Published On 5/14/2026
The British newspaper The Guardian revealed an extremely dangerous secret mission carried out by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to rescue millions of documents documenting the history of Palestinian refugees and move them away from danger areas.
The process began in the summer of 2024, with the participation of dozens of agency employees distributed across 4 countries, in circumstances described by historians as one of the most complex archive protection missions in modern history.
The newspaper confirmed – during the press tour segment – that the process included transferring documents from Gaza and East Jerusalem in the midst of the raging Israeli war, and that the archive is today in Jordan, where it is being digitized as part of what is considered an exceptional effort to preserve Palestinian collective memory from extinction.
The newspaper reported that the process reached its final stages on May 14, 2026, which indicates the completion of one of the most dangerous paths of protecting documentary heritage at the international level.
Regarding the occupation measures in East Jerusalem, the French website “Orient 21” highlighted the suffering of hundreds of Palestinian families as a result of a continuous wave of eviction decisions issued by the Israeli authorities in favor of settlement projects.
The website relied on two legal loopholes used by settlement organizations to pressure the passage of these decisions:
- The first legitimizes the seizure of the property of Palestinians displaced since the Nakba.
- The second allows settlers to claim lands and properties they claim ownership of before 1948.
The report warned that the continuation of evictions in the neighborhoods adjacent to the Old City threatens to change the demographic composition of East Jerusalem in a radical and irreversible way, stressing that the strategic location of these neighborhoods makes them a major focus in the struggle over the city’s identity.
Boycott Israel academically
In a context related to the international repercussions of the war on Gaza, a report in the Israeli newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth” monitored a 150% increase in attempts to exclude Israel from the “Horizon Europe” scientific research program, in a phenomenon that is increasingly worrying the Israeli academic establishment, and Belgium and the Netherlands top the list of countries calling for this boycott.
The report concluded that Israeli universities are now dealing with the global academic boycott as a strategic threat rather than just immediate political pressure, as they fear that it will lead to permanent losses in funding and international scientific partnerships, which may weaken Israel’s academic standing in the long term.
On the other hand, the New York Times published a striking report on an unprecedented wave of US air surveillance flights over Cuba, which included the deployment of spy planes and drones, against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s threats to take military action against Havana.
The newspaper pointed out that America is not making any effort to hide these sorties, which raises widespread controversy among strategic experts. Experts are divided in interpreting the significance of these movements between those who see them as a form of psychological intimidation and an attempt to exert pressure, and those who consider them a prelude to the actual use of military force.
The newspaper pointed out that the United States has historically witnessed only a limited number of surveillance flights close to Cuba over decades of intermittent tension, which makes the current wave exceptional by all standards.
