Gaza: A long wait for water
Fedaa al-Qedra
The Electronic Intifada / July 13, 2024
Rahaf is constantly waiting for water.
Early each morning, she goes to a desalination plant in Khan Younis, a southern Gaza city on which Israel has inflicted massive destruction.
You can see the long line from afar.
There are hundreds of people of...
Biden says Israel has occasionally been ‘less than cooperative’ when allowing aid to Gaza
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / July 12, 2024
The NATO summit speech comes as Israel continues bombing all areas of the Gaza Strip.
US President Joe Biden said that Israel has occasionally been “less than cooperative” regarding getting aid into the Gaza Strip.
Speaking at the 75th anniversary NATO summit in Washington, DC, Biden recalled his...
US post-war Gaza plans collide with President Biden’s faltering campaign
Sean Mathews
Middle East Eye / July 12, 2024
Biden administration needs buy-in from key Middle East partners to achieve policy goals, but some are already betting on a Trump presidency.
Arab Gulf states are hedging their bets on Donald Trump’s return to the White House, telling the former president’s...
‘I have the prison inside me’: The emaciated Palestinian bodybuilder broken by Israel
Lubna Masarwa & Peter Oborne
Middle East Eye / July 12, 2024
Muazzaz Abayat speaks to Middle East Eye from a hospital bed in his native Bethlehem after spending nearly nine months in Israeli administrative detention.
Emaciated, unable to walk unaided, his right arm jerking shapelessly in front of him...
Will the UK’s policy on Israel-Palestine shift under new PM Starmer ?
Anealla Safdar & Abubaker Abed
Al-Jazeera / July 12, 2024
Palestinians in Gaza have little hope the Labour leader will ease their plight as experts point to possible areas where policy could shift.
Deir al-Balah, Gaza and London, United Kingdom – Israa Saleh, a petite and softly spoken Palestinian doctor who...
US considers fresh legal bid questioning ICC jurisdiction over Israel
Sean Mathews
Middle East Eye / July 12, 2024
Exclusive: Secretary of State Antony Blinken directly lobbied UK foreign minister against dropping the ICC challenge.
The US is considering a legal bid to question the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) authority in seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister...
As Israel inflicts starvation, I am fighting to feed my baby in Gaza
Noor Alyacoubi
Al-Jazeera / July 12, 2024
Gaza City – My daughter Lya was just shy of seven months old when Israel’s war on Gaza began.
She was born on March 19, 2023, two years after my husband, Mohammed, and I were married. It hadn’t been easy to conceive, and we...
Legal consequences – ICJ to rule on Israel’s occupation of Palestine [on July 19]
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / July 12, 2024
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that it will deliver an advisory opinion on July 19 regarding the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.
“A public sitting will take place at 3 p.m. at the Peace Palace in...
Out of place
Yasmin Abusayma
The Electronic Intifada / July 12, 2024
I was always curious about the world beyond the Rafah crossing.
Does the air outside Gaza smell different?
Are people in other places happier?
Do they lead dignified lives, free from the incessant hum of drones and the fear of bombing?
Do they really...
Bodies of about 60 Palestinians reportedly found after Israeli attack on Gaza City
Lorenzo Tondo
The Guardian / July 12, 2024
Forces involved in week-long offensive against Hamas in territory’s largest urban area have now pulled back.
Emergency workers claim to have recovered the bodies of approximately 60 Palestinians from two districts of Gaza City after Israeli forces pulled back from days of...
