Q&A: Will the Gaza cease-fire last ? – a conversation with...
Daniel Block
Foreign Affairs / January 17, 2025
On January 17, after more than a year of war, Israel and Hamas struck a cease-fire agreement. The three-phase deal, which kicks off next week, will stop the fighting for the 42 days. During that time, Israel will withdraw from the Gaza Strip’s...
The terrible cost of peace between Israel and Hamas: in numbers
Alexander Butler & Tom Watling
The Independent / January 17, 2025
In the wake of the Hamas attack that killed around 1,200 Israelis – with another 250 taken hostage – more than 46,700 Palestinians have been killed, while 1.9 million have been displaced from their homes.
After 15 gruelling months, a ceasefire...
‘Happiness, sadness, grief and worry’ across Israel and Gaza following ceasefire...
Bel Trew
The Independent / January 17, 2025
People are celebrating in the streets as a ceasefire deal is reached, but they still have 72 hours to wait.
Tel-Aviv – A digital clock that towers over “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv has been ticking for the last 466 days. It marks the...
How to engage with Israelis who don’t fully support Palestinian rights
Alain Alameddine
The Electronic Intifada / January 17, 2025
It is not easy for Palestinians and allies who espouse Palestinian liberation to navigate dealing with Jewish Israelis.
On the one hand, they are occupying Palestinian land in several ways.
First, most of them are geographically living in the territory of Palestine, some literally...
Israel security cabinet approves Gaza ceasefire agreement
Lorenzo Tondo and Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem
The Guardian / January 17, 2025
Ratification comes after delay led to fears that deal would come unstuck. It now passes to full cabinet for signoff.
Israel’s security cabinet has ratified a ceasefire deal to exchange dozens of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinians in...
After the ceasefire, Gazans face a different kind of war –...
Al-Meqdad Jamil Meqdad
The Guardian / January 17, 2025
Thousands of Palestinians are homeless, their houses reduced to rubble. It could take decades to rebuild their lives.
Al-Meqdad Jamil Meqdad
The ceasefire news came suddenly, with an agreement we had heard before, surrounded by bureaucracy, hope and death. People all around me in...
Israel security team to discuss Gaza ceasefire as airstrikes continue
Bethan McKernan, Lorenzo Tondo & Andrew Roth
The Guardian / January 17, 2025
Netanyahu’s office says cabinet will convene on Friday amid concerns the delay could slow start of truce.
Jerusalem/Washington – Israel’s security cabinet will meet on Friday after negotiators reached a deal for the release of hostages as part of...
‘We will be betrayed’: cold, fearful and still under fire, Gaza’s...
Malak A Tantesh & Jason Burke
The Guardian / January 17, 2025
Palestinians describe grief and anxiety as they seek news that the ceasefire is going ahead, and airstrikes continue.
Gaza – Amid continuing airstrikes, bitter cold and news of delays, millions in Gaza were waiting anxiously on Thursday for confirmation that...
Five journalists in Gaza reflect on ceasefire announcement
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Drop Site News / January 16, 2025
“These were moments mixed with joy and sorrow. Joy that this waterfall of blood will stop; that the massacres will stop; that the sentence, ‘this family has been completely erased’ will stop; that the phrase ‘he is the sole survivor’ will...
Israel kills 87 Palestinians in Gaza in day after ceasefire deal...
Sharon Zhang
Truthout / January 16, 2025
This is the highest death toll in a day in nearly two weeks, one analysis found.
Israeli forces killed at least 87 Palestinians, including numerous children, in the hours after officials announced that Israel and Hamas have reached a long-awaited ceasefire deal on Wednesday, according...
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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...