Over 60 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Assaults Across Gaza
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 60 Palestinians have been killed since midnight in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, as the military has ordered Palestinians in the southern city…
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How Many Dead Palestinian Children Are Enough?
How many dead children is it going to take before Israel and its Zionist supporters are satisfied? What is the number that needs to be met before governments in the…
Endangering Survival in Gaza Using MMMARU must be stopped by UNO and International Community
What is happening in Gaza today, unfolding over several months, is unacceptable violation of the most basic right of any people to live and survive in their own land. In…
Nakba Descendants Seek Reparations Through Family Archive
In observance of the 77th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), on May 15, Khalil Jahshan, executive director of the Arab Center Washington DC (ACW), introduced “Survivors of the Nakba from…
Israel launches “concluding” Gaza offensive, US plans displacement of Palestinians to Libya, Syria
After the trip by US President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar last week, Israel has launched what it calls the “concluding” conquest of Gaza amid far-advanced…
Israel escalates genocide in Gaza following release of American-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander
Palestinian Territory - Since the release of American-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander on 12 May, Israeli forces have intensified their genocidal campaign in Gaza, killing an average of 81 Palestinians per day…
Trump’s “freedom zone” is nothing more than a violent, colonial land grab
Donald Trump’s latest act of lunacy was, last week, to suggest that the killing fields of Gaza should be turned into a “freedom zone”, adding that, “I'd be proud to…
Complaint to Hold US Accountable in Gaza Genocide Filed with IACHR
A press conference was held on May 14 to introduce a legal complaint filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) by TAG (Taxpayers Against Genocide) a grassroots movement,…
One of the Bloodiest Nights: Over 125 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strikes Across Gaza
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 125 Palestinians have been killed since dawn on Sunday in deadly Israeli attacks targeting crowded residential areas and tents across the Gaza Strip, including…
Compound crime: Israeli army blocks rescue efforts after airstrike on Khan Younis
Palestinian Territory - The Israeli military’s targeting of rescue teams and paramedics during efforts to evacuate the wounded and extract survivors trapped under rubble in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, constitutes a…
Israel Bombs 68th Food Aid Center in Gaza as Starvation Crisis Deepens
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israel has now targeted 68 food distribution centers and soup kitchens in Gaza since the start of its genocide, according to the Government Media Office. The…
UNICEF: 45 Children Killed in Gaza in Israeli Strikes Over Two Days
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 45 Palestinian children have been killed over the past two days in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, according to UNICEF, amid ongoing and…
Israel escalates Its genocide in one of the deadliest, most widespread attacks on Gaza
Palestinian territory - Israel has intensified its genocidal campaign in Gaza through one of the most extensive and lethal assaults since the beginning of its offensive, committing massacres and adopting a…
Gaza’s Graveyard of Illusions: How Israel’s Narrative Collides with Military Failure
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a skilled salesperson, though the product he peddles is deeply flawed. His current challenge is to convince himself, his people, the region, and the…
Amid Starvation, People in Gaza Are Choosing Death at Home Over Displacement
Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid has entered its third month, pushed Gaza to the grip of starvation. Food supplies are dwindling rapidly, shops are stripped bare — even of the…
Israel’s Targeting and Disabling of Gaza Hospitals: Dismantling Life and Destroying “Last Refuges”
The violent aerial assaults carried out by Israeli warplanes on the grounds of the European Gaza Hospital and its surrounding areas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, have forced the hospital…
Israel kills a Palestinian woman every hour in the Gaza Strip, including 7,920 mothers so far
Palestinian Territory – Since the start of its genocide in October 2023, the Israeli army has killed an average of 21.3 women per day through direct bombardment of the Gaza Strip.…
In Search of an Iconic Palestinian Photo to Commemorate Nakba Day 2025: Juggling Faith, Resistance and Love of Homeland
To commemorate Nakba Day (May 15) this year, I went in search of an iconic photo and immediately drowned in a sea of dead babies, maimed and starved children, bereaved…
Liberation of the Palestinians- A new direction
Israel and its worldwide supporters are relatively few, maybe 50 million confined to the western world, compared to those who recognize the genocide of the Palestinian people, maybe 500 million…
