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Israel launched an attack in central Gaza after a strike on a shelter
The Israeli military said it killed “dozens” of Hamas militants during its operation in Gaza. The attack on a UN school that killed over 60 people, including children and women, took place in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Israel launched an offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on July 9 to…
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Netanyahu thinks that the deaths of civilians in the Israeli strike on Rafah are tragic
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has called the killing of over 30 people at a camp for displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday “a tragic accident”. Netanyahu said, “We mustn’t allow this catastrophe to take place.” “It’s an attempt to mislead the public and justify the killing of innocent civilians,” he added. The death…
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Israel’s offensive in Rafah is due to be ruled on Friday by the UN’s top court
The UN Security Council will decide Israel’s position on the issue of the Gaza Strip offensive, citing a Palestinian man named Abu Bakr Bashir. Before Israel’s current military offensive, an estimated 1.3 million Palestinians displaced from elsewhere in Gaza were sheltering there. The International Court of Justice said that provisional measures ordered by it earlier…
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The UN’s highest court will rule on the Israel offensive in Rafah on Friday
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel on Friday to end its offensive in Rafah in Gaza Strip, citing “immense risk” to the population of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have sought refuge in the southern Gaza city. Before Israel’s current military offensive, an estimated 1.3 million Palestinians displaced from elsewhere in…
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Biden decries the request of an arrest warrant for Israeli leaders by the International Criminal Court
The ICC will seek arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the July 2018 conflict in the Gaza Strip. ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda also asked for warrants against Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya, his deputy Ismail Haniyeh and…
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The UN changed the number of women and children killed in Gaza
The United Nations on Thursday said that it has revised down its tally of women and children killed over the past seven months in the Gaza Strip as the Health Ministry in the territoryConfirms most, but not all, the identities of the casualties. The UN added that it cannot independently verify each death due to…
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Protesters deliver messages in many ways
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has held a “silent protest” in response to the Israeli military’s nuclear attack on Gaza Strip. A small group of students carrying a Palestinian flag staged a silent protest at Camp Randall Stadium. This comes after some students at the University of California- Berkeley protested against Israel’s attack and called for…
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If Israel invades Rafah, Biden would stop additional weapons shipments
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has urged Israel to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip and warned that the war can only be won by protecting civilians. “Otherwise Israel risks replacing a tactical victory with a strategic defeat,” he added. Earlier this week, President Joe Biden had called on Israel to do more to protect…
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There is a timeline of events leading up to Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip
Egypt’s State Information Service said that the country is ready to protect its territory in the event of Israeli attacks on Rafah, a border crossing with the Gaza Strip. This comes after Israel launched a ground offensive in Rafah to weaken the Hamas government in Gaza. Israel has claimed that the attack is a response…
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There is a tough summer to come with a heat wave in Gaza
Israel has announced that it will purchase 40,000 tents to house the displaced Palestinians in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. With a capacity of 12 people in each, the tents could house 480,000 Palestinians, about a third of the number of people believed to be sheltering in Rafah. Earlier, US Special Envoy…
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Pro-Palestinian protesters face deadlines and risk of arrest
The US has seen two days of demonstrations against the detention of students and teachers at Emory University and George Washington University over their protest against Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip. Videos on social media showed police using tear gas, tasers and handcuffs to detain protesters. The students are demanding the university to divest…
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Workers protest a Cloud contract with Israel
Google Cloud workers began a sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale, California, to protest Israel’s alleged use of AI technology in its military operations in the Gaza Strip. This comes after TIME reported that Google had signed a contract with Israel’s Defence Ministry to build its own ‘landing zone’ on Google…
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Police Detained a couple of workers for protesting a contract with Israel
Google’s Israel and Apple Police forcibly removed nine workers from its New York and Silicon Valley offices over their sit-in protest against its cloud contract with Israel’s government. The protesters were protesting against ‘Project Nimbus’, a cloud contract with Israel’s Defence Ministry, amid the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Project Nimbus has been the target…
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Israel faced an attack from Iran
Israel has launched airstrikes on Iran’s military sites in the Gaza Strip and in response to its attack on an Israeli consulate in Damascus, Syria. The airstrikes come after Iran launched at least 10 missiles into Israel on Saturday, including two missiles capable of carrying up to 150 kg of explosives, according to a report…
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Six months into the war there are photos of Israel and Gaza
Israel pulled out its 98th commando division on Sunday after six months of operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said. This comes days after Israel announced plans to withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip and end the conflict with Hamas. The decision follows a protest in Israel on Saturday against Prime Minister…
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The military has dismissed officers over the World Central Kitchen airstrike
US President Joe Biden has said Israel’s air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in which seven international aid workers were killed, was “inexcusable”. “Israel hasn’t done enough to mitigate civilian harm,” he added. Biden further said that the US will continue to press for an independent investigation into the incident. The aid workers…
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The DOJ has taken a stand against war crimes in both the Ukranian and Gaza wars
US Department of Justice (DEA) has said that it is investigating whether Israel committed war crimes in this month’s conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. However, it added that it will not rush into such a case. Earlier, US President Joe Biden said that future US support for Israel’s Gaza war depends…
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A founder of World Central Kitchen says there have been deaths of workers in Gaza
José Andrés, the founder of the World Central Kitchen that feeds people in disaster zones, said that his organisation has lost “several” of its international volunteers in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. “The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing,” Andrés said on X. “This is an attack on the humanitarian organisations,”…
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People in Gaza eat weed and animal feed to stave off hunger
Thousands of pregnant women and children in the Gaza Strip are facing hardships after the conflict between Israel and Hamas that began in October. Many of the pregnant women and their children have not been able to afford medical supplies, said CARE, an aid organisation that helps women and children in Gaza. The conflict has…
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A State Department official warns Israel that there will be significant reputational damage in the Gaza war
Israeli forces have carried out an attack on a hospital in Gaza Strip, the second such attack in two weeks. The Israeli military said that it has killed “over 140 terrorists” and netted over 250 arrests of individuals that troops have identified as Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters. It added that there have been no…
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There are hurdles to getting food to the starving population in Gaza
Israel on Tuesday allowed six trucks carrying supplies from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to enter the northern Gaza Strip for distribution, the Israeli military said. This is the first shipment of food from Cyprus to Gaza since the conflict between Israel and Hamas in October. The WFP said that people in the north…
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airdropping food in Gaza is not an ideal method of aid delivery
Amid the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations (UN) has said that it is not involved in the movement of humanitarian aid to the region. However, the UN said, “This situation is…direct result of…unconscionable decisions taken by Israeli authorities while waging this war: a relentless bombing and shelling campaign, a complete siege…
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Death Toll in Gaza passes 30,000
Israel has barred entry of food, water, medicine and other supplies to Gaza Strip in a bid to end the fighting with Hamas. The decision came after Israel launched an operation against Hamas on October 7. Over 3,000 people have been killed in the conflict, according to the local health ministry.
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The death toll in Gaza passed 30,000
An analysis published in the Lancet medical journal in December found that Gaza’s health ministry has “historically reported accurate mortality data”, with discrepancies between 1% and roughly 3% when compared with United Nations analysis of deaths in previous conflicts. The health ministry says that 350 medical staff have died in the Gaza Strip since the…
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Efforts are underway to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas
At least 29 people have been killed in fighting between Israel and Hamas over the past two days in Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The death toll has risen to at least 2,780, the ministry added. Meanwhile, the US President Joe Biden has said that Israel should not go ahead with military…