Palestine Links

Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing (Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith & Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025)

Syria’s Druze fearful after deadly attacks on Damascus suburbs (Madeline Edwards, Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025)

Amnesty International: Israel committing ‘livestreamed genocide’ in Gaza (Mera Aladam, Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025)

UAE’s ruling family agrees to $2bn transaction with Trump crypto firm (Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025)

With USAID shuttered, Palestine’s most vulnerable lose a lifeline. Trump’s cuts came as a blow to NGOs like ADWAR (Ella Halpern-Matthews, +972, 30 April 2025)

US tells ICJ it’s lawful for Israel to curtail work of UN agencies that aren’t ‘impartial’ (Sondos Asem, Middle East Eye, 30 April 2025)

Documentary on Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank triggers online firestorm (Middle East Eye, 29 May 2025)

The Vach brothers: Israel’s first family of genocide (David Sheen, Electronic Intifada, 30 April 2025)

Ben-Gvir touts bombing food depots while at Mar-a-Lago (Michael F Brown, Electronic Intifada, 30 April 2025)

Besieged by settlers, Palestinians race to harvest wheat early (Georgia Gee and Dikla Taylor-Sheinman, +972, 28 April 2025)

A ruined university in northern Gaza becomes a refuge – Forced out of their homes once more, thousands of Palestinians have crowded into the Islamic University campus, west of Gaza City — where burning books is the only way to boil water, heat food, and stay warm (Ruwaida Amer, +972, 25 April 2025)

How Gaza’s horrors turned Israeli normalization into a Saudi domestic crisis. Before Oct. 7, the kingdom was meticulously reshaping public opinion to support a peace deal. Gaza upended this strategy — forcing MbS to recalibrate (Hind Al Ansari, +972, 24 April 2025)

Bombing plants, severing pipelines: Israel pushes Gaza water crisis to the brink (Ibtisam Mahdi, +972, 23 April 2025)

Global Charade: Israel, Palestine And The ‘Rules-Based Order’ (Media Lens, 15 April 2025)

The Israeli army is facing its biggest refusal crisis in decades. Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty (Meron Rapoport, +972, 11 April 2025)

Where’s the outrage over ‘systematic’ sexual violence against Palestinians? (Samah Salaime, +972, 17 April 2025)

In southern Syria, a violent new Israeli occupation emerges. Israeli forces have advanced miles into Syrian territory — confiscating land and homes, killing farmers, and seeking to divide the region’s diverse population (Tareq al-Salameh, +972, 10 April 2025)

‘I operated on more children in Gaza in one night than I do in the U.S. in a year’, says American surgeon Feroze Sidhwa (Michal Feldon, +972, 9 April 2025)

Israel kills children routinely in West Bank (Tamara Nassar, Electronic Intifada, 9 April 2025)

Netanyahu says Iran deal will only work if nuclear facilities blown up, otherwise military force needed (Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, 8 April 2025)

Key 7 October “mass rapes” witness denounced as liar by Israeli reporter (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 4 April 2025)

Starvation and solitary confinement: 14 months in Israeli prison (Abdullah Younis, Electronic Intifada, 3 April 2025)

Trump goes to war for Israel (Eli Gerzon, Electronic Intifada, 1 April 2025)

Trump takes support for Israel to new extremes (Hassan Abo Qamar, Electronic Intifada, 27 March 2025)

As Israeli bombs fell, wounded children overwhelmed this Gaza hospital. Dozens died (AP, 25 March 2025)

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