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Zionist Ministers Push for Official Annexation of the Palestinian West Bank
Israeli ministers are pushing for the formal annexation of the occupied West Bank, intensifying efforts to reshape the region’s political and legal landscape. The move comes amid growing international concern over expanding settlements, deepening...

14 Israeli ministers call on Netanyahu to annex occupied West Bank
TEL AVIV Fourteen ministers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party called on the premier on Wednesday evening to immediately annex the occupied West Bank. In a letter addressed to Netanyahu and shared by far-right Finance Minister...
US says ‘stands with Israel’ after calls by Israeli ministers to annex West Bank
Asked by Anadolu about Israeli ministers’ urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to immediately annex the occupied West Bank, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce directed questions to the White House. “Our position regarding Israel, the...

Ministers Urge Netanyahu to Annex West Bank
(MENAFN) Fourteen senior officials from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud faction have pressed him on Wednesday night to swiftly assert Israeli control over the occupied West Bank. In a written appeal delivered to Netanyahu and made public...

Gaza rescuers say 12 killed in Israeli strike on shelter
Gaza's civil defence agency has said an Israeli air strike has hit a school sheltering displaced people, killing at least 12, mostly women and children. A civil defence official said the strike hit the Mustafa Hafez School, which he said was...

Religion’s Shifting Role in Higher Ed
Religion, particularly Protestantism, was central to the mission of the country’s first universities. Chapels were constructed at the center of campuses. University presidents, often devout, worried over the salvation of their students. James W....

Gaza babies dying ‘slow death’ due to Israel’s restrictions on baby formula
The ongoing restriction imposed by Israel on the entry of baby formula and medical aid into the besieged Gaza Strip is causing the slow death of infants in the war-torn Palestinian territory, reports say. As part of its attempts to weaponize...

Gaza rescuers say Israeli forces kill 25, including 12 in shelter for displaced
Gaza rescuers say Israeli forces kill 25, including 12 in shelter for displaced GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, July 3, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 25 people on Thursday, including 12 in a...

Gaza rescuers say 12 killed in Israeli strike on shelter for displaced
GAZA CITY: Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike Thursday hit a school sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing at least 12, mostly women and children. Red Cross ‘deeply alarmed’ by intensifying hostilities in Gaza Civil defence...

Gaza heatwave deepens humanitarian crisis amid water shortages
Each day begins with Hadayed’s seven children crying from the oppressive heat trapped inside their nylon shelter, while outside, humidity clings to the air like a second skin. The 32-year-old mother fans her children with scraps and pours precious...
Gaza: Dozens Martyred Since Dawn Amid Ongoing Israeli Aggression
Dozens of Palestinians have been martyred across Gaza Strip since dawn Thursday amid continued Israeli air and artillery strikes, according to Palestinian sources. The sources described the ongoing Israeli aggression as a war of genocide entering...

Palestine Action: Four people charged after £7m of damage caused at RAF Brize Norton
Four people have been charged after an investigation into £7million worth of damage was caused to two Voyager aircraft at RAF Brize Norton. The alleged offenders, aged between 22 and 36, have been charged with conspiracy to enter a prohibited...

Gaza hospital director killed in Israeli air strike
Photo: Gaza Ministry of Health The director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital, Dr. Marwan Sultan, was killed along with family members in an Israeli air strike on his home in Gaza City, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Described as a...
Gaza hospital chief, family killed in Israeli strike, say Palestinians
GAZA CITY, July 3 — Palestinian officials and witnesses said on Wednesday that an Israeli strike killed the director of the Indonesian Hospital, a key clinic in the north of war-ravaged Gaza. Doctor Marwan Al-Sultan was killed in his apartment in...
GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – How to justify 400,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza: Ask ‘Zelda’
I have published three previous blog posts on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza by means of genocide. Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is also occurring although through violent repression rather than...

Plans to bring Palestinian GAA clubs to north hit by ‘bureaucratic and revenue-raising nonsense’
PLANS to bring two Palestinian GAA clubs into the north during a tour of Ireland later this month have been left in doubt because of “bureaucratic and revenue-raising nonsense,” organisers have said. A total of 47 participants - including 33...

63 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on school, aid seekers in Gaza
GAZA CITY At least 63 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured early Thursday in a series of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources. Israeli warplanes bombed the Mustafa Hafez School in western Gaza City which...

What Are the Revolutionaries Reading? Activists Recommend Essential Texts
One day while Bianca Guidetti Serra—a staffetta, or courier, for the Italian resistance during World War II—was delivering news and supplies to the anti-fascist partisan army in the Alps, she received a request from their commissar. Emanuele Artom...
Israeli Lawmakers Urge Netanyahu to Annex West Bank
Senior members of a major Israeli party are pushing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the West Bank before the end of the Knesset’s summer session on July 27, according to multiple reports. The Jerusalem Post first reported that Likud...

UK Parliament Votes on Banning Palestine Action
(MENAFN) British legislators voted on Wednesday in favor of designating the pro-Palestinian activist group, Palestine Action, as a terrorist entity. The proposed amendment to the Terrorism Act 2000, which seeks to outlaw three organizations...