PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli soldiers marked Palestinian detainees with numbers during a mass raid on Qabatiyah, prompting condemnation and an admission from the military.

Key Takeaways

• Israeli occupation forces raided around 100 buildings in Qabatiyah, south of Jenin, detaining and questioning dozens of Palestinians.
• Palestinians released after questioning were found with identification numbers written in permanent marker on their foreheads or other parts of their bodies.
• Palestinian resident Ahmed Hatnawi, photographed with “44” written across his forehead, described the practice as deliberate humiliation.
• Palestinian lawmaker Ahmad Tibi called the images “shocking and sickening,” saying they demonstrated the dehumanization of Palestinians.

‘Dehumanization’: Israeli Soldiers Mark Palestinians with Numbers in Qabatiyah

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli occupation forces launched sweeping West Bank raids, arresting Palestinians, imposing a curfew and converting civilian homes into military positions.

Key Developments

• Israeli forces carried out raids across numerous areas of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem early Wednesday.
• In Al-Dhahiriya, occupation forces imposed a full curfew, closed roads and converted several Palestinian homes into military posts.
• Journalist Abdulrahman Hassan was arrested in Bethlehem, while confrontations and settler provocations were reported in several communities.

Homes Turned into Military Posts as Israeli Raids Sweep West Bank

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Hamas accused Netanyahu of deliberately sabotaging ceasefire negotiations after an Israeli strike on a Gaza City café killed six Palestinians.

Key Takeaways

• Hamas accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of deliberately seeking to sabotage ceasefire negotiations and the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement.
• The statement followed an Israeli drone strike on a crowded Gaza City café that killed six Palestinians, including a child, and wounded 14.
• Hamas reaffirmed its commitment to the ceasefire and said Palestinian factions remained serious about advancing the agreement.

Hamas Accuses Netanyahu of Sabotaging Gaza Ceasefire Talks after Café Massacre

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: B’Tselem warned that 47 Palestinian families face imminent displacement after Israeli forces and settlers severed water supplies in the Jordan Valley.

Key Takeaways

• B’Tselem said 47 Palestinian families, totaling more than 300 people and nearly half of them children, face imminent displacement.
• Israeli forces and settlers reportedly cut the remaining water pipes supplying Ras al-Ahmar, Al-Thaala and eastern Atouf.
• The rights group said Israeli occupation forces are also preventing water deliveries, threatening communities dependent on agriculture and livestock.

Over 300 Face Displacement as Israel Cuts Water to 47 Palestinian Families

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Washington sanctioned ICC President Tomoko Akane and senior lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, escalating its campaign against the court over Israel-related prosecutions.

Key Takeaways

• The United States imposed sanctions on ICC President Tomoko Akane and Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, restricting US entry and financial transactions.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the officials participated in ICC efforts to investigate or prosecute nationals of countries rejecting its jurisdiction.
• Washington’s confrontation with the ICC has intensified since the court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2024.
• The Trump administration has previously sanctioned ICC judges and prosecutors involved in cases concerning Israeli officials and US military conduct.
• Several sanctioned ICC judges have challenged the measures in US courts, describing them as unlawful attempts to punish and coerce judicial officials.

US Sanctions ICC President as Campaign over Netanyahu Warrant Escalates

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: An Israeli airstrike on a café at Gaza City’s port killed six Palestinians and wounded 14, drawing condemnation from Palestinian factions.

Key Takeaways

• Six Palestinians were killed and 14 wounded, some seriously, when Israeli warplanes targeted a café at Gaza City’s port.
• The Gaza Health Ministry said the victims were brought to Al-Shifa Medical Complex following the attack on civilians along the coastline.
• The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement described the bombing as a “war crime against civilians” and part of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war.
• The PFLP said the attack demonstrated Israel’s disregard for the ceasefire agreement and warned of escalating violence ahead of Israeli elections.

Gaza Port Massacre: Israeli Strike Kills Six Palestinians, Wounds 14

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Ansarallah struck an Aramco refinery in Jizan with drones, as Sanaa warned that continued Saudi escalation would trigger reciprocal military action.

