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Today 18:28
Ramadan in Gaza: Palestinians' spirit unbroken despite all hardships
TEHRAN – Ramadan has arrived in Gaza, and as the first crescent moon appeared, people welcomed the holy month with the same devotion felt across the Muslim world. But in Gaza, Ramadan never comes quietly. It arrives under the long shadow of Israel’s occupation and the deep wounds left by years of blockade, bombardment, and displacement. It is a month of prayer and patience, but also a reminder of everything people have endured under Israeli control.
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Today 18:16
By Wesam Bahrani
Will Netanyahu resume genocidal war on Gaza?
TEHRAN – The Gaza Strip does not appear to be on the brink of a full-scale genocidal war anytime soon.
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Yesterday 21:04
Indonesia’s role in the Gaza Board of Peace lacks strategic weight: Philippine scholar
Julkipli Wadi says the board is a political masquerade that shields Israeli regional aggression
TEHRAN- Amid growing controversy surrounding Washington’s so-called Gaza “peace plan” and the proposed Board of Peace, questions persist over its real objectives and the role assigned to non-Western actors, including Indonesia. In this interview, Tehran Times speaks with Julkipli Wadi, dean of the Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman, one of Southeast Asia’s most respected Islamic scholars.
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Yesterday 18:24
Major Irish party continues White House boycott over Gaza ‘genocide’
Mary Lou McDonald, president of the Irish republican party Sinn Féin, has confirmed that the party will not attend St Patrick’s Day events at the White House for a second consecutive year, Al Maydeen reported Tuesday.
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2026-02-16 22:49
UN staff and human rights groups defend Francesca Albanese against disinformation
TEHRAN – UN personnel and advocacy groups have rallied in defense of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
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2026-02-15 18:37
By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza truce fails Palestinian hopes and Israeli goals
TEHRAN – The situation in the Gaza Strip remains volatile, failing to meet the hopes of its residents or the strategic objectives of the occupying Israeli regime.
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2026-02-15 16:28
Israel kills at least ten Palestinians in fresh Gaza ceasefire violations
Israeli forces killed at least ten Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including five in Khan Younis and four in an al-Faluja displacement tent, marking further violations of the October 10 ceasefire, Al Jazeera reported.
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2026-02-14 19:13
Cultural icons and Hamas rally behind UN expert Francesca Albanese
TEHRAN – More than 100 cultural figures, including actors Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardem and Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, have signed an open letter defending United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese against an intensifying campaign for her resignation.
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2026-02-14 17:17
By Sahar Dadjoo
Peace must be shaped by Palestinians, says rights activist
Rifat Odeh Kassis says the Trump-backed Gaza Board of Peace lacks UN legitimacy and meaningful Arab engagement
TEHRAN- In an interview with the Tehran Times, Palestinian Christian human rights activist Rifat Odeh Kassis offers a critical assessment of the Gaza “Board of Peace” amid growing international controversy over Gaza’s post-war governance and security arrangements.
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2026-02-13 19:42
By Wesam Bahrani
The fate of the Palestinian technocratic committee
TEHRAN – Despite being announced several weeks ago, the Palestinian National Committee established to manage the Gaza Strip has yet to begin operating in the enclave.
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2026-02-13 19:39
European powers face backlash over ‘misinformation’ campaign against Francesca Albanese
TEHRAN — The United Nations Human Rights Office issued a warning on Friday regarding the escalation of “personal attacks, threats, and misinformation” leveled against independent experts, specifically targeting Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
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2026-02-11 17:01
Gaza faces catastrophic civilian loss as death toll mounts
TEHRAN – The human cost of Israel’s war on Gaza has reached staggering levels, with the death toll now reported at 72,045 and 171,686 injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. The figures only partially reflect the scale of devastation, as thousands of victims remain trapped under rubble or have died from starvation, disease, and lack of medical care due to Israel’s siege.
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2026-02-09 16:09
Forensic crisis in Gaza leaves over 1,100 bodies unidentified
TEHRAN — More than 1,100 bodies recovered in Gaza since the war’s onset remain unidentified due to severe shortages of forensic equipment and Israeli restrictions on DNA testing, according to Gaza’s forensic evidence department.
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2026-02-08 16:37
Somali president vows military confrontation over Israeli base in Somaliland
TEHRAN — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has issued a warning against Israeli “interference” in the Horn of Africa, vowing to militarily “confront” any attempt by Israel to establish a foothold in the breakaway region of Somaliland.
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2026-02-07 19:07
By Wesam Bahrani
Zionist regime expands Gaza aggression
TEHRAN – Escalating attacks by the occupying Zionist regime are reshaping Gaza’s truce, forcing the resistance into choices.