Israeli-American Soldier Edan Alexander Refuses to Meet Netanyahu
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander, freed from captivity in Gaza, has refused to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and thanked US President Donald Trump. Israel’s…
Israel waging a relentless war of starvation on Gaza, IPC report confirms
Palestinian Territory – A new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report has issued a grave warning: the entire population of the Gaza Strip faces the imminent threat of famine due to Israel’s ongoing, suffocating…
Entire Population in Gaza at Critical Risk of Famine, with Half a Million Palestinians Facing Starvation: IPC
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Gaza’s entire population continues to face a critical risk of famine, with half a million people facing starvation, according to a global hunger monitoring system, as…
Reckoning with Gaza’s Death Toll
To truly grasp the human toll of the conflict in Gaza, it is not enough to tally the dead. Body counts—often contested, manipulated, or denied—are only part of the picture.…
Around 1,500 Gazans Have Lost Their Sight Amid Israel’s Assault and Blockade: Health Ministry
Gaza (Quds News Network)- About 1,500 people have lost their vision due to injuries sustained during the Israeli assault, while an additional 4,000 are at imminent risk of blindness as…
Silent death consumes the elderly: Starvation and siege claim 14 elderly lives in Gaza within a week
Palestinian Territory - Alongside the relentless toll of fatalities from continuous Israeli bombardment, a silent death is sweeping through Gaza’s elderly and children—largely unrecorded and undocumented. This is the result of…
True Gaza Death Toll May Top 100,000, New Study Reveals
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The true death toll in Gaza may be far higher than what officials have reported, according to a new study by The Economist. Since the genocide…
Warnings Grow Over US and Israel-Backed Plan for Gaza Aid
United Nations aid officials have rejected a U.S. and Israel-backed plan for aid delivery in Gaza that reportedly involves the use of a private foundation and U.S. military security contractors to deliver far less…
How Israel embroils other countries in its crimes of genocide against the Palestinians
Israel is very adept at drawing attention away from itself and onto other countries as it carries out its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. In a recent incident when the…
Committees of Correspondence: Lifeline to the Palestinians
Early in life, I learned of the deliberate manner by which Zionists confuse the public and frame the Middle East conflicts to favor them. Commentators have gone to great lengths…
World Central Kitchen Halts Gaza Meals as Israel Blocks Aid at Border
Gaza (Quds News Network)- World Central Kitchen (WCK) has stopped cooking meals and baking bread in Gaza after running out of supplies. The group says Israeli border closures since early…
‘Targeted for refusing to cooperate’: Disturbing testimonies detail Israeli army’s harassment, killing of civilian in Gaza
Palestinian Territory – Disturbing testimonies have emerged indicating that the Israeli army killed a young civilian in the Gaza Strip for refusing to cooperate with the Israeli intelligence service. The…
Famine in Gaza: Will We Continue to Watch as Gaza Starves to Death?
The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract…
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords
“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2,…
Expulsion and Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan
Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into conditions of further misery would all qualify as heinous crimes in…
Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Killed 213 Journalists: Media Office
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 213 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli assault in October 2023, according to Gaza’s…
Mixed Politics: Trump, Netanyahu and The Houthis
Benjamin Netanyahu hadn't finished patting himself on the back for destroying the Sanaa International Airport - after all Israeli warplanes hit the country twice in less than 24 hours -…
Israeli finance minister pledges Gaza will be “entirely destroyed” and Palestinians sent to “third countries”
One day after Israel’s cabinet voted to approve a plan for the full military occupation of Gaza, the internal displacement of its people and the takeover of food supplies by…
Reoccupying Gaza Will be Another Death Trap
While everyone waits for the full-blast war on Gaza which Israel promises to continue, Tel Aviv must know this will not be an easy matter not least of all by…
Israel announces military occupation of Gaza in next phase of Trump-Netanyahu ethnic cleansing plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday that Israel’s cabinet had adopted a plan to permanently occupy the Gaza Strip, internally displace its population into concentration camps and enforce a…
Reported Israeli aid distribution plan in Gaza is inhumane, aims to engineer starvation
Palestinian Territory – Israel’s reported plan to distributehumanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is nothing more than a new manoeuvre aimed at prolonging the comprehensive and illegal blockade imposed on the territory. This move reintroduces starvation, only under a humanitarian façade this time, legitimising its…
