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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
Red Cross federation ‘outraged’ at deaths of Red Crescent medics in Gaza
Secretary general says he is ‘heartbroken’ by the news, after Israeli military says it fired on ‘suspicious vehicles’ that were later found to include ambulances
A West Bank Village Destroyed
At 2 A.M. Saturday morning, 140 soldiers and settlers, in uniform or in their Shabbat attire, raided the small village of cave dwellers called Jinba, in the South Hebron hills. The raiders split up into groups of seven. According to villagers’ testimonies, each group was equipped with a 5 kilogram sledgehammer and assigned to a house. The soldiers-settlers woke up the occupants of the houses they entered, herded them into one corner and proceeded to destroy the house.
‘They don’t want them to know anything’: Gaza civilians held in Israel not told families had been killed
A nurse, a civil servant and a teacher, among thousands of Palestinians detained without charges, were not informed their relatives had died in Israeli attacks
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the faculty leaders of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies on Wednesday, according to a faculty member familiar with the situation — a dramatic shakeup at a center that has come under fire for its programming on Israel and Palestine.
An-Najah University Journal/Palestine – Open Call for Papers: Sustainable Materials and Chemistry for Energy and Environmental Applications
An An-Najah University Journal for Research – A (Natural Sciences), indexed in Scopus, invites submissions for a special issue on Sustainable Materials and Chemistry for Energy and Environmental Applications
Guest Editor: Prof. Mahdi Abu Omar, UCSB
AMPAS members respond to the lack of support for filmmaker Hamdan Ballal from AMPAS leadership
On 26 March 2025, the leadership of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences emailed its membership a statement with the subject line, “Our Global Film Community.” The statement was ostensibly responding to the detention of Palestinian filmmaker and 2025 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winner Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of “No Other Land,” although it failed to mention either Ballal or the film by name, nor did it describe the events it was responding to.
The statement by Bill Kramer and Janet Yang fell far short of the sentiments this moment calls for. Therefore we are issuing our own statement, which speaks for the undersigned members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Academy Apologizes for Not Naming ‘No Other Land’ Director Hamdan Ballal Amid Outcry From More Than 700 Voters
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has sent out a statement to its 11,000 members following mounting criticism over its lack of public support for Hamdan Ballal, the….
Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah
Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says