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.
Marah Abu Zuhri, 20, arrived in Pisa on an Italian humanitarian flight along with other critical patients
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.
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’
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
Omar Nizar Mahmoud Asfour, 16. Photo courtesy of the Asfour family.
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) suspended Russia in 2022 but readmitted it in 2025 instead of suspending Israel in addition. In this article, I explain how this moral decline of the IMO proceeded from 2022 to 2025, and I emphasize its severe negative consequences for the mathematical olympiad community. By Melih Ucer.
For some the only hope is treatment abroad, but not all survive the long, desperate wait for Israel’s approval
As a result of Israel’s deliberate starving of the civilians in Gaza and further war crimes and crimes against humanity, Science4Peace now calls to stop any cooperation with scientific institutions and international corporations involved in Israel’s wars. Its recent declaration (see below) makes this point unmistakably clear and demands the immediate end to the war against Gaza and the end of Gaza’s siege to allow the transport of all urgently necessary live-saving means into the enclave.
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
