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Todays newsflash:
March 5, 2026
the all-out christian-jewish
against Muslims war
as an orgy of violence continues


Videoscreen grab: Thabet, looking at rocket fired at Israel -Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera - March 5, 2026
{Under cover of Iran war, Israeli settlers terrorise Palestinian communities
Amid rocket sirens and explosions in the sky, the regional war feels distant compared with the terror on the ground.
Duma, occupied West Bank – Since Israel and the United States began their war on Iran last week, retaliatory missiles fired at Israeli targets have been flying through the skies over the occupied West Bank. But it has been Israeli settlers on the ground who have been terrorising Palestinians in their small hamlets across rural areas of the West Bank more than the Iranian missiles or the Israeli interceptors trying to shoot them down. Thus, when debris from one missile crashed about 20 metres (22 yards) from the century-old Mosallam family home in the northern West Bank village of Duma earlier this week, Thabet remained unfazed by the threat. “We have the rockets in the sky, but the [Israeli] settlers are at our door,” the 24-year-old said. “Of course, the settlers and the army, they are the ones who pose a danger to us. They are what we are afraid of right now.”
‘The army closes the gate, and the settler comes and stands there’
While Israeli settlements, built on lands occupied in the 1967 war in violation of international law, are equipped with sirens and bomb shelters, adjacent Palestinian communities in the West Bank are afforded no such protections. Under international law, Israel, as the occupying power, is obligated to provide for the protection of the population under its occupation. Instead, since the war against Iran broke out on Saturday, Palestinians in the rural West Bank find themselves penned in as settlers roam free. Israeli authorities have distributed leaflets to rural communities banning movement between West Bank governorates, proclaiming “terrorism and terrorists bring only death, destruction and devastation.” Following similar lockdowns after the previous war on Iran in June and the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, Israeli authorities have closed existing gates at village entrances and this time have installed new ones to cut off movement between villages. Meanwhile, Israeli settler chat groups have stepped up incitement towards loftier aims in recent days. “Don’t miss the opportunity,” encouraged one such post. “It’s time to beat the enemy and expel him from the country.” Among a myriad of Israeli settler attacks in recent days, two Palestinian brothers were killed on Monday by a gang of settlers in Qaryut, 4km (2.5 miles) west of Duma, where they were videotaped shooting live fire at Palestinian homes. Several Bedouin communities, including those violently displaced from Khirbet Ein ar-Rashash after the October 2023 attacks, live near the Mosallam family in what they described as a spiraling crisis. “No one is allowed to go in or out, and the people here are without food or drink,” said Muhammad, a 35-year-old man who declined to give his family name for fear of retaliation by Israeli authorities or settlers. “From the day the war [on Iran] started, … no one can go to the doctor, no one can go to the hospital, no one can get bread, no one can eat.” Similar shortages are crippling communities across the West Bank with movement so restricted that even humanitarian groups are unable to reach them. “The army closes the gate, and the settler comes and stands there,” Muhammad, who is also a neighbor of the Mosallam’s, explained. These settlers threaten people “with weapons, with intimidation, with beatings and sticks”. “Every day, they beat young children, they scare people, they terrorise them,” the 35-year-old man said. “‘Forbidden! Go home! Forbidden to leave your house! Forbidden! Forbidden! Forbidden!’ Everything is forbidden.”
‘Like an orgy of violence’
With increasing collaboration with the military, the settlers haven’t simply penned in these isolated communities. They are also attacking them. According to witnesses, several Israeli settlers on Sunday entered Muhammad’s community and assaulted a 70-year-old man. When some Palestinians physically resisted, giving one of the perpetrators a bloody lip, a settler fired two live bullets into the air. What followed was a violent rampage by the Israeli settlers that unfolded over several hours, witnesses said, continuing even after soldiers arrived. Joined by a few additional armed settlers, the group marauded through the community, repeatedly kicking, beating and pepper-spraying residents. One settler emptied out the community’s water tanks. Palestinian men sustained head injuries from beatings. In one instance, a settler pepper-sprayed a room where an elderly woman with a heart condition was sheltering. Settlers smashed cars and vandalised other property. “I’ve never seen [the settlers] like that,” said Yael Rosmarin, a teenage Israeli solidarity activist who was also pepper-sprayed during the rampage along with several other activists. As Yotam, another Israeli activist assaulted several times that day, said: “It was like an orgy of violence.” Witnesses said that when soldiers arrived, they stood by as the violence persisted – testimony that is backed up by video evidence. Adele Shoko, another Israeli activist who was pepper-sprayed, said she saw a soldier “aiming and shooting, … firing directly at Palestinians”. “The army was protecting them, so they could go and break things and attack people,” Muhammad said. The activists and Palestinian witnesses said settlers continued to deploy pepper spray in people’s faces even in the presence of the army. “They sprayed pepper spray in my eyes more than once and on my elderly mother and on the elderly women and on the children,” Muhammad said. The settlers also tried to steal the villager’s goats but were prevented by the solidarity activists. Soldiers later detained four people, including a 14-year-old boy and Shoko, under what video footage indicated and witnesses said were direct instructions from a right-wing Israeli influencer identified as Benyahu Ben Shabbat. Muhammad said one soldier told him to “Go to Jordan” and “This is Israeli land! This army is here to protect the settlers. This is government policy.” Allegra Pacheco, head of the West Bank Protection Consortium, a partnership among several leading international NGOs and 14 Western donor countries, noted that the attacks on Palestinian communities have a pattern. “What we see is that during the attacks when Palestinians are defending their families and property in a self-defence mode, the Palestinians are arrested on the spot but no settlers are.” This sentiment was echoed by Rosmarin, who confronted a soldier during the attack. “I asked one of the soldiers, ‘You saw [the settlers] hitting, and we have videos. Why aren’t you doing anything?’” she recounted. “And he said, ‘because we’re here to protect the Jews from the Arabs’.”
