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Attacks hit three southern Beirut neighbourhoods, fighting in the south intensifies as Hezbollah engages Israeli army.

‘Black rain’ in Iran and the environmental cost of war : Short Wave  NPR

The US-Israeli attacks target Iranian cities as the conflict spreads to the region and causes a global energy crisis.

Palestinian teen killed by Israeli live fire near Ramallah A 17-year-old Palestinian was killed and another person wounded by Israeli gunfire near Sinjil, north of Ramallah, on Monday night, Wafa news agency reported, citing the Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs. The authority said Israeli forces were withholding the body of the teenager, identified as Salim Sami Salim Fuqaha. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said Israeli forces prevented its medical crews from reaching the wounded, while local sources said troops blocked access to the area.

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Iran parliament speaker says regional security can only be established by local states The US military presence in the Middle East does not bring security, Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf told state TV on Tuesday, pointing out that regional security needs to be established by regional countries. "The face and order of the Middle East will change, but not according to US plans. We, the Islamic countries of the region, will establish regional order and security in the economic and security dimensions," Qalibaf said, adding that US forces need to leave the region. A view of a damaged residential neighbourhood following a military strike on the Iranian capital Tehran on 15 March, 2026. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iran war: Trump laments lack of support over Hormuz  DW.com

As war engulfs Iran, neighbouring states quietly prepare for a potential refugee exodus across already fragile borders.

Israel launched a wave of strikes on Tehran and Beirut on Tuesday while attacks in Baghdad drew neighbouring Iraq deeper into the Middle East war that has sparked economic turmoil across the globe. The Iranian capital, under near-daily bombardment since a joint US-Israeli attack started the war on February 28, was hit by what the Israeli military said were strikes on "terror regime infrastructure". The war, now in its third week, has killed hundreds and quickly spread to include Iranian strikes on Gulf nations as well Israeli bombardment of Lebanon.

‘Very damaging’: how the Iran war is hitting energy-intensive industries  The Guardian

The national football federation wants to relocate its group matches to Mexico due to the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran.

