July 2024

What does Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination mean for the wider conflict?
Murat Sofuoglu: Israel has continued to increase its provocations with its latest attack on the Hamas political bureau leader, Ismail Haniyeh, assassinating him in Iran in a violation of the country’s territorial integrity, and raising the prospects of spreading its war on Gaza into a regional conflict. Haniyeh, who had been the chairman of Hamas political bureau since 2017 and the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority between 2006 and 2014, was a widely recognised moderate figure in the resistance group. Haniyeh was also a top Palestinian negotiator in both Qatar and Egypt-led ceasefire talks with Israel. His assassination could delay the ceasefire. 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. Israel’s real motive is to restore the image of military and intelligence superiority in the eyes of the Israeli public. Read More

Hezbollah confirms Israeli strike in Beirut assassinates senior commander
TRT World: Hezbollah has confirmed that Israel assassinated Fuad Shukr, a top commander, after a strike in Beirut. The Lebanese group's announcement on Wednesday came after an overnight Israeli strike in Tehran that assassinated Hamas political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh. The group says that its leader Hassan Nasrallah, will make an address on the occasion of Fuad Shukr's funeral. Read More

Sayyed Al-Houthi vows Resistance Axis will avenge martyred leaders
Al Mayadeen: The leader of the Ansar Allah movement mourned on Wednesday the martyrdom of one of Hezbollah's top military commanders, who was assassinated by "Israel" in an airstrike on a residential building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday. Read More

Ismail Haniyeh's journey of Resistance: From exile to martyrdom
Al Mayadeen: The Hamas Resistance movement mourned on Wednesday the martyrdom of the head of its political bureau and leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in a "treacherous Zionist strike" and assassination targeting his place of residence in Tehran, Iran. Haniyeh was in the country participating in the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected Iranian president. Ismail Haniyeh was born in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, on May 23, 1963, after his parents were displaced from Asqalan during the 1948 Nakba. Read More

Who was Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader assassinated by Israel in Iran?
TRT World: Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who was assassinated in Iran, was the tough-talking face of the Palestinian resistance group's international diplomacy as Israel's war raged back in Gaza, where three of his sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike. But he was seen by many diplomats as a moderate compared to the more hardline members of the Palestinian group inside Gaza. Haniyeh lost about 60 members of his family — including three sons since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7. Read More

Global condemnations for assassination of martyr Ismail Haniyeh
Al Mayadeen: Reactions condemning the targeting of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas' political bureau in Tehran at dawn today continue to pour in from Arab, Islamic, and international countries. Read More

Haniyeh's assassination puts a damper on Iran's military machismo
TRT World: The assassination in Tehran of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, celebrated as a hero for his struggle for the liberation of Palestine and revered by many freedom fighters worldwide for his political career, will spur a response, of which there are various scenarios. One end of the spectrum, Haniyeh's killing could push the region to the brink of a new comprehensive war. On the other end, Iran may present a muted response. Regardless of which scenario unfolds, it is clear that Haniyeh, the former prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority, was assassinated by Israel while on a diplomatic mission in Tehran. Read More

Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran
Al Jazeera: Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statement from the group that governs Gaza, which blamed Israel for his death. Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed after the building where they were staying was struck, the statement said, adding that Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday. Read More

‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 297: Israel and Lebanon brace for new escalation after 12 Syrian residents of the Golan Heights were killed by a strike
Mondoweiss: Israeli officials say that Netanyahu is behind Israel’s hardened position preventing a ceasefire deal as a new round of talks in Rome concludes without a breakthrough. Read More

Israel urges NATO to expel Turkey over threats to ‘invade’
Politico: Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz has demanded that NATO expel Turkey over President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s threats to send troops into Israel. “In light of Turkish President Erdoğan's threats to invade Israel and his dangerous rhetoric, Foreign Minister Israel Katz instructed diplomats … to urgently engage with all NATO members, calling for the condemnation of Turkey and demanding its expulsion from the regional alliance,” the Israeli foreign ministry said Monday according to media reports. Erdoğan told a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) earlier on Monday that Turkey “must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine.” Read More

Erdoğan says he'll never bow down to Israel's threats
Daily Sabah: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz’s scandalous social media post threatening him, as he said he would not be intimidated by such threats. “We are members of a nation whose national anthem begins with “Fear not..” Disrespectful messages of clowns behind their keyboards will not daunt us. They cannot stop Tayyip Erdoğan from raising the voice of truth,” he said in an address to members of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Tuesday. Read More

Türkiye slams Israeli FM’s threat aimed at Erdoğan
Daily Sabah: The Turkish government on Monday hit out at Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz’s scandalous social media post threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Katz, known for his anti-Turkish posts amid Türkiye’s rising criticism of the Israeli administration’s massacres in Gaza, likened Erdoğan to Iraq’s ousted leader Saddam Hussein. Erdoğan said on Sunday that Türkiye might intervene in Israel to stop the killings. Katz’s post said Erdoğan followed in the footsteps of Saddam and should remember what happened in Iraq. Read More

The Impact of the Houthis on American Maritime Geopolitics
By Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz: The strategic strait, located between Yemen and Djibouti and only 25 km wide at its narrowest point, is now at great risk.  This situation has triggered developments that will disrupt global maritime trade. About 50 ships, carrying 7 million barrels of oil and 1.2 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG), used to pass through this strait daily. These quantities have now decreased by about 60%. The reason is the inability to prevent attacks by Iran-backed Yemeni Shia Houthis against Israel and Western-linked trade ships and even warships, amidst the ongoing civil war since 2015. Read More

Maduro declared winner of presidential vote, as Washington escalates drive for regime change in Venezuela
Andrea Lobo: The National Election Committee (CNE) in Venezuela declared the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro early Monday by a margin of 51.2 percent against 44.2 percent for right-wing challenger Edmundo González. The electoral body blamed a cyberattack for delays but said it counted 80 percent of the votes and that these show Maduro’s victory to be “irreversible.” As of this writing, the CNE website is still down, and no further results have been published. As expected, the Biden administration, its puppet regimes in the region, and the US-funded Unitary Platform have refused to acknowledge the results. In a response clearly coordinated beforehand, US imperialism is instead using the elections to escalate its efforts for regime change. Read More

