The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 11:50

Israeli occupation forces raid Jenin as the military operation in the area enters its 39th consecutive day.

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 11:39

❗️Al-Akhbar's correspondent in southern Lebanon:

"The Israeli army is carrying out combing operations from the Al-Asi outpost toward the area between Mays al-Jabal and Blida."

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 11:02

❗️Israeli occupation forces continue their assault on the West Bank city of Tulkarem and its camp for the 33rd consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 20th day, amid military reinforcements, raids and the burning of homes.

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 10:34

❗️Israeli occupation forces arrested several young men after they confronted Israeli settlers who released their livestock on Palestinian lands in the Huwara area in Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, occupied West Bank.

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 09:07

❗️Al Jazeera correspondent:

“A Palestinian was killed in an Israeli drone strike in the center of Rafah, southern Gaza.”

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 00:58

IMF, World Bank reconstruction funds for Lebanon contingent on 'normalization': Report

Western officials have stated that Lebanon's access to international funding will be tied to political pressure to normalize ties with Israel and to disarm the resistance

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 22:03

❗️The moment that the Palestinian Jamil Zioud Abu Jaab carried out the run-over operation near Hadera.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 20:48

‘We are staying’: Israeli war chief vows indefinite occupation of Lebanon, Syria

The Israeli army has been relentlessly bombarding both countries over the past few days

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 19:12

❗️Israeli Chief of the General Staff, Herzi Halevi:

"I have seen people speak in inquiries with trembling voices, saying, ‘We failed.’ It is not easy for a commander to say, ‘I failed’—and in a moment, I will say it about myself as well. They explain, take responsibility, acknowledge the difficulty, and I am telling you there is value in this—first and foremost for the sake of learning. But people also need to go through the process, to experience, feel, and confront it in order to move forward in a better way."

"I believe that an organization or an individual who cannot stand and look failure in the eye will find it very, very difficult to correct their course. Since October 7th, 2023—Simchat Torah—I make sure, every single day, multiple times a day, to look failure in the eye. And I tell you: do not try to forget, do not look away. Not from a place of weakness, but with immense strength—because that is how we will become stronger."

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 17:54

❗️At least one person was killed and another wounded in two Israeli drone strikes targeting a car in the city of Hermel, eastern Lebanon.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 16:51

Jailed PKK leader makes historic call for Kurdish group to 'dissolve, give up arms'

The PKK organization has been engaged in an armed struggle against the Turkish state for several decades

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 16:35

❗️Three people were injured after an explosive remnant from the Israeli occupation detonated in the Al-Janina neighborhood, east of Rafah city, in southern Gaza.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 15:47

BREAKING | 10 Israelis injuried, 3 of them critically, in a run-over attack at the Karkur junction near Hadera in the 1948 territories.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 15:12

BREAKING | PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan calls on his party to lay down its weapons and disband.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 15:01

❗️46 Palestinian women and child prisoners arrived in Khan Yunis after being released as part of the seventh phase of the prisoner exchange agreement between the Palestinian resistance and Israel.

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 11:44

❗️Israeli occupation forces burn homes in Nour Shams Camp, east of Tulkarem, occupied West Bank.

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 11:16

❗️Palestinian Center for the Protection of Journalists (PJPS):

○ "Freed journalists reveal horrific details about the torture they were subjected to during their detention."

○ "Journalist Mahmoud Aliwa was subjected to double torture because he was a journalist, as one of the officers frankly told him that his profession was the reason for his increased suffering."

○ "Journalist Mohammad al-Sultan was subjected to harsh interrogation sessions, which included physical and verbal assaults and brutal treatment."

○ "Journalist Khodr Abdel Aal endured deprivation of food, medical care, and religious practices for ten months of detention in torture centers."

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 10:45

Khan Yunis Municipality is restoring and decorating streets and neighborhoods devastated by the Israeli aggression in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan.

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 10:23

The funeral procession for the 95 citizens from Aitaroun, killed during the Israeli aggression, begins its journey toward southern Lebanon.

