President Trump on Wednesday called Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) a "Palestinian" while criticizing the Democrats for not supporting the GOP's spending plan. "Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned," Trump said in the Oval Office while hosting...
Secret Side Deal With US Gave Israel Free Hand to Keep Attacking Throughout Lebanon Ceasefire
Virtually from the moment the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire deal was signed in November, there have been reports that the US assured Israel they could both sign the ceasefire and be totally free to keep carrying out attacks on Hezbollah. Sources are now reporting that not...
Trump Admin Is Trying To Deport Mahmoud Khalil for Speech That’s ‘Contrary’ to US Foreign Policy
The Trump administration is trying to deport 30-year-old Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who was arrested by ICE agents over the weekend, for activity that is "contrary" to US foreign policy based on his involvement in protests critical of Israel's war on Gaza at...
Israeli Strikes Against Southern Lebanon Kill at Least Two, Claims Hezbollah Figure Slain
Israel continues to carry out attacks against southern Lebanon, despite there being an active ceasefire in place since November 26. They included a drone strike against a vehicle in Nabatieh Governorate, in the area around Deir al-Zahrani, another just further north,...
Israeli Troops Kill Five Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority said that Israeli troops killed at least five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over the previous 24-hour period as the Israeli military continued raids in the territory as part of an operation that was launched in January....
Israeli Minister Says God Sent Trump To Help Build Jewish Settlements in Gaza
Idit Silman, the Israeli minister of environmental protection, said on Tuesday that God had sent the Trump administration to advance the goal of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the building of Jewish settlements in the Strip. According to Haaretz, Silman, a member of...
Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills Four Palestinians
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza near the Netzarim Corridor killed four Palestinians, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing Gaza's Civil Defense agency. The report said relatives and medical staff at the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital said the four men who were killed were...
Trump Says Arrest of Green Card Holder for Pro-Palestine Activism Is First of Many to Come
President Trump on Monday vowed that the arrest of a green card holder over his involvement in protests critical of Israel was the first of "many to come" as civil liberties groups are pushing back against the campaign that has chilling implications for the First...
Hamas Says It’s Showing ‘Flexibility’ in Talks With Mediators and the US
A Hamas official said on Monday that the group has been showing "flexibility" in Gaza ceasefire deal talks with Qatari and Egyptian mediators as well as in its direct talks with the US. "We have shown flexibility in dealing with the efforts of mediators and Trump's...
Israel Condemns Syria Government as ‘al-Qaeda Terrorists,’ Demands Global Denunciation
After a weekend of fighting between the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government and Alawite militias in northwestern Syria, and the subsequent massacres of Alawite civilians that left well over 1,000 people dead, Israel is expressing newfound outrage against...