The Global Balance of Power is Fast Changing as the Global Majority Rises
by Feroze Mithiborwala: We are clearly witnessing history in the making, as the Western Zionist dominated post-WWII order is in a state of inexorable decline, with new nations and powers fast emerging. Read More

US anti-Muslim incidents rise by 70% in first half of 2024: CAIR
TRT World: Discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians have risen by about 70 percent in the US in the first half of 2024 amid heightened anti-Muslim hate due to Israel's war in Gaza, the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group said. Human rights advocates have reported a global rise in anti-Muslim hate and anti-Palestinian sentiment since the eruption in October of the Israel's war which has killed tens of thousands civilians and caused a humanitarian crisis. Read More

Islamophobia: from crusaders, to colonialists, to cartoonists
TRT World: Orientalism has plagued the Western narrative on Islam for centuries. Anti-Muslim discourse has plagued the European horizon, but never has it taken on so many dimensions. Read More

Erdogan Says Turkiye Could 'Enter' Israel To Help Gazans
Sputnik: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkiye could "enter" Israel just as it once did in Libya and Karabakh. "We must be strong. As we entered Karabakh, as we entered Libya, so we will do to them [Israel]. There is nothing we cannot do. We must be strong to take such steps," Erdogan said in a speech broadcast by the national television. Read More

Israel hits Hezbollah targets after rocket strike from Lebanon kills 12
VOA: Israel struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Sunday in the immediate aftermath of a rocket strike from Lebanon that killed 12 people at a football field in the Golan Heights, even as Western diplomats sought to curb further fighting that could broaden conflict in the Middle East. Read More

Backed by US, Israel threatens wider war after Golan Heights blast
By Mike Head: Fresh from receiving assurances of continued backing from the Biden-Harris administration in Washington, the Israeli regime immediately seized upon an alleged rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 Arab Druze children to threaten an offensive into Lebanon that could trigger a wider US-backed war against Iran. The circumstances surrounding the strike that hit a tiny soccer field in the occupied enclave remain unclear. Twelve boys and girls ranging in age from 10 to 16, were killed by Saturday’s blast in the Druze village of Majdal Shams, and dozens more were injured and taken to hospitals. Read More

The Same White Nationalism that Genocided the American Indians is at Work in Eradicating Palestinians
BY ASMIR ALIHOJICH: In his seminal work “Animal Farm,” George Orwell astutely observed, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This aphorism resonates powerfully in the contemporary international order, where the preeminence of power frequently overrides human rights, international regimes, conventions, the United Nations Charter, and even the consensus of non-aligned nations. This manifestation of force not only disregards international norms but also endeavors to suspend them, positioning itself as the legislator and enforcer of a new order imposed upon other global actors. This phenomenon is increasingly intertwined with U.S. influence, resulting in proxy wars, territorial expansions, or targeted genocide and legalized apartheid devoid of any sense of shame or constraint. Read More

Israel Destroys Gaza and Palestine and Arab Leaders Lost the Future
by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja: Gaza and West Bank are obliterated by Israeli insanity over ten months of continued war and bombardments of civilian infrastructures. The Arab-Muslim leaders had no mind, wisdom and courage to challenge Israel for its planned onslaught of Palestinian masses.They profess friendship with Netanyahu against Israeli animosity. The Arab leaders appear morally, intellectually and politically bankrupt as a scum floating on a torrent of naive puppets and discredited leaders. Read More

About 10 percent of the Gaza Strip’s population killed, injured, or missing due to the Israeli genocide
Euro-Med Monitor: About 10% of the Gaza Strip’s population has been killed, injured, or is missing due to the 293-day genocide carried out by Israel in the Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023. Read More

Unofficial death toll may be over 90,000: US medics in Gaza
Al Mayadeen: Some 45 physicians and nurses who volunteered in Gaza have written a letter addressed to the Biden administration, which arrived on Thursday, stating that "Israel" claimed the lives of over 90,000 Palestinians during its ongoing genocide in the Strip and highlighting the occupation's war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law. Read More

Millions march in Yemen for Gaza on 40th consecutive Friday
Al Mayadeen: More than a million people demonstrated in Yemen on Friday in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and in condemnation of the continued Israeli genocide against the people of the Gaza Strip. Read More

Israeli police prevent hundreds from praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque
TRT World: Israeli police prevented hundreds of Palestinian youths from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem for Friday prayers, witnesses told Anadolu. Read More

Israeli forces target TRT crew covering attacks on Palestinians at Al Aqsa
TRT World: Israeli forces have once again targeted a TRT crew, keeping up the regime's unfounded attacks against journalists on the ground. Read More

Why BJP’s election upset failed to halt the persecution of Muslims in India
By Apoorvanand: Muslims continue to be persecuted in India despite the weakening of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the fountainhead of anti-Muslim hate and violence, in the recently held elections. The BJP failed to secure a majority and was only able to form a government with support from a number of regional parties which claim to be secular. It was hoped that having a smaller number of MPs in the Parliament of India would chasten the BJP and its new “secular” allies would act as a brake on the party’s anti-Muslim policies. Read More

Day 293 of genocide: 39,175 killed, 90,403 injured by 'Israel'
Al Mayadeen: The Health Ministry in Gaza's daily report updating the death toll resulting from the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza revealed that 39,175 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF), while 90,403 others have been injured, since October 7. Read More

Five rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel amid tension
Yeni Safak: Five rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel on Thursday amid growing tensions between Hezbollah and Tel Aviv, according to Israeli media.Israeli Channel 12 said four rockets were fired on the Shtula settlement near the borders with Lebanon with one rocket hitting a house. Fears grow about full-fledged war between Israel, Hezbollah amid exchange of almost daily attacks. Read More

Netanyahu wants anti-Iran 'Abraham Alliance,' reiterates demand for 'total victory' in Gaza
Yeni Safak: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used an address before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday to urge the creation of a regional anti-Iranian security pact that he dubbed the "Abraham Alliance." Netanyahu told lawmakers that the world saw "a glimpse" of his proposed pact on April 14 when Arab states and the US intercepted a slew of Iranian missiles and drones bound for Israel that were launched by Tehran in retaliation for an earlier Israeli attack on Iran's Consulate in Damascus that killed senior military officials. Read More