The Cradle

28 Feb 2025 01:15

Israeli army's 7 Oct probe further confirms implementation of Hannibal Directive

Israeli choppers fired over 11,000 shells on 'anything that moved' near the Gaza separation wall on 7 October 2023

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 23:53

❗️Aitaroun in southern Lebanon will hold a funeral tomorrow for 95 citizens killed during the Israeli aggression, with half of the victims being civilians.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 21:28

❗️An Israeli drone carried out. raid on the town of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr in southern Lebanon with no injuries reported.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 19:25

A Palestinian child from Gaza kisses his father’s feet in a heartfelt gesture of respect and love as they reunite following his release from Israeli occupation prisons, as part of the seventh phase of the prisoner exchange agreement between the Palestinian resistance and Israel.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 18:20

Barzani’s deadly betrayal: The Yezidi Massacre of 2007

Betrayed by those meant to protect them, Yezidis accuse Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani’s KDP of orchestrating Iraq’s deadliest terror attack. The Cradle investigates what really happened in Sinjar in 2007.

By William Van Wagenen

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 17:38

The Palestinian, Jamil Zioud Abu Jaab, carried out the run-over operation near Hadera.

He is from the town of Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, but lives in the 1948 territories.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 16:38

BREAKING | Multiple airstrikes launched from an Israeli drone in eastern Lebanon.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 15:58

❗️Israeli police are deployed at the site of the run-over operation east of Hadera.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 15:34

❗️PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan's latest statement:

"The PKK was born in the 20th century, in the most violent epoch of the history of humanity, amidst the two World wars, under the shadow of the experience of real socialism and the cold war around the World.

The outright denial of Kurdish reality, restrictions on basic rights and freedoms - especially freedom of expression - played a significant role in its emergence and development.

The PKK has been under the heavy realities of the century and the system of real socialism in terms of its adopted theory, program, strategy and tactics. In the 1990s, with the collapse of real socialism due to internal dynamics, the dissolution of the denial of Kurdish identity in the country, and improvements in freedom of expression, led to weakening of the PKK´s foundational meaningfulness and resulted in excessive repetition.

Throughout the history of more than 1000 years, Turkish and Kurdish relations were defined in terms of mutual cooperation and alliance, and Turks and Kurds have found it essential to remain in this voluntary alliance to maintain their existence and survive against hegemonic Powers.

The last 200 years of capitalist modernity have been marked by primarily with the aim to break this alliance. The forces involved, in line with their class-based interests, have played a key role in furthering this objective. With monist interpretations of the Republic, this process has accelerated. Today, the main task is to restructure the historical relationship, which has become extremely fragile, without excluding consideration for beliefs with the spirit of fraternity.

The need for a democratic society is inevitable. The PKK, the longest and most extensive insurgency and armed movement in the history of the Republic, found social base and support, and was primarily inspired by the fact that the channels of democratic politics were closed.

The inevitable outcome of the extreme nationalist deviations - such as a separate nation-state, federation, administrative autonomy, or culturalist solutions - fails to answer the historical sociology of the society.

Respect for identities, free self-expression, democratic self-organization of each segment of society based on their own socio-economic and political structures, are only possible through the existence of a democratic society and political space.

The second century of the Republic can achieve and assure permanent and fraternal continuity only if it is crowned with democracy. There is no alternative to democracy in the pursuit and realization of a political system. Democratic consensus is the fundamental way.

The language of the epoch of peace and democratic society needs to be developed in accordance with this reality.

The call made by Mr. Devlet Bahceli, along with the will expressed by Mr. President, and the positive responses from the other political parties towards the known call, has created an environment in which I am making a call for the laying down of arms, and I take on the historical responsibility of this call.

As in the case with any modern community and party whose existence has not been abolished by force, would voluntarily do, convene your congress and make a decision; all groups must lay their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself.

I convey my greetings to all those who believe in co-existence and who look forward to my call."

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 15:09

Palestinian prisoner Asma Shatat reunites with her children in the Gaza Strip following her release, part of the seventh phase of the prisoner exchange.

The Cradle

27 Feb 2025 14:53

WATCH | The moment Trump's envoy to the region, Steven Witkoff, claimed that Lebanon and Syria could join the Abraham Peace Accords.