Hamas is unlikely to reject a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received from mediators this week but will not sign it without assurances that Israel has committed to ending the war, a Palestinian official close to
After the International Court of Justice orders Israel to prevent acts of genocide, its attacks kill hundreds more people in Gaza. It has been one week since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an
The Israeli military can prevent more attacks like the one on October 7, but achieving genuine peace depends on the Palestinians. Two major questions loom over the ongoing Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip:
Belgium has summoned the Israeli ambassador to complain about the destruction of the country’s development agency office in Gaza. The office was in a six-storey building in Gaza City. The foreign ministry says it believes
Displaced Palestinians crammed into Rafah and pinned against Gaza’s border fence with Egypt say they fear a ground assault after Israel’s defence minister said troops would now turn their focus to the area. Emad, 55,
A dissident Russian rock band angered by Moscow’s war in Ukraine has arrived in Israel after being deported from Thailand under suspected pressure from the Kremlin, the performers said Thursday. The seven members of the
The Biden administration’s sanctions on four Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank came “too little, too late”, says Basil Farraj, an assistant professor at Birzeit University. “The reason why we have over 700,000 settlers
A Norwegian politician said Thursday that he has nominated the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, embroiled in a controversy over the alleged involvement of employees in the Hamas-led October 7 terror onslaught against Israel, for
A number of Palestinian-Americans refused to attend a roundtable meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday to discuss the situation in Gaza in protest against the Biden administration’s ongoing support for Israel’s
A United States federal court has dismissed a case accusing President Joe Biden and other senior US officials of being complicit in Israel’s alleged genocide in Gaza. Still, the court’s decision (PDF) urged Biden and
