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Since Sunday morning, Israeli forces have carried out airstrikes and gunfire across Gaza, says medics

Deze week hoor je hoe in Gaza het geweld maar blijft duren.

Un videoclip în care apare un copil palestinian de șapte ani din Fâșia Gaza, care suferă de o afecțiune severă de vedere, a devenit viral pe rețelele sociale și în presa internațională, stârnind valuri de emoție și compasiune.

A network of fake fitness coaches, Vietnamese bots, Facebook ads aimed at Brits - and a bogus 'humanitarian fund' for Gaza. A Haaretz and Libération investigation exposes a digital operation whose infrastructure leads back to BlackCore, the Israeli influence firm under investigation in France

The IDF has approved plans for renewed fighting in Gaza, citing intelligence that Hamas has rebuilt parts of its infrastructure, including some tunnels. Israeli political sources stressed that the Netanyahu government has yet to approve another offensive

The closure of Gaza's border crossings due to Iranian missiles is not the story. The story is how familiar the sequence has become: A regional crisis erupts. Security measures are introduced. Gaza absorbs the cost

While Palestinians in Gaza warned of shortages, the IDF said the crossings would reopen gradually, subject to the security situation. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, attention turned to whether the escalation would lead to tighter movement restrictions

Original Hebrew and translated books on Gaza are beginning to appear in Israel, but will Israelis read them? Also: the hottest queer Arab party from Haifa to Jaffa

De eerste twee Palestijnen die een studie-of werkvisum voor Nederland hebben, zijn vertrokken uit Gaza en onderweg naar Nederland. Ze maken onderdeel uit van een groep van bijna vijftig Palestijnen. Het is nog onduidelijk wanneer de rest ook kan vertrekken.

Soldiers who served in Gaza after an October cease-fire say they are angered and saddened, describing continued killings along the contested Yellow Line, expanded Israeli control and permissive 'shoot to kill' rules, while Israel says most dead posed threats

The United Nations warned on Friday that an Israeli plan to take control of 70 per cent of Gaza will increase suffering among children already hit by the impacts of severe overcrowding. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to take control of more territory in the Gaza Strip, flouting the terms of a fragile ceasefire that took effect in October. He said the military had controlled 50pc of the Palestinian territory under the terms of the ceasefire, then advanced to take over 60pc. “My directive is to move to… 70pc,” he said. The United Nations children’s agency Unicef warned that this would deepen the health crisis among children in the territory, suffering from acute lack of food, water and hygiene. Israel controls the flow of aid into the territory along with all entry points into Gaza, which has been under an Israeli blockade since 2007. Even before Israel’s assault in Gaza that began in 2023, the territory was already very densely populated. Now “people have been crammed into a...

Organizers of the Gaza flotilla said activists were subjected to abuse, with several hospitalised with injuries and at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape. Israeli forces arrested 430 people on board 50 ships in international waters earlier this month

US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace has no cash in its official Gaza reconstruction fund, despite member countries pledging billions of dollars, a source familiar with the board told AFP on Wednesday. Trump first conceived of the board to rebuild Gaza, where Israel and Hamas agreed to a US-backed ceasefire in October in a bid to halt two years of devastating war. But he quickly raised eyebrows by sending out wide invitations, including to Russian President Vladimir Putin and to countries far removed from traditional Middle East diplomacy. Since the board was set up, its fund — administered by the World Bank and endorsed by the United Nations — has received no money from donors, the source familiar with the Board of Peace told AFP. The source said money had not been deposited because the fund was designed for the reconstruction and development phase, which has not yet been reached. Israeli military operations in Gaza have continued despite the ceasefire, with at least 910 people killed since then, accor...

Trump proposed rebuilding Gaza after an October US-backed ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

Israel said on Wednesday it had killed the new head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, in a strike the day before, after killing his predecessor in a similar attack this month. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz claimed the “commander of the armed wing of the Hamas terrorist organisation in Gaza was eliminated yesterday”. Hamas has not yet commented. “In the Prime Minister’s name and in my own, congratulations to the IDF and the Shin Bet on the brilliant execution,” Katz claimed in a post on X. “We committed ourselves to eliminating everyone who led the October 7 massacre, and that is what we will do: they are all marked for death, wherever they may be.” After announcing the strike on Tuesday, Katz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a joint statement that Odeh had “served as head of Hamas intelligence during the October 7 massacre and was appointed approximately one week ago as successor to Ezzedine al-Haddad”. Haddad was killed by an Israeli strike on May 15. “Odeh was responsible for...

Tzvika Mor headed the 'Tikva Forum,' which united six hostage families who called on the government during the October 7 war with Gaza to halt negotiations with Hamas and urged to continue the war

Dahlan was expelled from Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, facing allegations that he had assassinated Yasser Arafat. He is an influential figure in Gaza but is not affiliated with the PA or Hamas. A source says he has a direct line to U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner

Het is geen logistiek, maar een politiek probleem dat het maar niet lukt om genoeg hulp Gaza binnen te krijgen. UNICEF-topman Jonathan Veitch loopt in onderhandelingen voortdurend tegen politieke blokkades aan. Dat proces is frustrerend, maar hard nodig, zegt hij in een interview met NU.nl.

MADRID: Around two thousand protesters took to the streets of the Spanish city of Bilbao on Sunday to condemn the Basque police’s treatment of activists from a Gaza aid flotilla on their return from detention in Israel. When a relative of one of the six returning activists tried to approach them at Bilbao airport on Saturday, a police officer forcefully prevented him from doing so, leading to scuffles between both sides, images from state broadcaster TVE showed. Images showed police striking people with batons and pinning others to the ground while being jeered by onlookers. Before this, activists appeared to have blocked the exit for other passengers and police tried to move them. Four people were arrested for serious disobedience, resisting arrest and assaulting law enforcement officers, the Basque regional police force, the Ertzaintza, said in a statement on Sunday. Two of those arrested were activists who had just arrived from Turkiye, TVE reported. The police force also launched an investigation into the...

Resuming the war would undoubtedly benefit Netanyahu politically. The prime minister doesn't want to go into this year's election with Hamas still in Gaza. He will want to be in a position to tell voters: We are nearly done with Hamas