Protests broke out against Hamas in Gaza – what do Palestinians...
Samy Magdy & Joseph Krauss
AP / April 2, 2025
Thousands of Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests last week in the Gaza Strip, the biggest show of anger at the militant group since its attack on Israel ignited the war.
Protesters said they were venting anger and desperation as they...
Netanyahu says Israel will establish a new security corridor across Gaza...
Wafaa Shurafa & Isaac Scharf
AP / April 2, 2025
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas, suggesting it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel has ordered evacuated,...
Israeli leader Netanyahu will visit Hungary, defying an international arrest warrant
Justin Spike
AP / April 2, 2025
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Hungary on Wednesday to meet with its nationalist prime minister despite an international arrest warrant for the Israeli leader over the war in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu’s four-day visit to Budapest is...
US bombing of Yemen compounding dire humanitarian situation – rights groups
Oliver Holmes
The Guardian / April 2, 2025
Anti-Houthi air campaign, details of which were revealed in Signal scandal, has brought further destruction to country
A ramped-up US bombing campaign on Yemen has killed civilians and brought further destruction and uncertainty to the poorest country in the Middle East, compounding an already...
Parsing anti-Hamas protests and pro-Israel PR
Mari Cohen
Jewish |Currents / April 1, 2025
Political analyst Muhammad Shehada discusses the cynical exploitation of Gazans’ demonstrations, and Israel’s investment in keeping Hamas in power.
Last week, amid continuous bombing and evacuation orders, a few thousand Palestinians took to the streets in the northern Gaza Strip to protest against Israel’s intensified...
UN human rights chief condemns killing of Gaza humanitarian workers by...
Middle East Monitor / April 1, 2025
The UN high commissioner for human rights on Tuesday strongly condemned a March 23 attack by the Israeli army on a medical and emergency convoy in Gaza which resulted in the deaths of 15 medical personnel and humanitarian workers, Anadolu Agency reports.
“The subsequent...
Palestinian teenager dies in Israeli jail after being held six months...
Lorenzo Tondo
The Guardian / April 1, 2025
Family of Walid Ahmad (17) say his health had deteriorated and Palestinian officials say he was denied medical care.
Jerusalem – A 17-year-old boy from the West Bank who was held without charge for six months in an Israeli prison died after he collapsed...
Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
Lorenzo Tondo, Malak A Tantesh & Julian Borger
The Guardian / April 1, 2025
Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime.
Jerusalem/Gaza –Some of the bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, killed by Israeli forces and buried in...
Israel uses human shields in Gaza ‘at least six times a...
Middle East Monitor / April 1, 2025
Israeli soldiers are reportedly using Palestinian civilians as human shields at least six times a day, according to an anonymous Israeli army officer quoted in Haaretz. The anonymous source, a senior officer in a non-reservist brigade, revealed that the practice is now so...
Protesting Harvard’s dismissal of directors of its Mideast Center over Israel-Palestine...
Committee on Academic Freedom / April 1, 2025
Alan Garber
President, Harvard University
Dear President Garber, Dean Hoekstra and Dean Cutler:
We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our deep concern about Harvard University’s decision to remove Professor...
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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...