The BBC can’t be trusted to report on the war in Gaza
The BBC is the most-visited news site on the internet today, and calls itself “the world’s most trusted international news provider.” But can we count on it to tell the…
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The BBC is the most-visited news site on the internet today, and calls itself “the world’s most trusted international news provider.” But can we count on it to tell the…
By If Americans Knew The seven countries that the U.S. continues to meddle with and antagonize have a shared history and connection: For decades Israel and the Zionists who pushed…
United Nations spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, announced that Secretary-General António Guterres will participate in the Palestinian conflict resolution conference next June, and said that a resolution must be achieves to end…
Monday, December 16, 2024, marks day 437 of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip by air, land, and sea. Since October 7, 2023, 45,028 citizens have been killed…
Saturday, December 14, 2024, marks day 435 of the Israeli war on Gaza. The Israeli forces continues their aggression against the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air since October…
On Day 432, Wednesday, the Israeli forces continue their aggression against the Gaza Strip by land, sea, and air, since October 7th 2023, killing 44,805 citizens, the majority of them…
By Alison Weir, If Americans Knew On November 12th I received a sudden visit at my home from two FBI agents. As I posted in a tweet. FBI agents suddenly…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, condemn in the strongest terms as a deliberate and egregious…
On Monday, the Executive Council of UNESCO, during its eighth extraordinary session, adopted a resolution by a significant majority to support the educational activities of the United Nations Relief and…
Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is planning to travel to Washington for meetings with U.S. security officials, despite an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him. As non-member…
Nothing in Gaza is simple. Today is the first installment of a local family’s narrative on the challenge of getting something to eat during a genocide. (According to the Gaza…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff The Gaza ministry of health reported Thursday that Israel committed five massacres of families in the last 24 hours, resulting in 71 deaths and 176…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesperson Jeremy Laurence urged states party to the Rome Statute to adhere to and implement the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli…
On November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. They are accused of committing war…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff BREAKING: The International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, for…
A new report issued today by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including 10 people sheltering at a United Nations-run school in the Shati refugee camp…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 37 Palestinians were killed across Gaza Friday, medical sources said. At least seven were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering…
By Jonathan Kuttab – Friends Of Sabeel North America (FOSNA): A moral fatigue and paralysis seems to have overtaken much of the world. Individuals, organizations and institutions seem to have reached…
Louise Wateridge, spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), described the severe lack of aid in Gaza during the ongoing Israeli genocide that has…
The United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices stated that “Israel’s war on Gaza conforms to the characteristics of genocide with the large number of victims and the life-threatening…
On Wednesday, the United Nations Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) approved a draft resolution titled “Permanent Sovereignty of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem,…
The State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have condemned recent statements by an Israeli minister advocating for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff It’s genocide and starvation as usual throughout Gaza. Another journalist killed by Israeli forces in Gaza Israeli forces have killed yet another Palestinian journalist in…
By Jon Mroz Despair drives communities to become more conservative. People are tribal and suffering typically contracts, rather than expands political acumen. Many young left leaning white Americans are shaking…
“There’s nothing to sustain life” in northern Gaza city; Biden admin ignores illegal use of US weapons in genocide” – If Americans Knew, IsraelPalestineNews.org Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Wednesday…
Joint Statement: Standing with the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Face of Israeli-Led, Western-Backed, Intensified Attacks Amid Ongoing Genocide – PCHR While Israel continues its relentless genocidal campaign in…
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned that Israeli attacks, imposed restrictions, and forced displacement in northern Gaza could lead to the “end of Palestinian…
Dozens of Lebanese citizens were killed and injured on Tuesday evening, as Israeli warplanes bombed various towns in Lebanon, causing widespread destruction to buildings, facilities and infrastructure. According to the…
The UK, France, Germany and Italy released a joint statement condemning the multiple and ongoing Israeli attacks on United Nations Peacekeeper troops in southern Lebanon. According to the statement, Israeli…
NEW YORK, October 11, 2024 (WAFA) – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) stated Thursday that Israel has faced zero accountability for the targeting of journalists. A year on, there is…
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…
NEW YORK, October 2, 2024 (WAFA) – Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Wednesday renewed their support to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after Israel declared him “persona non…
Following the three days of mourning after the Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a barrage of rockets hit targets in Tel Aviv and other parts of Israel on…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff In war-battered Gaza, Israeli forces killed 36 Palestinians in the past 24 hours. A major Israeli air strike on a school in the Jabalia refugee…
Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad announced on Monday evening that 356 Lebanese people were killed and more than 1246 others were injured, as a result of intensive Israeli airstrikes on…
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities around the world to condemn the ongoing Israeli aggression against the 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has called on the international community to promptly implement the recently adopted UN General Assembly resolution, submitted by the State of Palestine, and…
On Monday, the UN Security Council will hold a session where members will receive a briefing from Sigrid Kaag, tUN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, regarding the implementation…
“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year. By Michael Arria , Mondoweiss On Wednesday night a…
According to Israeli news sources, Israeli fighter jets dropped fliers in southern Lebanon ordering residents to flee north, following the Yemeni missile that hit a target in Tel Aviv on…
Palestinian Civil Society has joined the Turkish and British governments in their calls for an independent investigation of Israel’s killing of an American peace worker in the West Bank this…
As a new school year opens around the world, the children and teens of Gaza remain without their right to education, as schools in the Gaza Strip remain closed for…
Polio epidemic begins; new flyers about Gaza to distribute; just 11 percent of Gaza for Gazans; Israeli settlers carry out pogrom in Palestinian town of Jit; Gaza Freedom Flotilla drawing…
Food aid in southern Gaza next to zero; Israel has killed over 2,000 Palestinian babies; Israel’s intensifying attacks on Gaza’s schools; West Bank violence; Israel approves new, punitive settlement –…
More weapons for Israel; newborn twins killed in Gaza; Israel shoots American activist; two Palestinians killed in West Bank; Israel detains Palestine Olympic head; California mulls anti-free speech on campus…
Evacuation orders keep exhausted Palestinians on the move; the “Fajr massacre” left no intact bodies behind; Israeli “terrorist” hit list is fake; dwindling numbers of aid trucks means famine; US…
AMMAN, Monday, August 12, 2024 (WAFA) – Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, has strongly condemned the Israeli government’s aggression on Gaza and its continuing disregard of…
In Gaza, airstrikes continue, food rations drop, polio threat grows; in Israel, calls to punish not the rapists, but the one who filmed them, to make rape of Palestinian prisoners…
GENEVA, Friday, August 9, 2024 (WAFA) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, condemned the recent statements made by Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, in which he claimed…
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced Monday that his country will submit its file to The Hague this Wednesday, to join the genocide case filed against Israel at the International…
The following is a report issued recently by Amnesty International calling on Israel to end its unlawful detention and torture of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza: Abusive Israeli law used…
BERN, Saturday, August 3, 2024 (WAFA) – The World Council of Churches (WCC) Friday called for ending the Israeli occupation and recognition of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. WCC…
Listen to article: Haniyeh lived in Qatar… Israel’s choice to specifically kill him in Iran had several results: ended efforts to improve U.S.- Iran relations, closed the window for addressing…
In a massive escalation against the Palestinian diplomatic effort and leadership, Israeli special forces on Wednesday assassinated the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, who had been leading the diplomatic effort…
Calls to end the “unbearable cruelty” inflicted by Israel; death, crowding in Gaza’s shrinking “safe zones”; EU slams Israel over UNRWA “terrorist” label; targeted Israeli killing of a 13-year-old Palestinian…
2 million Gazans are squeezed into 20% of their land, as Israeli bombers and snipers keep killing; UNICEF vehicles hit by Israeli gunfire; peace activists arrested in US Capitol; Israeli…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, July 24, 2024 (WAFA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that children are paying the highest price of the…
GENEVA, Tuesday, July 23, 2024 (WAFA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today voiced extreme concern over a possible mass outbreak of polio in the war-torn Gaza Strip, the UN…
RAMALLAH, Monday, July 22, 2024 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates slammed the passing of a draft bill designating UNRWA as a “terrorist organization” by the Israeli…
IsraelPalestineNews: The International Court of Justice just handed down a momentous ruling about Israeli occupation and Palestinian rights. Here are the highlights, some helpful analysis, and reactions from key players.…
Polio risk added to long list of crises in Gaza; Amnesty speaks out on Israeli torture, Oxfam speaks out on Israeli water weaponization; LA may hire ex-IDF soldiers to patrol…
ICJ genocide ruling apparently meaningless to Israel, as Palestinian deaths, torture continue apace; Gaza pier debacle comes to an end; water crisis for Palestinian residents of Jerusalem; Israel demolishes high…
NEW YORK, Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (WAFA) – Palestine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, said during an open debate on the ongoing crisis in Gaza at…
UN Press Release: Humanitarian Situation in Gaza ‘a Moral Stain on Us All’, Secretary-General Tells Security Council, Stressing International Law Must Be Respected by All Following are UN Secretary-General António…
After the UNRWA Pledging Conference, 118 UN member states officially declared their participation in the Joint Commitments Initiative led by Jordan, Kuwait, and Slovenia, to support the important, life-saving word…
BRUSSELS, Wednesday, July 10, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) today demanded the European Union (EU) to take clear positions on Israeli assaults against journalists. The PJS addressed…
A senior Hamas official informed Reuters on Saturday that the revised agreement proposal with Israel includes the initiation of discussions for the release of Israeli prisoners, both soldiers and civilians,…
by Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh [References at end] This was said 30 years ago: “This is a unique colonialism that we’ve been subjected to where they have no use for us.…
Israel continues to bring death and destruction to Gaza; no high school graduates this year; medical supplies running out; CNN War Reporter says Gaza worst; Israel kills several in West…
Damning evidence of possible widespread Israeli friendly fire on October 7th; another Palestinian journalist killed; Israeli admission that Hamas isn’t going anywhere; teenager killed in West Bank; Israeli prison deaths,…
Public service announcement for folks out there who are indignant about the fact that “Hamas started this trouble, and now Hamas wants to be rewarded with a state.” by Kathryn…
Israel has carried out thousands of massacres; Gaza pier in trouble again; Blinken pledges $400m in aid (while doing nothing to stop carnage); US intelligence-sharing with Israel may be getting…
Gaza pier: futile – or worse?; questions about murdered Gazan journalist; majority of Americans reject arming Israel; weapons to Israel: what we know and don’t know; the dangers of unexploded…
Israel has signaled both acceptance and rejection of the ceasefire plan, as Netanyahu’s government hangs in the balance; number of bodies recovered in Jabaliya after Israel military’s departure rises to…
Elina Valtonen, the Foreign Minister of Finland, has urged Israel to uphold the rulings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and abide by international humanitarian law. Speaking on “X”…
BRUSSELS, Monday, May 27, 2027 (WAFA) – European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the decisions of the International Criminal Court must be respected and left to operate…
NEW YORK, Friday, May 24, 2024 (WAFA) – UNICEF warned that oxygen generators at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Der al-Balah city in the central blockaded Gaza Strip would shut down.…
NEW YORK, Friday, May 24, 2024 (WAFA) – The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today announced that he would transmit the ICJ ruling on the Israeli aggression on Rafah to…
The Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, said on Monday that his office had applied for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders for alleged crimes committed…
from mondoweiss.net As Israel presses on its persecution of civilians in Gaza, the good news is that a strong movement has emerged in the United States against the genocide, and this movement is…
This week Palestinian Evangelical Lutheran pastor Reverend Munther Isaac gave a very compelling talk at a mosque in South Africa, calling on the world, people of every religion, to take…
As US blocks heavy weapons, Israel expands its attack of Rafah. Biden administration reports that Israel’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza “likely violated international humanitarian law”. Food catastrophe looms…
GENEVA, (WAFA) – United Nations experts today condemned US and Israeli threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a press release, the UN experts “expressed utter dismay over statements made…
RAMALLAH, Friday, May 10, 2024 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed the overwhelming vote and international consensus in the United Nations General Assembly affirming the right…
Biden administration pauses shipment of deadliest bombs to Israel; new mass grave holds at least 49 Palestinian bodies; Rafah’s largest hospital shuts down as a result of Israeli invasion, as…
In an unprecedented move for the United States, which is by far the largest weapons supplier to the state of Israel, the US State Department stopped the shipment of a…
The Israeli government officially banned the region’s largest news agency on Sunday — and the only news agency that provides consistent coverage in Arabic and English about internal Israeli politics…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 (WAFA) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro announced during the annual Labor Day celebrations in the capital Bogota that his country will break diplomatic ties with…
Another shameless moment for Blinken, even as he reveals a long list of Israeli human rights abuses; over 300 Gazan bodies discovered in mass graves; Israel prepping for invasion of…
Outlier US says No to Palestinian statehood; Biden mulls massive arms sale to Israel; Dems vote to advance $26 billion for Israel to House floor; Israeli “limited” strike in Iran…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 18, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Presidency has strongly condemned the United States’ use of its veto power in the UN Security Council, effectively preventing Palestine from…
NEW YORK, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 (WAFA) -The Arab Group has issued on Wednesday a statement in which it expressed its total support for Palestine’s UN full membership application, calling…
US official finally uses the f-word (famine); Iran retaliation for provocative Israeli attack possibly this weekend; Washington Post lists Gaza aid items Israel has rejected; Israel assassinates head of police…
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) issued the following statement Tuesday, warning that Palestinians in Gaza are currently experiencing catastrophic hunger, and are on the verge of a completely…
Following the call for an arms embargo on Israel, passed by the United Nations’ top human rights body Friday, international observers have noted that Israel is losing diplomatic support worldwide,…
UN leaders reflect on 6 months of slaughter; US on high alert for possible attack by Iran; Israel admits to “grave mistake” in targeting of World Central Kitchen vehicles; Israel…
The following is a statement from the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom: In January, South Africa appealed to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and charged Israel with state-led acts…
Egos, assumptions, denialism accompany passage of UN Security Council resolution; meanwhile, another confirmation of genocide by Israel; German support for UNRWA; air drop deaths; hospitals under siege; Israel’s “compliance” with…
NEW YORK, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) – The UN Security Council passed today a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan and the…