US-Iran ceasefire under threat after exchange of strikes in Strait of Hormuz
Nadeem Badshah & Lauren Gambino
The Guardian / May 8, 2026
Donald Trump says ceasefire remains in place despite strikes, with Iranian TV saying situation is...
Telling the truth about Iran is more dangerous than ever
Maryam Foumani
The Guardian / May 8, 2026
After months of protest, crackdown and war, on-the-ground reporting is more impossible than it has ever been. These...
Several Venice Biennale pavilions shut in protest over inclusion of Israel
Lanre Bakare
The Guardian / May 8, 2026
About a dozen pavilions affected, while some artists backed strike by adding Palestine references to their work.
Venice –...
Israel’s destructive actions in Lebanon are normalising war without rules
Amra Lee
The Conversation / May 8, 2026
In late April, Amal Khalil, a 43-year-old Lebanese journalist, was killed in a double-tap Israeli strike in southern...
Trump knows he lost the Iran war, and is now desperate to find a...
Mitchell Plitnick
Mondoweiss / May 8, 2026
Recent U.S. moves indicate that Donald Trump has finally recognized the disastrous mistake he made by listening to Benjamin...
Rodent infestation caused by Israel’s destruction of Gaza is now creating a public health...
Tareq S. Hajjaj
Mondoweiss / May 8, 2026
More than 70,000 infections have been recorded in Gaza this year, as rats bite children as they sleep...
Lebanon says farmland area roughly size of 78,000 football fields destroyed in Israeli offensive
Middle East Monitor / May 8, 2026
Lebanon’s Agriculture Ministry said Friday that Israel’s ongoing offensive has damaged more than 56,000 hectares of farmland —...
Trump’s way of war
Mel Gurtov
CounterPunch / May 8, 2026
Stretching presidential power
Donald Trump has made waging war more centered than ever before on presidential prerogative. The same president...
The Al-Omari Mosque chronicles: meet the women risking their lives to save Gaza’s ancient...
Tala Halawa
The New Arab / May 8, 2026
In Gaza City’s Old Quarter, volunteers are recovering manuscripts from the damaged Al-Omari Mosque library following repeated...
Something is shifting in Israel’s [so-called] peace camp
Meron Rapoport
+972 Magazine / May 8, 2026
At the ‘People’s Peace Summit’ in Tel Aviv, Israel’s embattled left showed signs of abandoning old formulas and...
