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2025-08-20 15:32

Israeli–Australian diplomatic spat: Author calls it ‘nothing more than theatre’

Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book examining Israel’s arms and surveillance industry, told Al Jazeera from Sydney that the latest diplomatic spat between Israel and Australia was “theatre.”

2025-08-18 18:55

By staff writer

Gaza genocide: Over 62,000 killed, 263 die of starvation under siege

TEHRAN — An increasing number of Palestinians are dying as a result of Israel’s blockade and relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip, even as international pressure grows to end the nearly two-year conflict.

A woman holds a picket sign depicting President Javier Milei shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin during protests in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 9 [Francisco Loureiro/Reuters]

2025/08/13

By Silvina Pachelo

Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to Argentina: The country embracing impunity, making a pact with fascism

BUENOS AIRES — The upcoming arrival of the Israeli prime minister, accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of war crimes in Gaza, places Argentina at a historic crossroads: either uphold international law or cement its alliance with a fascist and genocidal government. President Javier Milei’s silence is complicity and disdain for justice.

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist, Al Sharif in Gaza

2025-08-11 20:12

By Sahar Dadjoo

The life and death of Anas Al Sharif: Gaza’s relentless voice

TEHRAN- Amidst Gaza's devastated streets, where buildings lay in ruins and daily life was stripped to its barest form, Anas Sharif more than a reporter — was a chronicler of a crisis.

2025-08-10 22:30

By Sahar Dadjoo

Netanyahu’s Gaza plan risks a quagmire with no exit

TEHRAN - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to fully occupy Gaza City—and potentially the entire Gaza Strip—marks a stark escalation in the nearly two-year conflict with Hamas, revealing a deeply troubling disregard for military counsel, humanitarian norms, and regional stability.

2025-08-04 20:21

By Ali Hamedin

From Metropolis to Gaza: Superman vs Israel

TEHRAN-A land of stark imbalance — where a heavily armed military, backed by a global superpower, storms the borders of a poor, besieged nation. Its people, trapped behind border fences, stand their ground with nothing but stones and flags against tanks and soldiers. The world’s media wavers between terms like “legitimate defense” and “right to life,” unsure of how to frame the suffering. Leading the assault is a commander long shielded from accountability by diplomatic alliances and military support. And then suddenly, a hero descends from the sky — uninvited, unaffiliated, moved only by the will to save lives.

2025-08-02 20:19

By Kurosh Alyani Iranian cultural critic

Art against erasure: witnessing Gaza’s unseen pain

TEHRAN- A mother—whether in Norway or Nigeria—switches off the television, refusing the unbearable sight: a grieving mother in Gaza holding her child, starved to death. The image pierces too deep, shattering fragile calm. In that moment, denial shields her heart; the world’s pain presses too close. Yet the silence carries its own weight—a quiet witness to sorrow too vast to hold.

2025-07-30 20:49

By staff writer

EU lawmakers call for sanctions as Gaza starvation deepens: Will Europe follow through?

TEHRAN- The continuing humanitarian disaster in Gaza has sparked a considerable political response from European Union (EU) legislators; however, the overall EU and Western response is still disjointed, late, and terribly weak.

Greta Berlin comments on new Flotilla aid ship to Gaza

2025-07-29 20:27

By Sahar Dadjoo

Exclusive: Activist says Sumud Flotilla unites 40 nations in renewed push against Gaza blockade

Greta Berlin says the upcoming mass maritime effort represents the world’s growing refusal to stay silent on the Gaza blockade

TEHRAN – As the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza deepens and the international community continues to grapple with the fallout of Israel’s months-long siege, seasoned activist Greta Berlin remains resolute: the ships will keep sailing.

Due process or delayed justice? The ICJ’s Gaza case and a race against time

2025-07-28 20:22

By staff writer

The ICJ Gaza case and a race against time

TEHRAN- On July 27, The Guardian reported that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has postponed its final ruling on the Gaza genocide case until at least 2027. The delay follows a six-month extension granted to Israel to prepare its defense, with the court accepting Israel’s claim that “evidential issues” related to South Africa’s genocide case necessitated more time.