‘We go to sleep talking about the settlers. We wake up talking about the settlers’
On Monday, a neighbouring Bedouin community led by Bassam Aarara, 35, experienced a similar assault. The community, composed of many women and children, has been continuously terrorised by settlers for the past eight months since a nearby outpost was erected. Settlers have repeatedly destroyed the community’s water pipes and electrical lines. Hours after the attack on Muhammad’s community, settlers stormed the iron gate of Aarara’s community using vehicles supplied by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to rural outposts. The gate struck an 11-year-old boy in the hand when it swung open, injuring him. Teenage settlers then returned the following day, stealing security cameras and televisions. When villagers arrived, the settlers struck Palestinians and solidarity activists with sticks and sprayed them with pepper spray. They split open the head of Aarara’s brother. When Mustafa Rizik’s nephew tried to film the scene, they attacked him, snatched the phone and fled in an all-terrain vehicle. “This attack was different because they beat the children,” Aarara said as members of the community tended their injuries. “We are scared for the children and also because they cut off our electricity.” Amid daily invasions, Aarara tells the community’s children to stay calm when rockets fly overhead, calling it “thunder in the rain”, although acknowledging their tin shacks offer little protection from them. But really for the families, “We go to sleep talking about the settlers. We wake up talking about the settlers,” Aarara said. Aarara made the difficult decision to evacuate the women and children from the community after Monday’s attack. “The rocket? One in a million [chance] it falls on you,” said Rizik, whom a settler had tried to club in the head during Monday’s attack. “But the settler? No, he is coming.”
‘A domino effect’ of displacement
As the regional war widens, Pacheco worries about a cascading wave of violence and forcible displacement in the West Bank. “My biggest concern is that we reach a similar situation that we had in the beginning of the Gaza war … when the West Bank was under the radar,” Pacheco warned. “That’s when Israeli settlers escalated this extreme violence that led to a massive forced displacement then.” Since the June war against Iran, conditions on the ground have worsened considerably. After the forcible displacement of the entire community of Ras Ein el-Auja, there has been a steady drip of violent displacement across the West Bank. West Bank communities, including some in Area B, which is under shared Israeli and Palestinian control, and in Area A, which is under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, have been facing intensified settler attacks. More than 4,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced across more than 80 Palestinian communities since the October 7, 2023, attacks, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “The relentless violent attacks on Palestinian families and communities, threatening their safety and security, coupled with the coercive restrictions affect Palestinian resilience,” Pacheco explained. “In many cases, when one community in a block leaves, it’s a domino effect because the communities also rely on each other for protection and support.” Having fled Ein al-Rashash after his village’s ethnic cleansing in October 2023, Ra’id Zawahra’s modest tin shack is the only home remaining on top of a gorgeous mountain ridge near Duma overlooking the Jordan Valley. The fields surrounding the ridge are overgrown with wildflowers, strewn with random items from abandoned Palestinian homes that have been looted by settlers. The haunting landscape is as breathtaking as it is terrifying – a sinister emptiness punctuated only by roaming armed settlers dressed in black. After sending his wife and infant child away for safety, Zawahra, 22, endured constant pepper spray attacks and night-time raids by settlers trying to tear down his home. “They come with stones at night. They hit with slingshots. They try to enter the house. They break the walls. They try to open the door,” Zawahra said when he was still living in his lonely, battered home. Although he rarely slept more than three consecutive hours, Zawahra was determined to stay. He believed he could hold out as long as the Israeli solidarity activists remained with him around the clock. But after the mass settler violence this week, the Israeli military delivered a stunning blow on Tuesday evening: It declared the vast pastoral areas around Duma a closed military zone. While theoretically it applied to everyone but military personnel and residents, including the hilltop youth in settler outposts that are technically illegal even under Israeli law, the order was directed solely at the Israeli solidarity activists, who were forced to leave the entire area. For Zawahra, it meant he was left completely alone. Fearing for his life, Zawahra made the agonizing decision to abandon his home for the night.
