Author: Celine Hagbard

The images of the past year are seared into my memory. The worst one I remember was the image of what was left of a body that got completely smashed…

It’s day 293 of the Israeli military’s relentless assault on Gaza. The day after Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress – hundreds of Jewish activists arrested in a…

Here’s the thing: If you aren’t Palestinian, or directly following Palestinians’ personal social accounts, you probably haven’t heard about the latest massacres in Gaza: the school bombed last night in…

It’s day 267 of the genocide in Gaza. I try to go about my day, I go to the store, to the park, drive my car, do my work. But…

So… #Gaza is still trending on social media, as the genocide enters its 220th day. And maybe it’s the cynic in me, or I’ve been through this cycle too many…

Following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the al-Shifa Hospital in central Gaza, and the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Palestinian rescue crews have gone in to…

In a shoot-out on a busy highway east of Jerusalem, Israeli paramilitary colonizers killed three Palestinians in a shoot-out, in which eight Israelis were wounded. The gun battle took place…

Israeli is a microcosm of the USA. It’s like a little miniature version of the settler-colonial state that took over the entirety of turtle island from “sea to shining sea”…

84% of health facilities in the Gaza Strip have been demolished completely or too severely damaged to continue operations, due to Israeli bombardment and attacks over the past four months.…

Palestinian prisoners — nearly 7,000 of whom have been captured by Israeli troops since October 7th, 2023 — have presented evidence of widespread torture and starvation of the men, women…

Another massive Palestine solidarity protest was held in London on Saturday. The rally began at the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, which protesters say has failed to report…

Palestinians in the diaspora around the world, and those in the West Bank and in what is now Israel have been unable to reach loved ones in Gaza for seven…

Israa University, along with its under-construction medical center, has become the latest casualty of the 103-day long Israeli genocide in Gaza after every other university has already been bombed and…

100 days. and I feel numb. It started, this time, with something unusual. Something unheard of. We have become used, over the past 24 years of intifada suppression, to the…

An estimated 400,000 people gathered in Washington DC Saturday afternoon, traveling from all over the East Coast and Midwest to attend the rally and march for Palestine. It was the…

The International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands has begun the first day of a two-day trial charging the Israeli government with genocide against the Palestinian people due to…

Dozens of Palestinians were killed and wounded Sunday as Israeli forces attacked the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dir al-Balah, the last remaining functional hospital in the Gaza Strip. The World…

January 7th marks the Eastern Orthodox Christmas celebration, which is usually accompanied by festivities and parades in the city of Bethlehem. But this year, with the ongoing Israeli onslaught in…

On Monday, the Israeli forces that have been attacking the civilian population of Gaza for the past 72 days again targeted hospitals in Gaza, killing at least 57 civilians at…

Israeli forces dropped fliers on Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, ordering residents — many of whom are evacuees from other parts of Gaza – to evacuate the area. But there…

On Tuesday, an off duty Israeli Border Police officer shot and killed a young Palestinian man near the town of Al-Ezzariyya, east of Jerusalem. According to Israeli forces, the Palestinian…

A young man identified as Aws Jamal Hamamda Kamil, 30 years old, died from serious wounds he suffered Wednesday,  killed on Thursday after having been shot by the Israeli occupation…

Three Palestinian civilians were killed and a number of others were injured before dawn on Thursday May 11th, in an Israeli bombing that targeted a residential apartment in Khan Younis,…

On Sunday, Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property, abducting 8 Palestinians. The Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men: Muhammad Abu…

On Tuesday, during an invasion of the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Israeli forces abducted an Italian woman, a Palestine solidarity activist, beating and kicking her before taking her into…

On Sunday dawn, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of Mujahed Ahmad Mohammad Daoud, 31, as a result of critical wounds he sustained when the invading Israeli soldiers shot…

Hosam Salem, a Palestinian journalist in Gaza who put his life in danger many times over the past four years to report from the front lines for American and international…

Two Palestinian and one Israeli soldier were killed during an exchange of gunfire near the village of Jalama, north of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.…

In the small village of Taybeh, located in the Nazareth district, dozens of local villagers marched, held signs, and chanted slogans to demand that Israeli authorities end their practice of…

Family members of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli forces in May, were invited to the National Press Club in Washington DC on Wednesday August 31  to…

In the early morning hours on Wednesday, Israeli forces conducted their daily raids of West Bank towns and villages, aimed in part at keeping the Palestinians living under the Israeli…

In an act of collective punishment directed toward the families of two Palestinian men imprisoned for the murder of an Israeli colonial settler, Israeli forces invaded the town of Salfit…

The now-released US State Department report on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh makes the absurd claim that the evidence is ‘inconclusive’ regarding who killed Shireen. But the United Nations…

Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian child on Friday while invading the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem. The child, Zaid Mohammad Ghneim, 15 years old, was shot by…

A 47-year-old Israeli soldier, identified as Noam Raz, 47, was shot and killed by Palestinian fighters Friday when the troops invaded the village of Burqin and Jenin refugee camp, in…