Netanyahu’s Congress address signals prolonged Gaza occupation, experts say
TRT World: In his address to the US Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a high-stakes bid to redefine the narrative of the Gaza war, igniting a firestorm of controversy and uproar in its wake. Observers say Netanyahu's speech on Wednesday was a declaration of Israel's intentions, pledging to persist in the war against Gaza until "total victory" is achieved. His uncompromising stance is being seen as a strategic manoeuvre designed to shift the discourse and pre-empt mounting criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza. Read More

China mediates between Palestinian factions to form a future government in Gaza
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: High-level representatives from 14 Palestinian factions held a reconciliation dialogue from Sunday to Tuesday at the invitation of China and signed the Beijing Declaration on ending division and strengthening Palestinian unity, the Global Time reported adding: This marks the first time that representatives from 14 Palestinian factions have gathered in Beijing for reconciliation dialogue, bringing valuable hope to the long-suffering Palestinian people, Mao Ning, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said at a press conference on Tuesday. Read More

What China hopes to achieve in the Middle East through Hamas-Fatah talks?
TRT World: For some experts, China is seen as a more reliable mediator than the US. But will it succeed in ending the decades-long dispute and uniting the Palestinian front? Read More

Day 290 of Israeli aggression on Gaza: 39,006 killed, 89,818 injured
Al Mayadeen: The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced in its daily report on Monday that the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza due to the Israeli genocidal war ongoing since October 7 has now reached 39,006, in addition to 89,818 injuries. Additionally, it confirmed that Israeli occupation forces committed three massacres in 24 hours, killing 23 and injuring 91 others. Read More

Israeli airstrikes on Yemen, Lebanon leave entire Mideast reeling
Daily Sabah: Israel struck multiple neighboring countries over the weekend, leaving the entire Middle East reeling from deadly violence Sunday. Tel Aviv bombed Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen in quick succession in what it claimed was a response to attacks from Iran-backed armed groups across the region. Despite Washington's top diplomat asserting a deal is near the "goal line" to end more than nine months of genocidal war on Gaza, the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, as it pressed on with its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. Read More

Israel says it struck Yemen’s Hodeidah in response to Houthi attacks
Al Jazeera: The Israeli military has said it has conducted strikes against Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in response  to attacks by the Houthi group. The Ministry of Health, which operates in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, said three people were killed and 87 wounded, many with severe burns as a result of the Israeli strikes. The toll has risen to six. The Israeli air raids on Saturday were carried out a day after the Houthis claimed responsibility for a  drone attack that killed one person in Tel Aviv and injured 10 others. Read More

Saudi Arabia denies involvement in the Israeli attack on Hodeidah
Al Mayadeen: Saudi Defense Ministry spokesperson Brigadier General Turki al-Maliki announced on Sunday that Saudi Arabia did not participate in the Israeli raids targeting the Yemeni city of Hodeidah on Saturday. He emphasized that Saudi airspace would remain secure and unbreached. Read More

YAF carry out 2 operations, vow response to ‘Israel’ will be massive
Al Mayadeen: The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) carried out two operations, one targeting an Israeli-occupied city and the other targeting a US vessel on the Red Sea. In detail, the YAF carried out a top-tier military operation against significant targets in Umm al-Rashrash [Eilat] with a number of ballistic missiles, achieving its declared goals successfully, the Yemeni Armed Forces Spokesperson Brigadier General YahyaSaree announced on Sunday. Read More

Israel’s Eilat Port has been Bankrupted by the Houthis supporting Palestinians of Gaza
By Mustafa Abdulsalam: The Israeli port of Eilat officially declared its bankruptcy, after eight months of complete paralysis of commercial activity and its cessation of receiving ships and containers, especially coming from the Asian countries’ markets, carrying with them the needs of the economy and its industrial sector. This includes raw materials, intermediate goods, production inputs, machinery and equipment, crude oil and fuel, wheat, food, cars and other market needs. Read More

 Pakistan declares Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu a terrorist
Daily Sabah: The Pakistani government has officially decided to recognize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "terrorist" and has called on the international community to do the same. Read More

How Orientalism Fuels Islamophobia?
by V A Mohamad Ashrof: Islamophobia, the irrational fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims, has deep historical roots. One significant factor is Orientalism, a body of Western thought that has long portrayed the Islamic world as fundamentally different, inferior, and even threatening. This essay explores how Orientalist ideas have shaped Western perceptions of Islam, contributing to its rise in the modern world. Read More

Muslims arrested for raising pro-Palestine, anti-Israel slogans at Muharram processions in India
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Muslims have been arrested for raising pro-Palestine, anti-Israel slogans at Muharram processions, the Hindu has reported. The Jharkhand Police on Thursday, July 18, said it arrested a 28- year-old man for waving a Palestinian flag during a Muharram procession in the state's Dumka district, according to the Press Trust of India. Read More

Israeli forces ambushed in southern Gaza, say Al-Qassam Brigades
Yeni Safak: The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas, said Saturday that they ambushed Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip. Al-Qassam said on Telegram that their fighters "lured an Israeli foot force into a tunnel that had been booby-trapped in advance and blew it up with members of the force, causing casualties." Read More

Gaza death toll surpasses 38,900 as Israel kills 37 more Palestinians
Yeni Safak: The Israeli army killed 37 more Palestinians in attacks on the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll to 38,919 since last Oct. 7, the enclave's Health Ministry said on Saturday. A statement by the ministry added that some 89,622 others have been injured in the ongoing offensive. Israeli forces killed 37 people and injured 54 others in four 'massacres' against families in the last 24 hours," the ministry said. Read More

20 Palestinians killed as Israel pounds besieged Gaza
Yeni Safak: Dozens of Palestinians, including children, were killed and injured Saturday in a series of overnight airstrikes conducted by Israeli warplanes targeting homes in various areas of the Gaza Strip. "Five Palestinians were martyred and several others were injured by an Israeli airstrike targeting the Ayad family's home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City," the Civil Defense Service in Gaza said in a statement. Read More