Activists reported that shortly after they were forced out, military vehicles arrived to ensure the area was clear. Within the hour, settlers had descended upon Zawahra’s property. They attacked his solar panels, tore the walls of his home to the ground and destroyed many of his belongings. With a key assist from the army, the settlers had finally brought the house down.} Video-Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/3/5/under-cover-of-iran-war-israeli-settlers-terrorise-palestinian-communities

Selection of Yesterdays:


Quds news - March 4, 2026
{Israel Continues to Violate Trump’s So-Called Ceasefire in Gaza, Killing Two and Restricting Aid
Gaza (QNN)- At least two Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza, as Israel continues to violate the so-called ceasefire agreement, killing hundreds and restricting the entry of aid through the closure of border crossings. Local sources said the bodies of Maher Harb Samour and Montaser Saad Samour arrived at Nasser Hospital after they were shot by Israeli forces in the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis. Sources added that heavy gunfire from Israeli tanks stationed east of the so-called “Yellow Line,” which separates areas under Israeli military control from those of Palestinians, was reported in areas east of Khan Younis. Israeli artillery also targeted neighborhoods east of Gaza City in the north, while Israeli naval boats fired machine guns and shells toward the city’s coastline. Since the truce deal came into effect in October, over 1,700 Israeli violations have been recorded, including the denial of necessary medical treatment and transfers abroad, restriction of aid as well as daily attacks launched across the territory. Israel has killed about 633 Palestinians and left 1,703 others wounded during this period. In total, Israel has killed more than 72,117 Palestinians since the start of its genocidal war in October 2023 and destroyed nearly 90 percent of the territory's infrastructure. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has also called for Israel to reopen Gaza’s border crossings, including Rafah and Karem abu Salem, which have been closed by Israel since it launched its assault on Iran with the United States on Saturday. “It is imperative that all crossings be reopened … as soon as possible,” Guterres’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. “In recent days, our partners have been forced to ration fuel, prioritise life-saving operations, albeit in reduced capacity as our local stocks are going down.” Dujarric said there were some stockpiles in Gaza but “when the doors are shut, we obviously stretch whatever we have to make it last longer.” The Rafah crossing into Gaza from Egypt, the only gateway for Palestinians in Gaza to the outside world that does not pass through Israel, had reopened for the movement of people on February 2, allowing a limited number of people to leave for the first time in months and a trickle to return to the devastated enclave to reunite with family amid heavy Israeli restrictions and monitoring. Thousands of Palestinians need urgent medical attention outside Gaza but have not yet been allowed to leave. The crossing is considered vital for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the evacuation of critically ill patients. Israeli occupation authorities said late on Monday that they would reopen the Karem Abu Salem crossing to allow for the “gradual entry of humanitarian aid” into the territory. That crossing sits at the intersection of the Gaza Strip boundary with the Israeli and Egyptian borders and was also shut on Saturday. The ⁠UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, “The crossings will ‌be opened, and that is timely for us, and we need to get in ⁠aid as fast ⁠as we can.” Even despite the ceasefire and before the assault on Iran, Israel severely restricted the access of humanitarian aid to Gaza. The ceasefire stipulated that “full aid will be immediately sent into the Gaza Strip”. However, the reality on the ground remains very different. According to the Gaza Government Media Office, from October 10, 2025 to February 10, 2026 only 31,178 trucks entered Gaza out of 72,000, averaging 260 trucks per day. That is only 43 percent of the trucks allocated. According to truck drivers, aid deliveries are facing significant delays, with Israeli inspections taking much longer than expected. In addition, Israel has blocked essential and nutritious food items, including meat, dairy, and vegetables, crucial for a balanced diet. Instead, non-nutritious foodstuffs are being allowed, such as snacks, chocolate, crisps, and soft drinks. Also, the Israeli occupation government said it will ban 37 aid groups from war-torn Gaza, the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem on March 1, a move described as having potentially devastating consequences for Palestinians. The vast majority of Gaza’s more than 2 million residents rely on aid groups for food, water, healthcare, shelter and other essentials after Israel’s more than two-year war destroyed much of the territory.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67331&slug=israel-continues-to-violate-trumps-so-called-ceasefire-in-gaza-killing-two-and-restricting-aid


Al Jazeera - March 4, 2026 By Sarah Shamim
{Why are the US and Israel framing the ongoing conflict as a religious war?