2025-07-27 22:20

Israel intercepts Gaza-bound activist boat carrying food aid

The anti-Gaza war Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says Israeli troops boarded a boat that was trying to bring food aid to the Gaza Strip by sea, BBC reported.

2025-07-20 20:14

By Wesam Bahrani

650,000 children in Gaza at risk of death

TEHRAN – The blockade imposed by the Israeli occupation regime on Gaza has placed 650,000 starving Palestinian children at risk of death.

12 countries announce sanction against Israel

2025-07-19 19:24

By Sahar Dadjoo

Legal front opens in Global South to challenge Israeli impunity

TEHRAN - A decisive shift is underway regarding the international community’s posture toward the Gaza crisis. A coalition of countries is moving beyond rhetoric to impose targeted sanctions on Israel.

2025-07-19 16:25

By Sahar Dadjoo

Israel’s visa denials: A calculated strategy to undermine humanitarian oversight in Gaza

TEHRAN- Israel’s repeated refusal to renew visas for the heads of critical United Nations agencies operating in Gaza signals a disturbing and deliberate tactic to obstruct independent humanitarian oversight amid one of the world’s most protracted conflicts.

2025-07-15 22:04

Gaza infants' lives at risk amid fuel shortages

Palestinian infants reliant on incubators in Gaza are fighting for their lives amid a critical fuel shortage, exacerbated by Israel’s increasingly stringent blockade on aid and essential supplies, MEE reported.

2025-07-15 22:03

German court rules ban on Palestinian doctor’s speech was unlawful

A German court has ruled that authorities illegally prevented a British-Palestinian surgeon from participating in a pro-Palestinian event in Berlin, local media reported on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

2025-07-15 21:56

Attacks on Palestinians intensifying in occupied West Bank: UN

Israeli settlers and security forces have intensified their killings, attacks and harassment of Palestinians in recent weeks in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the United Nations human rights office warns.

2025-07-15 18:59

More occupation troops killed in Gaza

TEHRAN – Palestinian resistance forces killed three more Israeli occupation soldiers in the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday afternoon.

Three members of UN commission on Israel resign

2025-07-15 18:59

By Sahar Dadjoo

Sanctions, delegitimization, and resignations: The end of UN oversight in occupied Palestine

TEHRAN- The recent resignation of all members of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory epitomizes the fraught intersection of human rights accountability, geopolitical confrontation, and organizational challenges within the UN system.

2025-07-14 22:03

Over 700 Palestinians killed while collecting water in Gaza

More than 700 Palestinians, mostly children, have been killed by Israeli army fire while collecting water since October 2023, local authorities said on Monday, according to Anadolu Agency.

2025-07-14 21:59

Gaza civilians killed with commercial drones, probe finds

The Israeli army is weaponizing Chinese-made drones to kill Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, according to an investigation by the Israeli publications 972 Magazine and the Local Call, Al Jazeera reported.

Olmert reffres to Israel ethnic cleansing in Gaza

2025-07-14 21:43

Rafah plan is ethnic cleansing disguised as aid: Olmert

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in an interview with the Guardian on Monday, said that "Israel's" proposed "humanitarian city" in Rafah is tantamount to ethnic cleansing and would operate as a concentration camp if realized.

2025-07-14 20:36

By Sahar Dadjoo

Suicides among Israeli soldiers expose systemic breakdown

TEHRAN - Since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Israeli military has been grappling with a surge in suicides among soldiers.

2025-07-12 21:01

Gaza talks at risk as Israel demands Rafah occupation and GHF continuation

Hamas negotiators are increasingly skeptical that a Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israel could be reached in the current round of talks in Doha, Middle East Eye has learned.

2025-07-12 21:00

Dozens killed at aid site in Gaza, children dying of malnutrition

At least 79 Palestinians have been killed since Saturday dawn in Israeli attacks across Gaza, with dozens of children dying from malnutrition during Israel’s punishing months-long blockade, as ceasefire talks reportedly stall.

2025-07-12 20:59

'Israel' reports casualties as resistance grows in Gaza, Khan Younis

Israeli media confirmed two security incidents in Khan Younis and Gaza's al-Shujaiya neighborhood, reporting intense close-quarters combat along multiple battlefronts in recent hours, Al Mayadeen reported.