A fearless Palestinian artist who turned film into resistance, Mohammed Bakri leaves behind a legacy defined by defiance, memory and the refusal to be silenced.
Attack brings total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 401 since October ceasefire took effect
Live from the Central Library of The Hague, the European Cartoon Award, one of the most prestigious awards for political cartoons published in Europe, announced the names of its Winner, Runners-up and Honourable Mention.
The first prize was awarded to the Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards, for his work published in the Dutch outlet Trouw. The two Runners-up are cartoonists Emad Hajjaj (Jordan) and Zehra Ömeroğlu (Turkey). An Honourable Mention was awarded to Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland).
The Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) has announced the launch of a new solidarity campaign calling for the release of Dr Hossam Abu Safiya and all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli occupation prisons. The campaign will take the form of a calm, symbolic action titled the “Red Ribbons Campaign”, to be held on Saturday 20 December at Oxford Circus in central London, at 1:00 pm.
Gazans claim the Israeli-controlled area, marked by the so-called Yellow Line, changes without warning, moving west. ‘We are not fighters,’ says one mother sheltering in central Gaza, who worries her children will get caught in the line of fire, ‘we are people trying to live’
On 9 December 2025, after two years of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, and with an independent UN Commission of Inquiry confirming that the State of Israel is ‘committing
genocide‘, Al-Haq, Lawyers for Justice in the Middle East (AJPO), the French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP), Survie, and NIDAL, supported in their legal strategy by Droit et Mouvements Sociaux (DMS), have filed a new civil lawsuit against the organisers of the Paris Air Show (SIAE).
Over the past two years, the Israeli Knesset has passed dozens of new laws, the cumulative effect of which is to further entrench and deepen Israel’s regime of apartheid and repression over all Palestinians under its control – both in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Adalah’s new report, “Post-7 October: A New Wave of Anti-Palestinian Israeli Laws”, reviews key legislation passed between 7 October 2023 and 27 July 2025. The laws span multiple themes, including freedom of expression, protest, and thought; the right to citizenship and family life; equality and social rights; and the rights of detainees and prisoners. These new laws fundamentally violate the human rights of Palestinians.
Flooding worsens the crisis for Palestinian families, as an acuteIsraeli-enforced aid shortage threatens those uprooted multiple times by the genocidal war.
The AURDIP publishes and endorses the open letter “Gaza – The selective silence of the Academy,” addressed to the Academy of sciences. Signed to date by more than 500 academics and researchers, this letter denounces the stark contrast between the institution’s swift reaction in support of Ukrainian scientists and its silence in the face of the destruction of Gaza’s universities and the international crimes of which Palestinians are victims.
17-year-old Ahmad Khalil Ahmad Rajabi was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Photo: Courtesy of the Rajabi family.
