Gaza - Tehran Times

By Wesam Bahrani

Gazans still face death, misery and starvation

Only about 24% of humanitarian aid agreed under the truce has been allowed into Gaza

TEHRAN – Developments in Gaza show that the occupying Israeli regime continues its attacks across the besieged Gaza enclave, despite a fragile truce agreement. The al-Ahli Hospital reported that a Palestinian was killed by the Israeli fire in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

2025-11-03 21:14

By Garsha Vazirian

Gaza’s shadow over NYC: How a mayoral race turned into a moral referendum

Calling genocide by its name, Zohran Mamdani forced a reckoning and unleashed a fierce counterattack

TEHRAN – Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the Ugandan-Indian son of a postcolonial scholar who was born in Uganda, has done something the pundit class assumed impossible: his campaign dragged the once-distant politics of Gaza into the center of a New York mayoral election and forced voters to decide whether American power remains accountable.

2025-11-03 21:12

Israeli fire kills three north of Rafah despite ceasefire

Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire north of Rafah, Nasser Medical Complex staff told Al Jazeera, in what many observers consider a breach of the fragile ceasefire.

2025-11-03 18:52

By Shahrokh Saei

From Gaza to Darfur: Mossad’s strategic footprint in Sudan’s genocide

TEHRAN – As the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) consolidate control over western Sudan with the fall of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, questions are growing about the involvement of foreign actors—particularly Israel and the United States—in shaping the trajectory of the country’s civil war.

2025-11-02 19:37

By Wesam Bahrani

Gaza reels under renewed bombings

TEHRAN – The Israeli regime escalates Gaza strikes as blockade tightens, aid restricted, and casualties rise.

2025-11-01 18:41

By Wesam Bahrani

Israel intensifies truce violations in Gaza

TEHRAN – The Israeli regime continues violating the Gaza truce with deadly attacks, widespread destruction, aid obstruction, and mounting civilian casualties. Five people have been killed and 17 bodies recovered over the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement.

A UN inquiry determined that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza

2025-10-31 20:57

Erdogan to Merz: Does Germany not see Israeli genocide in Gaza?

At a joint news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Ankara on Thursday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan criticized Germany over its ignorance of Israel's "genocide" and attacks in Gaza, Reuters reported.

2025-10-31 20:03

By Wesam Bahrani

Trump’s illusion of Gaza truce is masking continued violence

TEHRAN – Trump’s peace plan masks ongoing Israeli regime attacks on Gaza, threatening a fragile ceasefire. After yet another collapse of what U.S. President Donald Trump heralded as a historic peace deal, it has become increasingly clear that the supposed truce between the Israeli regime and Palestinian resistance forces was a fiction from the start.

2025-10-31 19:26

By Sahar Dadjoo

Gaza shows international law is dead — and moral courage must replace hope, Antony Hequet says

With legal structures failing, French-American artist calls for ethical clarity and active resistance to prevent further oppression

TEHRAN- In this Tehran Times exclusive, we present the voice of Antony Hequet—a French-American poet, composer, singer and multidisciplinary thinker whose work fuses music, myth, trauma and moral reflection into a profound cultural critique.

2025-10-31 16:27

These 200 corpses bear witness

Genocide persists despite claims of a ceasefire in Gaza

Recent Israeli attacks on Gaza — which killed 100 Palestinians, including 35 children — have once again laid bare the true nature of that regime and its Western backers.

2025-10-29 20:25

By Wesam Bahrani

Brutality under ceasefire plan

More than 100 Palestinians killed in Gaza as Israel launches new strikes

TEHRAN – As expected, the Gaza ceasefire brokered under U.S. President Donald Trump’s “peace plan” has once exposed itself as a cruel illusion after the Israeli occupation regime’s most violent bombing campaign since it took effect on October 10.

2025/10/29

By Garsha Vazirian

Omitted truths, commissioned lies

When ownership, access, and censorship render Western media complicit in atrocity

TEHRAN – For decades, the Western mainstream press styled itself as guardian of truth—professing a duty to call out violence, confront power, and shield readers from propaganda’s gloss.

