An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities
Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.
Category: News
13-year-old Palestinian boy was killed after being shot in the back and left to bleed
Ramallah, July 19, 2025—Israeli forces killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in Ya’bad village yesterday. Amr Ali Ahmad Qabha, 13, was shot and killed around 6:30 p.m. on July 18 in the Palestinian village of Ya’bad, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. Two military vehicles came from the Mevo Dotan settlement and military base, entered the village and took up positions in its northern area, where several soldiers exited their vehicles near the Patient’s Friends Society.
States announce unprecedented measures to halt the Gaza genocide at Bogotá conference
16 July 2025 – In the most ambitious multilateral action since the start of Gaza genocide 21 months ago, a coalition of cross-regional states gathered in Bogotá has agreed to six coordinated diplomatic, legal and economic measures to restrain Israel’s assault on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and defend international law at large.
oPt (Gaza) Protection Analysis Update
There is no safe space in Gaza. 20 months of intense hostilities have destroyed the protection environment for persons with disabilities and older persons. 134,105 people including over 40,500 children have new war-related injuries. 25 per cent are estimated to have new disabilities requiring acute and ongoing rehabilitation. Over 35,000 people are believed to have significant hearing damage due to explosions. Ten children per day lose one or both of their legs.
ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be ‘destroyed’
British-Israeli lawyer, who met chief prosecutor in May, says he made suggestions about Palestine case but ‘there was absolutely no threat’
Joint statement by OCHA, OHCHR, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNOPS, UNRWA, WFP and WHO on fuel shortage in Gaza
New York/ Geneva/ Rome/ Gaza, July 12, 2025 – The United Nations warns that the fuel shortage in Gaza has reached critical levels.
Two MSF facilities in Gaza reach all-time high acute malnutrition levels
Economic sanctions now: the EU is Israel’s largest investor
On Tuesday 15 July, European Union (EU) foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to decide whether to impose sanctions on Israel. This is a crucial moment for the EU to draw a red line and stop pumping billions of euros into Israel’s economy, fuelling genocide and occupation. SOMO’s analysis of trade and foreign investment into and from Israel reveals how deeply intertwined the European and Israeli economies are. Based on this analysis, SOMO calls for the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, along with a full arms embargo, extensive economic sanctions and corporate accountability.
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
A month after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, I believed there was evidence that the Israeli military had committed war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity in its counterattack on Gaza. But contrary to the cries of Israel’s fiercest critics, the evidence did not seem to me to rise to the crime of genocide.
EU-Israel: Refusal to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement is a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’
This will be remembered as one of the most disgraceful moments in the EU’s history.
Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General