Fearing global coverage of atrocities, Israel prepares propaganda-driven media access for journalists entering Gaza

JERUSALEM / ISTANBUL For two years of genocidal attacks on the Gaza Strip, Israel has barred international journalists from entering the Palestinian enclave in an attempt to obscure atrocities against civilians there. During that time, the Israeli...

UN rapporteur says Israel's actions in Palestine 'culmination of decades of moral and political failure'

​​​​​​​HAMILTON, Canada The UN's special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) on Tuesday said Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Francesca Albanese described the attacks as "the culmination of decades of moral and...

Joseph Aoun calls for Israel to cease attacks in US meeting

Aoun asserted in his meeting with the US envoy "the need to activate the work of the Cessation of Hostilities Monitoring Committee" [Lebanese PM's Press Office/Anadolu via Getty Images] Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called for an end to Israeli...

Israel considering capture of Hamas-controlled Gaza territory in response to ceasefire breach

Seeing Israel as a beacon, regional minorities gather in Tel Aviv to discuss future

Representatives from minority groups across the Middle East gathered in Tel Aviv on Monday for a first-of-its-kind conference to discuss the region’s future, amid a rapidly changing landscape that in the past year alone saw the fall of a brutal...

IDF strikes said to kill 7 in Gaza, as Israel vows Hamas will ‘pay’ for violations

A wave of Israeli airstrikes was reported Tuesday evening in Gaza City after Israeli officials vowed to respond to an attack on troops in south Gaza and Hamas’s failure to return the bodies of hostages still held in the Strip. There was no...

Citing Biblical Story, Taiwan President Says Israel Is a Model for Island’s Defense

Tucker Carlson wanted to know: What does Nick Fuentes actually believe? “Everybody’s going to be like, ‘You’re a Nazi, you just like Fuentes,’” the former Fox News personality mused on his show Tuesday. “But then I’m like, ‘I don’t think Fuentes...

Documentary Festival in Amsterdam Bans Gov’t-Funded Israeli Film Institutions in Support of Israel Boycott

One of the world’s largest documentary festivals has prohibited Israeli film institutions receiving government funding from participating in its event this year, in support of a Dutch and Belgian cultural boycott of Israel. Every year, the...

Hamas postpones hostage body handover, Israel orders "immediate and powerful" strikes in Gaza

GAZA/JERUSALEM, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said Tuesday evening that it has postponed the handover of the body of an Israeli hostage, accusing Israel of committing "violations" of the ceasefire agreement. It...

US Insists Ceasefire Will Hold As Israel Launches Heavy Strikes On Gaza City

Update(1457ET): Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has alleged Hamas fighters attacked IDF troops despite an ongoing ceasefire. "Hamas will pay a heavy price for attacking soldiers in Gaza and for violating the agreement to return the bodies of...

Israel claims Hamas violated peace deal

The Israeli government accused Hamas of violating the U.S.-brokered Gaza peace deal, claiming the partial hostage remains returned by Hamas belonged to someone who had been recovered two years ago. BBC News correspondent Frank Gardner joins with...

Israel vows response after Hamas mixes up hostage remains

Israel has reacted angrily to news that the human remains authorities recently received from Hamas were not those of a further person taken hostage by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, but rather, they belonged to the dead body of another...

Israel hampering Red Cross medics to search for hostages’ bodies in Gaza — Hamas

CAIRO, October 28. /TASS/. Israel is putting obstacles in the way of Red Cross employees and local volunteers who are engaged in the search and evacuation of the bodies of Israeli hostages who died in captivity in the Gaza Strip, a Hamas spokesman...

Whitaker to Newsmax: ‘Fragile’ Israel-Hamas Pact in Danger of Derailing

The “fragile” ceasefire between Israel and Hamas remains in danger as new violence in Gaza threatens to derail U.S.-backed efforts to hold the peace, Matthew Whitaker, U.S. ambassador to NATO, told Newsmax on Tuesday. “Obviously, this is phase...

Gazan families face painful process of identifying Palestinian bodies returned by Israel

Palestinians watch a screen displaying the examination of the bodies of prisoners returned by Israel, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, October 21, 2025. JEHAD ALSHRAFI / AP It is 2 pm in the waiting room of the orange-colored building at Nasser...

Israel kills 9 in new Gaza attacks after claiming Hamas breached truce

The Israeli military has killed at least 18 people in multiple strikes across Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to resume its assault on the war-devastated enclave, claiming that Hamas violated the United...

New pro-Israel org. aims to expose antizionism as a rising hate threat - interview

Israel has forgotten its natural dimensions. The U.S. is here to remind it

The United States, former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat once said, holds 99 percent of the cards in the Mideast conflict. But statements are one thing, and reality is another. It turns out it's not enough for a superpower to hold all the cards.

Israel Accelerates Expansive Settlement Projects in the Occupied West Bank Ahead of Elections

Bethlehem / PNN / The Israeli government is advancing unprecedented large-scale settlement projects across the occupied West Bank, seeking to push through as many as possible before the upcoming general elections. It also aims to approve...

Israel’s Naval Blockade in Gaza: Preventing Weapons to Hamas

The tension between Israel’s security imperatives and international humanitarian efforts at sea continues to define one of the Middle East’s most intractable flashpoints. The Blockade’s Complex History Since 2007, Israel has maintained a naval...