Israeli strike kills 12 in south Gaza
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...
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France, Indonesia call for Israeli-Palestinian progress
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...
Watching Gaza starve 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 political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there...
Al-Markazul Islami plans to offer free treatment for injured Palestinians
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...
Freeing Gaza鈥� from the Palestinians
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:..
West Bank Palestinians in 鈥榚xtremely precarious鈥� situation
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.
The last chapter of the genocide
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...
Trump hailed remarks on not 鈥榚xpelling鈥� Palestinians
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 to keep troops in West Bank camps
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...
Palestinians to decide Gaza future: Qatar
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...
No right of return for Palestinians under Gaza plan: Trump
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�..
Palestinians back on key Gaza road
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...
GREAT MARCH OF HOPE: Gaza鈥檚 defiance against erasure
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.
The western way of genocide
GAZA is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is no clean water. Little food. A severe shortage of medical services and hardly any habitable...
Five Arab FMs reject forced displacement of Palestinians
Top diplomats from Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar rejected any forcible displacement of Palestinians during a meeting in Cairo on Saturday, according to a joint statement.
Life expectancy of Palestinians
THE idea of a ceasefire is as old as the idea of war. In old records, one reads of halts in firing for humans to eat or sleep. Rules of combat developed out of an understanding that both sides had to rest or refresh themselves. Sometimes, this understanding included the lives of animals...
Palestinians return to north Gaza
Masses of displaced Palestinians began streaming towards the north of the war-battered Gaza Strip on Monday after Israel and Hamas said they had reached a deal for the release of another six hostages...
Displaced Gazans await truce to return home
In a sprawling tent city in central Gaza, Palestinians displaced by war to other parts of the territory are all waiting for one thing: a ceasefire so they can go home.
Gazans want Trump to end war with Israel
Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday want Donald Trump, who won the US election, to end the war between Israel and Hamas that has devastated their territory.
The perfect victim
A FEW weeks ago, I had a meeting with a group of scholars and activists, among whom a few were Palestinians. In the middle of our conversation, someone pointed out that the Palestinians within...
Israel slaughters Palestinians with western arms
WHILE many are earnestly pointing at the devastation of war, the rampant human rights violations and the deliberate relegation of international and humanitarian law, there are those who see war from an entirely different perspective: profits...
60 bodies found in Shujaiya after Israeli destruction
Just hours after the two-week offensive on Gaza City鈥檚 Shujaiya district ended, Palestinians had already found 60 bodies as they picked through the piles of concrete and dust left behind, officials in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday...
Gazans flee Israeli attacks as mediators push for truce
Palestinians on Monday fled heavy battles in Gaza City as the Israeli military expanded an evacuation order nine months into its war with Hamas...
Israel pounds Gaza after evacuation order
Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes Tuesday on southern Gaza and battled militants after issuing an evacuation order which a UN agency said would impact 2,50,000 Palestinians...
OIC condemns carnage against Palestinians
WITH a membership of 57 states located across the world, the 54-year-old Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is the second biggest inter-governmental body after the United Nations. The grouping formally recognises itself as the 鈥榗ollective voice of the Muslim world.鈥� Established in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco...
Israeli settlers seize Palestinian land by shepherding
Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say armed Jewish settlers are increasingly seizing their lands by bringing livestock to so-called shepherding outposts and...