One side ceases, the other fires; Board of Peace and Gaza Master Plan news; Israel kills farmer in West Bank; West Bank humanitarian crisis; calls for probe of President Herzog before visit to Australia
The Israeli government has practically paralyzed the agency dedicated to Palestinian refugees, and sanctions have caused extensive budget cuts. But UNRWA is still the most important humanitarian organization operating in Gaza. In an interview with Haaretz, its heads tell their side of the story
Since last November, surveillance cameras have filmed 19 attacks, including spitting, swearing, physical violence against clergy, and vandalism perpetrated by ultra-nationalist and ultra-orthodox Jews. Other incidents of harassment include vandalism, arson and acoustic disturbance of processions or religious ceremonies
More than 230 Christian school teachers were barred from Jerusalem through restrictive permit policies, exposing a broader Israeli strategy to undermine Palestinian education and religious presence in the city. Fayha’ Shalash reports from the West Bank.
Reconstruction of Gaza has [allegedly] begun; 14-yr-old killed in West Bank; economic collapse in West Bank; House approves $3.3B in military aid to Israel; genocide denial in Germany
Basim Saleh Yassin, who’s deaf, was beaten viciously by Israelis after they attacked a plant nursery in the West Bank, amid an uptick in settler violence.
Another baby in Gaza dies of hypothermia; call for help in retrieving bodies in Rafah; Israeli forces kill Palestinian, another dies in prison; Israeli violence against Bedouin; hunger strikers; headlines from Israel
The last family in this Palestinian village left their home last week; Yanoun now joins a growing list of West Bank communities that have been erased from existence, through the establishment of Israeli “shepherding outposts” in their place.
There are no official statistics on the number of homes seized in the occupied West Bank, but it has clearly been escalating since October 2023.
The World Council of Churches has called on the European Union to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel over what it described as a war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and violations against Palestinians in the West Bank.