PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Palestinian detainee Dana Joudeh gave birth to a baby girl in Israeli custody Monday after spending six months in administrative detention.

Key Takeaways

• Dana Joudeh, 35, gave birth to a baby girl while held in Israeli custody after spending six months in administrative detention without charge or trial.
• The Detainees Commission said Joudeh endured her pregnancy without adequate medical and health care and held Israel responsible for her and her newborn’s safety.
• Joudeh’s administrative detention order expires Tuesday, when she and her newborn are expected to be taken from the hospital to a checkpoint for release.

Palestinian Detainee Gives Birth in Israeli Prison after Six Months without Charge

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Iran rejected accusations of regional interference as tensions intensified from the Strait of Hormuz to Yemen, Saudi Arabia and southern Lebanon.

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PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli rights group B’Tselem says violence, displacement, economic strangulation and settlement expansion form part of a single project transforming the occupied West Bank.

Key Takeaways

• B’Tselem identified five interconnected mechanisms aimed at dismantling the collective Palestinian presence in the occupied West Bank.
• The group said 75 Palestinian communities have been displaced, while Israeli outposts and farms have taken control of 18 percent of the West Bank.
• B’Tselem linked current policies to a political project aimed at making Israeli-Jewish sovereignty over the territory irreversible.

‘Erasing Palestinian Presence’: B’Tselem Details Israel’s West Bank Project

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Macklemore said he was removed from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour after stadium owners objected to his support for Palestinian liberation.

Key Takeaways

• Macklemore announced on Instagram that Ed Sheeran and his team had removed him from the remaining dates of the Loop Tour.
• He said Robert Kraft had contacted Sheeran and rallied other stadium owners around an ultimatum demanding Macklemore’s removal.
• The rapper said “Free Palestine” became a risk once it reached major US stadiums, declaring that “the stage becomes resistance.”

‘Stage is Resistance’: Macklemore Dropped from Ed Sheeran Tour over Palestine

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Two Palestinians were killed and 25 wounded in Gaza as fuel shortages and halted staff transportation threatened essential hospital operations Monday.

Key Takeaways

• Gaza’s Health Ministry reported two Palestinians killed and 25 wounded over the past 24 hours, raising the overall toll to 73,786 killed and 174,771 injured.
• Since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025, Israeli attacks have killed 1,372 Palestinians and wounded 4,659, according to the ministry.
• The ministry warned that halted staff transportation and severe shortages of generator oil could paralyze hospitals and threaten life-saving departments.

Israeli Attacks Kill Two, Wound 25 as Gaza Hospitals Face Paralysis

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Iran said the IRGC destroyed an advanced MQ-1 drone over Hormuz using a new air-defense system as regional maritime tensions intensified Monday.

Key Takeaways

• Iran said the IRGC Aerospace Force intercepted and destroyed an MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz using a new advanced air-defense system.
• Tehran said Saudi Arabia requested the postponement of a regional meeting intended to discuss an Iran-Oman understanding on maritime routes through Hormuz.
• Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper in Jeddah amid escalating tensions involving Yemen, Saudi energy infrastructure and Gulf shipping.

Iran Says MQ-1 Drone Destroyed as Saudi Arabia Seeks Delay in Regional Talks

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Satellite images showed extensive damage to Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, threatening exports and pushing Brent crude above $108 per barrel.

Key Takeaways

• The Guardian reported that satellite images showed a pumping station on Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline charred and badly damaged.
• Oil stocks at the Red Sea port of Yanbu could sustain exports for only five to seven days unless the pipeline resumed operations.
• The pipeline had carried approximately four million barrels daily, equivalent to four percent of global supply, around the Strait of Hormuz.

Satellite Images Reveal Extensive Damage to Key Saudi Oil Pipeline as Oil Tops $108

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Gaza rescuers recovered 17 Palestinian bodies from rubble as Israeli occupation forces continued gunfire and shelling across the Strip despite the ceasefire.

Key Takeaways

• Civil Defense crews recovered 17 bodies, including 16 from Gaza City’s Zaytoun and Yarmouk neighborhoods and one from Nuseirat refugee camp.
• Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said more than 8,000 bodies remain beneath rubble, while over 9,500 Palestinians remain missing.
• Israeli forces continued gunfire, artillery shelling and airstrikes across northern, central and southern Gaza, wounding several Palestinians, including a child.

Israel Continues Gaza Attacks as Civil Defense Recovers 17 Bodies from Rubble

PALESTINE CHRONICLE:

Macklemore had explicitly said that his criticism of Israel, apartheid and genocide was not directed against Jewish people, effectively preempting any groundless allegations of antisemitism.

Pink, however, replied: ‘You don’t get to decide that for us.’

‘What I need is to be able to say, as a Jewish mom, “that scared me, and it scared people I love,” without being told our fear is just propaganda,’ she added.

Pink was unable to identify any threat made by Macklemore against her, her family or Jewish concertgoers. She nevertheless maintained that she had a right to feel ‘scared.’

