The olive harvest season in Palestine coincides annually with an escalation of incitement campaigns against Palestinian farmers, turning this occasion into an arena for media and on-the-ground confrontations.

As part of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Gulf tour, which included Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman and resulted in the signing of 24 agreements, declarations, and joint statements across various fields, Al-Estiklal spoke with two Turkish academics about the visit’s broader implications.

A series of senior US officials came to “Israel” last week to oversee the implementation of phase one of Trump’s Gaza deal.

Tawfiq Abu Naim, a veteran political and security figure, has now emerged as the leading contender to head Hamas in Gaza, especially after the Israeli Occupation’s assassination campaign between 2023 and 2025, killing many of the group’s most prominent figures.

After the announcement of a ceasefire and prisoner swap in Gaza, attention quickly turned to Hamas’s weapons and the question of who will govern the Strip after the war, issues the Resistance’s spokesman Hazem Qassem addressed in an interview with Al-Estiklal.