by Tareq S. Hajjaj | Oct 19, 2025 | Gaza, Gaza Ceasefire, Genocide, Israel, News, Palestine
It was the moment everyone in southern Gaza had been waiting for: the chance to return to their homes, or what remained of them, in Gaza City and northern Gaza. On October 10, as part of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas, throngs of people began the march back north, moving up the coastal al-Rashid road in a sight reminiscent of Gazans’ historic return…
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by Julia Conley | Oct 19, 2025 | Beit Lahia, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Gaza, Israel, News, Palestine, prisoner exchanges
As families on Monday celebrated the return of about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and 20 living Israeli hostages after the two-year Israeli bombardment that has killed more than 67,000 people and left rubble across Gaza, advocates demanded the return of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was captured nearly a year ago and has reportedly been imprisoned in a detention center known for torturing detainees.
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by Amy Goodman | Oct 18, 2025 | Benjamin Netanyahu, ceasefire, Donald Trump, Gaza, hostages, Interview, Israel, Knesset, Palestine
As President Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset on Monday, he was briefly interrupted by two lawmakers who waved signs reading “Recognize Palestine.” The two Knesset members, Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif with the Hadash-Ta’al alliance, were expelled from the chamber. “Yesterday, there was a disgusting display of flattery and personality cult by two megalomaniacs who are hungry for power and blood,”…
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by Sharon Zhang | Oct 18, 2025 | Gaza, Gaza Ceasefire, Humanitarian Aid, Israel, News, Palestine, War Crimes
Israel is going to halve the amount of aid that it will allow into Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, aid groups say — a move Israel has attempted to justify by blaming Hamas for supposedly violating the deal that Palestinians have said Israel is working to sabotage. UN officials said they were notified by the Israeli military that it would only allow 300 aid trucks into the famine-stricken…
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by Sharon Zhang | Oct 17, 2025 | Gaza, Genocide, Israel, News, Palestine, United Nations, War Crimes, west bank
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank amid the Gaza genocide has surpassed 1,000, according to the UN, after soldiers killed a young Palestinian child while he was reportedly playing soccer on Thursday. The UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reported Friday that Israeli forces and settlers have killed 1,001…
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by Amy Goodman | Oct 17, 2025 | ceasefire, Gaza, Gaza Ceasefire, Interview, Israel, Palestine, Prisons, Settler Violence, west bank
Just days after the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect, President Trump has issued new threats against Hamas, saying Thursday the United States would back a military intervention against the group if it fails to uphold the ceasefire agreement. “There is the fear all the time that the war will be renewed,” says Amira Hass, Haaretz correspondent for the…
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