(2025-12-13). The Golan Heights: From Demilitarization To A Pursuit Of Peace Analysis. eurasiareview.com By Kabir Taneja and Samidha Jain | The dramatic collapse of the Ba'athist Syria under the Bashar al-Assad government in December 2024 triggered a dramatic recalibration of the Golan Heights' status in West Asia. Israel rapidly asserted military control over the remaining Syrian portions of the territory, leaving little space for ambiguity in its strategic calculus. | Benjamin Netanyahu asserts the stance that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) presence in the region acts as a
(2025-12-13). German police open investigation into Maccabi Tel Aviv fans over alleged hate chants. haaretz.com According to a report in Bild, Stuttgart police are examining suspicions that Maccabi fans sang offensive chants, including chants targeting Palestinians…
(2025-12-13). At least 16 dead in Gaza as heavy rains batter territory. newarab.com 
Gaza's civil defence agency on Friday said at least 16 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as Heavy rain from Storm Byron has flooded tents and temporary shelters across
(2025-12-13). Biden administration briefly withheld some intelligence from Israel during Gaza war, sources say. haaretz.com U.S. intelligence officials briefly withheld live drone feeds and limited Israel's use of some targeting information during the Gaza war over concerns about civilian casualties and alleged mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners, resuming sharing only after Israel provided assurances…
(2025-12-13). Israel leads as 2025 ends as deadliest year for Journalists: RSF. ummid.com Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in its latest report said the year 2025 is ending as the deadliest year for journalists with majority of them killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IDF) in Gaza.
(2025-12-12). Just one thing is stalling Stage Two of Gaza plan: reality. haaretz.com Hamas controls the enclave with an iron fist, no one has volunteered to disarm it and Netanyahu is in no hurry to press on — but the U.S. president wants a win ‚ñ On the northern front, Hezbollah's new motto has become 'Survival is victory'…
(2025-12-12). Israel's aggressive blueprint: A rebuttal to Lebanon's pro-Israel propaganda. tehrantimes.com BEIRUT—In early December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again peeled back the last veneer of diplomatic pretence.
(2025-12-12). U.S. Aid Cuts Leave Kenya's Children Vulnerable to Starvation. moderndiplomacy.eu Severe drought, conflict, and economic hardship have left Kenya's Turkana county among the world's most food-insecure regions. In 2025, the sudden suspension of U.S. foreign aid, including funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), disrupted the supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a peanut-based nutrient paste critical for treating severe acute malnutrition in …
(2025-12-12). 'Anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred, it is not OK'. themilitant.com NEW YORK — Over 1,000 demonstrators turned out to defend the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan and protest against Jew-hatred Dec. 4. The rally was in response to a provocative threat two weeks earlier when a screaming Jew-hating mob of 200 came right up to the door of the synagogue. | "Resistance you make us proud, take another settler out," was one of their main chants. Hamas considers all Jews in Israel "settlers" who the Nazi-like group has a right to target. Inside the synagogue a group that provides assistance to Jews wanting to emigrate to Israel was holding a meeting. | Incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani…
(2025-12-12). Ex-apartheid police to remain behind bars pending bail decision. sanews.gov.za Ex-apartheid police to remain behind bars pending bail decision | Two former apartheid-era police officers, who were convicted of the premeditated murder of Congress of South African Students (COSAS) member Caiphus Nyoka, will remain in custody pending judgment in their bail application. ⚪ Former Sergeant, Abraham Hercules Engelbrecht and former Sergeant Pieter Stander (60) were convicted of the 1987 murder of Nyoka earlier this month while a third accused, Major Leon Louis Van Den Berg, was acquitted. ⚪ "Following their conviction, the two applied for bail pending sentencing. In affidavits before the court, t…
(2025-12-12). Gaza's Displaced Battle Floods Amid Shelter Shortages. devdiscourse.com Hundreds of thousands of Gazans are grappling with serious flooding as torrential rains swamp the region, severely affecting makeshift shelters. The UN International Organization for Migration revealed on Friday that essential materials like sandbags and timber are unable to reach the enclave.
(2025-12-12). Baby dies of exposure in Gaza as Israel blocks reconstruction. electronicintifada.net Israeli forces raid UNRWA headquarters, uproot olive trees in West Bank.
(2025-12-12). A path forward for Palestinian resistance. workers.org 
The following remarks were delivered by internationally renowned and award-winning Palestinian author and poet Susan Abulhawa to the Muwatin's 30th Annual Conference, "The Impact of the Genocide in Gaza on the Future of the World and the Reading of the Palestinian Question" on Dec. 3, 2025. I want to talk . . . |
(2025-12-12). Fourteen Palestinians, including children, die in Gaza amid Storm Byron. aljazeera.com Desperate Gaza families already displaced by Israel's war face deadly collapses and freezing conditions as storm hits.
(2025-12-12). If Gaza Resistance Ends: What History Tells Us About the Palestinian Fate. counterpunch.org 
US President Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' is reportedly set to be announced before the year's end. This news coincides with increasing reports that the US administration is serious about pushing forward the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire. However, many critical questions remain unanswered. How can a governing council be superimposed on Gaza when
(2025-12-12). Storm destroys what is left of houses in Gaza. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (MNA) — With 90% of homes destroyed and 94% of tents worn out, Palestinians in Gaza are left exposed to the elements, with no shelter to protect them.