Israeli army claims bombing of Hezbollah military buildings in southern Lebanon
Yeni Safak: The Israeli army reported on Saturday that its warplanes bombed military buildings held by the Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon and intercepted a suspicious airborne target heading towards Israel. In a statement, the army said that on Saturday morning, "Air Force fighters bombed military buildings belonging to Hezbollah in the Hula region in southern Lebanon." Read More

'Israel' attacks Yemeni civilian facilities, Sanaa vows heavy price
Al Mayadeen: Israeli war jets launched a series of airstrikes on Saturday targeting Yemen's province of Hodeidah on the Red Sea coast. The aggression targeted an oil refinery, leading to a massive fire that can be seen kilometers away. Read More

Europe at the ‘Hot Gates’! $300 Billion of Seized Russian Financial Assets.
By Dr. Jack Rasmus: Like the 300 Spartans before them at Thermopylae, the West’s distribution to Ukraine of Russia’s $300 billion of assets will not be able to prevent eventual defeat. Read More

Saudi Arabia could break the West’s financial architecture
By Murad Sadygzade: Seeing efforts to seize Russian assets in the US and the EU, rich Gulf investors are getting worried about the safety of their own wealth. Read More

ICJ's landmark ruling declares Israeli occupation of Palestine illegal
TRT World: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ruled that the occupied Palestinian territories constitute a "single territorial unity," which will be protected and respected. Stressing that The Hague regulations have become part of customary international law, and are thus binding on Israel, the court said, “Protection offered by the Human Rights Convention does not cease in case of armed conflict or occupation.” Read More

Hezbollah strikes Israeli bases, introduces new IRAM
Al Mayadeen: Hezbollah responded to the Israeli aggression on civilians in southern Lebanon with four operations targeting multiple new Israeli settlements as pledged by Sayyed Nasrallah earlier. Read More

Israeli army claims drone striking Tel Aviv Iranian-made
Yeni Safak: The Israeli army on Friday claimed that the Houthi drone that struck Tel Aviv was Iranian-made of the type Samad-3. Since the beginning of the war, Israel and the American forces have intercepted dozens of drones that were launched from Yemen,” said the army spokesman. Read More

‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 286: Netanyahu accused of obstructing prisoner talks while Israel and PA negotiate future of Rafah crossing
Mondoweiss: UNRWA reports Israel has bombed eight schools in 10 days. The Red Cross warns of “total collapse” of health care in Gaza. Read More

Living in Tents: Gazans Pour Out Their Woes 
Countercurrent: Across vast agricultural lands and along the coast in central and southern Gaza, tens of thousands of tents have become shelters for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the ongoing, bloody Israeli war for the 10th consecutive month. Once a symbol of the Nakba (catastrophe) and displacement for more than seven decades, the tent has now become a dream for thousands of displaced families in Gaza, despite the harsh living conditions it imposes. Read More

Babri mosque 2 – Modi supporters demolish mosque in Maharashtra
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: In a replay of the demolition of historic Babbri Mosque in 1992, a mosque in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district was demolished on Sunday by the Hindu right-wing supporters. A few videos of the incident have gone viral showing a group of people climbing the mosque walls, planting a saffron flag and hammering a minaret with an axe. Another video shows the mob destroying everything inside the mosque while chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’.  Some parts of the mosque were damaged while books, including the Holy Quran and other articles kept inside the mosque were torn and scattered.  Read More

Sadistic Israeli torturing of Palestinians – Ignored by US led Europe and their Arab stooges
by Latheef Farook:  Demonstrating its cruel and evil nature  sadistic form of torturing Palestinians has been underway in Israeli prisons ever since the artificial state of Israel was established in Palestinian lands for Jewish migrants   in 1948. However this cruelty intensified ever since Hamas attacked Southern Israel on 7 October 2023. Innocent Palestinians have been arbitrarily arrested, detained and subjected to savage forms of torture by Israel with the support of United States and  Europe  supplying  latest destructive weapons and bombs to slaughter Palestinians .Read More

Shattered Dreams of Gaza
Palestinian Information Center: In Gaza, where daily life has become a battle for survival, the stories of Palestinians who lost their homes in the midst of the genocidal war waged by Israel on the Strip for the last 10 months reflect the suffering of an entire people, carrying with it bitter human details of what it means for someone to lose their home. Read More

Hopes for Gaza Ceasefire Fade Again
By Sam Phelps:  Northern and central Gaza have been hit by Israeli airstrikes this week as troops return to battle Hamas fighters in areas they claimed to have cleared many months ago. The intensified military offensive unfolded just days after mediators thought they were making headway in negotiations for a ceasefire. On Friday, Hamas reportedly dropped its insistence on a “complete” ceasefire as a prerequisite for talks. But hope of progress was brought to an abrupt halt. It emerged that an Israeli delegation led by spy chief David Barnea had travelled to Doha not to finalise a ceasefire deal, but to instead issue further demands on Hamas. Since then, the group has said that Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza City could “reset the negotiation process to square one”. Read More

Global Wealth Report 2023: An orgy of enrichment for the super-rich
WSWS: Multimillionaires around the world have benefited from the inflation year 2023, while the German super-rich alone increased their wealth by 10 percent to more than €2.1 trillion. This money could be used to finance thousands of new hospitals, schools, universities, housing estates, etc., modernise Germany’s entire rail and road network and end world hunger. The global wealth produced by the international working class is concentrated in the hands of 73,000 super-rich people, the so-called “ultra high net worth individuals,” as financial market analysts call them. Read More

Hamas quits Gaza talks after Israeli strike against leader kills 92
Daily Sabah: The Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Sunday it was pulling out of Gaza truce talks after an Israeli airstrike against one of its military leaders killed over 90 civilians. A senior official of the group confirmed the decision while another source claimed Hamas commander Mohammed Deif was "fine" despite the attack. "Commander Mohammed Deif is well and directly overseeing" the operations of the Hamas military wing, the official told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Israel staged a huge bombing raid on a camp for displaced people in southern Gaza on Saturday that it said was an attempt to kill Deif. Read More

