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LIVE UPDATES: Hezbollah rejects Lebanon-Israel ceasefire agreement

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Thursday rejected the outcomes of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel

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    • Gaza: On the ground

      • Ex-Israeli premier warns Netanyahu could try to ‘steal’ next elections

        Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 11 May

        MEMO spoke to Motasem A Dalloul, a survivor of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in the first of a new series of regular updates from the ground. Dalloul describes the daily struggle to survive: hunger, cold, the collapse of healthcare, and ongoing Israeli violations despite the so-called ceasefire. WATCH: Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 22 April

    • MEMO in conversation

      • Ex-Israeli premier warns Netanyahu could try to ‘steal’ next elections

        MEMO in Conversation with Raouf Farrah

        In this conversation with Raouf Farrah, lead Africa analyst at SecDev and co-editor of Rising for Palestine, we discuss his new book and its call for renewed Africa-Palestine solidarity. We also discuss the Sumud convoy, a North African solidarity initiative organised to challenge Israel’s siege on Gaza. Farrah reflects on the political obstacles the convoy faced and what they reveal about the regional response to Palestine. Raouf Farrah is the Lead Africa Analyst at the SecDev Group, a risk analytics firm working at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. In 2025, he was instrumental in organising  The Sumud Convoy, an attempt to break Israel’s siege on Gaza This year, Farrah co-edited a book, Rising for Palestine. MORE >>> MEMO in […]

    • Reviews

      • Ex-Israeli premier warns Netanyahu could try to ‘steal’ next elections

        Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Story Telling in Palestine

        “The geography of Palestine is one, from the river to the sea. The settler military works in different ways to create a fragmented reality for Palestinians,” Rana Barakat writes in the preface to her book Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Story Telling in Palestine (University of North Carolina Press, 2026). In the fragments that Zionist settler-colonialism imposed on Palestine, return is inseparable from the continuity of the 1948 Nakba.  Barakat notes that uncovering stories is essential to the Palestinian return to Palestine. The book centres on Lifta’s history and stories, notably those relating to the author’s grandmother, ’Arifa. “Walking through stories is the process – through landscapes, through time and with people, a we continue to return to Lifta and […]

    • Palestine This Week

      • Ex-Israeli premier warns Netanyahu could try to ‘steal’ next elections

        The Iron Dome of Lies: Rape, Ruin & Plunder | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

        In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine Israel’s addition to a UN blacklist over sexual violence in conflict, Dr Nick Maynard’s harrowing testimony from Gaza and the wider backlash to evidence of abuse against Palestinians. We also discuss plans to turn Gaza’s destruction into an investment opportunity, tensions between Trump and Netanyahu over Lebanon, stalled ceasefire diplomacy with Iran and the UAE’s reported role in the regional war. The episode closes by looking at US efforts to integrate Israel’s military with its own, the Democrats’ refusal to confront Gaza’s electoral impact and Western crackdowns on critics of Israel. Get your copy of ‘Gaza Apocalypse’ by Mouin Rabbani: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gaza-apocalypse/   WATCH: US ‘Suicidal Empathy’ for Israel as Gaza Faces Apocalypse […]

Islam Race and Rebellion in the Americas: Transatlantic Echoes of the West African Jihads

Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’s Foreign Policy

MEMO in Conversation with Motasem A Dalloul