US troops reportedly told the war in Iran is intended to bring about biblical end times, Armageddon. As conflict in the Middle East enters its fifth day on Wednesday, American and Israeli officials are pushing rhetoric suggesting that the campaign against Iran is a religious war. On Tuesday, Muslim civil rights organisation, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), condemned the Pentagon’s use of this rhetoric, deeming it “dangerous” and “anti-Muslim”.
The United States and Israel began their attack on Iran on Saturday and have continued to carry out strikes on Iran since then. In retaliation, Iran has hit back at targets in Israel, and US military assets in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Cyprus. A US watchdog has reported that US troops have been told the war is intended to “induce the biblical end of times”. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also recently stated that Iran is run by “religious fanatic lunatics”.
What are American and Israeli leaders saying?
US watchdog Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) said it has received emailed complaints that US service members were told the war with Iran is meant to “cause Armageddon”, or the biblical “end times”. An unnamed noncommissioned officer wrote in an email to MRFF that a commander had urged officers “to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ”. The MRFF is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to upholding religious freedom for US service members. The officer claimed the commander had told the unit that Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”. Israeli and US leaders have also resorted to religious rhetoric in public. Last month, Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, told conservative US commentator Tucker Carlson during an interview that it would be “fine” if Israel took “essentially the entire Middle East” because it was promised the land in the Bible. However, Huckabee added that Israel was not seeking to do so. Speaking to the media on Tuesday this week, Rubio said: “Iran is run by lunatics – religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons.” And, the previous day in a Pentagon news briefing, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said: “Crazy regimes like Iran, hell-bent on prophetic Islamic delusions, cannot have nuclear weapons.” In its statement, CAIR claimed that Hegseth’s words are “an apparent reference to Shia beliefs about religious figures arising near the end times”. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referenced the Torah, comparing Iran with an ancient biblical enemy, the Amalekites. The “Amalek” are known in Jewish tradition as representing “pure evil”. “We read in this week’s Torah portion, ‘Remember what Amalek did to you.’ We remember – and we act.” CAIR said: “We are not surprised to see Benjamin Netanyahu once again using the biblical story of Amalek – which claims that God commanded the Israelites to murder every man, woman, child and animal in a pagan nation that attacked them – to justify Israel’s mass murder of civilians in Iran, just as it did in Gaza.” The statement added that every American should be “deeply disturbed by the ‘holy war’ rhetoric” being spread by the US military, Hegseth and Netanyahu to justify the war on Iran. “Mr Hegseth’s derisive comment about ‘Islamist prophetic delusions’, an apparent reference to Shia beliefs about religious figures arising near the end times, was unacceptable. So is US military commanders telling troops that war with Iran is a biblical step towards Armageddon.”
Why are US and Israeli leaders framing the conflict with Iran as a religious war?
By attempting to frame the conflict as a holy war, leaders are using theological beliefs to “justify action, mobilise political opinion, and leverage support”, Jolyon Mitchell, a professor at Durham University in the UK, told Al Jazeera. “Many on both sides of this conflict believe that they have God on their side. God is enlisted in this conflict, as with many others, to support acts of violence. The demonisation and dehumanisation of the enemy, the ‘other’, will inevitably make building peace after the conflict even harder,” Mitchell said. “There are several overlapping reasons, and they operate at different levels: domestic mobilisation, civilisational framing, and strategic narrative construction,” Ibrahim Abusharif, an associate professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, told Al Jazeera. Domestic mobilisation refers to rallying a country’s own people. Leaders can frame conflict as religious and hence morally clear and urgent, rallying public support, he said. In a video circulating on social media this week, Christian Zionist pastor and televangelist John Hagee is seen delivering a sermon promoting the US assault on Iran. Hagee said that Russia, Turkiye, “what’s left of Iran” and “groups of Islamics” will march into Israel. He said that God will “crush” the “adversaries of Israel”. “Religious language mobilises domestic constituencies,” Abusharif said, explaining that in the US, this connects deeply with many evangelicals and Christian Zionists, because they already see Middle East wars as part of a religious “end times” story. “References to the ‘end times’, the Book of Revelation, or biblical enemies are not incidental; they activate a cultural script already present in American political theology.” Civilisational framing refers to the creation of an “us vs them” dichotomy, casting the conflict as a clash between whole ways of life or faiths, not just a dispute over borders or policy, he added. Hence, statements such as Hegseth’s reference to “prophetic Islamic delusions” simplify the terms of the war in the minds of ordinary people. “Wars are difficult to justify in technical strategic language,” Abusharif said. “Casting the conflict as a struggle between ‘civilisation and fanaticism’, or between biblical ‘good and evil’, transforms a complicated regional confrontation into a moral drama that ordinary audiences can easily grasp.” “Israeli leadership has long used biblical referents as political language. We all are familiar with it. The narratives have become globalised. In Israeli political discourse, this language situates contemporary conflict within a long historical narrative of Jewish survival, and it signals existential stakes,” Abusharif said.
