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Protestors Rally against Mass Murderers Speaking at U.N. General Assembly

Dan La Botz — 2026-09-28T13:27:34Z

Hundreds marched in three separate demonstrations to protest the mass murderers—President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian—speaking at the United Nations General Assembly held in New York last week. The event became a kind of macabre circus with these monsters in the big ring as some delegates walked out while others protested outside.

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel, Iran

Israel continues ethnic cleansing

Édouard Soulier — 2026-09-22T07:16:57Z

While the Israeli elections have provoked a new racist and genocidal escalation, ethnic cleansing has continued in Gaza, Lebanon and especially in the West Bank. Evictions, settlements and the E1 project accelerated an annexation organized with the complicity of the Western powers.
As expected, the elections are being used as a pretext for a wave of racist and genocidal remarks. Almost the whole of Israeli society agrees on the essentials: acceptance of the genocide and rejection of any (…)

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Palestine, Israel, Lebanon

9/11: A Quarter Century of Imperial War

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-09-11T10:03:06Z

“Absolutely, I hold on to hope, hope rooted in the new generation and its capacity to invent new forms of struggle, as we have seen recently with the Moroccan Gen Z movement, an extraordinary moment, with thousands of young people mobilising and using modern technology to coordinate their action. I make a crucial distinction between optimism and hope, they are not the same thing at all. Optimism is the belief that the best outcome will happen. Hope is the belief that a better outcome is possible, with no guarantee attached. I can keep hoping, while recognising that today the balance of evidence weighs heavily toward pessimism.”

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Palestine, United States (USA), Syria, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen

After a catastrophic summer, rebuilding hope in Palestine

Édouard Soulier — 2026-09-05T08:52:12Z

In Gaza as in the West Bank, the situation has been catastrophic throughout the summer. As elections begin in Israel and Palestine, the challenge remains for us to relaunch mobilization and international solidarity.

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Palestine

Climate events provoke tensions in the Arab world

Luiza Toscane — 2026-08-02T08:54:03Z

The countries of the Arabic-speaking region experienced floods last winter (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia). Six months later, the region is experiencing extreme temperatures: from 40° to 50° in the Maghreb and 50° and more in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, with an average of 35° in Gaza (meaning 50° in tents). Deaths due to the heatwave are estimated to be in the hundreds in Tunisia.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Climate, Yemen, Oman

Israel targets and kills children

Édouard Soulier — 2026-07-10T11:37:34Z

Two damning reports show that, in both Gaza and the West Bank, Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Palestine, Israel

Palestine and Lebanon are burning

Édouard Soulier — 2026-07-02T14:55:21Z

Despite the ceasefires proclaimed, Israel continues its attacks in Gaza and Lebanon. Security Minister Ben Gvir's declarations calling for the “burning of Lebanon” openly express the logic of erasure at work, as part of a project of total regional domination.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Palestine, Israel, Lebanon

Israel mistreats Flotilla activists and tortures Palestinian prisoners

An Gwesped — 2026-06-07T18:14:07Z

After the Israeli army's violent interception of the Gaza flotilla, activists have denounced humiliation and violence — a long-documented glimpse into the torture and sexual violence suffered by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. More than 430 activists from the 50 boats that set out to break the blockade of Gaza were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation army between Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 May, in international waters off the coast of Cyprus, up to 500 km from the coast of Gaza for the most distant boats and about 100 kilometres for the closest.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Palestine, Israel

The impact of colonization and international cooperation on the feminist movement in Palestine

Leila Serra Badran — 2026-05-29T13:26:05Z

“Feminism is not a Western invention: authenticity versus tradition, imported feminisms versus local feminisms.”

- Feminism / Palestine, Women, Features

Towards a resumption of genocide in Gaza

Édouard Soulier — 2026-05-24T08:51:06Z

Behind the so-called ceasefire, the reconstruction of Gaza is blocked, and Israel is already preparing a new large-scale offensive. As always with Israel, agreements are not respected and ceasefires are mainly used to rearm and prepare for the next offensive. Nearly 800 people have been killed during this so-called ceasefire.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Palestine