UN’s humanitarian agency says dozens of people have been killed over the past week in Israeli attacks including air strikes. Israeli forces are using “lethal war-like tactics” in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN’s humanitarian agency. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in aContinue Reading
Fadi Aldeeb, who lost his brother in an Israeli attack on Gaza, raises Palestine’s flag in Paris as an act of resistance. Nine months ago, Fadi Aldeeb missed several calls from his brother in Gaza. The next day, Aldeeb found out he had been killed in an Israeli attack onContinue Reading
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – An insight I gained over the past two decades is that trauma is not only experienced, it is encoded in our genes, passed down through generations, shaping our collective memory, identity and attitude. About 17 years ago, I received my first laptop as a family gift.Continue Reading
In March 2018, Gaza’s champion cyclist Alaa al-Daly was six months away from realizing his goal of representing Palestine at the Asian Games in Indonesia. A few days later, an Israeli sniper shot al-Daly in the leg when he participated in the Great March of Returna massive wave of protestsContinue Reading
WHO says that the official larger vaccine rollout, which aims to reach 640,000 children, will begin on Sunday. Several children in Gaza have been given polio vaccines a day before a large-scale campaign to inoculate children against the virus and a planned pause in fighting in the besieged territory, Gaza’sContinue Reading
Israel’s assault on refugee camps in the occupied West Bank has dominated headlines. Israel has killed at least 20 people since it launched its attacks on the towns and refugee camps at Jenin, Nablus, Tubas and Tulkarem overnight on Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know about this attack andContinue Reading
The Israeli military called in reinforcements as it escalated its assault on the occupied West Bank for a second day. At least 18 people have been killed since the start of the operation in the north of the territory, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Thursday. Eight people wereContinue Reading
A delegation from the Palestinian group Hamas has landed in Cairo on Saturday evening to “listen to the results of negotiations thus far” between mediators – Egypt, Qatar and the United States – and Israel. Observers are reluctant to call this a hopeful sign as conviction grows that Gaza ceasefireContinue Reading
Gothenburg, Sweden – George Totari’s understated apartment is full of noise and life even in his retirement, as he sits surrounded by his daughter and grandchildren. Soft gray walls typical of a Swedish apartment bear no hallmarks of a home belonging to an internationally acclaimed musician, however. With his long,Continue Reading
As Israel’s war on Gaza pushes on in its 10th month, fears of regional escalation are growing, with attacks in Lebanon and the killing of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in recent days. Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of Wednesday in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statementContinue Reading
