In the occupied Gaza Strip, Palestinian healthcare workers have been facing unprecedented dangers, with many detained under conditions that violate international humanitarian law. Dr. Ahmad Mhanna, former director of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, shares with Amnesty International his harrowing testimony of survival.
An avalanche of troubling headlines from Gaza ■ More flotilla-related allegations of sexual abuse by Israeli soldiers ■ Israel stirs up trouble in West Bank ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon ■ More.
Twenty-six years after Israeli forces were driven out of southern Lebanon, the weapons, the players, and the stakes have transformed, but the root of the conflict remains the same.
According to Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, Israel is now on the blacklist alongside Hamas and ISIS. Danon also said Israel had transferred evidence to the UN in an attempt to refute its claims, describing the addition as a ‘blood libel’
Likud MK Amit Halevi has been spearheading an effort to transform the US-Israel military relationship to one of “joint projects and investments” rather than FMF–a plan which Israel pitched extensively to the Trump administration and Capitol Hill last year.
Survivors of Israeli strikes face a severe shortage of prosthetics and rehabilitation as Gaza’s health system struggles under siege
All 153 states party to the Genocide Convention have an obligation to act to prevent genocide – but weapons to Israel never stopped flowing.
In the southern Hebron Hills, a Palestinian farmer and his 10-year-old son were attacked by settlers while tending their fields. Days later, the child still wakes screaming at night
Israel is talking ethnic cleansing again ■ Settler violence ■ UN adds Israel to blacklist of perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict zones ■ Carpet bombing in Lebanon ■ More
When powerful people tell the public that Muslim Americans are enemies – on top of a long campaign by Israel partisans to demonize Muslims – people listen, and some people act. Two teenagers in San Diego just did.