Trump administration sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese over criticism of Israel’s...
Tara Cobham & Namita Singh
The Independent / July 10, 2025
Move against independent human rights abuses investigator represents latest US effort to punish critics of Israel’s war.
Donald Trump’s administration is sanctioning UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, a vocal critic of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Announcing the decision, Marco...
[VIDEO] Teenager speaks from Gaza’s bombed humanitarian zone
The Independent / July 10, 2025
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‘The deception game’: Trump is scrambling to make a Gaza deal...
Jeremy Scahill & Jawa Ahmad
Drop Site News / July 9, 2025
Hamas accused the U.S. and Israel of waging a campaign of disinformation about ceasefire progress and insists it will not retreat from its “red lines".
President Donald Trump has portrayed a new Gaza ceasefire deal as a near certainty, claiming...
Governments like mine have a duty to stand up to Israel...
Gustavo Petro
The Guardian / July 8, 2025
Without decisive action, we risk stripping the global legal order of its remaining protections for less-privileged nations.
Over the past 600 days, the world has watched Benjamin Netanyahu lead a campaign of devastation in Gaza, the escalation of regional conflict, and a reckless abandonment...
Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel peace prize at White House meeting
Andrew Roth
The Guardian / July 8, 2025
US leader upbeat on Gaza ceasefire prospects but does not share any additional details on preparations.
Washington – Benjamin Netanyahu told Donald Trump that he would nominate him for the Nobel peace prize on Monday, as the two leaders met for the first time...
Qatar dashes hopes of rapid Gaza ceasefire, saying talks ‘will need...
Jason Burke
The Guardian / July 8, 2025
Comments suggest obstacle to Trump’s wish to announce deal during Netanyahu’s Washington visit
Jerusalem – Progress towards a ceasefire in Gaza has been slow, officials in Qatar say, dashing hopes of a rapid end to hostilities in the devastated Palestinian territory.
The new round of...
Israeli defence minister plans to move Gaza’s population to camp in...
Ione Wells & David Gritten
BBC News / July 8, 2025
Most of Gaza's population has also been displaced multiple times during the war.
Israel's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory,...
Germany is ‘importing’ antisemitism, our leaders claim – irony is not...
Mithu Sanyal
The Guardian / July 8, 2025
Blaming migrants for the rise in anti-Jewish crimes shows a breathtaking lack of self-awareness.
It could have been a Mitchell and Webb sketch – a man with a very German accent and a distinguished Nazi grandfather complaining: “These foreigners, coming over here, importing their...
Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for...
Emma Graham-Harrison
The Guardian / July 7, 2025
Jerusalem – Israel’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.
Israel Katz said he has...
Netanyahu returns to White House holding all the cards in Gaza...
Andrew Roth
The Guardian / July 7, 2025
Joint attack on Iran puts Israeli PM in powerful position as he dangles prospect of Trump-brokered ceasefire deal.
Washington – Donald Trump will host Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington DC on Monday as the US president seeks again to broker a peace deal in Gaza...
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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...