Iran's President Pezeshkian speaks with Hamas leader, praises Houthis
Jerusalem Post: The new president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, Monday spoke with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh who “expressed gratitude towards the Islamic Republic of Iran over its support for the Palestinian cause, and called for stepped-up diplomatic efforts to end the Israeli regime’s aggression against Gaza.” The Iranian leader also held a phone call with the Houthis in Yemen, in which he praised their nine months of attacks in “support” of Hamas in Gaza. Read More

Hezbollah attacks Israeli sites, border town mourns civilian martyrs
Al Mayadeen: The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah conducted a number of operations against Israeli occupation forces on Monday. Initially, Hezbollah fighters fired unspecified "rocket weapons" at a grouping of Israeli soldiers near the Birannit Barracks, dealing direct hits to the intended targets. At 10:50 am, Resistance fighters launched anti-tank guided missiles at the Israeli al-Raheb military sites, destroying spyware placed on the site. Later on Monday afternoon, Hezbollah fighters fired artillery shells at the al-Summaqah military site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Chouba Hills. Read More

Will Turkey eventually support Hezbollah?​
A full-scale confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel could easily destabilize other parts of the Middle East, exacerbate regional tensions, and create serious humanitarian disasters in Lebanon. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is standing with Lebanon. Last month, he addressed Israel’s war in Gaza and the dangers of a full-scale war in southern Lebanon. While calling Western support for Israel “pitiful” and warning about a “big catastrophe” as a result of “Netanyahu’s plans to spread the [Gaza] war to the region,” Erdogan declared that Turkey stands “in solidarity with Lebanon.” Read More

Yemeni forces attack 2 oil tankers in Red Sea, 1 in Mediterranean
Al Mayadeen: The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) conducted three operations targeting crude oil tankers in the Red Sea and a joint operation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeting another crude oil tanker in the Mediterranean, the spokesperson for the YAF, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced. The first operation saw multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), suicide drones, and ballistic missiles launched at the BENTLEY I oil products tanker in the Red Sea. The operation was jointly conducted by the YAF's Navy, Rocket Force, and Unmanned Air Force on Monday. Read More

Türkiye commemorates 8th anniversary of 2016 coup attempt
Yeni Safak: Türkiye on Monday is marking the eighth anniversary of the July 15, 2016 defeated coup attempt, remembering the lives lost and celebrating the nation's unity. Since its designation in October 2016, every year the nation marks July 15 as Democracy and National Unity Day, with events held nationwide to commemorate those who lost their lives beating back the putschists and to remember the bravery of the nation. Read More

Trump urges Americans to unite after assassination attempt
Dawn: Donald Trump called on Americans on Sunday to stand united after he was injured in an assassination attempt — a shocking incident that opened a dark new chapter in an already polarized US presidential race. Trump was shot in the ear during a campaign rally, streaking the Republican presidential candidate’s blood across his face and prompting his security agents to swarm him, before he emerged and pumped his fist in the air, mouthing the words “Fight! Fight! Fight!”  Hours after the incident, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it had identified the shooter in the assassination attempt as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Pennsylvania, US media reported early on Sunday.  Crooks and one rally attendee were killed and two other spectators were injured, the US Secret Service said in a statement. Read More

Hamas tells mediators ceasefire talks could collapse any second
Al Mayadeen: A senior source in the Palestinian Resistance revealed on Sunday that Hamas has warned mediators that negotiations with the Israeli occupation could collapse at any moment. The senior source told Al Mayadeen that "Hamas has strongly informed mediators that negotiations will not yield any results as long as the massacres and daily atrocities continue." "[Hamas] is greatly frustrated by the Israeli side's stalling tactics aimed at disrupting the negotiations," the source added. Read More

141 killed, 400 injured in last 24 hours: Gaza Health Ministry
Al Mayadeen: Gaza's Health Ministry on Sunday reported that over 140 people were killed and 400 were injured in Israeli strikes in the span of 24 hours. "Over the past 24 hours the Israeli occupation has committed four mass murders of families in the Gaza Strip, 141 dead and 400 injured were taken to hospitals," the ministry said in a statement. The death toll has now reached 38,584, and the number of injured 88,800 since the war began, as per estimates of the Health Ministry. Read More

Testimonies from the Mawasi massacre: 90 people buried in the sand
Mondoweiss: The Israeli army committed another massacre against displaced Palestinians in tent encampments, this time in the coastal Mawasi area, which Israel had designated as a "safe zone." Read More

Israeli army commits horrific massacres in western Gaza, burning homes and destroying health institutionsby Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: During its four-day incursion into the western parts of Gaza City, the Israeli army committed horrific atrocities against Palestinian civilians, including willful killings, extensive destruction and burning of civilian buildings and homes, and forced evacuation as part of the ongoing crime of genocide for the tenth consecutive month. After invading the area at dawn on Monday, 8 July, Israeli army forces began to withdraw early on Friday, 12 July, from the Universities Area and the Sinaa’ Area, west of Gaza City. During this time, they launched numerous fire belts and engaged in indiscriminate shelling, stormed homes, and harassed residents. Reports indicated that over sixty people had been killed, with many bodies found in the streets and alleys, some of which were charred. Read More

Isn’t it time for Arab Countries to Resist the Most Horrible Killings and Human Rights Violations in Gaza with Much More Unity?
By Bharat Dogra: So should Arab countries not take more united and firm action to stop the horrible atrocities and human rights violations in Gaza which have been described as genocidal actions by many well informed observers? Here it should be added that the International Court of Justice has found it ‘plausible’ that Israel has committed acts that violate the Genocide Convention in Gaza. Read More

Commander Muhammad al-Deif is alive, well
Al Mayadeen: The Israeli occupation has begun to backtrack on claims of assassinating the general commander of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Muhammad al-Deif, after "near confirmation about this in the past hours," according to Israeli media citing a political source. This comes after a reliable source had previously confirmed to Al Mayadeen that Commander Muhammad al-Deif is well, stressing that the Israeli allegations about his injury are baseless. Read More

