jazeera: At least 15 people have been killed in Israeli air raids on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza, Gaza’s Government Media Office said. The attacks occurred as a high-level Israeli delegation visited Egypt in an attempt to revisit Gaza truce talks. Read More

Understanding the connections between the Congo and Palestine genocides
Mondoweiss: Friends of the Congo Executive Director Maurice Carney and Professor Eman Abdelhadi discuss the intersections between the genocides in the Congo and Palestine. Much like Palestine, Congo has a long history of being subjected to colonization and genocide. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, up to 10 million Congolese were killed by the Belgians, who began Congo’s modern history of being exploited for resources like rubber, uranium, and now coltan – which powers almost all technology. In fact, six million people have been killed in the genocide in the Congo since 1996, a genocide committed by Rwanda, with the support of foreign powers like the U.S. and China. Read More

US National Debt Tops $35 Trillion for the First Time in History
Global Research: The US has achieved another “milestone” after its national debt surpassed the $35 trillion mark, the US House of Representatives Budget Committee announced on July 29. Yet, despite debt increasing and the economy struggling, the US is still not deterred from achieving its military ambitions. Read More

Israeli army says it detected 10 rockets fired from Gaza, triggering activation of sirens
Yeni Safak: The Israeli army said Friday it detected the firing of 10 rockets from Gaza toward southern Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip. It said in a statement that the rockets were fired from southern Gaza, setting off sirens in the settlements near Gaza. Nine rockets landed in open areas and one was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, it claimed. No injuries or damage were reported. Read More

Israel arrests Al Aqsa Mosque Imam for mourning Ismail Haniyeh
Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, 85, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem and current head of its Supreme Islamic Council, was held by Israel for calling Haniyeh a "martyr" in his sermon at the mosque occupied east Jerusalem. He was released after several hours of detention. Read More

Türkiye restricts Instagram for censoring Palestine content
TRT World: The Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority (TKM) has said it blocked access to Instagram. Sources familiar with the matter told TRT World that Instagram access was halted due to removing Haniyeh-related content on a national day of mourning, citing "catalogue crimes" behind the decision. Read More

Israel’s assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders will backfire
 Ibrahim AL Marashi: In recent weeks, Israel has been on an assassination spree, killing several high-profile Hamas and Hezbollah leaders in quick succession. Yet there is reason to believe these killings, widely celebrated as a show of power now, will serve to embolden these groups and prove harmful to Israel’s security and the region’s stability in the long term. Read More

Israel's Gaza offensive as a case of military failure
Yeni Safak Opinion: While Israel is reducing the Palestinian population with its strikes, it is losing a greater number of its very own population due to a widespread sense of insecurity and resulting emigration. While the overall balance sheet of Israel's war on Gaza is self-defeating, Israel is also far from fulfilling its goals from a purely military perspective. Israel's invasion of Gaza has achieved little other than destroying the lives of millions in Gaza. Israel has not achieved its strategic objectives, which were already blurry from the beginning, as Hamas could still effectively attack the Israeli military in Gaza after months of fighting. Israel, in addition to losing a great deal of prestige due to its loss of troops and equipment on the ground, has proved itself to be a criminal state in the eyes of billions. Read More

Maduro slams US for interfering in Venezuela's domestic affairs
Daily Sabah: President Nicolas Maduro condemned the United States for recognizing the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of the recent elections, as Argentina, Peru and Uruguay joined Washington in their recognition. "The United States should not stick its nose into our affairs, because in Venezuela the sovereign people decide," Maduro said Friday. "Is the USA perhaps the electoral office? The fascist demon is the electoral office?" Read More

Terror attacks kill hundreds across Pakistan in past seven months
TRT World: According to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies, at least 582 people, including security personnel and civilians, were killed and 610 injured in 557 suspected terrorist attacks since January. Read More

20 Years of Struggle: Renewing our commitment to liberation for the Holy Land 5
Mondoweiss: July 27 marks 20 years since charges were filed against the Holy Land Foundation and the organization's five founders' homes were raided. The case against the HLF5 is an attack on all who care about Palestine, we must not stop until they are free. Read More

Unjust history of Native Americans must be acknowledged: China
Yeni Safak: In a broadside at Washington, China on Friday called for acknowledging “unjust history of Native Americans.” Beijing was reacting to a report by the US Department of the Interior which revealed that at least 973 Native American children had died in the US government's abusive boarding school system. “The unjust history of Native Americans must be acknowledged,” said Lin Jian, spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry. Read More

