‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza...

Nina Lakhani The Guardian  /  August 4, 2025 Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says:...

Hunger in Gaza can’t be explained away by preexisting conditions

Taqwa Ahmed al-Wawi The Intercept  /  August 4 2025 “We’re not just sick. We’re abandoned.” Outlets like The New York Times have downplayed the famine by pointing...

Nearly 600 Israeli ex-security officials appeal to Trump to end war

Steffie Banatvala & Bryony Gooch The Independent  /  August 4, 2025 ‘Chasing remaining senior Hamas operatives can be done later. Our hostages can’t wait,’ says the...

Irish president urges UN to intervene in Gaza, citing ‘destruction of an entire people’

Middle East Monitor  /  August 4, 2025 Irish President Michael D. Higgins has called on the UN to take urgent action in Gaza, asking Secretary-General...

Hundreds of sick children from Gaza to be evacuated to UK for critical NHS...

Alex Croft  The Independent  /  August 3, 2025    Hundreds of seriously ill children from Gaza will be evacuated to the UK for treatment by the NHS,...

Israel’s shifting politics

Hugh J. Curran Informed Comment  /  August 3, 2025 Orono, Maine – PM Benjamin Netanyahu has alienated many in Israeli society, some of whom now revile his leadership: The...

88% of Israeli war crimes investigations end without charges, watchdog says

Stuti Mishra The Independent  /  August 3, 2025 Watchdog says closing of cases ‘suggest a pattern of impunity’. Israel has closed nearly nine out of 10 investigations...

Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’

Haroon Siddique  The Guardian  /  August 2, 2025 Rights bodies say new law and proscription of direct action group create risk of censorship of Gaza-related content. The...

Video of emaciated Israeli captive in Gaza stirs divisions in Israel – family condemns...

TNA Staff The New Arab  /  August 2, 2025 Hamas’ military wing released a video of an Israeli captive looking notably thinner amid the ongoing siege,...

Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’  

Haroon Siddique   The Guardian  /  August 2, 2025  Rights bodies say new law and proscription of direct action group create risk of censorship of Gaza-related content.  The...