Five-year-old Hind Rajab Hamada was killed in Gaza on 29 January 2024 after her family fled attacks by the Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip. Her uncle, his wife, their four
I started my career in journalism during the early 1960s as a reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago, a now long-gone local news agency that was set up by the
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Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes reduced the renowned Israeli military-affiliated Weizmann Institute of Science, located in the city of Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, to smoldering ruins. Once a cornerstone of the Israeli regime’s
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The geographic terms “Israel” and “Palestine” have a long history and specific connotations for Jews and Arabs with respect to their competing claims to the same land. The only way forward for
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At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces while attempting to access food at Israeli-run humanitarian aid sites in Gaza over the past month, according to reporting by The Intercept.
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In a moment fraught with geopolitical tension, Iran now faces a choice eerily reminiscent of Israel’s own secret crossroads in 1967: whether to sprint toward a nuclear weapon as a final act
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As I expected last week, on Saturday evening the United States bombed Iran’s most fortified enrichment site at Fordow along with the Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities, officially becoming a co-combatant in Israel’s
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Recent developments have drawn attention to Iran’s decision to specifically target the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, a move that carries historical and geopolitical weight. The base, among the largest US
More Months before President Donald Trump began diplomatic efforts to resolve nuclear tensions with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already set Israel on a collision course toward war with Tehran, according
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Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a direct military strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, the world stands on the edge of a dangerous precipice. This unprecedented attack, carried out in
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Iranian officials have confirmed that explosions occurred near multiple nuclear facilities in the early hours of Sunday, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed responsibility for bombing three Iranian nuclear sites. The
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