Al Jazeera videographer Samer Abu Daqqa and the network’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh were hit while covering the aftermath of an earlier strike on a UN school sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis An [ More … ]
The United Kingdom should follow its own laws and immediately suspend licenses for arms and military equipment to Israel, states Yasmine Ahmed, the UK director at Human Rights Watch. “In failing to do so, it [ More … ]
Israel is reportedly pumping seawater into Hamas’ network of underground tunnels, according to the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ report says it is not a new idea, as in 2013, Egypt flooded the tunnels connecting [ More … ]
Israel and the United States have shown their sharpest public disagreement yet over the conduct and future of the war against Hamas as the two allies became increasingly isolated by global calls for a ceasefire. [ More … ]
A report by the British Broadcasting Corporation highlights the dire conditions in Gaza and the West Bank following Israel’s offensive on 7 October. The BCC report highlights the overwhelming extremely poor conditions the few remaining [ More … ]
U.N. officials warned on Sunday that pressure was mounting near Gaza’s border with Egypt, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have tried to flee Israel’s offensive. The Rafah border crossing with Egypt has become even [ More … ]
The Palestinian envoy to the United Kingdom says that oppression in Palestine did not start on October 7, rather 106 years ago. Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said that Israel’s oppression in his [ More … ]
Officials are worried Israel is seeking U.S. weapons for a war in Lebanon, and analysts say an uptick in attacks tied to Iran risks ensnaring the U.S. in a major conflict, HuffPost reported. One week [ More … ]
An exclusive report by Axios claims that ‘Egypt warned Israel of a “rupture” in their bilateral relations if Palestinians flee to Sinai’ According to the American website, “Egypt warned the U.S. and Israel that if [ More … ]
Israel’s failed bombing campaign in Gaza and the collective punishment of the people of the Palestinian enclave won’t defeat Hamas, states Foreign Affairs. The failure of Israel’s current approach is becoming clearer by the day. [ More … ]
An ex-Egyptian foreign minister says the United States is ‘losing a tremendous amount of credibility in the Arab world’. Former Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Nabil Fahmy has stated that the U.S. is “losing a tremendous [ More … ]
A salient report highlights how the Biden administration is planning for a postwar Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may not like the ideas, but he also may not get a say, states Nahal [ More … ]
Israel’s bombardment of southern Gaza is the “worst bombardment of the war right now”, Unicef spokesperson James Elder said on Sunday. “I am seeing massive child casualties,” Elder stated on X (Twitter). “We have a [ More … ]
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan’s ‘selective vision is a shameful affront to justice,’ says Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has criticized an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor for “failure” to act on [ More … ]
The United States has given Israel several types of bombs and artillery shells, including ground-penetrating munitions, reported Wall Street Journal. The American newspaper said in a report that the United States has given so-called ‘bunker [ More … ]
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