Israel’s decision to halt all humanitarian aid to Gaza as a means of pressuring Hamas to release the remaining hostages without any commitment from Israel to end the war — an action that amounts to the war crime of collective punishment — was widely condemned by international actors.
Palestinian refugee camps are known for producing resistance fighters and footballers. But Israel’s ongoing onslaught in Gaza and the West Bank is erasing every aspect of Palestinian life, including sports.
Notorious prison needs reform, so Israel just relocated detainees; Netanyahu, Defense Minister Katzthreaten to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza; Jenin refugee camp ‘uninhabitable’; Israel refuses to fully open Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque for prayer on holiest day of Ramadan; US embassy tells US doctor in Gaza ‘not our role’ to protect hem from Israeli bombings; crises at Tufts and Yale; Motion Picture Academy hangs Hamdan Ballal out to dry; more.
Many Palestinians fled their tents amid airstrikes & icy storms, but where will they go? Where is safety? I saw children selling the simplest of sweets, their faces marked by exhaustion, just to buy a little flour. I asked them, “Aren’t you scared?” They answered: “If we don’t die from the bombing, we’ll die from this cold & hunger.”
Inside the human toll of Israel’s campaign of forcible displacement in the northern West Bank’s refugee camps amid the ‘Operation Iron Wall’ introduced by Israel in January 2025.
Israeli army admits to assassinating Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza; did Israel abduct 15 paramedics in Rafah?; waste piling up in Gaza City; Israeli court extends Dr Hussam Abu Safia’s detention; Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal released from Israeli jail; progressive groups urge Senate to reject Mike Huckabee as Israel envoy; Trump launches ‘October 7 Joint Task Force’; more.
As rubble removal continues across Gaza, concerns are mounting over airborne dust that may carry asbestos fibers, posing health risks, including asbestosis, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases, health officials in Gaza say.
Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a “lynch mob” of Israeli settlers. He was then arrested by Israeli soldiers.
“His ability to cover one of the most brutal military campaigns in recent history was almost beyond comprehension,” said a colleague of Hossam Shabat
Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad had been taken from his family in the middle of the night, beaten by Israeli soldiers, imprisoned in Israel, where he was fed meager portions of rotten food in overcrowded conditions and isolated completely from his family for over 5 months