(2025-12-05). Trump hoodwinked by MBS in White House meeting. onlineopinion.com.au Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman played coy on Palestinian statehood with Trump – despite quietly backing a radically different 'Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine' plan since 2020.
(2025-12-05). International Workers Build 'People's Embargo' Against Israeli Genocide. popularresistance.org From the docks of Oakland to the ports of Morocco, from Italian logistics hubs to South African coal mines, an international movement is taking shape to do what governments have refused: Cut off the flow of weapons and fuel sustaining Israel's assault on Gaza. | On Nov. 22, labor organizers, Palestinian activists, and anti-war campaigners from six countries gathered online to launch the People's Embargo for Palestine — a coordinated effort to leverage workers' power at critical chokepoints in the global military supply chain. The webinar brought together a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle with a new g…
(2025-12-05). Italian workers' general strike backs Palestine, Venezuela. workers.org 
On Nov. 28 following a call by the grassroots union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), Italian workers held a 24-hour general strike that limited airline flights and train travel within Italy and disrupted work. The next day many strikers joined the mass demonstration in Rome for the International Day of . . . |
(2025-12-05). Several nations boycott Eurovision over Gaza genocide. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 05 (MNA) — Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia announced they would not take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, after it was decided Israel would be allowed to compete.
(2025-12-05). Microsoft Faces Reckoning For Assisting Israel's Genocide In Gaza. popularresistance.org Ahead of its annual shareholders meeting on December 5, Microsoft is coming under mounting pressure to reconsider its relationship with the Israeli military, which has used the tech giant's products to carry out the genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. | In an open letter to the company released on Tuesday, December 2, an international coalition of legal aid groups said Microsoft and its executives potentially face legal liability for "aiding and abetting … atrocity crimes" committed by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians. | "Over the last few months, it has become exceedingly…
(2025-12-05). Israel Boosts 2026 Defence Budget to $34 Billion Despite Gaza Ceasefire. moderndiplomacy.eu Israel has set its 2026 defence budget at 112 billion shekels ($34.6 billion), significantly higher than earlier drafts. The decision comes as the cabinet debates next year's broader national budget a process that must conclude by March to avoid triggering new elections. The increase follows a costly year of military operations in Gaza and along …
(2025-12-05). 'Not journalism — theater': Inside Israel's press tours to Gaza. Kholod Massalha 
(2025-12-05). Israeli PM Netanyahu names aide Roman Gofman as next Mossad chief | Gaza. hindustantimes.com Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed his close aide and military secretary, Major General Roman Gofman, as the next chief of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. Gofman, a decorated veteran and "iron-fist" advocate on Gaza, will replace David Barnea in June next year. The Prime Minister's Office praised Gofman's "courage and professionalism," recalling his actions on October 7, 2023, when he rushed to battle Hamas fighters in Israel's south and was seriously wounded. Watch for details…
(2025-12-05). Israel shredding Gaza ceasefire while US distracted by Ukraine. responsiblestatecraft.org There is no ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, even though an
(2025-12-05). Pardon Netanyahu only if he leaves office: Israeli leaders. ummid.com Prominent Israeli leaders have asserted that Benjamin Netanyahu should be granted pardon only if he retires as Prime Minister and from public life.
(2025-12-05). Talks with US 'useless' after June attack: lawmaker. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 05 (MNA) — A member of Iranian parliament has said talks with the United States is 'meaningless and useless', noting the talks took place before 12-day Israeli imposed were "a US deceptive operation."
(2025-12-05). Havana Film Festival fires up the projectors and the miracle continues. radiohc.cu A meeting place for lovers of the seventh art and a source of nightmares for the enemies of the Cuban Revolution, the 46th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema got underway Thursday evening in Havana… and the miracle continues. | In her opening remarks at the Charles Chaplin Theater in Havana, Festival Director Tania Delgado drew attention to the dangers currently looming over the region, whose peace is once again threatened by the hostility of the U.S. government. | She also expressed the festival's solidarity with the Palestinian cause and denounced the Israeli genocide, a cause…
(2025-12-04). Court rules dissolution of the Palestine Congress 2024 in Berlin was unlawful. wsws.org A Berlin court has ruled that the violent shutdown of the 2024 Palestine Congress was unlawful, exposing the arbitrary political actions behind the police operation. The judgment highlights how the German authorities have trampled on democratic rights to suppress criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
(2025-12-04). CPJ's lifeline for Palestinian journalists in Gaza. CPJ Staff 
(2025-12-04). Leader of anti-Resistance militias in Gaza killed. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 04 (MNA) — According to a local report from Gaza, Yasser Abu Shabab—a figure described as the ringleader of anti-resistance factions—has been killed.
