"Governments routinely acknowledge that Israeli settlements are unlawful. Yet the commercial, financial and political structures sustaining them continue uninterrupted," writes Dania Abul Haj. Read more about the sale of Israeli settlements in the UK and US: dawnmena.org/the-u-s-and-...

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Sinjil, grassroots volunteers have stepped in, as in other towns, to defend the community from rising Israeli settler violence. "We've been left on our own...facing settlers supported by their government." See Reuters' story: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

"The U.S. military presence is increasingly viewed as a political burden rather than a security guarantee," Jamal al Tahat writes. A new security strategy is needed, shifting "stabilizing the Gulf from an American responsibility to a regional one.” Read more: dawnmena.org/the-u-s-mili...

Three Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon in March that killed 24 civilians – 12 of them children – wiping out families, must be investigated as war crimes, @amnesty.org said in a new report. See Amnesty International's research: www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...

In 2023-2025, Israel advanced de facto West Bank annexation at an unprecedented pace through governance changes, settlement expansion, outpost authorization, land seizure and expulsion of Palestinian communities, @peacenowisrael.bsky.social & Kerem Navot say. Report: peacenow.org.il/en/annus-mir...

Lebanon’s “government expects its citizens to trust it just because it speaks reform language. But citizens trust the state…when it does things that materially improve their everyday life,” said Jad El Dilati. More from El Dilati, Maya Mikdashi & @mbazzi.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8U9...

"American and Israeli airstrikes shattered our universities, cultural sites and medical sector, even leveling" the institute, producing "cancer medications my mother needed. In those ruins, the myth of humanitarian intervention died," writes Shohreh Laici. Read more: dawnmena.org/from-the-wor...

In a rush to provide targets in Iran, senior US military commanders bypassed warnings that intelligence on targets was severely outdated and approved strikes — including one on a school in Minab, killing nearly 200 children and adults. New @cnn.com report: www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/p...

"Having failed to achieve any of his promises of transforming Tunisia into a paradise of prosperity...[President] Saied finds himself struggling to identify suitable scapegoats." Yusra Ghannouchi writes on imprisonment of her father, opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi: dawnmena.org/tunisia-sits...

One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors, Hussam Abu Safiya, is almost unrecognisable due to severe injuries inflicted during 18 months of Israeli detention without charge or trial, his lawyer said, and faces “tangible danger to his life.” @theguardian.com report: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Israel has long used archeology and heritage to justify seizing control of occupied Palestinian land. Israel's draft Heritage Authority Law was yet another vehicle intended to enable Israeli settlers to advance this aim, writes Yonatan Mizrachi. Read more: dawnmena.org/archaeology-...

Visitors to Saudi Arabia, including those traveling for tourism and religious pilgrimages, risk being detained, and subjected to grossly unfair trials and lengthy prison sentences for social media activity, @amnesty.org and @alqst.bsky.social report. Read more: www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...

Mimi Syed, @wesjbryant.bsky.social, and Charles Blaha explain their report with @costsofwar.bsky.social on Israel's precise, lethal quadcopter use in Gaza, documenting multiple targeted, single-round shots against children, many from quadcopters. Report: costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/Quadco...

Israel's military killed 235 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023. This is the result of "Israel’s broader policy that allows the killing of Palestinians without accountability,” B'Tselem's director Yuli Novak says. Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"More than 20,000 kids killed in Gaza during the genocide. That is 2% of all children in Gaza ... It absolutely shocks the conscience that the world let this continue," Omar Shakir told @lbc.co.uk, after a new UN report found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and deliberately targeted children.

The Trump administration declared "a largely political and humanitarian movement to be an illegal terrorist one," with little proof that Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood's actions "come anywhere close" to terrorism, Daoud Kuttab told Aaron Magid. Read more: dawnmena.org/u-s-terror-d...

“By unilaterally declaring the power to seize Palestinian land, property and buildings for their own use without consent, compensation or redress, the Board of Peace is taking a page out of Israel’s repressive playbook.” More from Omar Shakir in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...

“While Gaza’s survival economy has emerged from the collapse of infrastructure, a parallel system is taking shape among displaced Palestinians in Egypt. It's driven by exclusion rather than destruction,” writes Athar Ihab Abu Samra. Read more: dawnmena.org/a-survival-e...

Join DAWN and @femenanet.bsky.social, Monday, June 29, 10 AM ET for "Regional Consequences of War with Iran: Civilian Harm, Repression, and Sectarian Tensions" With: Sussan Tahmasebi, Nahid Naghshbandi, Maryam Al-Khawaja, Sara Sheykhali, and Niki Akhavan Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting ​in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday." See Reuters' coverage: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Join DAWN for an online discussion Thursday, June 25, 1 PM ET: "Reform and Resistance in Lebanon Amid Israel’s Assault and the Regional War" With expert speakers: @mbazzi.bsky.social, Jad El Dilati, and Maya Mikdashi More information and event registration here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Egyptians have felt U.S.-Israeli war on Iran at the gas station and the dinner table, writes Hend Shaheen. While Egypt's economy has shown some resilience, few Egyptians have the means to weather the economic shock. Read more: dawnmena.org/not-our-war-...

"The Israeli strategy of deploying the U.S. to destroy Iran has backfired. And ultimately there will be a reckoning in the U.S. as to why did we go into this war, what were the premises of thinking that we will be successful, and who was responsible," @valinasr.bsky.social tells @democracynow.org.

A new @amnesty.org investigation found that the Israeli military used mass “evacuation” and no-return orders to unlawfully displace hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon, violating international humanitarian law. See Amnesty's report: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Did Iran win the war? "On the narrative scoreboard, Tehran is trying to convert survival into victory. The task for analysts is not to accept that conversion, but to ask who pays for it and whose voices are missing from the verdict," Mohsen Askari writes. Read more: dawnmena.org/did-iran-win...

"The greatest threat to this agreement is...Israel," said Raed Jarrar. "To avoid Israel again upending the ceasefire, Pres. Trump should state publicly that any Israeli strike or move to derail the agreement will be met with a suspension of arms transfers." Read more: dawnmena.org/dawn-stateme...

"Israel and the U.S.' decision to launch this war violated the UN Charter," said Omar Shakir. "Unless Congress and other states press for accountability, the takeaway will be that states can wage war whenever and however they choose." See DAWN's full statement: dawnmena.org/dawn-stateme...

“The Lebanese state takes from its citizens through taxes and tariffs while essential services those revenues should fund are either missing, privatized ... or reserved for those who can afford alternatives,” writes Jad El Dilati. More on Lebanon's reform government: dawnmena.org/the-state-ta...

New video "appears to contradict the Israeli military’s account of the shooting that killed 7-month-old Sam Abu Haikal in his mother’s arms, showing the family’s car slowing near a military post before soldiers opened fire," @theguardian.com reports. Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians ​in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli security forces provide protection to settlers, a UN commission says in a new report. See Reuters' story: www.reuters.com/world/middle...