‘They’ll kill us all’: Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify

April 7, 2025
Ruwaida Amer and Ahmed Ahmed

Israel’s army is pummeling Gaza with an intensity that parallels the deadliest phase of the war, displacing civilians en masse from Rafah and Gaza City. 

 

 Palestinians inspect the damage to Dar Al-Arqam School in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood after it was bombed by Israeli aircraft, Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, April 4, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Russia–Iran–China: All for one, and one for all?

April 8, 2025
Pepe Escobar
Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump's war is singularly directed at the transformational global 'changes they are driving together.'

Iran must Unconditionally Release Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

April 8, 2025
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities are threatening to return the human rights defender and Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi to prison to serve the remainder of her unjust sentence as a means to pressure her to cease her rights advocacy, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately end their ongoing harassment and unconditionally release her and everyone else arbitrarily detained for their human rights activism.