Israel recently damaged Lebanon’s vital Qaraoun Dam, raising fears of a structural failure. Experts say the attack reflects Israel’s long-standing ambition to control Lebanon’s water — and mirrors the water apartheid it imposes on Palestinians.
International pressure mounts for independent investigations into mass graves found at Gaza hospitals.
It’s taboo to talk about exactly what happened on that day, and it’s taboo to talk about how Israel’s abuses provoked the attack. How many of the 1,195 people killed were actually killed by Israeli forces? Did Israel deliberately leave its people undefended? We don’t know, and we’re not allowed to know.
We are watching children, children who are just like our own, try to survive a genocide, and yet there is no accountability. No one demanding and ensuring that this nightmare is put to a stop, Israeli forces are killing Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank at the highest rate since 1967
Israeli soldiers “prevented us from even passing near [our own land], then they bulldozed it all… They left us with nothing to live on.” Israeli forces have bulldozed hundreds of olive trees in the West Bank.
The new Lebanese-Israeli framework is described as a first step. But beneath this diplomatic language lies a familiar problem: Israel keeps the power to decide when it feels secure enough to withdraw, the US presents itself as mediator while acting as Israel’s strategic protector, and Lebanon is asked to implement security obligations that its own political and social reality may not allow.
“My children, my grandchildren, and I are all living through the same suffering. [Israel] wants to take the land. It’s fertile, and there’s water. They don’t have water there, but South Lebanon is a paradise.”
Israel has killed over 20,000 Palestinian children since 7 October 2023. The UN has detailed instances of torture, rape and murder in a landmark report
There is a growing body of evidence of the systematic nature of sexual assaults against Palestinian detainees.
Fourteen Gazan physicians remain in Israeli prisons without charge, where they say they have been singled out for particularly severe abuse. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is one of Gaza’s most beloved.