Israeli extermination plan underway in northern Gaza
Dozens of people were killed in Beit Lahiya on Saturday as Israeli warplanes razed entire residential blocks just days after the UN warned that tens of thousands of Palestinians are “in grave…
Maureen Clare Murphy
Why massacring civilians is Israel’s deliberate strategy
All of humanity is less secure after a year of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank and as Israel now unleashes its wrath on Lebanon.…
Israel kills 40 in Gaza “humanitarian zone”
Israel massacred at least 40 Palestinians by bombing tents housing people displaced from other areas of Gaza in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, early Tuesday, according to the government media…
Witness: Israeli troops in West Bank intentionally killed US activist
Israeli occupation forces killed both an American woman during a protest in Beita, a village near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, and a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in a…
Gaza genocide enters month 11 as Israel provokes regional war
Israel issued new forced displacement orders in Gaza, killed another journalist and massacred more civilians at schools being used as shelters for displaced Palestinians as the genocide stretched into its…
Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Tehran after Israel bombs Beirut
Hamas announced early Wednesday that Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian faction’s political wing, was assassinated in Tehran, where he was present for the inauguration of the new Iranian…
Funding freeze could halt UNRWA operations by end of month in Gaza
UNRWA will be forced to shut down its operations as soon as the end of the month if funding is not restored, according to agency director Philippe Lazzarini. Donor countries including the…
Israel kills 11 in daytime raid on Nablus
Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians, including a boy and at least two men over the age of 60, during a daytime raid in the northern West Bank city of Nablus…
Hollow justice of the settler state
When Mohammed El-Kurd said that “living in Palestine is like having a policeman in your bed,” he wasn’t employing a rhetorical device or a figure of speech. The analogy is too close…
Ceasefire ends Israeli terror in Gaza — for now
A ceasefire ending 11 days of intense violence in Gaza was announced late Thursday, taking effect in the early hours of Friday. Israeli airstrikes and Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza continued in…
Israel has killed 14 families in their Gaza homes
Israeli warplanes and artillery attacks killed several more Palestinians in Gaza and destroyed more than a dozen residential buildings late Tuesday and Wednesday. A journalist, child and woman were among…
Gaza in the dark after Israel bombs power lines
Human rights groups are calling for an urgent investigation by the International Criminal Court as Israel’s merciless pounding of Gaza enters its second week. More than 200 Palestinians in the…
Israel kills Gaza families in their homes on Nakba Day
More than 17,000 Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing yet another episode of displacement as Israel escalated its attack on civilian infrastructure on Saturday, the 73rd annual commemoration of Nakba Day. At…
Israel is killing women and children in Gaza
Women and children account for nearly half of the more than 120 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Monday, according to Al-Mezan, a human rights group in the territory. This contradicts…
More than 100 killed as Israel intensifies Gaza onslaught
Israel pounded the Gaza Strip for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday, with the health ministry in the territory reporting more than 100 killed in the most severe military offensive there since…
Israel pushing Palestinians to leave Gaza
Israel is actively encouraging and ready to facilitate mass emigration of Palestinians from Gaza, according to a senior government official. “Israel is ready to carry the costs of helping Gazans…
Bloody Friday as Gaza marks six months of protests
Friday marked what Gaza’s health ministry described as the single bloodiest day of the Great March of Return protests since 14 May, when Israeli occupation forces fatally injured more than 60 Palestinians. A photo…
Israel normalizing war crimes in Gaza
Gaza’s fuel crisis remains unresolved a week after a United Nations humanitarian official warned that hospitals and water sanitation facilities would soon shut down as a result. “Despite our continued engagement with…
Fifty Killed in Gaza. Zero Israelis Injured
Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza including a child, in two separate incidents Sunday evening. Regarding the first incident, the army claimed that two “suspects attempted to infiltrate Israel from…
These Are The Palestinian Children Israel Killed In 2017
Fourteen Palestinian boys and girls under the age of 18 were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the year. There were 21…
How Israel Forces Confessions From Jerusalem Boys
Israel subjects detained Palestinian children from Jerusalem to “extensive denial of their rights,” according to a new report. The mistreatment of child detainees is part of a wider policy “aimed at…
Palestinian Was On Way To chemotherapy When Shot By Soldiers
A Palestinian man was on his way to a chemotherapy session when he was shot by Israeli soldiers last November, his family told an Israeli journalist this week. Muhammad Amar…
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