Meta’s Oversight Board has received more than 2,300 comments relating to the use of the phrase “from the river to the sea” on Facebook and Instagram in the context of activism and self-determination for Palestine. The 22-member board is still deciding whether the phrase constitutes hate speech. This is specifically in the co...
The National Press Club, the largest organization for journalists in the US, has urged Israel to restore The Associated Press’ equipment and live feed in Gaza. Israel earlier confiscated the New York-based news agency’s broadcast equipment and shut down its live feed into Gaza. Press Club President Emily Wilkins has asked Israel to reverse cou...
No aid has reached Gaza despite the temporary pier built by the US and put into operation five days ago. Pentagon spokesman General Patrick Ryder confirmed that 569 tons of aid delivered via the pier have not yet been distributed. Israel’s closure of key access points is making the situation worse. Meanwhile the UN has […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Two more Hezbollah fighters were killed by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese pro-Palestine resistance group said. The group identified the slain fighters as Mohamed Ali Butoam and Ali Hassan Soltan, without providing any details about the circumstances of their death. The announcement came shortly after Lebanese me...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel on Tuesday shut down US news agency the Associated Press’s live feed from Gaza, two weeks after it ordered the closure of Al Jazeera. The AP said Israeli authorities accused the news agency of violating its ban on Al Jazeera, which was targeted based on a new Israeli law […]
Israel killed 106 Palestinians and wounded 176 others in Gaza in 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. In the Nuseirat refugee camp alone, 31 Palestinians were killed. Doctors Without Borders reported that al-Awda Hospital near Jabalia has completely run out of drinking water, highlighting the dire humanitarian situation. ...
Three American members of medical missions have chosen to stay in Gaza until Israel permits replacement humanitarian workers. They are part of a group of 20 American and British medical workers from the European Hospital in Khan Younis, who are being evacuated from Gaza. Hindered by the closure of the Rafah border crossing, these workers [&h...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Sunday that Israel had killed at least 35,456 Palestinians in the territory during more than seven months of its war on the coastal enclave. The toll includes 70 deaths over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 79,476 people have been […]
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Heavy Israeli bombardment rocked the southern Gaza city of Rafah Saturday, as the United Nations said 800,000 people had been “forced to flee” Israel’s assault. Israel’s military said air strikes hit more than 70 targets across Gaza while ground troops conducted “targeted...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Knesset member and former Mossad deputy chief Ram Ben-Barak has said that the ongoing war in Gaza is “futile,” asserting that Israel is on the losing end and facing economic collapse. “This war lacks a clear objective, and it’s evident that we’re unequivocally losing it,” Ben-Barak told the Israeli pu...