(2025-12-04). Gaza militia leader accused of collaborating with Israel killed: Reports. aljazeera.com Yasser Abu Shabab was infamous during Israel's war on Gaza, as his group was accused of stealing desperately needed aid.
(2025-12-04). Yasser Abu Shabab killed in Gaza. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Gaza's militia leader, Yasser Abu Shabab, was killed in the Gaza Strip, Israel's Channel 12 reported on Thursday.According to Israeli media, Yasser Abu Shabab was killed at the hands of unknown armed men.Abu Shabab is a Palestinian militant and the leader of the Popular Forces, which is an anti-Hamas armed group in the Gaza Strip.During the Gaza war, which lasted for two years, the Popular Forces, led by Yasser, worked along with the Israeli army against Hamas.Some sources reportedly said that he was killed at the hands of a Hamas fighter; however, the Palestinian group has not made any announcement re…
(2025-12-04). Watched, Tracked, and Targeted: Inside Gaza's Fight for Privacy and Survival. scheerpost.com Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho By: Joshua Scheer | In Gaza, surveillance has become as relentless as the bombing. In "Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza," author Mohammed R. Mhawish, describes how Israeli forces use cameras, drones and digital tracking to monitor — and control — every move of Palestinians. The piece pulls back the curtain on a system where daily life, flight and survi…
(2025-12-04). As Displaced Palestinians Wait To Return to Their Homes in West Bank Refugee Camps, U.S. Reconstruction Plans Threaten To Erase the Camps. scheerpost.com By Qassam Muaddi / Mondowiess It has been well over 200 days since the people of the Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Jenin refugee camps were forced out of their homes by the Israeli army during its offensive in the northern West Bank dubbed "Operation Iron Wall." Over 40,000 Palestinians from these camps have been displaced for …
(2025-12-04). Palestinian film-maker tells us about "the power of silent protest" thecanary.co Palestinian journalist and film-maker Juman Quneis will be speaking at the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival tonight. And ahead of the event, she told us why she's come all the way from the occupied West Bank to speak about her film The Loud Silence. Juman Quneis: "they chose a different way" Juman Quneis was studying in […] | By
(2025-12-04). Netanyahu will win again, because in Israel, 'there is none like him'. aljazeera.com His supporters defend him, his opponents cannot look past him and the centre keeps trying to bargain with him.
(2025-12-04). Administrative detention: Israel hunts al-Balboul brothers again. thecanary.co Mohammed and Mahmoud al-Balboul were again arrested, earlier this month, by Israeli occupation forces (IOF). Over the years, they have been repeatedly detained by the IOF. Although Mahmoud has now been released, his brother Mohammed remains in prison under administrative detention. Administrative detention—repeated arrests for the al-Balboul brothers On June 9, 2016, Israeli occupation soldiers […] | By
(2025-12-04). Israel issues evacuation order for southern Lebanon (+PHOTOS). en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 04 (MNA) — The Israeli regime has threatened to launch an attack on Lebanon again.
(2025-12-04). Israeli strikes kill two in Majdel hours after rare Naqoura talks. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- Israeli warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Thursday, killing two civilians and wounding four in the town of Majdel, just hours after rare direct Lebanese-Israeli talks in Naqoura. The strike hit a three-story residential building sheltering displaced families, with civil defense teams rescuing survivors from the rubble as fires spread through nearby homes.The attacks began before dawn, with earlier strikes hitting Mahrouna and Jbaa in the Bint Jbeil district, destroying a multi-story building near an infirmary and sparking fires that damaged olive groves. Lebanon's H…
(2025-12-04). Ortagus suggested striking Nasrallah's funeral ceremony. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 04 (MNA) — Israeli media says that US envoy Morgan Ortagus had suggested the Tel Aviv regime strike the funeral ceremony of the late Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
(2025-12-04). AI Cyber Spy: Gilman Louie. projectcensored.org As the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was fragmenting in the late 1980s, a moonlighting Russian software engineer, Alexey Pajitnov, coded a spellbinding video game called Tetris on an Electronica 60 computer. | Dan Ackerman's 2016 book The Tetris Effect—The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game recounts years of backstabbing battles for legal rights to package and sell Tetris. Combatants included media mogul Ian Robert Maxwell, who is credibly alleged to have functioned as an Israeli intelligence asset, and Gilman Louie, the CEO of Maxwell's combat simulation gaming company, Spectrum Holo…