After his body arrived in Doha, martyr Haniyeh is laid to rest
Al Mayadeen: The body of martyr Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, arrived at the Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque in the Qatari capital, Doha, amid a large official and popular attendance. Attendees performed the funeral prayer for the martyr after the Friday prayer before he was laid to rest in Lusail. Read More

Türkiye retorts after Israel scolds envoy for mourning Haniyeh
Daily Sabah: Türkiye on Friday responded to Israel for summoning its deputy envoy for a reprimand after the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv lowered its flag to half-mast in response to the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. “The State of Israel will not tolerate expressions of mourning for a murderer like Ismail Haniyeh," Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in a statement after summoning the Turkish envoy. In a response on X, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Öncü Keçeli said: “You cannot achieve peace by killing negotiators and threatening diplomats.” Read More

Will Türkiye 'invade' Israel?
By Yusuf Ziya Durmus: President Erdoğan’s comments on possible action against Israel reveal Türkiye's frustration and its stance on Palestinian support amid the rising tensions and international debate. Read More

A Palestinian journalist visited Ismail Haniyeh’s home in Gaza to report on his death. Israel assassinated him too
Al Jazeera reporter Ismail al-Ghoul had become a household name for anyone following the war on Gaza. When he went to Ismail Haniyeh’s hometown to cover a commemoration of his killing, Israel assassinated him too. Read More

Thousands mourn Hamas leader Haniyeh in Iran amid calls for revenge
Al Jazeera: Thousands poured into the streets of Tehran to join the funeral procession of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as Iran weighs its options having promised to avenge his assassination. The bodies of the Palestinian political official and his bodyguard, who was killed alongside him a day earlier in Iran in a strike blamed on Israel, were marched amid chants in the capital. Read More

Erdoğan declares national mourning after Haniyeh's assassination
Daily Sabah: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday he was declaring a day of national mourning on Friday over Israel's assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh to show Türkiye's support for the Palestinian cause. "In order to show our support for the Palestinian Cause and our solidarity with our Palestinian siblings, a day of national mourning was declared tomorrow (Friday, Aug. 2) due to Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh's martyrdom," Erdoğan said on social media platform X. Read More

Haniyeh’s message to Pakistan: Gaza war would end if nuclear-armed Pakistan threatened Israel
Ismail Haniyeh said on December 6, 2023 that Israel’s war in Gaza would end if Pakistan, a country armed with nuclear weapons, threatened Israel, according to Pakistani media reports. Read More

Hamas rejects Israel's report of military wing chief's death
Al Jazeera: Israel’s army says Hamas’s top military commander, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli air raid in southern Gaza on July 13. “We can now confirm: Mohammed Deif was eliminated,” the Israeli military said on Thursday. Izzat al-Rashq, a Hamas member, said the news of Deif’s killing was unconfirmed.“Confirming or denying the m rtyrdom of any of the Qassam leaders is a matter for the leadership of the Qassam Brigades and the leadership of the movement,” he said on Telegram, referring to Hamas’s military wing. Read More

After 300 days of ‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’:
Nasrallah declares ‘new phase’ of war, vows ‘inevitable’ response to Israeli attack on Beirut

Mondoweiss: In a strident speech on Wednesday evening, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah said that the fighting with Israel has “entered a new phase” that goes “beyond supporting Gaza,” vowing an “inevitable” response to Israel’s Beirut bombing. Read More

No leadership crisis in Hamas after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Palestinian expert Yousef Alhelou says that there will be no leadership crisis in Hamas after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh. Responding to TRT journalist Berra Ince, Alhelou pointed out that Israel has assassinated dozens of Hamas leaders in the past and other resistance leaders from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), DPFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine), and many other people. Read More

The real reason Israel is assassinating Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, and why it won’t stop the resistance
Mondoweiss: Israel’s assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders doesn’t aim to weaken the resistance. Its real motive is to restore the image of military and intelligence superiority in the eyes of the Israeli public. Read More

Nasrallah ushers in a new phase, asserts retaliation is inevitable
Al Mayadeen: The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah confirmed on Thursday that the Israeli attack on Hareit Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut was an aggression targeting civilian buildings and killing civilians, not just an assassination operation. The aggression resulted in the martyrdom of five civilians, three women, and two children, in addition to Iranian military advisor Milad Bidi. Read More

Press in peril: This is how Israel killed 165 Gaza journalists in 300 days
TRT World: Since October 7, Israel has relentlessly targeted Palestinian media workers in the besieged enclave where it is engaged in a genocidal war on unarmed civilians. On July 31, Al Jazeera reporter Ismail al Ghoul and cameraman Rami al Rifi were killed in an Israeli missile strike on their car in Gaza City. They were on their way back from the al Shati refugee camp, where the slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh grew up. Read More

 

 

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