Key Takeaways

• The Yemeni Armed Forces, affiliated with the Ansarallah movement, targeted an Aramco refinery in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan region with several drones.
• Ansarallah said the strike responded to Saudi violations of Yemeni airspace over Saada and Hajjah and achieved direct hits.
• The operation followed an Ansarallah attack on a Saudi military landing ship and four accompanying military boats off Mokha.
• Sanaa has vowed to maintain its “blockade for blockade and escalation for escalation” policy until Yemen’s demands are met.

Ansarallah Strikes Aramco Refinery in Jizan amid Escalation with Saudi Arabia

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Iran says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the blockade and oil embargo end, while warning against renewed aggression.

Key Takeaways

• Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Iran would keep the Strait of Hormuz closed until the blockade and oil embargo are lifted.
• Ghalibaf warned that continued aggression or threats against Iran would result in a “more severe defeat” for its adversaries.
• IRGC Deputy Commander-in-Chief Mostafa Izadi said Iran’s defense and nuclear capabilities survived the war and cited Hormuz control as central to its deterrence.
• Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran rejected an earlier ceasefire and ultimately negotiated from a position of military strength.

Iran: Strait of Hormuz to Remain Closed until Blockade, Oil Embargo Lifted

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: A senior German governing-party lawmaker has demanded EU sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir following his call for nightly killings in Gaza.

Key Developments

• Senior CDU/CSU lawmaker Jürgen Hardt called on the European Union to impose sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir.
• The demand followed Ben-Gvir’s call for Israel to kill “30 or 40” people in Gaza every night.
• Hardt described the Israeli minister’s remarks as dehumanizing and said an Israeli government without him would improve relations with Europe.

‘Contemptuous of Humanity’: German Lawmaker Demands EU Sanctions on Ben-Gvir

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Trump’s approval fell to a presidency-low 33 percent as most Americans expect the Iran war to continue for months.

Key Takeaways

• Trump’s approval rating fell to 33 percent, the lowest of his current presidency and equal to his lowest first-term rating.
• 80 percent of Americans, including 71 percent of Republicans, believe US involvement in the Iran war will continue for an extended period.
• Only one in five Americans believes the war has been worth it, while rising gasoline prices are adding to economic concerns.
• Democrats now hold a narrow advantage over Republicans on the economy, while the Republican lead on immigration has fallen sharply.

Trump Approval Falls to Historic 33% Low as Americans Expect Long Iran War

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran turned demands for its unconditional surrender into negotiations, as diplomacy continues over Hormuz and the ceasefire.

Key Developments

• Abbas Araghchi said Iran had “won both the war and diplomacy” after resisting demands for unconditional surrender.
• His comments followed Donald Trump’s renewed call for Tehran to “raise the white flag.”
• Iran and Türkiye also discussed negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz and maintaining the ceasefire.

‘You Begged for Negotiations’: Iran Says It Won Both War and Diplomacy

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Palestinian homes remain under siege in Qusra as Israeli occupation forces conduct raids and arrests and settlers expand attacks across the West Bank.

Key Developments

• Israeli settlers, protected by occupation forces, have besieged three Palestinian homes in Qusra for ten consecutive days.
• Israeli forces carried out widespread raids and arrests, including the detention of a Palestinian doctor in Ramallah.
• Settler attacks targeted electricity, water infrastructure, farmland and Palestinian property across several areas of the occupied West Bank.

‘Military Zone’: Families Trapped as Israeli Raids, Settler Attacks Spread across West Bank

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: US President Donald Trump said Israel should stop striking Gaza as Jared Kushner sought to revive the stalled Hamas disarmament and withdrawal plan.

Key Takeaways

• Trump said Israel should not continue striking Gaza, arguing that Hamas has agreed to ultimately surrender its weapons.
• Kushner met Hamas officials in Egypt before holding more than three hours of talks with Netanyahu and other Board of Peace officials.
• Israel continues to insist that Hamas disarm before Israeli forces withdraw, while Hamas wants Israeli strikes halted and troops withdrawn as weapons are surrendered.