(2025-12-12). Gaza: At least 11 killed in 24 hours amid Storm Byron. newarab.com 
At least 11 people, including children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip by heavy rain and cold conditions caused by On Friday, at least two children died from freezing temperatures. Infant Taim Al-Khawaja, who was living with his family in the ruins of their home damaged by a previous Israeli bombing in the
(2025-12-12). Freezing temperatures and floods kill infants and children in storm-battered Gaza. tehrantimes.com At least 11 Palestinians have died in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings within the last 24 hours, Middle East Eye reported Friday.
(2025-12-12). Defend Israel's existence as refuge against Jew-hatred. themilitant.com Hamas leaders make it clear they have no intention of disarming, nor of giving up their brutal stranglehold on Gaza or abandoning their goal of destroying Israel and eliminating the Jews. As the weeks go by with no moves to disarm Hamas, the pro-Nazi thugs are growing emboldened. | If Israel is to survive as a refuge for Jews, sooner or later it will have to go on the offensive to destroy Hamas and incorporate more of Gaza into Israel. No other force is capable of doing this. | With Israel controlling 53% of Gaza and Hamas the rest, the "yellow line" that separates the two has become "a new border line," Israel D…
(2025-12-12). How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms. juancole.com ( On a Tuesday night in November 2023, a few weeks after an Israeli airstrike on Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City killed at least 471 Pal…
(2025-12-12). Tucker Carlson visits wounded Palestinian refugees in Qatar. newarab.com 
American journalist Tucker Carlson released footage of himself visiting Palestinian refugees in Qatar on Thursday, alongside stinging criticism of Israel and the United States' support for it. | The conservative political commentator showed clips of his visit in the latest episode of the The Tucker Carlson Show titled "Why Are We Defending Mass Murder in Gaza? Because Our Greatest Ally Demands It". | "Among so-called 'civilised governments'. No one has behaved like Israel has behaved in Gaza in a very long time – 80 years at least," Carlson said. | "It's almost unbelievable. Tens of thousands of children killed,…
(2025-12-12). Gaza Diary: They Bulldozed Mass Graves and Called It Peace. counterpunch.org 
A synecdoche is a figure of speech where an individual event is used to represent the whole story. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more exact and unnerving synecdoche for the Israeli genocide in Gaza than turning the strip's largest hospital into an unmarked mass grave. The 98 bodies discovered at Al Shifa Medical Complex were deeply buried under dirt, debris and garbage.. Some were elderly. Some young. Some showed signs of being shot at close range. Some showed signs of being shot at close range. Several had bullet holes in the skull. The bodies excavated from earlier mass grave sites at Al-Shifa and Nasser hosp…
(2025-12-12). Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting Mintpress. popularresistance.org A prolific writer who has penned 28 pro-Israel articles in the past two months alone, Sawer asked the British Palestinian journalist to respond to pro-Israel pressure group Stop The Hate U.K.'s campaign for him to be prosecuted for "anti-Semitic hate crimes." | Abul-Essad's "crime" was attending an October 2024 demonstration in London protesting an event featuring former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaking on the future of Gaza — a case that the Metropolitan Police have already looked into and dismissed. | Sawer has previous connections to Stop The Hate U.K.
(2025-12-12). Flooding destroys few remaining possessions of Palestinians in Gaza. aljazeera.com Palestinians in Gaza fled bombardment with what little they could carry. Those items are now destroyed by flooding.
(2025-12-12). US presses Israel to fund Gaza rubble removal as tensions grow. newarab.com 
The The request follows a year of devastating Israeli bombardment and demolition that left unprecedented levels of destruction throughout the territory. | The newspaper said Israel has agreed "in principle" to the demand, with the initial phase to begin in one neighbo…
(2025-12-12). US briefly withheld intelligence from Israel during Biden era. newarab.com 
US intelligence officials temporarily suspended sharing some key information with In the second half of 2024, the US cut off a live video feed from a US drone over Gaza, which was being used by the Israeli government in its hunt for captives and Hamas fighters. The suspension lasted…
(2025-12-12). Eurovision exposes ethical erosion. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — The European Broadcasting Union's (EBU) decision to allow Israel into the 2026 Eurovision contest has triggered a wave of condemnation. The Swiss winner of 2024 announced they would return their trophy, arguing that Eurovision's stated values of "unity, inclusion and dignity for all" are fundamentally at odds with Israel's ongoing war on Gaza.
(2025-12-12). Israeli ministers call for flag-raising ceremony in Gaza. newarab.com 
Eleven Israeli ministers, including eight from In a letter published by the ultranationalist pro-settlement movement
(2025-12-12). Iranian Baluch separatist factions establish Popular Fighters Front coalition. longwarjournal.org Iranian Baluch separatist factions have formed a new coalition known as the Popular Fighters Front (JMM), presenting themselves as a unified movement against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The coalition's manifesto outlines its constituent groups, including PADA Baluch, Harakat-e Nasr, Jaish al Adl, the Mohammad Rasulullah network, and independent fighters, and frames its mission as defending the "dignity, culture, and political identity" of the Baluch people while appealing to broader Iranian opposition forces. JMM has already claimed responsibility for a December 2025 attack in Zahedan that left four of Iran's I…