Israeli forces commit series of gruesome massacres across Gaza Strip
Al Mayadeen: Israeli occupation forces committed several gruesome massacres across several towns and neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip which were discovered on Friday, with the reported toll reaching 140 killed in Gaza City. Occupation forces' withdrawal from al-Shujaiya neighborhood, in eastern Gaza City, has also unraveled the scene of horrifying war crimes. As emergency workers arrived in the neighborhood, following two weeks of Israeli onslaught, more than 60 bodies of Palestinian martyrs were recovered on Friday. Read More

Day 281: 38,443 martyrs, 88,481 wounded in Gaza
Al Mayadee: The number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza since October 7 has risen to 38,443 martyrs, with 88,481 injured, the Ministry of Health in the Strip confirmed on Saturday. In its daily report, the Ministry announced that "Israel" committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 61 and injuring 129 over the past 24 hours. The report noted that several victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads, as emergency and civil defense teams cannot reach them. Read More

Srebrenica to Gaza: Things that changed, things that stayed the same
TRT World: The failure of nations and intellectuals to agree on the definition of genocide has resulted in massacres that defy all norms of civilised behaviour. Israel’s war on unarmed Palestinians is the latest example. Read More

Despite Islamophobia, UK voters grant Muslims 25 parliamentary seats
TRT World: Of the 25 elected MPs, 18 belong to the Labour Party, four are independents, two represent the Conservative Party, and one is a member of the Liberal Democrats. A record number of Muslims have been granted seats by voters in Britain's parliamentary elections despite rising Islamophobia, a major Muslim news outlet has reported. Read More

29th Anniversary of Srebrenica Genocide of Bosnian Muslims
Anadolu Agency: The leaders of both the UN and the Council of Europe on Thursday commemorated the Srebrenica genocide, which took place 29 years ago, in 1995, in eastern Bosnia. “May the memory of Srebrenica strengthen our collective resolve to build a world free from the scourge of genocide, where justice & peace prevail,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on X. Marija Pejcinovic Buric, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, said in a written statement: “Almost 30 years after the genocide in Srebrenica, this remains one of the darkest chapters in our continent’s history.” Read More

American Muslims, Commemorate Srebrenica Genocide  Anniversary
The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) and American Muslims solemnly observe this day of July 11 – declared by the UN as Srebrenica Massacre Remembrance Day – with our Bosnian Muslim brothers and sisters, over the 1995 preplanned, cold-blooded Serbian genocide of Srebrenica’s 8,372 defenseless, repudiated, and forsaken Bosnian boys and men by the Serbian Army of Republika Srpska Scorpions paramilitary group. Read More

War on Palestine: Western Leaders Destroying Humanity
By Mahboob A. Khawaja:  If Israel is not stopped, soon the leading Arab states will fly Israeli-American flags for a change. The Israeli-American denial of crimes against humnaity,”genocide” in Gaza, forcible explusion of millions clearly represent ferocious conception of rigth and worng and how irrtaional the leadership tends to be in real world affairs. Read More

U.S. Plan to “Expand the War Beyond Ukraine”
By Mike Whitney: The Biden administration has settled on a plan to expand the war beyond Ukraine by deploying combat troops and lethal weaponry to 15 military bases in Finland. Whether the deployment will include nuclear-armed ballistic missiles is not yet known, but the threat to Russia’s security is serious all the same. One can imagine what Washington would do if Moscow chose to build 15 fully equipped and operational military bases on the US-Mexico border. The US would swiftly eradicate the threat through force-of-arms. No one doubts this. The question is whether Putin will pursue the same course of action as the US or dillydally until the threat becomes too menacing to ignore. Read More

Pakistan Cricket Getting Wayward
By Syed Rifaqat Ali: After Pakistan's shabby performance in the recently-concluded International Cricket Council T20 World Cup in America-West Indies, there is a slew of debates In TV channels on the selection of the team under Babar Azam. Read More

Masoud Pezeshkian elected Iran’s president
Al Jazeera: Masoud Pezeshkian was elected Friday the president of Iran.Pezeshkian secured nearly 16.4 million of the more than 30 million votes cast, ahead of Saeed Jalili who received some 13.5 million, according to the official count. “By gaining [the] majority of the votes cast on Friday, Pezeshkian has become Iran’s next president,” the Ministry of Interior said in a statement. Shortly after the announcement, Jalili conceded defeat, saying anybody elected by the people must be respected. Read More

Gaza ceasefire, prisoners swap efforts gain momentum
TRT World: Efforts to secure a ceasefire and prisoners' release in Gaza have gathered momentum after Hamas made a revised proposal on the terms of a deal and Israel said it would resume stalled negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Joe Biden on Thursday he would send a delegation to resume negotiations, and an Israeli official said his country's team would be led by the head of the Mossad intelligence agency. A source in Israel's negotiating team, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was now a real chance of achieving agreement. Read More

Day 274 of Israeli aggression in Gaza: 38,098 killed, 87,705 injured

Al Mayadeen: On day 274 of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation reached 38,098, in addition to 87,705 injuries, according to the daily report published by the Health Ministry in Gaza. "Israel" committed three massacres in 24 hours, killing 29 Palestinians and injuring 100 others. While some were transported to partially functioning hospitals, many victims remain trapped beneath the rubble with rescue crews unable to reach them. Read More

Israeli occupation forces killed 5 journalists in 12 hours
Five journalists were among those killed in the occupation's recent attacks in Gaza City and al-Nusairat camp over the past 12 hours. The killed journalists are: Saadi Madooh, Adeeb Sukkar, Amjad Al-Jahjouh, Wafa Abu Dhubaan and Rizq Abu Shikyan. Read More

Bosnia and Herzegovina remembers Srebrenica genocide victims, bids farewell
TRT World: Bosnia and Herzegovina has finalised arrangements to bid farewell to 14 newly-identified victims of the Srebrenica genocide on the 29th anniversary of the atrocity. Green coffins with the remains of the victims are ready in Visoko from where they will depart July 9 for the village of Potocari to be buried July 11 at the collective funeral. Every July 11, newly identified victims of Europe's worst genocide since World War II, which killed more than 8,000 people, are buried in a memorial cemetery in Potocari in eastern Bosnia. Read More