Trump Tells Israel to Halt Gaza Strikes as Kushner Meets Netanyahu

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: ***Whoever wins, this is not going to affect the slow and steady degradation of Israel’s standing in the US, accompanied by ultimately steady and increasing cuts in the steroids of arms supplies and economic aid.***

The obese, sweaty Ben-Gvir, physically more repulsive than Goering, more bloodthirsty than Himmler, is now demanding that 30-40 Palestinians be killed every day because they are “not worthy of life,” a phrase that comes out of Nazi Germany and, in reality, sums up the genocide in Gaza.

In Israel’s case, the Palestinians are not worthy of life because they are human animals or the insects and snakes that Zionist rabbis, politicians and generals have described them as being over decades. Once put in that category, it is easier to kill them, to squash them, to bury them beneath tons of concrete so they die unseen and alone in the dark.

Bishop Desmond Tutu used to say that Zionism was worse than apartheid, but no one should hesitate in going further and comparing it to Nazism. Many of the Nazis were gentlemen compared to murderous trash like Ben Gvir and the gangsters around him in the cabal known as the ‘government’ of Israel.

Read the latest article by Jeremy Salt.

The Mouse that Wants to Be an Elephant: Israel and the Steroids of US Aid

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: An Israel-backed operation has created a fake American think tank publishing seemingly neutral reports designed to influence AI responses about Palestine.

Key Takeaways

• The Hanover Institute presents itself as an American public-policy think tank but discloses that it was created for an Israeli government agency.
• Its contractor, Piro, Inc., received $900,000 for the work and openly markets techniques for creating content optimized for AI systems.
• More than 100 reports on Israel and Palestine have been published since August 6, using citations, statistics and ostensibly neutral language that experts say appeal to AI chatbots.

Israel Creates Fake Think Tank to Influence AI Chatbots – Report

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Florida congressional candidate Oliver Larkin described Israel’s war on Gaza as genocide during a heated exchange with a television anchor.

Key Takeaways

• Democratic congressional candidate Oliver Larkin described Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide, citing UN findings and reports by Amnesty International and B’Tselem.
• WPLG Local 10 anchor Glenna Milberg interrupted Larkin and called his characterization “factually inaccurate,” prompting a heated exchange.
• Larkin later stood by his position and called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest, citing the International Criminal Court warrant.
• Larkin is challenging incumbent Rep. Jared Moskowitz in the Democratic primary for Florida’s 25th Congressional District.

‘It Is Genocide’: Florida Democrat Clashes with TV Anchor over Gaza

PALESTINE CHRONICLE:

For more than two years, Palestinian journalist Mohammed Arab disappeared from public view inside Israel’s prison system.

On Monday, an image emerged.

Arab appeared via video link during a hearing before the Israeli Supreme Court, his face visibly changed from the photographs taken before his detention in March 2024.

The image, reportedly the first of the journalist to emerge from Israeli detention, quickly circulated among Palestinian journalists and activists, many of whom placed it alongside older photographs of Arab.

The contrast became the story.

Arab was detained while working as a journalist during the Israeli military’s second raid on Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Medical Complex in March 2024. He has remained imprisoned ever since, separated from his family and profession.

According to his lawyers, he has been detained for more than two years without trial.

‘I Want to See My Face’: First Photo of Mohammed Arab after Two Years in Israeli Detention

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says US officials are discussing nuclear weapons against Iran, warning of catastrophic global consequences.

Key Takeaways

• Marjorie Taylor Greene says nuclear weapons against Iran are being discussed in US strategy meetings.
• Though Greene offered no public evidence for the claims, she insisted: “I’m not speculating, I know.”
• She warned that lowering the nuclear threshold could trigger a wider global war and called for an immediate end to hostilities.

‘Nuclear Holocaust’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says US Discussing Nuclear Weapons Use against Iran

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Palestinian sources say Hamas rejected reopening the Gaza agreement during talks with Jared Kushner, with Washington now awaiting Israel’s response.

Key Takeaways

• Khalil al-Hayya’s delegation met Jared Kushner and Nikolay Mladenov in El Alamein, Egypt.
• Hamas said the existing agreement would not be reopened or renegotiated.
• Palestinian sources said Kushner acknowledged that Israel must now respond on moving to the second phase.

