Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says
Figure down from 4% in April, suggesting Israel has continued to target farmland in once-abundant Gaza Strip
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year
Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’
Israel closes 88% of cases of alleged war crimes or abuse without charges – report
Conflict monitoring group Action on Armed Violence says Israel is seeking to create a ‘pattern of impunity’
Not a Hypothesis: Boycott Against Israeli Science Spreads ‘Like a Virus’
Growing backlash over the Gaza war is fueling both open and silent boycotts of Israeli scientific research. Grants are drying up, emails go unanswered, and once-regular collaborations are unraveling. ‘The only way to deal with the boycott is to stop the war … and the terrible things we’ve been perpetrating in Gaza’
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children.
These are their names.
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths.1 Life expectancy at birth reportedly declined by approximately 35 years in 2024.2 This represents a greater collapse in longevity than that recorded during the genocide in Rwanda, where life expectancy at birth declined from age 42·9 years in 1993 to age 12·2 years in 1994.3
As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities
Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now
Israeli Soldiers’ Excrement in Cooking Pots: When the IDF Took Over Hundreds of Houses in the West Bank
During Israel’s war with Iran, the military occupied some 250 homes and apartments across the West Bank, converting them into makeshift bases and interrogation centers. When soldiers left, residents returned to houses in disarray
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study.We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, call on the UK government, Home Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage for our incoming students so they can take up their places of study in September.