The Palestine-Israel war took a brief pause for prisoner exchange, after its restart with a military operation by Palestinian forces in Israeli-controlled territory On 7 October. The two sides agreed to release a limited number of prisoners. However, it remains unclear how long the ceasefire will last and what awaits afterward. The Lebanese-Israeli border, which has been affected by the ...
A humanitarian pause has been agreed in Gaza, whose future is more than uncertain. The Israeli government has stated it would prolong it every day that Hamas releases hostages, but made it certain at the same time that, once the release is completed, operations against the Gaza Strip would resume. Globally, both are contested: The operations and the Netanyahu government ...
Following the military operation initiated by Palestinian forces against Israel last Saturday, Israel continues its aerial bombardment of Gaza. The Rafah Border Crossing, the sole exit point for civilians in the region, was struck by Israel and Egypt was virtually threatened not to send aid to Gaza. The US is deploying military ships, aircraft carriers and munitions to aid Israel. ...
To Julio García Jarpa, colleague and dear friend who left us before our time A noble and good man, loyal like few others. Just a few days ago, after reading my previous article, with his traditional humor he wrote to tell me “Write poet, you have a future” That’s how it will be dear brother, I promise I’ll keep doing ...
By Mustafa Göker In Israel and Palestine, the outbreak of an increasingly violent situation was noted on 13 April 2021, when the Israeli police raided the Haram al-Sharif at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. In the following days, tensions reached an all-time high as the protests around the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque coincided with continuing protests ...
By Pooya Mirzaei The appearance of the events in the territories occupied by Israel is based on the confrontation of the right-wing Jews with the Muslim worshipers in Jerusalem. The fire of a military confrontation between the resistance battalions and the Israeli army ignited them. The firing of rockets at Tel Aviv for the first time in history and then ...
Usually I don’t see TV news. I did an exception and I followed the English program of the German state television DW at 8.00 pm UTC time (23.00 Athens time) on May 12th. Crisis periods are extremely useful if you want to understand who is really controlling the media. In “usual” periods, media are provided, by those who control them, with ...
A new Israeli government has been created at last, albeit mostly made up of the old one: the country’s leadership is currently split between Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu and The Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, a government sure to have its points of strength as well as serious weaknesses. Above all it came as a compromise to avert a fourth general election, ...
On February 3, 2020 a truly landmark event took place– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the head of the Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in Uganda, and agreed to start cooperation to normalize relations between the countries. Israel and Sudan have no diplomatic relations. The former leader of the country, Omar Bashir, was an outspoken opponent ...
US President Donald Trump finally unveiled his “deal of the century,” a plan which he claims will help resolve the “eternal conflict” between Israel and Palestine by dividing them into two separate states. As the details of the deal will make apparent, the opinion of the Palestinians was not taken into account in the creation of the agreement. Trump’s plan ...