‘The Ball Is in Israel’s Court’: What Happened in the Kushner-Hamas Meeting

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Iran says US forces will not be allowed to restore their former regional presence as commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapses.

Key Developments

• Iran’s army chief said US forces would no longer be permitted into the Gulf, Sea of Oman or Strait of Hormuz.
• Kpler data showed five commodity vessels crossing Hormuz Saturday and none detected Sunday.
• Tehran says negotiations with Oman over a navigation mechanism are progressing, but an agreement would not automatically reopen the strait.

‘We Will Not Allow It’: Iran Says US Bases Cannot Return to Pre-War Status

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli forces and settlers carried out attacks, arrests, land seizures and a home demolition across the occupied West Bank, displacing 15 Palestinians.

Key Developments

• Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian doctor near Bethlehem and attacked Palestinians around Nablus.
• Israeli forces carried out arrests and raids across Jenin, Tubas, Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron.
• A two-story Palestinian home was demolished near Jerusalem, displacing 15 people.

Doctor Beaten with Stones, Sticks as Israeli Raids, Arrests Sweep West Bank

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Pope Leo XIV called for an end to repeated violence against West Bank Palestinians and renewed his appeal for a just and lasting peace.

Key Takeaways

• Pope Leo XIV called for an end to the “repeated acts of violence against the Palestinian population of the West Bank.”
• He urged the international community to ensure progress toward a two-state solution and a “just and lasting peace.”
• The Holy See has consistently maintained that two states within internationally recognized borders represent the only viable path toward lasting peace.
• Leo also invoked peace and fraternity while marking the opening of the Mediterranean Games in Taranto, Italy.

‘Just and Lasting Peace’: Pope Leo Calls for End to West Bank Violence

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Itamar Ben-Gvir called for killing dozens of Palestinians nightly, described Gazans as less than human, and demanded settlements throughout the Strip.

Key Takeaways

• Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Israel should carry out “30 to 40 targeted assassinations per night” in Gaza.
• Ben-Gvir said some Palestinians “don’t deserve to live” and declared, “They are not even people.”
• The far-right minister called for Israeli settlements “throughout Gaza” and encouraged Palestinian emigration, saying “the more the better.”

The Gaza Center for Human Rights described the statements as direct and public incitement to genocide and urged ICC action.

‘Not Even People’: Ben-Gvir Calls for Killing 30-40 Palestinians Every Night in Gaza

PALESTINE CHRONICLE:

***Ramaphosa’s controversial meeting with the leader of the World Zionist Organization coincides with extreme repressive measures against Palestinians by the Netanyahu regime.***

Following the outrage caused by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to meet the family of the late Captain Daniel Perez, a South African-born citizen who served illegally in the Israeli Defense Force, EFF MP Carl Niehaus has submitted a series of questions in Parliament, seeking answers and accountability.

Earlier, in his critical commentary published by Media Review Network, Niehaus took issue with the South African government’s active role in facilitating the repatriation of Perez’s remains, calling it an act of profound hypocrisy that must be condemned without reservation.

“It is a betrayal of the law, a betrayal of South Africa’s stated solidarity with the Palestinian people, and a betrayal of the very principles the government claims to uphold when it speaks of justice and opposition to genocide.”

Daniel Perez was a South African citizen. He was born in Johannesburg, raised in Glenhazel, and later moved to Israel with his family. He served as a tank commander and platoon commander in the IDF’s 7th Armored Brigade.

Read the latest article by Iqbal Jassat.

Ramaphosa Faces Scrutiny over Meeting Family of South African Serving in Israeli Army

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Artificial intelligence is neither neutral nor immaterial: it absorbs our biases, our knowledge, our labor, and our resources before concentrating that power in a few hands. From facial recognition to Gaza, from cognitive pillaging to the algorithmic warfare of consciousness, it reveals less the advent of a sovereign machine than that of a new architecture of power.

Read the latest article by Mohamed El Mokhtar.

From Algorithmic Bias to Gaza: AI as a New Architecture of Power

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Hamas has agreed to a roadmap for the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire, seeking permanent calm and full Israeli withdrawal.