Israeli troops attacked Palestinian civilians near Nablus, shooting thirteen with rubber-coated steel bullets and one with live ammunition near dawn on Tuesday. The confrontation took place when Israeli soldiers invaded…

On Sunday evening, Israeli forces opened fire on a Palestinian youth near the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Tuqu’, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, killing him. The…

Hundreds of Israeli settlers organized a provocative march in the occupied city of Jerusalem on Wednesday, waving Israeli flags and chanting anti-Palestinian slogans while marching through Palestinian areas.  The march…

A Palestinian worker who was trying to reach his workplace inside what is now Israel was shot by Israeli forces and then abducted by the soldiers. Omar Yasser Shehada from…

The famous Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid has accused the US social media company Instagram (owned by Facebook) of censoring her posts about the Israeli military occupation of Palestine. In a…

On Saturday, Israeli forces severely beat a young man in the Al-Sahla neighborhood of the city of Hebron. The Palestinian Wafa News Agency reported that Israeli forces beat Ibrahim Al-Rajabi while…

A Palestinian man who Israeli police believe was responsible for a shooting attack in Tel Aviv on Thursday was shot and killed by Israeli forces before dawn on Friday. The…

On Friday afternoon, Israeli forces invaded several towns in the West Bank to attack non-violent protest marches organized by Palestinian peace groups in Battir (west of Bethlehem), Hebron, and Kufur…

One Friday evening, Israeli troops invaded the village of al-‘Isawiya, northeast of occupied Jerusalem. The troops attacked the home of Ghaseb Abu Asab in the village of Al-‘Isawiya, which led…

On Wednesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning Israeli authorities for failing to investigate the death of 75-year old Sheikh Suleiman al-Hathlin in what appeared to…

Israeli forces targeted, shot and killed the former political prisoner Midhat Saleh al-Saleh while he was on his way home in the Golan Heights on Saturday. Al-Saleh was the head…

The Israeli Jerusalem municipality on Wednesday approved the seizure of a large area (200 dunams) in East Jerusalem to construct a colonial settlement in violation of international law and signed…

Ahmad Samrin lay down in from of an Israeli bulldozer Sunday to try to non-violently prevent the bulldozer from destroying his family’s land in Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem – an…

Two Palestinian brothers were herding sheep on their land in the Lasifer area east of Yatta, in the Hebron District of the southern West Bank, when they were assaulted by…

A Palestinian Druze man with Israeli citizenship was killed in a car accident Tuesday while volunteering with the Israeli police to identify undocumented Palestinian workers. He was identified as Hosam…

The last two of the six Palestinian political prisoners who escaped last week from Gilboa Prison were captured Saturday in Eastern Neighborhood in Jenin city, in the northern part of…

On Sunday, Israeli authorities sent heavy equipment to the Gaza border to reinforce sections of the concrete Wall that had been exposed to a fire two years ago. According to…

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fateh, issued a statement following the re-capture of four of the six escaped Palestinian prisoners on Friday, stating “Israel’s capture of the heroic prisoner, Revolutionary…

Following Friday’s capture of four of the six prisoners who escaped from the Gilboa Israeli prison last week, Palestinians throughout the West Bank held marches and rallies in solidarity with…

Armed gangs of Israeli paramilitary colonial settlers have been invading Palestinian areas in different parts of the West Bank Saturday, terrorizing local residents, shooting at children, firing rifles into Palestinian…

In the early hours of Friday morning, Israeli forces invaded several villages in the northern part of the West Bank and abducted six Palestinians who were asleep in their homes…

Israeli troops attacked a group of journalists covering a protest in the South Hebron Hills several days ago, with one of the soldiers telling the reporters as they seized their…

Israeli troops attacked a group of Palestinians who were protesting the Israeli settlement expansion in Beita village Friday, wounding at least 20. The soldiers also opened fire on four ambulances…

Update from “Palestinian Protests in Beita Attacked by Israeli Troops” In Beita, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society confirmed that 94 Palestinians; 17 shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, three of them…

Palestinians protesting the construction of illegal Israeli colonies on their land in the village of Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin, were attacked by Israeli soldiers Friday evening with tear gas canisters…

In the early morning hours on Wednesday, Israeli forces invaded a number of West Bank cities and towns and snatched 17 Palestinian men and boys from their homes as they lay…

A battalion of Israeli soldiers invaded the Palestinian village of Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin, in the northern West Bank on Tuesday evening. They opened fire at any Palestinians who were…

The United Nations Security Council met on Sunday to discuss the past week’s escalation of violence by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jerusalem, inside Israel and…

On Saturday afternoon in East Jerusalem, Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah were singing, painting murals, and flying balloons when Israeli forces attacked. Occupation forces attack women in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood (video…

In the midst of a deadly night in Gaza in which Israeli bombardment killed at least 34 Palestinians in a single night of bombing, Palestinian resistance fighters retaliated in the…

A Palestinian woman who was seven months pregnant suffered a miscarriage last Thursday after Israeli forces repeatedly fired tear gas toward her home in Mughayir village, east of Ramallah, Areej Abu…

