‘Become Our Land’: Smotrich’s Annexation Drive Tests Gaza Ceasefire And International Law

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Israel to occupy and effectively annex around 60% of the Gaza Strip and to annex Lebanese territory up to Israel’s current military deployment lines, remarks that, read alongside reported buffer-zone plans, amount to an explicit push to convert military control into permanent territorial dominion.

IRAN: Tehran’s Game Of Brinkmanship: Inside A Successor’s War Council, A Blockaded Strait, And The Riot-War Nexus.

TEHRAN -The words were delivered in the marble-clad sanctum of the Beit-e Rahbari, where Iran’s newly elevated Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, now receives the commanders of a nation…

BAHRAIN: The King’s Decree: Inside Bahrain’s Mass Citizenship Revocations And The Silencing Of Dissent.

How 69 Individuals, And Their Children, Were Stripped Of Nationality Without Trial, The Lawmakers Who Dared To Question It, And What This Says About The Future Of Rule Of Law…

PALESTINE/ISRAEL: ‘Hangman Of The Century’ – Inside Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Death-Penalty Crusade Against Palestinians.

As The Far-Right Israeli Minister Revels In A Noose-Shaped Birthday Cake And A Tiktok-Style Fantasy Of Gallows, Rights Groups, Diplomats, And Legal Experts Are Warning Of A Dangerous Slide Toward…

GAZA: Trapped Between Exile And Ruin: The Gazans Stranded In The West Bank With ‘No Home Left, No Where To Go’.

NABLUS, OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Under the concrete bleachers of Nablus city stadium, in a converted changing room that smells of damp and detergent, a dozen men from Gaza have…

GAZA: Systematic Degradation – Flotilla Activists Detail Sexual Violence And Torture In Israeli Custody As Two Remain On Hunger Strike.

The Global Sumud Flotilla interception off Crete reveals a chilling pattern of state‑orchestrated sexual assault, deprivation, and diplomatic impunity, while Washington moves to thwart the next aid mission before it…

IRAN: How Iran’s ‘Deterrence Through Punishment’ Shook Trump’s Fragile Ceasefire, From The UN To The Persian Gulf.

TEHRAN - The predawn quiet of the Northern Arabian Sea was shattered again on Friday. At roughly 3:40 a.m. local time, an Iranian fast-attack craft of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard…

IRAN: Strait Of Hormuz On A Knife-Edge: Inside Iran’s ‘Deterrence Through Punishment’ And The Unravelling Of Trump’s Ceasefire.

The predawn quiet of the Sea of Oman was shattered again on Friday. According to maritime security sources and local witnesses, a tense standoff unfolded at the mouth of the…

GAZA: Blindfolded and Missing: QNN Speaks to the Family of Gaza Mother and Daughter Last Seen in Israeli Military Custody.

Quds News Network identifies the Gaza mother and daughter seen blindfolded in an Israeli military vehicle and speaks to their family, who reveal new details about their abduction, the killing…

IRAN-US: Iran Calls Washington’s Media Bluff On Tehran Talks As US-Israeli Pressure Campaign Faces Collapse.

TEHRAN/WASHINGTON, 7 MAY 2026 — The Persian Gulf this spring is a powder keg wrapped in a narrative war. In the month since a shaky two-week ceasefire between the United…

WEST BANK: “We Are Staying Here. We Will Not Leave”: Forced Displacement And The Spectre Of Ethnic Cleansing In The West Bank.

A pattern of destruction stretching from the South Hebron Hills to East Jerusalem is accelerating, leaving dozens of families homeless and entire communities facing erasure. Behind the bulldozers, residents, rights…

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