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2026-02-07 19:07
By Shahab Sarmadi
Israel’s uncounted massacre in Gaza: The 200,000 death estimate and the silence on genocide
TEHRAN – The scale of death in Gaza has reached a level that is almost impossible to comprehend, yet the world continues to treat it as an abstraction. In comments reported by Anadolu, Stuart Casey Maslen, head of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, warned that Gaza’s population has declined by more than 10 percent since Israel launched war on the enclave on October 7, 2023.
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2026-02-06 17:40
By Wesam Bahrani
Rafah crossing: Symbolic gesture or start of a new era?
TEHRAN – After two years of closure, the Rafah land crossing has once again come into the spotlight.
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2026-02-04 12:55
Israel kills 18 Palestinians in Gaza bombing
TEHRAN- Israeli fighter jets bombed the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, killing at least 18 Palestinians, including three children, according to local media.
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2026-02-02 18:30
The gap between ceasefire claims and reality in Gaza
TEHRAN – For many Palestinians, the word “ceasefire” has become little more than a diplomatic illusion amid Israel’s unrelenting strikes in the Gaza Strip. Since a truce was announced in October, Israeli attacks have killed more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza.
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2026/02/02
By Ranjan Solomon
The new exodus of Israelis: Decolonizing Palestine beyond territory
GOA — Zionism required the creation of what its founders called the “New Jew” - a radical reengineering of Jewish identity severed from centuries of ethical, diasporic, and humanist traditions. Judaism, historically shaped by moral restraint, community life, and learning, was recast into a nationalist and militarized project. In this transformation, Jewish ethics were subordinated to the imperatives of conquest, settlement, and permanent war.
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2026-02-01 18:57
Israel bans MSF from Gaza and the West Bank
Israel has banned the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after the organization refused to hand over a list of its Palestinian and international staff, Middle East Eye reported.
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2026-02-01 17:43
The choreography of cruelty: Rafah's ‘trial’ reopening and the performance of siege
TEHRAN – The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt reopened on Sunday “on a trial basis” after being nearly completely sealed for more than two years under the Israeli blockade. The limited reopening, announced by Israeli authorities, underscores the ongoing control Israel exercises over Palestinian life, even amid a so-called ceasefire.
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2026-01-31 20:10
By Wesam Bahrani
Rafah border crossing: What the reopening reveals about Israel’s next moves
TEHRAN – The scheduled opening of the Rafah border crossing on Sunday is another sign of the Israeli regime’s larger scheme.
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2026-01-31 20:09
Self-defense or slaughter: U.S. arms drive Israel’s Gaza carnage
TEHRAN – The United States has approved more than $6.6 billion in new arms sales to Israel even as Israeli forces continue to violate a Washington-brokered ceasefire announced in October last year. The State Department confirmed that Israel will receive 30 Apache attack helicopters and other U.S.-made military vehicles, despite the fact that these same systems have been repeatedly used against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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2026-01-31 20:04
‘Horrific massacres against civilians’: Israel kills dozens of Palestinians in a single day
TEHRAN – Israeli warplanes launched a new wave of air raids across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing dozens of Palestinians in yet another blatant violation of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
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2026-01-30 19:10
By staff writer
Israel’s admission of Gaza death toll shatters its own denial
TEHRAN — A quiet admission from a senior Israeli military official has opened a door Israel has tried to keep shut for two years. By acknowledging that around 71,000 people have been killed in Gaza, the official effectively confirmed what the Gaza Health Ministry has been reporting since the start of the war.
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2026-01-28 18:18
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel's Rafah closure is a death sentence for Gaza's patients
TEHRAN – Israel's continued closure of the Rafah crossing amounts to a death sentence for thousands of Palestinian patients and wounded trapped in the Gaza Strip.
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2026-01-27 18:31
By Bobby Ciputra
Indonesia tests the limits of a decades-long doctrine by joining Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s decision to sign US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace (BoP) charter in Davos marks a defining moment for President Prabowo Subianto’s foreign policy, revealing a strategic shift from traditional multilateralism toward calculated maneuvering within an emerging parallel global order.
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2026-01-27 18:30
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’: A colonial blueprint for Gaza’s future
The Resist US-Led War Movement stands in resolute opposition to the Trump administration's attempt to repackage the genocide of the Palestinian people into a financial venture under its newly unveiled "Board of Peace." This so-called board, launched at the Davos summit, is a colonial blueprint for Gaza’s future, a direct assault on international law in an attempt to once again bend the world to the will of US imperialism.
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2026-01-26 18:50
By Ranjan Solomon
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza and the monetization of ruins
GOA — Gaza today is not emerging from conflict; it is still being crushed by its consequences. Entire neighbourhoods have been erased, civilians displaced en masse, famine conditions allowed to fester, and allegations of international crimes hang unresolved over the ruins. Any serious discussion of Gaza’s future would begin with a ceasefire, accountability, and the restoration of Palestinian political agency. Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” begins elsewhere. It begins with money, authority, and control.