Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- On Tuesday, the Israeli military announced the launch of a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, amid forced displacement, mass…
Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed to lead us to a World War or…
The Palestinian group Al-Haq outlined the "targeting of hospitals and health centers, the denial of adequate medical provisions into and around the Gaza Strip, and the abduction, torture, and killing…
Veterans For Peace joins the people of Gaza in rejoicing at the Ceasefire that has brought a halt to Israel’s bombardment of Palestinian children, women and men, and their churches, their mosques,…
Israel is using the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza as an opportunity to step up its war on the West Bank. Given the green light by the Trump administration, Israel…
Time and again, cease-fire agreements have been undermined by Israel’s actions, with violations that reignite violence and perpetuate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. As Palestinians in Gaza celebrate the announcement of…
The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: "For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War." Regardless of the reasoning behind this statement, which the article divides…
[Prefatory Note: Reflections on the experience of seeing an unusual film in conception, initially published on January 20, 2025 in CounterPunch, and movingly transparent as a cinema experience.] This extraordinary film, on…
The Qassam Brigades succeeded not only in winning the war and achieving victory in Gaza, but also in dealing fatal blows to Israeli morale, when they surprised the entire world,…
Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- At least ten Palestinians have been killed so far as the Israeli occupation army announced the launch of a military operation in the occupied…
In a series of public statements, executive orders and background comments to the press, the Trump administration is making clear that it is moving toward the next phase of the…
It is impossible to bottle this sensibility. All of Gaza is a ruin. Millions of Palestinians have braved the winter in makeshift tents or in ruined buildings, their children freezing…
A ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was finally been agreed on. But the uncertainties persisted until the very end. Israeli airstrikes has killed at least 130 people in the war-ravaged…
Washington (Quds News Network)- On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump rescinded sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on far-right Israeli settler groups and individuals accused of…
“Free Palestine is a Promise” print Gazans have cracked the code of enduring and living life with hope for a better future. They continue to teach us how to die (standing…
The shocking death toll in the Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide (553,000 Gazan deaths from violence and imposed deprivation by 19 January 2025) demands World action against Apartheid Israel including (a)…
Palestinian Territory - The international community must put genuine pressure on Israel to promptly guarantee the unconditional entry of technical teams, forensic specialists, and criminal investigators into the Gaza Strip, along with the required tools. This will help Palestinians in…
Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly or unknowingly—attempt to exploit the aftermath for their…
London’s Metropolitan Police carried out a major crackdown on Saturday’s national March for Palestine, making 77 arrests. These included the brutal arrest by a 10-man police snatch squad of Chris…
'Gaza welcomes you.’ This sentence, emblazoned on a sign at the entrance to Gaza City, reflects the hopes of over a year of displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. As…
I once believed that a person could adapt to any environment forced upon them, whether it was leaving their home, their family, or part of their life. I believed that…
Every so often, countless young hopefuls arrive in Washington, D.C., eager to help implement policies that improve the lives of Americans. But some quickly come to find out that U.S.…
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism”- (Hannah Arendt) “The old world is dying, and the…
Ocupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that close associates of US President-elect Donald Trump have delivered a concerning message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Since the ceasefire took effect on Sunday morning, at least 12 Palestinians have been killed and dozens more injured in multiple Israeli attacks on Gaza. According…
On 16 November 2024, nearly 100 aid trucks delivering humanitarian assistance to people in Gaza were looted. By all accounts, the looting took place in murky circumstances. At short notice the Israeli…
Geneva - With the announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas effective as of tomorrow, Sunday, 19 January 2025, the international community must act quickly and decisively to guarantee…
After 15 months into the bloody war, Israel and Hamas have finally ironed out a delayed but much awaited ceasefire and hostage release deal brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the…
Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have…
Washington (Quds News Network)- A Biden administration official pressured the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) to soften its conclusion that famine was occurring in Gaza last December and…
Gaza Civil Defense reports that 123 Gazan citizens in the Gaza Strip have been killed since the announcement of the ceasefire agreement last Wednesday until 10:00 AM today, Saturday. The…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 101 Palestinians, including 27 children and 31 women, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since the announcement of a ceasefire agreement set…
In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end UNRWA’s operations is under way, with serious implications for peace…
Samidoun’s poster for the article: Gaza: The Resistance Lives, The Prison Doors Open — On the Road to Liberation and Return In today’s age of information, history is not written by those in…
As Gazans wait for ceasefire to come into effect on Sunday 81 people were killed in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile Israel's cabinet is delaying its meeting to approve the…
The ceasefire between Gaza and Israel, declared after yet another deadly episode of violence, is a momentary pause in a conflict deeply rooted in history, identity, and unresolved conflict. This…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Thousands of Palestinians celebrated on Wednesday across the Gaza Strip as it was announced that a deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas after 15…
The crimson sky, vast and high, made way for a reluctant dawnThe morning light, soft and shy, peeped through my window blindI was woken from a dream, pounding heart, my…
A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil. Vagdani was accused by…
A friend asked me this question on the ceasefire in Gaza. Below is the question and my answer Binu, do you think Netanyahu planned everything in such a way that…
Trump's threat that all hell will break loose if Israeli hostages are not released by the time he takes office is something he will probably hold fast to. A Palestinian…
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Around 200 Israeli soldiers have signed a letter stating they’d stop serving in Gaza if the government didn’t secure a ceasefire. The soldiers acknowledged their…
It has been over a month since the Palestinian Authority launched a deadly military operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank. So far, at least 14 people,…
Voting in favor of sanctioning the International Criminal Court of Justice, (ICC) which had ordered Israel to take steps to prevent genocide in Gaza, was dismaying. Such decisions to sanction the…
On 9 January 2025 epidemiologists published a paper in the leading medical journal The Lancet in which they estimated 64,260 Gaza deaths from traumatic injury in the 9 months since…
Watching, on the one hand, the Israeli soldiers’ video confessions of their genocidal intent and acts and, on the other hand, the Palestinians’ livestreaming of their own deaths and devastation,…
The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2012, when the population of the Gaza Strip…
In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Congress may or may not pursue. No…
While the extreme distress and injustice suffered by the people of Gaza from Israeli aggression and attacks has been in the news worldwide, the increasing sufferings of Palestinians during the…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has endorsed the findings of a study published in The Lancet, which estimates that the death toll in Gaza during…
The ongoing suffering in Palestine demands immediate action, as a just and lasting peace is not only essential for the survival of its people but for the integrity of international…
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of…
Politics is always a game of pretension. Politicians remind us of inherent lies, deception, embedded greed and mastery of persuasive propaganda to voters to do good to fellow citizens if…
The year ended on an extremely worrying scenario. What, with bombardments and killings havoc on, in the Middle East? Mind you, Israel’s targeted attacks spreading out, from Gaza and around,…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- 203 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.…
Today, for the first time since the Israeli genocide against Gazans began, I left my home not out of necessity, but out of a deep yearning to visit my university—Al-Aqsa…
Earlier on Wednesday, January 8th, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and Twitter/X User post, “Has Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or…
"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.” JANE GOODALL Goodall's quote conveys the idea…
Palestinian Territory - Israel’s consistent obstructions of all United Nations investigations into allegations of sexual violence since 7 October 2023 is profoundly concerning. These obstructions, coupled with substantial evidence indicating…
Vatican City(Quds News Network)- Pope Francis denounced on Thursday Israel’s ongoing genocide war in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave “very serious and shameful”. In a yearly…
Join Countercurrents Annual Fund Raising Campaign and help us