Have US or Israeli leaders made religious references before?
Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have used the term “Amalek” before in reference to Palestinians in Gaza during Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Historically, during wars or military confrontations, US presidents and senior officials have also invoked the Bible or used Christian language. President George W Bush invoked similar language after the September 11, 2001 attacks. On September 16, 2001, Bush said: “This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while.” The Crusades were a series of religiously framed wars, mainly between the 11th and 13th centuries, in which the papacy fought against Muslim rulers for territory. The White House later tried to distance Bush from the word “crusade” to clarify that Bush was not waging a war against Muslims. Abusharif said that the war on Iran is about power and politics, but using religious rhetoric energises supporters and “moralises” the conflict. “The war itself is not theological. It is geopolitical. But the language surrounding it increasingly draws on sacred imagery and civilisational narratives. That rhetoric can mobilise supporters and frame the conflict in morally absolute terms,” Abusharif said. “Yet it also carries risks: once a war is cast in sacred language, political compromise becomes harder, expectations become higher, and the global perception of the conflict can shift in ways that complicate diplomacy.”} Video-Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/why-are-the-us-and-israel-framing-the-ongoing-conflict-as-a-religious-war

Al Jazeera - March 4, 2026 By Graham Keeley
{An outlier for condemning Israel’s Gaza genocide, Spain says no to Iran war
Spain’s socialist president is locked in a war of words with Washington, which has threatened to cut trade ties.
Madrid, Spain – Spain has pledged to keep opposing the war waged by the United States and Israel on Iran after President Donald Trump said Washington would cut off all commercial links with Madrid. Trump’s rebuke on Tuesday came after Washington’s European ally refused to let the US military use its bases for missions linked to strikes on Iran. “Spain has been terrible,” the president told reporters on Tuesday during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, adding, “We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to do with Spain.” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, one of the few left-wing leaders in Europe to condemn the US-Israel attack on Iran as “unjustifiable” and “dangerous”, said in a televised nationwide address on Wednesday that Spain’s position was “no to the war”. “This is how humanity’s great disasters start … The world cannot solve its problems with conflicts and bombs.” His position cements Spain’s status as an outlier in Europe; Madrid has been one of the few European nations to consistently condemn Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. At the Patron Bar in Malasana, Madrid, Gema Tamarit watched Sanchez’s address on the television in the restaurant, which turned up the volume. “That Trump is mad. We are not afraid of him. Good for Sanchez for sticking up to him. Some more leaders in Europe should do the same,” said Tamarit, 53, a software engineer. “Of course, Iran is an awful regime, but is this the way to change things, by going to war like this?” A series of opinion polls suggests that more than half of Spaniards oppose Trump’s foreign policy. According to a poll published by Eurobazuka in February, 53 percent said they opposed the US president’s policies, the third highest group by nationality after the French and Belgians, with 57 percent and 62 percent, respectively. In another poll published in January, nearly 60 percent of Spaniards said they disagreed with the US president’s operation to arrest the former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to a survey published by GESOP for Prensa Iberica media group. The Eurobazuka poll said 48 percent of Europeans considered Trump to be “an enemy of Europe”, compared with 10 percent who believed he was an ally.
Trump’s trade threat
Analysts said the US may not be able to inflict much commercial damage on Spain, as it is part of the European Union. Last month, the US Supreme Court declared Trump’s threat to impose a range of tariffs worldwide as illegal. Victor Burguete, an expert in trade and economics at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs think tank, said the only way Trump could act against Spain would be to prove the US faced a situation of national emergency. “It is not likely that he can prove acting against Spain is a national emergency,” he told Al Jazeera. “I think this is more a threat than a real possibility of ending trade with Spain. The dispute erupted when the US relocated 15 aircraft, including refuelling tankers, from the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spain on Monday after the country’s socialist government said it would not allow them to be used to attack Iran. Trump has also referred to Spain’s refusal to raise spending on NATO from 2 to 5 percent of gross domestic product, saying “Spain has absolutely nothing that we need.” Sanchez has provoked Trump’s anger with policies including refusing to let vessels transporting weapons to Israel dock in Spain and condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Spain was among the first European nations to recognise a State of Palestine in 2024, along with Ireland, Slovenia and Norway. “Trump is just angry because Spain has refused to raise NATO spending and condemned the technology companies connected with social media. And done this publicly,” said Burguete. Spain last month announced it was considering banning children under 16 from