Key Takeaways

• Hamas announced its approval of the roadmap for the second phase of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan.
• The roadmap was presented by Peace Council coordinator Nikolay Mladenov and mediators following talks with a Hamas delegation led by Khalil al-Hayya.
• Hamas said its approval was aimed at achieving a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.
• The movement said the Palestinian resistance had fulfilled its commitments under the first phase while accusing Israel of violations and renewed military escalation.

Hamas Accepts Second-Phase Gaza Roadmap, Calls for Israeli Withdrawal

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Yemeni forces, affiliated with the Ansarallah movement, launched ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi military buildups in Mokha and Marib, reporting casualties and destroyed weapons depots.

Key Takeaways

• The Yemeni Armed Forces targeted Saudi military buildups in Mokha and Marib with ballistic missiles and drones, according to Saba.
• A military source said the strikes achieved direct hits, causing deaths and injuries and destroying Saudi weapons and storage facilities.
• Days earlier, Yemeni forces said two drones struck an Aramco refinery in Jizan in response to Saudi violations of Yemeni airspace.

Ansarallah Strikes Saudi Military Buildups in Mokha, Marib with Missiles, Drones

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Iran’s army announced a $30,000 reward for capturing or killing US soldiers, while warning American forces to leave the region.

Key Takeaways

Iranian Army commander Major General Amir Hatami announced a reward equivalent to $30,000 for anyone who captures or kills a US soldier.

Hatami said women carrying out such an action would receive double the amount, according to AFP’s account of his remarks.

The army chief also said US forces would not be permitted to re-establish regional bases threatening Iran or freely enter strategic waters.

‘Americans Must Leave’: Iran Offers $30,000 Bounty for US Soldiers

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: For eight days, Palestinian families in Qusra have faced a settler siege that has evolved into an Israeli military occupation of their neighborhood.

Key Developments

• Israeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian homes in Qusra for eight days.
• Families have faced blocked roads and cuts to water and electricity as settlers seek to establish an outpost nearby.
• Israeli forces intervened but subsequently seized Palestinian homes, with 16 reportedly converted into military positions.

Siege of Qusra: Settlers Surround Palestinian Homes as Israeli Army Moves in

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Khalil al-Hayya will lead a senior Hamas delegation to Cairo for talks with Egyptian intelligence officials on consolidating the Gaza ceasefire.

Key Developments

• Khalil al-Hayya is leading a senior Hamas delegation to Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials.
• The delegation includes Khaled Meshaal, Mohammed Darwish, Zaher Jabarin and Basem Naim.
• Talks will focus primarily on efforts to consolidate the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

First since Taking Hamas Leadership: Al-Hayya Heads to Cairo for Gaza Talks

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Palestinians were shot, beaten, arrested and forced from homes amid Israeli military raids and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank.

Key Developments

• Two Palestinians were shot and eight beaten during an Israeli settler attack in Hebron.
• Israeli forces carried out raids and arrests from Ramallah and Nablus to Hebron and Jenin.
• In Qusra, settlers besieged Palestinian homes before Israeli forces seized others for military use.

Palestinians Shot, Beaten and Driven from Homes as Israeli Attacks Sweep West Bank

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian and wounded seven others as airstrikes, artillery fire, shootings and demolitions continued across the Gaza Strip.

• Key Developments
• Israeli forces killed Mohammed Bashir Abu Armana in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
• Palestinians were wounded in attacks across Khan Yunis, Gaza City and Deir al-Balah.
• Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,260 Palestinians since the October ceasefire.

Gaza: Israel Kills Palestinian as Airstrikes, Shelling and Demolitions Continue

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Palestinian Authority forces extended Alaa al-Araj’s detention as his pregnant wife awaited childbirth, reviving memories of his 103-day hunger strike.

Key Takeaways

• Palestinian Authority security services extended the detention of released prisoner and engineer Alaa al-Araj for another 15 days, according to Lawyers for Justice.
• His wife was awaiting the birth of their child in a Nablus hospital, while al-Araj remained unable to be with his family.
• Al-Araj previously spent periods in Israeli prisons and staged a 103-day hunger strike in 2021 against his administrative detention without charge or trial.
• His family says Israeli imprisonment prevented him from attending the births of two previous children, while his current PA detention is preventing him from attending another birth.

