Dialysis patients struggle to get treatment in blockaded Gaza – officials...
Wafaa Shurafa & Samy Magdy
AP / April 23, 2025
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – Twice a week, Mohamed Attiya’s wheelchair rattles over Gaza’s scarred roads so he can visit the machine that is keeping him alive.
The 54-year-old makes the journey from a temporary shelter west of Gaza City to Shifa...
HRW accuses Israel of ‘indiscriminate’ attacks on civilians during war on...
TNA Staff
The New Arab / April 23, 2025
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes over deadly Lebanon strikes, urging ICC probe as civilian deaths raise concerns of indiscriminate targeting.
Human Rights Watch accused Israel on Wednesday of "indiscriminate" attacks on civilians during its recent war with Hezbollah, saying two...
[PODCAST] This British-Australian doctor has seen the unspeakable in Gaza –...
Nour Haydar
The Guardian / April 23, 2025
Mohammed Mustafa, who worked at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital before it was bombed, says ministers are wrong to say Australia is ‘not a major player’
When Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza last month and resumed its large-scale bombardment, the British-Australian doctor Mohammed Mustafa had...
Israel bombs school sheltering Gaza’s displaced, sparking fire and killing 23
TNA Staff
The New Arab / April 23, 2025
At least 23 Palestinians were killed as Israel bombed a school sheltering displaced people, starting a fire, while Israeli ministers quarrelled over aid to Gaza
Israeli strikes targeted Gaza City’s Jaffa School, which was sheltering displaced Palestinians, setting it ablaze on Tuesday night...
Israeli strikes kill 17 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed...
Wafaa Shurafa & Samy Magdy
AP / April 22, 2025
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble. Separate strikes killed two people...
UNRWA chief says Gaza ‘land of desperation’ after 50 days of...
TNA Staff
The New Arab / April 22, 2025
Israel ordered a renewed offensive and complete siege of Gaza following a breakdown of a ceasefire in the enclave.
The United Nations warned Tuesday that Gaza was facing deepening hunger 50 days into a total Israeli blockade on all aid entering the war-ravaged...
Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral...
Owen Jones
The Guardian / April 22, 2025
With his outspokenness about Israel’s outrages, the late pope showed up the hypocrisy of the media and politicians
The deaths of major public figures can provoke the most grotesque outpourings of hypocrisy. So it goes for Pope Francis, now lauded by leaders and media...
Israel ends mention of humanitarian zones as Gaza war grinds on
Bethan McKernan & Hannah Ellis-Petersen
The Guardian / April 22, 2025
International aid workers fear for Palestinians who have fled their homes in search of safety.
Jerusalem – Israel has quietly stopped designating areas of Gaza as humanitarian zones since it resumed its strikes on the Palestinian territory last month.
The move has...
Pope Francis called Christians in Gaza every night throughout the war:...
Jabed Ahmed
The Independent / April 22, 2025
Pope Francis was usually careful about taking sides in conflicts, however, he campaigned for peace for the devastated enclave since the war began
Members of Gaza’s small Christian community have said they are “heartbroken” over the death of Pope Francis, who had called them...
‘He felt our pain’: Catholic church in Gaza grieves Pope Francis’s...
Bethan McKernan & Malak A Tantesh
The Guardian / April 22, 2025
Pope made nightly phone calls to the Holy Family Catholic church from the start of the war in October 2023
Jerusalem/Gaza – The first time he spoke to Pope Francis during the pontiff’s nightly calls to the Holy Family Catholic...
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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...