Soon afterward, she condemned Hamas as a ‘terrorist organization’ and spoke on behalf of Palestinians, pretending to know what was best for them: ‘Palestinians deserve a future that honors their humanity and their aspirations.’

Meanwhile, Israel—the state killing thousands of civilians, including children, and imposing a total siege on Gaza—was absent from the artist’s formulation.

No one had asked Pink to apologize for existing. She was criticized for amplifying an attack on an artist who had used a major platform to oppose genocide.

While Pink wrote about feeling frightened and lonely as a Jewish mother, Palestinian mothers are still facing the actual machinery of genocide. They are watching their children being killed, maimed and starved, giving birth without adequate medical care and searching for relatives beneath destroyed homes.”

Read the latest commentary by Romana Rubeo: “‘Free Palestine’: Macklemore’s Courage and the Politics of Pink’s ‘Loneliness’.”

‘Free Palestine’: Macklemore’s Courage and the Myth of Pink’s ‘Loneliness’

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: To examine the unyielding multi-billion-dollar shield that the United States provides Israel is to confront the coarse mechanics of modern empire.

Washington has, for decades, maintained a posture of absolute defense, supplying advanced weaponry, providing diplomatic immunity, and rationalizing actions that human rights organizations and international courts characterize as war crimes, apartheid and genocide.

The mainstream narrative has relentlessly framed the US-Israel alliance through the comforting lens of shared democratic values and mutual defense. This rendering, however, crumbles under the weight of reality. Nothing has dissuaded Washington from its entente with and acquiescence to Israel—not the regime’s racist policies; not even genocide.

Every US administration has backed its brutal regimes, because they have buttressed American power and interests in the Middle East. This fatal alignment evokes the question: what exactly is Israel’s role, and whose interests are being served?

Read the latest commentary by Dr. M. Reza Behnam

Fatal Alliance: The Reality of the US-Israel Axis

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: A viral video showing audience members walking out on a pro-Israel comedian has become the latest sign of changing public attitudes toward Israel.

Key Takeaways

• Comedian Menachem Silverstein opened his performance by declaring, “My name is Menachem and I support Israel.”
• Video circulating online shows audience members getting up and filing out of the venue as Silverstein remains on stage.
• The episode comes amid measurable changes in US attitudes toward Israel and growing public backlash against cultural figures associated with support for the country.

‘I Support Israel’: Comedian’s Opening Line Sends Audience toward the Exit

PALESTINE CHRONICLE:

The year 2001 marked a profound mutation in global politics with devastating consequences in many parts of the Muslim world.

Following the catastrophic events of September 11, the United States unleashed its ‘War on Terror’—a geopolitical crusade that Media Review Network’s political analysts long dismantled as a “playbook of power, arrogance and greed.”

While this campaign was marketed as a noble defense of global liberty, its true architecture relied on institutionalized fear and the erosion of national sovereignty.

More tragic, however, than the overt aggression of the Global North was the quiet capitulation of the Global South.

Nowhere was this capitulation more disappointing than in South Africa, where an ANC-led government, still fresh from its own liberation struggle, fell victim to raw American manipulation.

Read the latest commentary by Iqbal Jassat.

Echoes of Empire: How South Africa Fell Victim to Washington’s 9/11 ‘War on Terror’ Playbook

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israel held 37 Palestinian journalists while detainees described torture and medical neglect in Israeli prisons.

Key Developments

• Israel held 37 Palestinian journalists, including 19 under administrative detention without charge or trial, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said.
• Detainees at Ofer Prison reported beatings, medical neglect, unhygienic conditions and the spread of scabies.
• Palestinian Authority forces extended journalist and social activist Ghassan Najajra’s detention for three days over his social and human rights activities.

Israel Detains 37 Palestinian Journalists amid Torture and Medical Neglect

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israel’s Hilltop Youth movement recruited minors to attack Palestinians and seize land as settler violence surged across the occupied West Bank.

Key Takeaways

• Hundreds of Israeli minors were believed to participate in attacks against Palestinians.
• A recently circulated video showed two teenagers assaulting an elderly Palestinian man with a disability while filming the attack.
• Israeli authorities knew that increasingly younger minors were joining the outposts but had failed to stop their involvement in settler violence.

Israel’s Hilltop Youth Recruits Minors to Terrorize Palestinians – Report

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli attacks killed two Palestinians and wounded at least 18 others across Gaza as forces continued violating the ceasefire agreement.

Key Developments

• An Israeli drone fired at least two missiles at a civilian vehicle in Gaza City, killing two Palestinians and wounding 13.
• Five additional Palestinians were wounded in Israeli attacks west of Al-Maghazi and in Jabaliya, including a critically injured girl.
• Israeli artillery, military vehicles and warships also attacked areas near Bureij and Khan Yunis.

Israeli Drone Strike Kills Two Palestinians, Wounds 13 in Gaza City