ISREAL | PALESTINE | GAZA ISSUES

What’s Mawasi, the Israel-designated Gaza ‘safe zone’ it bombed overnight?

Palestinian women stand helplessly amid the destruction left by 2,00-pound bombs dropped by Israel on the tents of a displacement camp in al-Mawasi Khan Younis in Gaza on September 10, 2024 [Bashar Taleb/AFP] Israel has killed at least 19 people in an attack on a tent encampment within the so-called humanitarian, or “safe”, zone in al-Mawasi, Gaza. About 65 more …

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Gaza war in its 12th month with truce hopes slim

A Palestinian civil defence member stands near a building on fire that was hit by Israeli bombardment in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in the north of Gaza City on September 3, 2024. (AFP)   The chances of a truce that would swap Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel for hostages held by Hamas appeared slim, with both sides sticking doggedly to …

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As Palestine applies for full UN membership, what’s in the way?

History set to be repeated as the US prepares to wield veto, insisting Palestine must negotiate statehood with Israel first. Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour addresses the United Nations Security Council at UN headquarters, on March 25, 2024, after a vote that passed a ceasefire resolution in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first …

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Nearly 200 bodies found in mass grave at hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis

Palestinian authorities say 180 bodies recovered from Nasser Medical Complex so far as Israel continues deadly attacks on Gaza. Palestinian health workers unearth a body buried by Israeli forces inside Nasser hospital compound in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024. [AFP] Palestinian civil defence crews have uncovered a mass grave inside the Nasser Medical Complex …

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If Gaza is gone, there will be no Palestine by Mohammed Mourtaja

A Palestinian woman reacts upon seeing the corpses of relatives killed in Israeli bombardment in Al-Zahra in the central Gaza Strip, on 21 March 2024 (AFP)   From Jerusalem to Ramallah, to Haifa and beyond, all Palestinians must come together to stop Israel’s war on Gaza Israel’s continuing war on Gaza has devastated the territory, exceeding even the 1948 Nakba in terms of the …

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