[all were attacked] In the ruins of a bombed-out church in...
Lujain Jo & Hassan Ammar
The Independent / December 23, 2024
A Christmas tree stands among the fallen stones in the ruins of a Catholic church in southern Lebanon that was hit by an Israeli airstrike during the war with Hezbollah.
A Christmas tree stands among the fallen stones of what remains...
Children among 58 killed in latest Israeli strikes on Gaza, say...
Lorenzo Tondo
The Guardian / December 23, 2024
Victims reported to include six people escorting aid convoy, and eight in tent encampment in humanitarian zone.
Health authorities in Gaza said on Monday that 58 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory in the previous 24 hours, including a strike on a...
A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza –...
Nesrine Malik
The Guardian / December 23, 2024
It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning.
A consensus is building. On 5 December, Amnesty International concluded after an investigation that “Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians...
UN relief chief calls on international community to ‘break the cycle...
OCHA / December 23, 2024
Statement by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Amman – I have spent the past week in the Middle East, meeting UN colleagues, partners, authorities and communities in Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, Idlib, Ankara, Beirut, Nabatieh, and Amman.
As...
Former Israeli spies describe attack using exploding electronic devices against Hezbollah
Darlene Superville
The Independent / December 23, 2024
Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents are sharing details about a deadly clandestine operation that targeted Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Syria with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.
Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents shared new details about a deadly clandestine operation years...
Irony is dead: Netanyahu cannot attend Auschwitz ceremony for fear of...
Juan Cole
Informed Comment / December 22, 2024
Ann Arbor – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to travel to Poland for the 80th annual commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp because he fears being arrested on...
[VIDEO] Winter is hitting Gaza and many Palestinians have little protection...
Wafaa Shurafa & Fatma Khaled
AP / December 22, 2024
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip – Winter is hitting the Gaza Strip and many of the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced by the devastating 14-month war with Israel are struggling to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain.
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‘They can’t sleep … can’t speak’: the lifeline offered to Gaza’s...
Caroline Davies
The Guardian / December 22, 2024
War Child hopes to provide a million children in the strip with basic aid and educational and mental health support. It’s their biggest emergency appeal yet.
“They have many symptoms,” says Ibrahim, describing how trauma is manifesting daily in children in Gaza. “Being attached...
US launches airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen – shoots down...
Guardian Staff
The Guardian / December 22, 2024
Military says the strikes aim to ‘disrupt and degrade’ Houthi operations such as attacks against US navy warships and merchant vessels.
The US military said it conducted precision airstrikes on Saturday against a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis...
‘They are complicit’: The Palestinian-Americans suing the State Department over Gaza
Richard Hall
The Independent / December 21, 2024
Ahmed Moor is part of a group of Palestinians and their families who are suing the State Department for breaking US law in its support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
New York – Ahmed Moor thinks about his family in Gaza every day. His...
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Kwestie Palestina
De ‘Kwestie Palestina’ verwijst naar de strijd van Palestijnen tegen het zionistische, koloniale project in Palestina, waarbij zionistisch-joodse kolonisten vanaf het eind van de 19e eeuw door middel van kolonisatie stelselmatig toewerken naar het omvormen van Palestina in een Joodse Staat. Deze omvorming betekent in de praktijk dat de...
de Palestijnen
Palestina – het gebied dat zich uitstrekt tussen de Middellandse Zee en de rivier de Jordaan – is door de inspanningen van joodse kolonisten/de Staat Israel opgedeeld in drie delen: Palestina’48 (Israel), de Westelijke Jordaanoever (inclusief Oost-Jeruzalem) en de Strook van Gaza.
In 2016 woonden in Palestina woonden 6,5 miljoen...