Astronomy Olympiad, held in Mumbai this year, suspends Israel from future editions
The decision to suspend its official status followed calls from members of the international scientific community to take action over Israel’s activities in Palestine
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Amnesty: New testimonies provide compelling evidence that Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is a deliberate policy
Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life, Amnesty International said today as it published chilling new testimonies of starved displaced civilians. Their accounts underscore the organization’s repeated findings that the deadly combination of hunger and disease is not an unfortunate byproduct of Israel’s military operations. It is the intended outcome of plans and policies that Israel has designed and implemented, over the past 22 months, to deliberately inflict on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction – which is part and parcel of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Why can’t Palestinian students from Gaza take up their university places in Britain?
Unless the UK expedites the safe passage of Palestinians with university offers, the government will have abetted the wiping out of scholarship in Gaza, says Oxford emeritus professor Avi Shlaim
Holocaust Memory and “Fighting Antisemitism” in Times of Genocide
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 — 7 pm Palestine time (Zoom). Prof. Amos Goldberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will speak on Holocaust Memory and “Fighting Antisemitism” in Times of Genocide. He will discuss how Holocaust memory is mobilized by Israel, the US, and Germany while these same states are deeply involved in the genocide in Gaza. [Register here].
Renowned Harp Contests in Israel Canceled After Low Registration and Artist Withdrawals Over Gaza
The International Harp Contest in Israel, originally scheduled for December in Jerusalem, has been canceled after only two participants registered. Italian harpist Claudia Lucia Lamanna, who was set to judge a local harp competition later this month, also withdrew on Friday, citing international pressure.
Malnourished Palestinian woman dies in Italy after Gaza evacuation
Marah Abu Zuhri, 20, arrived in Pisa on an Italian humanitarian flight along with other critical patients
‘Legitimization Cell’: Israeli unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive army intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.
Meanwhile in the West Bank, Every Israeli Soldier ‘Does Whatever He Wants’
In July alone, the Israeli army conducted over 1,300 raids on Palestinian neighborhoods. Residents endure constant harassments, knowing every soldier acts with impunity, and no one will intervene. ‘We see that every soldier behaves like a commander, doing whatever he wants, with no fear of higher rank’
Hunger That Defeats Language
I fear hunger more than death, for it takes you in slow, devouring waves until you become a disintegrating shadow, unable even to scream.
Will anyone read this?
Will anyone believe that a writer could no longer write because he had nothing to eat?
Will anyone care that, in a corner of the world, people are starving so completely that their souls are silenced?
Perhaps not.
But I wrote this – despite everything.
To say that writing is possible.
Only if the body is allowed to survive.
By Husam Maarouf
Palestinian child seeking aid tortured in Israeli military detention camp
Omar Nizar Mahmoud Asfour, 16. Photo courtesy of the Asfour family.