‘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.

ISRAEL: Ex-US Intelligence Analyst Jonathan Pollard Urges Ethnic Cleansing And Full Occupation Of Gaza, Signals Political Ambitions Ahead Of Knesset Elections.

JERUSALEM — In a Channel 13 television studio on May 5, 2026, Jonathan Jay Pollard, the former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who served three decades in federal prison for one…

IRAN: Iran Rejects Arab League Resolution, Says No Cover Can Shield Perpetrators From Legal Consequences.

Iran has categorically rejected a recent resolution adopted by the Arab League, saying “no attempt to shield the perpetrators of aggression” will absolve those responsible of their international obligations.

UAE: The Purge: How The UAE Weaponised Deportation, Asset Seizure, And Financial Warfare Against Pakistanis Amid The Iran Crisis.

ABU DHABI/ISLAMABAD - The United Arab Emirates presents itself as a beacon of modernity and tolerance, a "brotherly" partner to Pakistan for decades. But in the spring of 2026, this…

GAZA: Israel Signals Renewed Full-Scale Assault On Gaza Amid Persistent Attacks And Ceasefire Breaches – From Fragile Truce To Political Capitulation Through War.

GAZA - The ceasefire that halted Israel’s devastating military campaign in Gaza has become a legal and political fiction. More than 200 days into a truce that was supposed to…

IRAN: 2 Missiles Hit US Navy Vessel After It Ignored Iran’s Warning: Report

Two Missiles Have Struck A US Navy Vessel Near The Strategic Strait Of Hormuz After It Ignored Warnings From Iran's Naval Forces, According To A Report.

SPAIN: “This Is Piracy”: The Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Report Beatings And Injuries After Israeli Interception Near Crete.

Violent interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla near Crete, as activists say Israel has turned the Mediterranean into a battlefield for humanitarian aid.

IRAN: The Real War Begins Now: The Iranian Leader Targets Economic And Cultural Fronts After Military Success.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution has vowed that the Iranian nation will defeat the enemy in the cultural and economic spheres as well, following the victory on the military…

SPAIN: Israel Captures 175 Gaza Flotilla Activists In International Waters, Escalating Maritime Repression In The Mediterranean.

EUROPE - The waters of the Mediterranean, the cradle of maritime law and international norms, became a lawless frontier in the early hours of Thursday. Over 600 nautical miles from…

Gaza: Paramedic, A Child Among Six Killed In Israeli Attacks Across Gaza Strip.

GAZA STRIP — In a pattern that has become both commonplace and invisible to much of the world, Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians across the Gaza Strip over…

LEBANON: Jibshit Under Fire: Israeli Strikes Kill Civilians As A “Ceasefire” Turns To Ash, And White Phosphorus Falls On Southern Lebanon

JIBSHIT, NABATIEH GOVERNORATE – The asphalt is still warm in the al-Jabal neighbourhood. A family home has been turned into a crater. Rescue workers, their hands wrapped in tape, sift…

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