accessing social media, and was studying legal action against Grok, Instagram and TikTok. Bruguete said he believed Sanchez took this stance against the war because he opposed the “strongman politics” of Trump, but also because it played well domestically before the general elections next year. “There is no doubt that the foreign policy of Trump is not popular in Spain,” he added. Spain is the world’s top exporter of olive oil and sells auto parts, steel and chemicals to the US, but is less vulnerable to Trump’s threats of economic punishment than other European nations. The US had a trade surplus with Spain for the fourth year in a row in 2025, at $4.8bn, according to US Census Bureau Data, with US exports of $26.1bn and imports of $21.3bn. The EU said on Wednesday it expected the US to abide by a trade deal with the EU, was “ready to act” to safeguard its interests, and stood in “full solidarity” with member states, but did not name Spain.} Video-Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/spain-no-to-israel-us-war-iran


Al-Aqsa Mosque
Quds news - March 4, 2026
{Israel Closes Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque for Fifth Consecutive Day Despite Ramadan
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- Israel has continued to close Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem for the fifth consecutive day, citing the assault on Iran, barring Palestinian worshipers from entering the holy site during the month of Ramadan. Palestine’s Jerusalem Governorate reported that the Israeli forces prevented worshipers from entering the mosque, citing a state of emergency. The forces maintained a heavy presence around the mosque’s gates and across the Old City, preventing access to its courtyards. Israeli forces had initially sealed off the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Saturday morning, forcing worshipers to leave and preventing the performance of the Isha and Taraweeh prayers, hours after the Israeli-US offensive on Iran began. Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem and one of al-Aqsa’s senior imams, condemned the “unjustified” decision. “It contravenes freedom of worship and suggests that the occupation authorities are asserting control over the mosque and stripping the Islamic Waqf of its authority to administer it.” Alongside the mosque’s closure, Israel has restricted the entry of Palestinians into the holy site during the first days of Ramadan.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67329&slug=israel-closes-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-for-fifth-consecutive-day-despite-ramadan


Videoscreen grab: Mourning as part of Ramadan - Safe us from Hell
Al Jazeera - March 3, 2026 By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and Reuters
{UN chief warns of Israeli-made humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid war on Iran
Crossings have been shut since Saturday as the displaced and war-weary population of Gaza remains dependent on humanitarian aid. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for Israel to reopen Gaza’s border crossings, which have been closed by Israel since its forces launched a war against Iran with the United States. “It is imperative that all crossings be reopened … as soon as possible,” Guterres’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. “In recent days, our partners have been forced to ration fuel, prioritise life-saving operations, albeit in reduced capacity as our local stocks are going down.” Dujarric said there were some stockpiles in Gaza but “when the doors are shut, we obviously stretch whatever we have to make it last longer.” The Rafah crossing into Gaza from Egypt, the only gateway for Palestinians in Gaza to the outside world that does not pass through Israel, had reopened for the movement of people on February 2, allowing a limited number of people to leave for the first time in months and a trickle to return to the devastated enclave to reunite with family. Thousands of Palestinians need urgent medical attention outside Gaza but have not yet been allowed to leave. Israel shut down the crossing again on Saturday as it launched attacks on Iran, citing “security adjustments”. The crossing is considered vital for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the evacuation of critically ill patients. Israeli authorities said late on Monday that they would reopen the Karem Abu Salem crossing, known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis, to allow for the “gradual entry of humanitarian aid” into the territory. That crossing sits at the intersection of the Gaza Strip boundary with the Israeli and Egyptian borders and was also shut on Saturday. The ⁠UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) expressed optimism on Tuesday. “The crossings will ‌be opened, and that is timely for us, and we need to get in ⁠aid as fast ⁠as we can,” Samer Abdel Jaber, the WFP’s regional ⁠director for the ⁠Middle East, ⁠North Africa and Eastern Europe, told reporters. Gaza is wholly dependent on fuel brought in ‌by trucks from Israel and Egypt, and a lack of supplies puts hospital operations further at risk and threatens water and sanitation services. Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, Israeli border restrictions have depleted stocks of medicines, reconstruction materials, food and water inside the Strip, worsening conditions that were already dire after years of an Israeli blockade. A UN inquiry in September found genocidal intent in Israel’s war on Gaza, a landmark moment after nearly two years of war. In 2023, South Africa filed a case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague against Israel, accusing it of conduct in Gaza that was tantamount to genocide. That case is ongoing.