Silencing the Story: Israel’s War on Journalism in Gaza
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Palestine has become the world’s deadliest place for journalists and media workers, as Israel’s war on Gaza targets not just lives but the truth—dozens of…
57 Deaths from Malnutrition in Gaza Amid Crippling Israeli Blockade
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 57 people, the majority of whom were children, sick, and elder people, have died from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip since the start of…
Multi-Billionaire Belligerent Zionism Lost Aground
Dr. R.N. Haass spewed a few of his thoughts, hoping these would be heard. Not necessarily me were I to take my scalpel and surgery his self-devouring exposition. Btw. RNH,…
Two Months of “Inhumane Siege Are Further Evidence of Israel’s Genocidal Intent in Gaza,” Says Amnesty International
London (Quds News Network)- Amnesty International has doubled down on its findings that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, stating that “two months of cruel and inhumane siege are further…
Flotilla Coalition Ship to Gaza Attacked in International Waters
In the early hours of May 2, the quiet of night was shattered aboard the Conscience, a civilian vessel anchored in international waters, 17 kilometers off the coast of Malta. Aboard…
A reckoning for Israel awaits
It’s not possible to materially compensate someone for the grief they feel over the loss of a loved one. To suggest otherwise, is to disregard what it means to be…
Jewish Settler-Colonialists
The straightforward responses in the documentary The Settlers by Louis Theroux will not surprise anyone who has kept abreast of the long-running Zionist plan to create facts-on-the-ground in Palestine. What…
Screaming Soldiers and Open Revolt: How One Video Unmasked Israel’s Internal Power Struggle
A seemingly strange choice was made by a correspondent for Israel’s Channel 12 when he decided, on April 22, to publish one of the most humiliating videos of a relatively…
60 Days of Israel’s Aid Blockade: Palestinians in Gaza Struggle to Survive
Gaza (Quds News Network)- With Israel’s blockade on food, medicine and other supplies now in its 60th day, people in Gaza are struggling to survive and are adopting coping strategies…
Gaza: Empty markets and desperate parents
Sheikh Radwan market, west of Gaza City, looks like a ghost town. Broken stalls, shuttered shops, and sunken, hungry eyes dominate a place that was once teeming with life. Israel’s…
Mohsen Mahdawi Released
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, illegally arrested and jailed by masked ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents on April 14 during a naturalization interview in Vermont to finalize his…
60 Days of Israel’s Aid Blockade: Palestinians in Gaza Struggle to Survive
Gaza (Quds News Network)- With Israel’s blockade on food, medicine and other supplies now in its 60th day, people in Gaza are struggling to survive and are adopting coping strategies…
49 Palestinian Journalists Held in Israeli Jails: PPS
Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- The total number of Palestinian journalists currently in Israeli jails has reached 49, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said, adding that Israeli forces have…
The ICJ, Israel and the Gaza Blockade
The murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the done thing. These are the sorts of activities kept quiet and…
Unveiling Nasser’s Secrets: Arabs, Palestine, and the Crucial Timing
For my father's generation, Gamal Abdel Nasser wasn't just another Arab leader; he set the standard by which all others have been measured, and none have quite reached it. For…
Israel wipes out entire families in Gaza; over 94 percent of last week’s victims were civilians
Palestinian Territory – The sharp escalation in Israel’s targeting of civilians in the Gaza Strip is deeply alarming. Entire families, including women and children, are being killed at horrific rates, as the international community fails to stop the nearly…
International Court of Justice Opens Hearings on Israel’s Responsibility for Starvation in Gaza
The Hague (Quds News Network)- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has opened hearings to examine Israel’s responsibility for the humanitarian disaster in Gaza caused by its siege and starvation…
Israel Has Killed 18,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza Since October 2023
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces have killed about 18,000 children, 12,400 women, 1,400 medics, and 212 journalists in Gaza since the start of the genocide in October 2023. As…
Mass starvation looms in Gaza as World Food Program says stocks have run out
After seven weeks of a full blockade of food, water, medical supplies and electricity, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) warned that it had delivered its last remaining food…
Book Review: Thoughts Of Gaza Far From Gaza by Soumyabrata Choudhury
Soumyabrata Choudhury’s “Thoughts Of Gaza Far From Gaza”published by Navayana in 2024 is a valuable intellectual inquiry into the discordances of seeing a genocide unfolding in Gaza in real time…
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