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso military leaders sign new pact, rebuff ECOWAS
Al Jazeera: The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have hailed a newly signed treaty as a step “towards greater integration” between the three countries, in the latest showing of their shift away from traditional regional and Western allies. During a summit in the Nigerien capital of Niamey on Saturday, the three leaders signed a confederation treaty that aims to strengthen a mutual defence pact announced last year, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Read More

King Charles officially appoints Labour's Starmer UK Prime Minister
Al Mayadeen: Britain's head of state, King Charles III, on Friday officially appointed Labour leader Keir Starmer as prime minister at Buckingham Palace. A photograph released by the palace showed the monarch shaking hands with Starmer, whose party achieved a landslide victory in the general election, bringing an end to 14 years of Conservative rule. The King had earlier accepted the resignation of Conservative leader Rishi Sunak as prime minister. Read More

Port of Eilat Declares Bankruptcy
by Dr Marwan Asmar: Israel’s southern Port of Eilat has declared bankruptcy because of the lack of commercial and trade activity. Eilat Port CEO Gideon Golber said: “The port is completely closed, and there has been no activity in the port for eight months, due to the failure of the coalition countries in the Red Sea. We have not had any income for the last months, and it is time for the state to put its hand in its pocket and understand that the closed port must be helped.” Read More

Yemen’s Houthis intensify attacks against Israel ships
TRT World: The Red Sea is now even deadlier for merchant ships as Houthis have ramped up  attacks in recent weeks on the carriers passing through the seawater inlet separating Asia from Africa.The latest attack by the Houthis — Iran-backed group who’ve controlled Yemen’s western ports for a decade — took place last week (June 28) when they fired missiles at a ship travelling through the Red Sea off the coast of the Houthi-held port city of Hodeida in Yemen. Cutting the distance between Asia and Europe by half, the Red Sea is a major interoceanic passage handling 22 percent of global seaborne container trade. Read More

Fatima Payman resigns, Australian Labor government on Islamophobic rampage
WSWS: Senator Fatima Payman has announced her resignation from the Labor Party, a week after crossing the floor to vote for a Greens motion calling for the recognition of Palestine. In a press conference, Payman described “the ongoing genocide in Gaza” as a “tragedy of unimaginable proportions.” She said: “Witnessing our government’s indifference to the greatest injustice of our times makes me question the direction the party is taking.” Payman explained that she was leaving Labor but would remain on the crossbench as an independent senator. Read More

China to host renewed Palestinian national dialogue
Sources disclosed to Al Mayadeen on Friday that the Chinese ambassador in Doha has conveyed to the Hamas leadership that President Mahmoud Abbas has approved the resumption of Palestinian national dialogue in Beijing. The same sources also reported that Hamas has once again accepted China's invitation for another round of national Palestinian talks. Additionally, they indicated that the Fatah movement is seeking another meeting with the Hamas delegation before proceeding to expanded talks, while Hamas intends to build upon the outcomes of the previous talks. Read More

 Breakthrough reported in Hamas-Israel deal
Al Jazeera: US and Israeli officials both say a “breakthrough” has been achieved following Hamas’s latest response to a ceasefire proposal, with a senior US official saying a framework has been established to reach a final agreement. Read More

Israel pounds Gaza amid signs of revival in cease-fire efforts
Daily Sabah: Israel continued to pound Gaza on Thursday amid efforts for a cease-fire in its genocidal war showed signs of revival. Read More

200+ rockets, swarm of drones: Hezbollah avenges cmdr. Assassination
Al Mayadeen: The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah confirmed Thursday that its fighters targeted several Israeli military sites with over 200 rockets and a swarm of drones. Hezbollah announced a series of operations that its Resistance fighters carried out in support of Gaza and the Israeli attacks on Lebanese towns and villages. Israeli media say Hezbollah's extensive strikes led to the closure of several roads, the outbreak of fires in open areas, and power outages in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Read More

Day 272 of Israeli aggression in Gaza: 38,011 killed, 87,445 injured

Al Mayadeen: The Israeli onslaught on Gaza continues, killing 58 Palestinians and injuring 179 others in 24 hours only. Read More

Israel’s Sde Teiman is so similar to Guantanamo for a reason
By Mansoor Asayfi:  Both military detention centres, notorious for human rights abuses, were established with the same sense of impunity and disdain for international law. Read More

Israel orders mass displacement of Palestinians from Khan Younis
By by Andre Damon: Israel ordered the mass displacement of another 250,000 people from the city of Khan Younis in Gaza on Monday, in the latest stage of its genocide against the population of the narrow Palestinian enclave. The ongoing bloodbath has the full approval of the Biden administration in the United States which is funding, arming and politically supporting Israel’s policy of genocide ethnic cleansing. Last week, Reuters reported that the US government has provided Israel with 14,000 massive 2,000-pound bombs—more than any other type—making clear that the destruction of Gaza and the massacre of its population is the intended US policy. Read More

Another American War in the Middle East?
By Juan Cole: In mid-June, the Associated Press announced that the U.S. Navy had been engaged in the most intense naval combat since the end of World War II, which surely would come as a surprise to most Americans. This time, the fighting isn’t taking place in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans but in the Red Sea and the adversary is Yemen’s — yes, Yemen’s! — Shiite party-militia, the Helpers of God (Ansar Allah), often known, thanks to their leading clan, as the Houthis. They are supporting the Palestinians of Gaza against the Israeli campaign of total war on that small enclave, while, in recent months, they have faced repeated air strikes from American planes and have responded by, among other things, attacking an American aircraft carrier and other ships off their coast. Their weapons of choice are rockets, drones, small boats rigged with explosives, and — a first! — anti-ship ballistic missiles with which they have targeted Red Sea shipping. The Houthis see the U.S. Navy as part of the Israeli war effort. Read More

Gaza policy makes US a ‘target’: Former officials
Al Jazeera: A group of former United States government officials have claimed that Washington’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza puts national security at risk. The 12 officials, who resigned over the last nine months protesting against the US policy, said in a letter released late on Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s support for Israel means that Washington has “undeniable complicity” in the killing and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. They labelled the White House policy on the war in the enclave “a failure and a threat to US national security”. Read More