How Israel is using the war on Iran to control religious sites in Jerusalem Dania Abul Haj on Mon, 03/16/2026 - 15:32 In a city where you are constantly in direct contact with your occupier, continued existence becomes the only means of resistance Palestinian Muslims pray outside the Old City of Jerusalem as Al-Aqsa Mosque remains closed by Israeli forces during Ramadan on 6 March, 2026 (AFP) On My friend and I were standing near Damascus Gate, observing how empty the Old City of Jerusalem was during the last stretch of Ramadan, when we noticed that we had become surrounded by more than a dozen fully armed Israeli police officers.  In a climate designed to intimidate, my friend proposed that we leave for the sake of our safety. As we walked away, we acknowledged the new status quo enforced by Israel: a general atmosphere of looming fear, more entrenched than ever before. For the rest of the night, we walked the streets of Jerusalem, discussing how much our city has changed over the past few years. From a city that would normally be filled with worshippers going to pray, it is now heavily militarised.  Our minds wandered back a decade to when Jerusalemites flooded the streets to protest Israel’s installation of security barriers at Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, rejecting any sort of Israeli control over our religious sites. Today, such scenes would be met with brutal military repression and vindictive repercussions. As we continued to walk, we saw Israeli forces randomly stopping young Palestinian men and subjecting them to degrading physical searches, unwarranted and unjustified - a provocative practice that has now been normalised in Jerusalem. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); During my visit to the Old City, I was only able to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque once. Even then, most gates were closed by Israeli authorities, with a designated route drawn through metal barriers and an intensified police presence. Ever since the war on Iran started, Al-Aqsa Mosque complex has been locked down, with Israeli authorities citing concerns for the safety of worshippers. The irony is all too apparent amid more than two years of genocide in Gaza and myriad oppressive policies targeting all Palestinians across the occupied territories, enacted by Israeli authorities and settlers, often in collaboration. Entrenching control It seems clear that Israel is using the war on Iran as a thinly veiled excuse to expand its control over religious sites in Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories.  This is especially apparent given the context of other measures taken against such sites in recent days, including Israel’s decision to revoke the Hebron municipality’s planning and construction authority over the Ibrahimi Mosque, and instead transferring these powers to Israeli entities.  Many of the recent conversations I’ve had with friends and family in Jerusalem have revolved around the lack of any future prospects in Palestine, considering the tightening grip of Israel’s occupation. Wherever you look, the deteriorating reality glares back at you, breaking your soul again and again.  I don't know if there's a level of language mastery that would enable me to truly express what it is like to be Palestinian My friend, a Said Foundation alumni, noted how out of touch scholarship applications can be, asking Palestinians to describe our five- or seven-year plans. Whether we have a home, or are even still alive, remain our primary day-to-day questions. I complained to another friend about the long and humiliating queues at checkpoints, after having spent nine hours total on two separate occasions commuting from Jerusalem to Ramallah in one week. As I explained how degrading it felt, she told me: “They want to make us angry; they want us to lose our minds, and because you do not want to give them what they want, you cannot allow it to get to you.”  I rarely speak about my own lived experiences as a Palestinian, despite the fact that I’ve worked on Palestine-related matters for the past 10 years. In a sense, I’ve always considered myself to be a bit more privileged, having lived a less difficult life as a Jerusalemite.  In reality, this feeling has been manufactured by an occupation that has successfully fragmented the lived realities of Palestinians on the basis of their geographical location - a crucial tool of apartheid. This results in a fake sense of privilege for being “less” subjugated. Decades of impunity In moments like these, it overwhelms me just how much we’ve normalised less brutal forms of repression under the facade of “privilege”. In a city where you are constantly in direct contact with your occupier, your continued existence becomes your sole means of resistance.  The current situation in the occupied Palestinian territories puts the international community at a critical crossroads. Israel’s utter disregard for international law is a direct result of the continued inaction of the global community.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Decades of impunity granted to the Israeli state can no longer be addressed with empty condemnations. Exclusive: Israel to keep Al-Aqsa Mosque closed through Eid al-Fitr and beyond Read More » If the world has any real interest in safeguarding the international rules-based order, then states must undertake much stronger economic and diplomatic sanctions. Otherwise, the repercussions for the entire world will be irreversible.  In his book 1984, George Orwell described his protagonist Winston’s thoughts on a seemingly bleak life, and the feelings of discontent and alienation that arise in a dystopian society. “He meditated resentfully on the physical texture of life. Had it always been like this? … Always in your stomach and in your skin, there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to,” Orwell wrote.  “It was true that he had no memories of anything greatly different … Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?”  I don’t know if there’s a level of language mastery that would enable me to truly express what it is like to be Palestinian. I speak both English and Arabic fluently, and all the words that exist cannot even begin to describe the life we’ve been cheated out of living and knowing. Always, in every fibre of one’s existence, there’s a feeling of protest - always completely justified.  The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye. Occupation Opinion Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:29 Update Date Override 0

Iran War Rages On Multiple Fronts  theintelligencer.net

Video: Trump presses allies after UK refuses involvement in Iran war “We’ve been protecting these countries for years with Nato because Nato is us.” US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was “surprised” and “not happy” with the United Kingdom for not getting involved in the war with Iran “We’ve been protecting these countries for years with Nato because Nato is us.” pic.twitter.com/RmZRoxMNEH March 17, 2026

Opinion | Trump’s Dangerous Lack of a Strategy in Iran  The New York Times

Three-day-old infant among family killed in US-Israeli strike in Iran's Arak Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Tuesday said a three-day-old infant and his two-year-old sister were among those killed in a US-Israeli strike that hit their home in the city of Arak. “The unjustly shed blood of our three-day-old Mojtaba makes us more determined,” the IRGC said in a statement. The attack also killed the children’s mother and grandmother, according to Iran’s Press TV Iran’s Health Ministry said at least 1,444 civilians have been killed and 18,551 wounded in US-Israeli attacks on Iran since 28 February.   Video released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society on 15 March 2026, shows rescuers searching the rubble of a collapsed building. Iranian Red Crescent / AFP

Trump scolds allies over Strait of Hormuz operation; Gulf attacks continue  Al Jazeera