[as allways] White House blames Hamas as Israel launches massive airstrikes...
Namita Singh
The Independent / March 18, 2025
Gaza health ministry says at least 330 killed in Israeli strikes amid fears of resumption of war.
Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 330 people early on Tuesday, the Hamas-run health ministry said, in what officials described as the most intense...
Gaza: ceasefire shattered as 350 Palestinians killed in new airstrikes, Hamas...
Maroosha Muzaffar, Bel Trew & Alex Croft
The Independent / March 18, 2025
Israeli military says its offensive will continue ‘for as long as necessary’ and expand beyond airstrikes.
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 350 Palestinians across Gaza in the deadliest wave of attacks since a ceasefire deal was reached in...
Hundreds reported dead in Gaza as Israel launches widespread strikes
Jason Burke & Malak A Tantesh
The Guardian / March 18, 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu’s office threatens more attacks on Hamas, blaming its refusal to release hostages for IDF strikes that Gaza health ministry says have killed at least 200.
Jerusalem/Gaza City – More than 200 people have been killed and hundreds more...
‘My day is wasted searching for bread and water’: A Palestinian...
Sally Ibrahim
The New Arab / March 17, 2025
Bread prices have skyrocketed. Before the closure, a loaf cost $US 1.5. Now, it costs over $US 3, an impossible price for someone unemployed for months.
Gaza – In the Al-Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City, where shattered buildings stand as silent witnesses to...
Tense calm on Syria-Lebanon border after killing of three Syrian security...
TNA Staff
The New Arab / 17 March, 2025
Syrian and Lebanese forces rushed to the border area to prevent further escalation, after three Syrian security forces were killed on Sunday evening.
A tense calm returned to the Syria-Lebanon border on Monday following the killing of three Syrian soldiers by Lebanese groups in the...
US could attack Iranian targets in next wave of Yemen strikes,...
TNA Staff
The New Arab / March 17, 2025
The US has demanded Iran end its support of the Houthi rebels in Yemen, as Tehran vows to retaliate if attacked by Washington.
The US could hit Iranian targets in Yemen as part of its ongoing military campaign against the Tehran-backed Houthi rebels, President Donald...
Netanyahu seeks to dismiss Israel’s internal security chief as power struggle...
Melanie Lidman
AP / March 17, 2025
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will seek to dismiss the head of the internal security service this week, deepening a power struggle focused largely on who bears responsibility for the Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza.
Netanyahu’s effort...
‘I will spend my life rebuilding’: Gaza’s heritage sites destroyed by...
Malak A Tantesh & Jason Burke
The Guardian / March 17, 2025
Palestinian experts and British archaeologists say more than two-thirds of heritage, cultural and archaeological sites in Gaza have been damaged.
Gaza/Jerusalem – Hamouda al-Dahda stands in the ruins of Pasha Palace in Gaza City, where before the war the golden...
Netanyahu announces plans to fire Shin Bet chief for ‘ongoing distrust’...
Maroosha Muzaffar
The Independent / March 17, 2025
This comes at a time when the security service is investigating two of the prime minister’s advisers over alleged payments from Qatar.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to dismiss the director of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, citing “ongoing distrust”...
Jewish Israelis moving to live in Europe ‘rejuvenating’ Jewish communities
Jason Burke
The Guardian / March 17, 2025
Research shows dramatic reversal of decades of net outflow to Israel, as new arrivals bring cultural influences.
Jerusalem – Jewish Israelis making a new home in Europe have become vital to previously declining Jewish communities on the continent, boosting numbers, bringing a range of...
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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...