West Bank tensions spiral
In the meantime, Israeli forces have continued the closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday. Palestine’s Jerusalem Governorate reported that the army prevented worshippers from entering the mosque, citing a state of emergency. The compound, the third holiest site in Islam, was sealed off on Saturday morning, hours after the Israeli-US military offensive on Iran began. For a second consecutive day, Israeli forces raided the Askar refugee camp east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, shutting down its entrances and searching several homes. Last month, the Israeli government approved a plan to claim large areas of the West Bank as “state property” if Palestinians cannot prove ownership, prompting a regional outcry and accusations of “de facto annexation”. More than 80 UN member states condemned the move and called on Israel to reverse the decision, which they said was contrary to Israel’s obligations under international law.} Video-Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/un-chief-warns-of-israeli-made-humanitarian-crisis-in-gaza-amid-war-on-iran


Videoscreen grab: Nida Allam
Al Jazeera - March 3, 2026 By Joseph Stepansky
{Anti-war candidates pose early test for US Democrats after attacks on Iran
Vowing to abolish ICE, reset US-Israel policy and put workers first, candidates say Democrats need ‘unapologetic’ voices. A punishing 2024 election cycle for US Democrats has accelerated a years-long debate over the party’s future and what voters want in a political age dominated by United States President Donald Trump. In two early primary races for US congressional seats, 32-year-old Nida Allam and 26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh hope to provide an answer, with both launching brazen progressive campaigns built on unapologetic stances calling for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a hard reset of US policy amid Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the reversal of a rights backslide, and worker-first policies. In the wake of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and Iran’s resulting strikes on countries across the region, the pair have also vowed to grow anti-war voices in Congress calling for checks on Trump’s power. Their success will not only take the temperature of Democratic voters in the US, but could also send a message to party leadership still strategising how it will approach a deeply consequential midterm season. The November vote will decide which major US party – Democrat or Republican – controls the House of Representatives and Senate, and in turn, the shape of the latter half of Trump’s second term. Up first will be Allam, whose March 3 primary for North Carolina’s fourth congressional district, a tech and research hub that includes the city of Durham, pits her against Representative Valerie Foushee. In 2022, the incumbent Foushee defeated Allam, who cut her political teeth as a regional director for US Senator Bernie Sanders, in a crowded primary race buoyed by a deluge of outside spending, including millions in funding from a super PAC linked to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). “My leadership has always been rooted in being unapologetically proud of who I am,” said Allam, whose parents are from India and Pakistan and who, in 2020, became the first Muslim woman ever elected to public office – her post as county commissioner – in North Carolina. “If we don’t step into these moments of discomfort and take these risks, then I don’t know what world I’m going to be leaving behind for my children,” Allam told Al Jazeera. “The time of just being able to silence our votes to push us into submission is gone. The working class is sick and tired of being told to wait our turn.” Two weeks later, Abughazaleh, a journalist and researcher of the US far right, will face a crowded field of 15 Democrats vying to replace retiring US Representative Jan Schakowsky. She is considered one of three top contenders in the March 17 race to represent the vastly ethnically and politically diverse district that snakes across the northern Chicago suburbs, taking on local mayor Daniel Biss and state senator Laura Fine. “I think part of the reason that our campaign has been so successful, part of the reason that our launch went so viral … is because a lot of people saw someone just speaking honestly and openly about the Democratic Party needing to, as I said then, grow a [expletive] spine,” said Abughazaleh, who is Palestinian American, the granddaughter of survivors of the Nakba. “People are sick of BS,” she told Al Jazeera. “They want someone who will say what they believe and not constantly focus group test their views or their statements. ”
A punishing 2024 cycle
The enthusiasm surrounding candidates like Allam and Abughazaleh, and a slate of other progressives facing early primaries, including fellow congressional candidates Junaid Ahmed in Illinois and Frederick Douglass Haynes III in Texas, follows a 2024 election cycle that set back the party’s leftward flank. That segment grew dramatically in Congress in 2018, with the upset victories of New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Massachusetts’s Ayanna Pressley, and Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib, who became the first Palestinian American woman and the first Muslim woman elected to the chamber. Subsequent elections saw the “squad” grow, with victories for Jamaal Bowman in New York, Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, Cori Bush in Missouri and Summer Lee in Pennsylvania. In 2024, Bush and Bowman both lost their primary races, facing challengers buoyed by millions of dollars in advertisement buys, with AIPAC and its affiliated super PAC spending more than $100m across the primary season. Amid the onslaught, organisations that back progressives took a largely defensive stance. Usamah Andrabi, the communications director for Justice Democrats, said “2024 was a cycle where the super PACs really organised themselves in their opposition, particularly AIPAC and crypto, and threatened to take out our entire slate in Congress”. “I think it became clear to us that the priority had to be protecting our incumbents against this $100m [AIPAC] threat,” he said. “We left that cycle being very clear-eyed that no matter the outcome of the November results, we were going to go full steam ahead and punch back this cycle.” Meanwhile, the 2024 “uncommitted movement”, in which voters cast “uncommitted ballots” in the presidential Democratic primary to protest Washington’s continued support for Israel amid the genocide in Gaza, further underscored the Democratic leadership’s failure to reflect a large portion of voters, he said. Polls have repeatedly suggested that a majority of Democrats are opposed to Washington’s continued unconditional support for Israel. “We learned what we’ve always known, which is that the Democratic Party leadership and the establishment group of donors, advisers and career politicians who have occupied this party for so long are deeply out of step with the grassroots and everyday people in this party,” Andrabi said. “They should be looking to what people are marching in the streets for, what millions of people across the country are demanding.”