PA Extends Detention of Former Hunger Striker Alaa al-Araj as Wife Gives Birth

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: ***While American foreign policy relies on aggressive military posturing, economic strangulation, and unconditional alignment with Israel, the structural incentives for Iran to surrender its nuclear potential will remain non-existent.***

In international relations, security is not an absolute. It is a relative calculation.

For the Islamic Republic of Iran, a nuclear deterrence posture is a reasonable, if not necessary, response to decades of jingoism and the ongoing war instigated by Israel and the United States.

On Sunday, August 9, 2026, during commemoration of the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the city’s current mayor called nuclear weapons an “absolute evil” that can never coexist with humanity.

That has been the position of Iran’s leadership since Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1979-1989) refused to authorize the use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War, citing Islamic principles, and when his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (1989-2026), officially voiced a religious prohibition (haram) against nuclear weapons in 2003.

The relentless, unprovoked US-Israel air wars, culminating in the devastating February 28, 2026, missile strikes that assassinated the Supreme Leader and his family, as well as dozens of senior military and security officials, have shattered any remaining illusions of diplomatic restraint. Every air strike, targeted assassination, and expansion of the war has intensified a growing consensus across Iran that the ultimate guarantor of national survival is nuclear deterrence.

Read the latest commentary by Dr. M. Reza Behnam

Iran’s Nuclear Shield: Why Deterrence Has Become a Matter of Life or Death

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: ***The strategic question is whether Palestinians can enter these different electoral arenas without losing sight of the larger struggle: the struggle to dismantle the structures of colonial domination.***

It is difficult, and even unacceptable, for a Palestinian to view the elections to be held separately in Israel and the 67-occupied territories in the coming months outside the context of the monstrous Zionist regime, especially following its ongoing genocidal crime.

These elections carry deep paradoxes, contradictions, and existential questions: how can Palestinians reconcile their understanding of the genocidal regime and the constraints it imposes on the electoral process with their immediate need for protection from an unprecedented level of barbarism being perpetrated—not as a reaction, but as a strategy to eliminate Palestinians politically and physically?

The approach of boycotting the elections, and potentially deepening Israel’s international illegitimacy, may have been valid and legitimate years ago. Today, however, it could seem to many Palestinians like a luxury—and even counterproductive. Participation in elections is driven by the fact that avenues for political mobilization have drastically shrunk, as the Israeli regime increasingly applies many of the repressive tactics routinely used against Palestinians in the West Bank to Palestinians inside Israel who hold Israeli citizenship since 1948.

Read the latest commentary by Awad Abdelfattah.

The Search for a Decolonial Way Out: The Electoral Impasse Between the River and the Sea

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: ***Iran is systematically targeting US regional assets and alliances, tightening pressure as Washington confronts mounting military, logistical and political strains.***

While the US Trump administration insists that the very much closed Strait of Hormuz is in fact open and grapples with domestic pushback against his war losses, Iran has been busy pursuing a military strategy that is placing a chokehold on their opposition.

Although the ongoing regional war has been experiencing a lull in direct confrontations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the US-Israeli alliance, a series of other fronts have become the focus of Tehran’s recent efforts.

Contrary to what you would be led to believe by the corporate media, Iran’s ballistic missile and drone fire has not ceased. Instead, officials belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have made it clear that there is no ceasefire in effect and that their operations are therefore being carried out in a coordinated fashion.

Read the latest analysis by Robert Inlakesh.

Burning America’s Cards One by One: What is Iran’s Strategy? – Analysis

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Iranian attacks on a key US base in Bahrain have created supply problems for the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, operating against Iran.

Key Takeaways

• Iranian strikes heavily damaged the US naval base in Bahrain, forcing the Navy to shift a major logistics operation thousands of miles away to Diego Garcia.
• The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for nearly nine months without a liberty port, amid reported supply shortages and concerns about crew mental health.
• Despite mounting logistical pressures, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insist the US can sustain its naval operations indefinitely.

US Aircraft Carrier Problems Tied to Iran’s Early Strikes on Bahrain Base – NYT