As the US government prepares to inaugurate Joe Biden as President on Wednesday, the Israeli government announced Sunday a plan for 780 additional colonial settlements on Palestinian land. Israeli Prime…

The Moroccan monarchy, which has illegally occupied its southern neighbor, Western Sahara, for the past thirty years, received a full endorsement for its illegal occupation from US President Donald Trump…

In the pre-dawn hours on Sunday, two rockets were launched from Gaza into Israel in what some commentators are saying was a malfunction in the launching mechanism due to the…

Local sources have reported that Israeli authorities posted demolition orders along a 3-kilometer stretch of road, saying that Israeli forces will be coming along within one week to destroy the…

Israeli forces stormed the prison cells of Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, using attack dogs and pepper spray to assault the inmates. According to local sources, Israeli officers unleashed the dogs…

After a phone meeting with US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, crown prince of the United Arab Emirates, announced a “full normalization…

Aseel Mahmoud Hamad Dheir, 34, died on Monday in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, from wounds she suffered at the hands of the Israeli army during…

In Tel Aviv on Tuesday, an Israeli court rejected an appeal by the Islamic Council of Jaffa to preserve a 200-year old Muslim cemetery, ruling instead that the municipality of…

The Israeli Annexation Plan, announced last month by Israeli authorities, and put into practice this month, has apparently claimed its first victim, as a Palestinian baby scheduled for a lifesaving…

Two young men were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets, while dozens more suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, when Israeli forces invaded Kufur Qaddoum village and began assaulting non-violent…

During the nightly invasion of various parts of the West Bank on Thursday, Israeli forces abducted a number of Palestinians who were asleep in bed, and re-arrested one man who…

Israeli forces invaded several parts of the West Bank in pre-dawn raids Wednesday March 4th, abducting 21 Palestinian citizens from their homes while they were asleep in bed. In addition,…

A Palestinian bakery in the heart of Old Jerusalem has been forced to close by Israeli authorities after 60 years in business. The reason provided for the forced closure was…

Israeli soldiers stationed in the occupied West Bank recovered, Monday, the body of a Palestinian man tangled among bushes in a rural area, who apparently died of his wounds after…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a house under construction on Sunday in the village of Wad Rahal, south of Bethlehem. The head of the Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in…

Following the abduction of eight Palestinians from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-‘Isawiya on Sunday, Israeli troops again invaded the area on Monday morning, abducting 7 more Palestinians. According to…

Israeli occupation forces arrested two youths at dawn on Sunday as they tried to cross the border fence in the Gaza Strip. Local media reported that the Israeli occupation forces…

A number of youths were wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets, as well as tear gas and sound bombs fired by Israeli soldiers during their assault on the weekly peace march…

Israeli forces invaded Khirbet Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta, near Hebron in the southern West Bank Thursday, and destroyed dozens of olive trees, water irrigation systems and four water wells…

The Palestinian township of Ar’ara, located on the Israeli side of the Green Line (1967 Armistice Line), and an area targeted for Israeli colonial expansion, on Wednesday became the latest…

In response to a request from US Trump administration official and supporter of Israeli settlement expansion, Jason Greenblatt, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) said they would refuse to meet at…

In the latest in a series of corruption scandals involving the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his family, Netanyahu’s wife Sara on Sunday pleaded guilty to misusing state funds.…

In a move aimed at gaining more support from the already-enthusiastic Donald Trump for their policies of land expropriation and expansion, Israeli authorities on Sunday established a new development they…

Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Jabal al-Mukaber south of Jerusalem on Friday evening and abducted a girl and four boys. Eyewitnesses told Agence France-Presse that the occupation forces…

A group of Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israeli forces, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday, for the third time during the past two weeks of the Holy Month of Ramadan…

Two right-wing parties in Germany succeeded in getting the German Parliament to pass a bill on Friday condemning the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement as ‘anti-Semitic’ in a close vote following a…

One of the top leaders in the Palestinian government, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, has had her visa rejected by the U.S. government with no reason given for the denial. Ashrawi has…

For the first time, Israeli authorities decided this year to deny all travel permits to Palestinian Christians from Gaza to celebrate Easter as they do each year, by processing from…

Palestinian medical sources report that a Palestinian child, Issac Abdul Muti Suwailm Eshteiwi, 16, from Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, died of injuries sustained when he was…

Israeli forces fired live ammunition toward Palestinian farmers east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Sunday. In addition, Israeli naval forces opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in northwestern…

Israeli soldiers stationed in the Jordan Valley – a Palestinian area that is under Israeli control under the Oslo agreement – attacked a group of Palestinian hikers who were on…

Israeli soldiers have reported that a Palestinian was killed, and another injured, when an Israeli settler opened fire on them near Beita town, south of Nablus. The Palestinian who was…

The Israeli government authorized even more troops and weaponry to be deployed to the Gaza-Israel border on Wednesday evening, as Palestinians in Gaza prepare for the one-year anniversary of the…

Israeli sources say that seven Israelis were wounded – two with moderate injuries, and five with light to very light injuries – when a rocket allegedly fired from Gaza hit…