‘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.

From Baghdad, Ghalibaf Warns Of US Resource Plunder As The Shadow War Intensifies Across West Asia.

Beneath the wreath-laying and “plunder” rhetoric lies a contest for Iraq’s logistical arteries and post-war allegiance, where Tehran declares victory, Washington weighs withdrawal, and Baghdad speaks the language of resistance…

Targeted Elimination: Israel’s Systematic Assault On Gaza’s Civil Police Force.

As mediators push for ceasefire extensions, airstrikes on police infrastructure reveal a strategic campaign to dismantle the last remnants of public order in the besieged enclave.

Heavy Clashes Erupt In Southern Lebanon As Israel Intensifies Airstrikes, Artillery And White Phosphorus Attacks.

As Israeli warplanes, artillery, and white phosphorus shells pound the Ali al-Taher heights and civilians are killed in Ansar and Deir ez-Zahrani, the June truce is revealed as a thin…

Israel Pushes 2,300-Unit Gilo Expansion As Settler Siege Of Qusra Families Enters Sixth Day.

Plan No. 1284223 would extend Jerusalem’s southern settlement belt toward Bethlehem. In Qusra, three Palestinian families remain trapped without water, electricity, food or medicine.

Pipeline Dreams: Inside The U.S.–Israel–Saudi Gamble To Break Iran’s Stranglehold On World Oil.

As Iran locks down the Strait of Hormuz and its Houthi allies turn the Bab el‑Mandeb into a no‑go zone, an audacious three-party blueprint is taking shape: a $5 billion Omani…

Inside Algeria’s Escalating Migration Offensive And A Fragmented Europe.

As social media mobilises thousands for a new mass crossing into Ceuta, evidence mounts that Algiers is strategically funnelling sub-Saharan migrants towards Morocco’s frontier. With Italy reimposing controls on Spain…

Gaza’s Ceasefire Charade: Two More Dead, Eight Wounded In Latest Israeli Attacks As Post‑Truce Toll Surges Past 1,250.

Exclusive report from Gaza City, 10 August 2026 — Despite a ceasefire agreement that has supposedly held since October 2025, Israeli forces continue to fire on Palestinian civilians across the…

How Munitions Miscalculations Unleashed As White House In Crisis And Left America Vulnerable.

President Donald Trump was told that the war with Iran would be quick and decisive. Five months later, with missile stockpiles dangerously depleted by 80%, a furious Trump confronted his…

Israel Establishes Checkpoints, Shells Villages In Southern Syria As Buffer Zone Becomes Permanent Occupation Zones.

With Damascus silent, weekly incursions and home raids turn Quneitra countryside into a militarised frontier. Human Rights groups warn of war crimes, while settlement expansion on the Golan moves forward.

How A Broken Truce, Imminent U.S. Strikes, And Iran’s Chokepoint Threat Could Paralyse Global Trade.

A spiralling confrontation in the Persian Gulf, the collapse of a fragile ceasefire, and the shadow war over the world’s most vital maritime artery.

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