On Monday, the United Nations Security Council approved the Trump administration’s “peace plan” for Gaza. The resolution calls for the establishment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to demilitarize and govern Gaza while Israel withdraws from the area. It also includes the formation of a ‘peace board’ in line with Trump’s plan, stipulating the deployment of international forces to…
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Chandra Hassan, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine, spent three weeks in Gaza in January 2024, treating patients who had survived tank shelling, drone strikes, and sniper fire amid Israel’s ongoing genocide. When Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis came under siege, Hassan and the MedGlobal doctors he was serving with were forced to flee.
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Former UN special rapporteurs Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained and interrogated by Canadian authorities on Thursday while on their way to an event examining Canada’s role in the genocide in Gaza and continued abuses against Palestinians. Falk, who turned 95 on the day he was detained, said that officials deemed he and his wife posed a “national security threat” to the country upon…
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for the assassination of top Palestinian Authority officials and the detention and torture of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas if international authorities take further steps to advance Palestinian statehood. In remarks at a meeting of the far right Otzma Yehudit party reported by Israeli media, Ben-Gvir said that there is no…
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The U.S. and other world powers are reportedly preparing for an indefinite division of Gaza along the Israeli-occupied yellow line, as the U.S.’s plans falter and millions of Palestinians are set to pay the price. Currently, under the ceasefire agreement that Israel is repeatedly violating, all of the Palestinians in Gaza have been forced into a small zone adjacent to the sea.
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It’s devastatingly clear that there will be no seat at the table for the youth of Gaza to take part in the negotiations over “Gaza’s future” currently being held by U.S. and Israeli officials. As U.S. and Israeli officials discuss whether to move forward with the second phase of the ceasefire and draw Gaza’s fate and future on paper — or whether to announce the collapse of the talks and a…
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