Under cover of war, Israel is demolishing home after home in Silwan
The government has accelerated plans to depopulate the East Jerusalem neighborhood, displacing dozens of Palestinian residents this year.
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American killed in West Bank was longtime activist ‘bearing witness to oppression’, friends say
Ayşenur Eygi ‘was not a naive traveler – This experience was the culmination of all her years of activism’, says professor
From a hospital in Gaza: ‘Please let me die’
We urge the international and medical community to demand an immediate and permanent cease-fire, and to allow access to the humanitarian aid so desperately needed.
Michael Berry is an anesthetist and intensive care doctor. Suheal Khan is an orthopedic surgeon. Edward Brown is a consultant vascular and general surgeon. They recently returned from volunteering in one of Medical Aid for Palestinians’ and International Rescue Committee’s emergency medical teams in Gaza.
Bisan Lecture Series – Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond – Is science universal?
We are very excited to have prof. Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, for the next installment of the Bisan Lecture Series, on Wednesday September 11th, at 7PM Palestine time. The focus of his lecture will be the universality of science. Register here to get the Zoom link!
UK suspends 30 arms export licences to Israel after review
Foreign Office says review found ‘clear risk’ UK arms may be used in violation of humanitarian law
Stripped and held at gunpoint, the Gaza schoolboys ‘forced to be Israel’s human shields’
Palestinians as young as 12 describe how they were forced to inspect houses and roads to look for tunnels and militants, sometimes dressed in military fatigues, in a practice an Israeli NGO warns is ‘broadly used’ and ‘systemic’. Bel Trew reports from Jerusalem
Israeli military launches fatal airstrike on humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza
IDF claims ‘armed assailants’ tried to hijack vehicle leading convoy of medical supplies, but aid organiser says those killed were transport company staff
More Than 65 Palestinian Filmmakers, Including Hany Abu Assad, Elia Suleiman and Farah Nabulsi, Sign Letter Accusing Hollywood of ‘Dehumanizing’ Palestinians
A group of almost 70 Palestinian filmmakers — including two-time Oscar nominee Hany Abu Assad, acclaimed director Elia Suleiman and recent BAFTA winner Farah Nabulsi — have signed a strongly-worded letter in which they accuse Hollywood of “dehumanising” Palestinians on screen over decades, a factor they assert has helped enable the ongoing devastation in Gaza.
UN Human Rights Office calls on Israel and on Member States, particularly those with influence, to stop attacks by the Israeli Security Forces, settler violence and forcible transfer of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
The UN Human Rights Office condemns the Israel Security Force’s (ISF) increasingly military response in the Occupied West Bank in a manner which violates international law and risks further enflaming an already explosive situation. At about 22:30 on 26 August, the Israeli air force launched at least four airstrikes in the Nur Shams Refugee Camp in Tulkarem and killed three Palestinian men and two boys aged 13 and 15. There were no clashes or confrontations taking place at the time, but ISF claimed that the airstrikes they had targeted an “operations room,”. According to information gathered from multiple sources, three of the fatalities, including the two boys, were killed while they were passing by the targeted house, which was located in one of the small and crammed alleyways in the camp.
Israeli forces kill three Palestinian boys in northern occupied West Bank
15-year-old Adnan Aysar Adnan Jaber, (left) 13-year-old Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Elian, (center) and 17-year-old Mosab Hassan Ali Moqasqas (left) were killed by Israeli forces in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on August 25 and 26. (Photos: Courtesy of the Jaber, Elian, and Moqasqas families)