Collective Action to Address Mob Lynching in India Post 18th Lok Sabha Elections
by Sumit Kr Gupta: Mob Lynching remains a pressing issue that continues to afflict societies worldwide, with India being no exception. The aftermath of the 18th Lok Sabha elections in India witnessed a disturbing uptick in Mob Lynching incidents, prompting concerns about the country’s law enforcement capabilities and the safety of its populace. Tackling this issue necessitates a united front comprising political leaders, law enforcement agencies, community organizations, and the media. This article delves into the nuances of hate crime and hate speech, the legal framework in India to combat such offenses, and the imperative for collaborative action to prevent and address Mob Lynching in the nation. Read More

Israel’s top generals want ceasefire in Gaza– NYT
RT.COM: Dozens of senior Israeli generals want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike a truce deal with Hamas so they can prepare for a potential war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. With Israel’s war on Hamas about to enter its ninth month, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has lost at least 674 troops, supplies of artillery shells are low, and around 120 Israelis – dead and alive – remain held as hostages in Gaza. Hamas fighters have popped up in areas of the enclave previously cleared by the IDF, and Netanyahu has still refused to publicly state whether Israel intends to occupy post-war Gaza or turn the territory over to a Palestinian government. Against this background, the 30 senior generals who make up Israel’s General Staff Forum want Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire with Hamas, even if this means leaving the militants in power in Gaza, the New York Times reported. Read More

Hezbollah to stop fighting with Israel if Gaza cease-fire reached
Daily Sabah: Hezbollah would stop fighting with Israel if it reaches a full cease-fire in Gaza, the Lebanese group's deputy leader said Tuesday. "If there is a cease-fire in Gaza, we will stop without any discussion,” Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said in an interview with The Associated Press at the group’s political office in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Hezbollah's participation in the Israel-Hamas war has been as a "support front” for its ally, Hamas, Kassem said, and "if the war stops, this military support will no longer exist.”  Read More

Yemen's Houthis say they attacked 4 ships linked to Israel, US, UK
Yeni Safak: Yemen's Houthi group announced Monday that they carried out military operations targeting four ships in the Red, Arabian and Mediterranean Seas and Indian Ocean in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. In a statement, the group's military spokesman Yahya Saree said its fighters targeted vessels “linked with the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel” with cruise missiles and achieved direct hits. It noted that it attacked the Israeli ship MSC Unific in the Arabian Sea, the American oil tanker Delonix in the Red Sea, the British landing ship “Anvil Point” in the Indian Ocean and the vessel Lucky Sailor in the Mediterranean Sea, without specifying which country it was associated with. Read More

Killing The Word: Gaza Journalists Go Down One by One
by Dr Marwan Asmar: The latest journalist to be killed in Gaza is Mohammad Abu Sharia. News of his death hikes the number of journalists to be killed by Israeli warplanes and army since 7 October to 153.  Abu Sharia, a media man with the local Shams News agency, was seriously injured in a strike targeting his home, Saturday, and succumbed to his wounds on Monday, Gaza’s government media office stated according to the Anadolu. The killing of journalists in Gaza has been systematic over the past months as part of Israel’s “muzzling policy to silence the voice of the truth,” stated one  tweet online.  Read More

‘For the resistance’: Tulkarem residents face Israeli airstrikes and assassinations
Mondoweiss: Members of the Tulkarem resistance in the northern West Bank remain defiant as community members rally around them after an Israeli airstrike assassinated one of their leaders. On Monday, July 1, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the killing of a child and a woman and the injury of 4 Palestinians by the bullets of Israeli forces during a raid on Nur Shams refugee camp and Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank. During the raid, which started on Sunday, June 30, Israeli aircraft bombed a house in Nur Shams, assassinating Saeed Ezzat Jaber, 24, one of the leaders of the Nur Shams Brigade. Read More

Israel's Gaza war displaced 1.9M Palestinians: UN
TRT World: The UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza has said that 1.9 million people were now displaced in the territory, adding she was "deeply concerned" by reports of new expulsion orders for Khan Younis. "Over 1 million people have been displaced once again, desperately seeking shelter and safety (and) 1.9 million people are now displaced across Gaza... I'm deeply concerned about reports of new evacuation orders issued in the area of Khan Younis," Sigrid Kaag told the UN Security Council on Tuesday. Read More

Islamic Jihad fires multiple rockets as Israeli tanks move deeper into Gaza
TRT World: The Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad has fired a barrage of rockets into Israel as fighting raged in Gaza, and Israeli tanks advanced deeper in parts of the enclave, residents and officials said. The armed wing of the group said its members fired rockets on Monday towards several Israeli communities near the fence with Gaza in response to "the crimes of the Zionist enemy against our Palestinian people". The volley of around 20 rockets caused no casualties, the Israeli military said. Read More

‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 269
Mondoweiss: Israel has killed 159 Palestinians and wounded 592 across the Gaza Strip since Thursday, June 27. This raises the death toll since October 7 to 37,877 and the number of wounded to 86,969, according to the Gaza health ministry. Read More

Supreme Court declares America a presidential dictatorship
Eric London, Tom Carter: The US Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Trump v. United States fundamentally alters the character of the American government as it has existed since the American Revolution, placing the president above the law and effectively transforming the “Commander-in-Chief” into a dictator, who can commit crimes with impunity. In an opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the far-right majority declared that a US president enjoys presumptive “immunity” for “official acts,” and that ex-President Donald Trump was therefore “immune” from prosecution for most of his acts in furtherance of his January 6, 2021 coup attempt. The court remanded the case to the lower court to consider whether other actions related to the coup—including Trump’s efforts to force Vice President Mike Pence to seat alternate slates of electors in states Trump lost—count as “official acts.” In practical terms this means that Trump cannot be convicted for the January 6 insurrection before the November 5 election. Read More

India and Pakistan exchange prisoner list
RT.COM: India and Pakistan on Monday exchanged lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen who are being held by the other country, the Foreign Ministry in New Delhi has said. India shared the names of 366 civilian prisoners and 86 fishermen from Pakistan in its custody. Islamabad, in turn, named 43 civilian prisoners and 211 fishermen in its custody from India or “believed to be Indian.” Read More
 

 

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