Thousands of displaced Palestinians returned to a devastated Gaza City on Saturday, the second day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with many stunned by the destruction even as others were relieved to find their homes still standing.
ANTONIO Guterres, the UN secretary general, once again categorically said that the recognition of the statehood of Palestine was not a reward or favour to the Palestinian people, but a right they deserved. The UN secretary general has maintained this position from the beginning. French president Immanuel Macron and British prime minister Keir Starmer last week...
A senior Israeli military official said on Wednesday that authorities estimated that an imminent offensive in the Gaza Strip would displace one million Palestinians, planning a new 鈥榟umanitarian area鈥� for them...
Israeli forces killed four aid seekers traveling on Sunday through a military zone south of Gaza City 鈥� an area regularly used by Palestinians trying to reach a food distribution point, a hospital and witnesses said...
AS ISRAEL ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another 鈥� the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armoured bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels...
Desperate Palestinians clutching pots and plastic buckets scrambled for rice at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, a day after the United Nations declared a famine in the war-battered territory.
Rights group Amnesty International on Monday accused Israel of enacting a 鈥榙eliberate policy鈥� of starvation in Gaza, as the United Nations and aid groups warn of famine in the Palestinian territory...
IT WAS astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on August 3, 2025, inside Israel鈥檚 Magiddo prison. Just months earlier, reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian prisoner in Megiddo, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad (16 years old), on March 24. Both young men, boys really, had been picked up from the...
The UN human rights office said Friday that at least 1,760 Palestinians had been killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May, a jump of several hundred since its last published figure at the beginning of August...
Thousands of Palestinians protested in the occupied West Bank鈥檚 major cities Sunday against the war in Gaza and in support of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons...
PALESTINIANS and international humanitarian groups were among those who denounced Friday鈥檚 (August 1) highly orchestrated tour of a Gaza aid distribution center run by a US-backed group condemned for its role in Israeli forces鈥� massacres of desperate people seeking food and other lifesaving aid...
A COALITION of cross-regional states met in Bogot谩, Colombia in mid-July to discuss measures to disrupt Israel鈥檚 genocide of Palestinians. The subsequent commitments by some of those governments to end all material support to Israel and to uphold international law is an important development not just to end the genocide, but to counter the relentless militarism...
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians waiting to collect humanitarian aid in the territory鈥檚 north on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding dozens more...
PALESTINIANS are victims of most gruesome physical violence and are first-hand witnesses of death and destruction. Israel has illegally occupied their land and聽claimed it as its own. The Zionist state has been forcibly expelling indigenous Palestinians and threatening those who stay put with brutality and mass expulsion...
UN rights expert Francesca Albanese on Thursday denounced companies she said 鈥榩rofited from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide鈥�, in a report that provoked a furious response from Israel.
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 69 people on Thursday, including 15 in a strike on a school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war nearing its 22nd month...
WAR is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc., Amazon, International Business Machine Corporation, Caterpillar Inc., Microsoft Corporation and...
THE civil defence agency in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced Palestinians near the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday killed at least 12 people...
France and Indonesia called Wednesday for progress on 鈥榤utual recognition鈥� between Israel and the Palestinians at a key meeting next month as Emmanuel Macron visited Jakarta, bringing the world鈥檚 most populous Muslim-majority nation into his diplomatic efforts...
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 political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there...
Al-Markazul Islami, a Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation, has taken an initiative to bring injured Palestinians to Bangladesh for free treatment and skills development training...
ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist that Israel will carry out Trump鈥檚 ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, saying the following on Sunday about 鈥榯he final stage鈥� of his agenda:..
Doctors Without Borders denounced on Monday the 鈥榚xtremely precarious鈥� situation of Palestinians displaced by the on-going Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank.
THIS is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens of thousands, or they will be forced out never to return...
Egypt, Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organisation welcomed on Thursday remarks from US president Donald Trump after he said 鈥榥obody鈥檚 expelling any Palestinians鈥� from the Gaza Strip.
Israel on Sunday said troops would stay in West Bank refugee camps for the coming year, announcing expanded military operations including tank deployments, after the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians...
Qatar, a key mediator in the Gaza conflict, said on Tuesday that Palestinians 鈥� not outsiders 鈥� must decide the territory鈥檚 future after the Israel-Hamas war...
President Donald Trump said Palestinians would have no right of return to Gaza under his US takeover plan, describing his proposal in excerpts of an interview released Monday as a 鈥榬eal estate development for the future.鈥�..
A long line of cars, tuk-tuks, small lorries and carts stretched along Gaza鈥檚 Salaheddin Road on Sunday after Israel withdrew its forces from a strategic area bisecting the territory...
THE return of one million Palestinians from southern Gaza to the north on January 27 felt as if history was choreographing one of its most earth-shattering events in recent memory.
