Israeli strikes kill 38 people in Gaza’s Khan Younis and 3 journalists in southern...
Bassem Mroue & Wafaa Shurafa
AP / October 25, 2024
BEIRUT – Israeli strikes killed 38 people in Gaza and three journalists in Lebanon on Friday as growing worries about supply shortages in Gaza and international pressure for a cease-fire mounted.
The deaths reported by Gaza health officials were the latest in...
Blue Helmets in southern Lebanon, caught between the gunfire and a vague mandate
María Antonia Sánchez-Vallejo
El Pais / October 25, 2024
Israel’s demand that the mission be relocated and its army’s attacks are jeopardizing the effectiveness of the UNIFIL operation, one of the oldest in the United Nations.
To review United Nations peacekeeping missions with a list of successes and failures in hand would...
One of 3 judges weighing request for ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and others...
Mike Corder
AP / October 25, 2024
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The presiding judge of an International Criminal Court panel considering a request to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister and senior Hamas leaders has been replaced on medical grounds.
The court published a decision Friday...
Israel’s ‘war’ against the UN
Simon Speakman Cordall
Al-Jazeera / October 25, 2024
Little is new in Israel’s current conflict with the international community in Gaza and Lebanon.
The passing of two bills in the Knesset on Monday night that, when implemented, will block the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from providing life-saving support across Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank, is...
‘Biblical vengeance’: Israeli politician wants to turn Gaza to ‘Dresden’
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / October 25, 2024
Muslims are not afraid of us anymore, and it was a mistake that we have not turned Gaza into ashes immediately, a former Knesset member has said in an interview.
Israel should level Gaza to the ground and expel all Palestinians to Egypt...
Gaza: trapped in lives we never imagined
Mahmoud Alyazji
The Electronic Intifada / October 25, 2024
It’s been over a year since I’ve been away from home. When I received a scholarship to study abroad for one semester in the United States in August 2023, my original plan was to travel for four months. But now I must...
Israel and UN are manoeuvring fraught but fundamental ties during Middle East wars
Jamey Keaten and Edith M. Lederer
AP / October 24, 2024
GENEVA – A year ago, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks in Israel but said in remarks to the Security Council that they " did not happen in a vacuum.” That phrase was immediately denounced by Israel...
ICMD: A new tool to end impunity for those who violate the rules of...
Al-Jazeera / October 24, 2024
Elisabet Fura, Peter Lundberg, Sultan Barakat, Jessica Almqvist, Mark Klamberg, Stephen J Rapp, David Kaye, John P Cerone, Mariana Salazar Albornoz, Jann Kleffner & Sriprapha Petcharamesree
A new initiative by RWI promises to revolutionise the way compliance with the rules of war is monitored globally.
In August...
Israeli weapon captured in rare photos of Beirut airstrike appears to be powerful smart...
Adam Schreck
The Independent / October 24, 2024
Minutes before the strike brought down the building, there were two smaller strikes, in what Israel’s military often refers to as a ‘a knock on the roof’
A photographer has captured the moments an Israeli bomb plummeted toward a Beirut building before detonating to...
[Open Letter] We, Israelis, are calling for global pressure on Israel to force an...
Open letter
The Guardian / October 24, 2024
More than 2,000 Israelis have signed this letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’
We, Israeli citizens residing in Israel and abroad, call on the international community – the UN and its...