2025-10-29 19:39

UN condemns Israel’s 'appalling' strikes on Gaza

The United Nations has called Israeli strikes on Gaza "appalling" and urged all sides not to let peace "slip from our grasp".

2025-10-29 19:39

Hamas: U.S. political cover enables Israeli violations of ceasefire

Hamas has called on the mediators of the ceasefire agreement to pressure Israel to stop its attacks and abide by the deal, while also accusing the US in being complicit in helping Israel “impose new realities by force” in Gaza.

2025-10-29 14:47

Israel kills over 100 in Gaza

The Gaza Ministry of Health says Israeli airstrikes since last night have killed over 100 Palestinians, nearly half of them children, despite an ongoing ceasefire.

2025-10-27 19:38

By Shahab Sarmadi

Gaza’s suffering deepens despite Trump’s ceasefire plan

TEHRAN – More than two weeks after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the people of Gaza continue to endure catastrophic humanitarian conditions.

2025-10-27 19:34

By Wesam Bahrani

Israeli-backed militias face deadly risks in Gaza

TEHRAN – The Zionist regime’s secret plan in Gaza is to arm local militias to weaken Hamas and reshape control from within.

2025-10-27 19:27

By Batool Subeiti

The illusion of peace in defeat

LONDON - The war fronts backing Gaza have decided to stand against the Israeli attempt to eliminate the Gazan resistance. The resistance was in a state of defense and not in a state of attack throughout Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. There is a difference between one who holds a rightful position and moves within that circle, and one who practices tyranny to achieve illegitimate goals.

2025-10-27 18:08

UNRWA says ceasefire ‘not enough’ as Israel denies aid convoys entry to Gaza

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said Sunday that its international staff and convoys are still being denied entry to Gaza, with food, hygiene kits, tents, and other supplies urgently needed.

2025-10-27 15:43

U.S. 'peace' plan reeks of blood

In his various speeches, U.S. President Donald Trump has tried to reinforce the notion that he seeks to rescue West Asia and establish peace in the region. Yet this claim is nothing more than Trump’s latest ploy to advance his own interests, because his peace vision amounts to nothing but the imposition of American will upon others.

2025-10-26 20:49

By Wesam Bahrani

Aggression in Gaza under Trump’s “ceasefire” deception

Trump boasts greatly about his highly publicized yet fragile and disjointed ceasefire plan for Gaza

TEHRAN – The Israeli regime’s latest aggression on Gaza, under the guise of Trump’s “peace plan” masks over the guarantees offered to Palestinians.

2025-10-26 20:01

By Shahab Sarmadi

‘Gaza Metro’ endures as Israel’s mission falls short

TEHRAN – When Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz admitted that 60 percent of Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza remain intact, he unintentionally confirmed what many have long suspected — Israel has failed to achieve its primary military objectives in Gaza.

2025-10-26 19:58

Malaysians protest Trump's support for Israel during ASEAN summit

Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's visit for the 47th ASEAN Summit, voicing strong opposition to his administration's unwavering support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

2025-10-26 15:05

Palestinian Islamic Jihad rejects Israel’s allegation of planned attack as ‘slander’

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad has rejected an allegation by the Israeli army that it was planning an attack as a “false claim and slander,” Al Jazeera reported Sunday.

2025-10-26 14:26

Hamas will disarm if Israeli occupation ends: Al-Hayya

In an interview with Al Jazeera on Sunday, Hamas Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya framed his movement’s concessions as contingent on an end to Israeli occupation, insisting “if the occupation ends, these weapons will be handed over to the state.”

2025-10-25 19:42

Catherine Connolly wins Irish presidency in landslide after pro-Palestine campaign

Catherine Connolly swept to victory in Ireland’s presidential election, defeating center-right rival Heather Humphreys after early tallies put Connolly at roughly two-thirds of first-preference votes. Humphreys conceded as the gap proved insurmountable.