Personal origins
For Allam, the current political moment is a culmination of the overlapping realities that have shaped her life. She shares the outrage over the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy that has soared in recent months, buoyed by several violent incidents involving immigration enforcement agents, including the killing of two US citizens. But Allam also points to the genesis of ICE itself, created as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks that saw the federal government target Muslims and Arab Americans across the country. In the wake of those attacks, she recalled her third-grade teacher asking her to explain why Muslims “hated Americans”. She further attributes her political awakening to the 2015 killing of her friends Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha, long charging that the attack was fuelled by hate, and not by a parking dispute, as police officially said. “That was a huge awakening for me to see that the reason it’s so easy to dismiss hate and bigotry against Muslims, against immigrants, is because we don’t have a seat at the table,” she said, “and we’re always demonised and dehumanised by our leaders.” A day before her primary election, Allam released an advertisement focusing on the deadly bombing of a girls’ school in Iran amid US-Israel attacks over the weekend, vowing to be your “proudly uncompromised pro-peace leader in Washington”. Her opponent, incumbent Foushee, has also condemned the war as “an unconstitutional escalation that risks dragging the United States into another catastrophic and endless war in the Middle East”, but the war has upped scrutiny of her past support from defence contractors and pro-Israel groups. Abughazaleh, meanwhile, recalled visiting the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August 2024, where she spent the night with delegates of the uncommitted movement amid shared outrage over party officials’ refusal to allow a Palestinian to address the convention, even denying Ruwa Romman, a highly respected Palestinian-American Georgia state lawmaker, the opportunity. “It wasn’t supposed to be an overnight sit-in. We were just supposed to be there until they decided that this was discrimination, but they didn’t, and so we slept on the concrete,” said Abughazaleh. “I grew up as an Arab kid in post 9/11 Texas, and I heard slurs thrown by people that were DNC attendees that I have never heard in my life,” she added. Fourteen months later, Abughazaleh experienced the Trump administration’s Department of Justice firsthand when she was indicted for taking part in a demonstration outside of an ICE detention centre in Broadview, Illinois. Federal prosecutors said Abughazaleh “physically hindered and impeded” an immigration enforcement agent, who was subsequently “forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed to avoid injuring any of the conspirators”. “It’s still surreal to see your name underneath the ‘United States government versus …'” reflected Abughazaleh, who has condemned the move as a blatant attack on constitutional rights. “But this was not a surprise … We knew that the administration would violate laws and abuse their power in this way,” she said.
The final stretch?
Both candidates have faced large ad buys as their election days approach. While Allam’s opponent, Foushee, has sworn off taking money from AIPAC this time around, at least one super PAC in the race appears to have ties to pro-Israel interests. A large portion of Foushee’s support has come from AI super PACs, with Allam’s opposition to an AI data centre in the district a key issue of the race. Allam has also seen an influx of money from outside progressive groups. All told, the at least $4.2m in outside money that has poured into the race makes it the most expensive in state history, according to the non-profit news site NC Newsline. A super PAC reportedly linked to AIPAC donors, dubbed Elect Chicago Women, has waded into Abughazaleh’s race. An analysis by the public radio station WBEZ Chicago found “AIPAC donors and affiliates” have spent $13.7m on four Chicago-area races, including Abughazaleh’s. Still, both candidates see signs of hope in recent elections, particularly New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s definitive victory last year and the upset primary victory of Analilia Mejia in New Jersey in early February. “It’s one of these things where the establishment still tries to pretend that it is impossible for candidates like Mamdani, candidates like Nida Allam … candidates like myself, to be able to win, and that’s just not true,” said Abughazaleh. Like Mamdani, she has run an unorthodox campaign that leans into a ubiquitous online presence to reach younger voters, while simultaneously operating a “mutual aid centre” from her campaign office to better connect with the community. “I think that seeing Mamdani’s victory in New York made a lot of people … feel like their vote could mean something,” Abughazaleh said. “Which many people haven’t felt in a long, long time.” Allam, meanwhile, said Mamdani’s success underscored the importance of thinking beyond a Republican-Democratic binary, particularly when it comes to supporting local communities over using tax dollars to “send bombs, to destroy hospitals, to destroy schools overseas”. “These are working-class issues,” she said, “and I think that is what these moments are showing us. Our own Democratic establishment needs to see that we are failing the very base that we say that we stand up for.”} Video-Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/2/anti-war-candidates-pose-early-test-for-us-democrats-after-attacks-on-iran

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