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Many areas are still without water and electricity following three days of Israeli airstrikesIn Shujaiya, a neighbourhood of Gaza City already scarred by several rounds of war, men passed around coffee and dates under the shade of a colourful mourning tent while Palestinian Islamic Jihad battle songs blared from a sound system.Men carrying AK-47s, their […]

A truce between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad has taken effect in the Gaza Strip after three days of fighting. Bloodshed had erupted on Friday with Israeli airstrikes as part of Operation Breaking Dawn, which it said stopped planned rocket attacks by Islamic Jihad. Palestinian officials said 44 Palestinians, including 15 […]

Joe Biden welcomes ceasefire agreed after three days of conflict triggered by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza Strip A truce between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad has taken effect in the Gaza Strip after three days of cross-border fighting triggered by surprise Israeli airstrikes.US president Joe Biden welcomed the agreement on Sunday, […]

Worst clashes in more than a year have left dozens of Palestianians dead

Thousands of mourners took part on Sunday (7 August) in the funeral of a senior commander in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group (PIJ), Tayseer al-Jaabari, and six other people killed in the same air strikes on Rafah City in Gaza.

Israeli airstrikes pounded militant targets in Gaza on Saturday (6 August), as rocket barrages into southern Israel persisted, raising fears of further escalation.

Health authorities in Palestinian enclave report 24 dead in Israeli attacks targeting Islamic JihadResidents of the Gaza Strip were bracing for the possibility of a new round of war on Saturday after two days of “pre-emptive” Israeli airstrikes against a Palestinian militant group.Israeli warplanes hit several sites in the blockaded territory on Friday, […]

Israeli airstrikes targeted residential areas in Gaza on Saturday, flattening at least one home. Residents received an advance warning from the Israeli army to evacuate. It is the second day Israel has bombed the Gaza Strip in what it described as a 'pre-emptive operation' against a Palestinian militant group, in the worst escalation of violence since last […]

Palestinian officials say at least 10 dead after Israel said it was preparing to ‘remove the threat from this region’Israeli warplanes struck numerous sites in the Gaza Strip on Friday in what Israel said was a preemptive strike against Palestinian factions allegedly planning rocket strikes at targets in Israel.Palestinian health officials reported that […]

Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes in Gaza on Friday amid heightened tensions after the arrest of a senior member of the Islamic Jihad militant group in the occupied West Bank earlier this week. It was not immediately clear what Israel was targeting or if there were casualties, but the strikes risked igniting yet another war in the territory, which is […]

Researchers use stem cells from mice to form embryo-like structures with intestinal tract, beginnings of a brain, and a beating heartResearchers have created the world’s first “synthetic embryos” in a groundbreaking feat that bypassed the need for sperm, eggs and fertilisation.Scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel found that stem cells from […]

Newly published military testimonies highlight the bureaucratic power of Cogat’s ‘permit regime’ over PalestiniansWhen Joel Carmel went for his military service in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), he didn’t expect it to mean sitting at a computer processing permits, typing in Palestinian ID numbers all day.“Before I went to the army I considered […]

Aipac says Democrat Andy Levin, a self-described Zionist, is insufficiently pro-Israel – alarming some because much of the money comes from wealthy Trump donorsIt is in Andy Levin’s nature to pick fights.The forthright Detroit congressman and former trade union leader has built a political career on confronting big oil, the gun industry and […]

Images of pastoralist communities living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and the impact of the attacks by settlers on the Palestinian shepherds’ lifestyle and livelihoods. Words and photographs by Manal MassalhaAttacks and demolitions in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli military and settlers have left Mahmoud, a shepherd, feeling “under […]

Russian branch of charity with close ties to Israeli government shut down after Israeli criticism of Ukraine warThe Kremlin has insisted its decision to shut down the agency that processes Jewish migration to Israel should not be “politicised”, amid a widening rift between the two countries over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.Last week Russia’s justice […]

Palestinian authorities confirm death of two men and say six more were wounded during clash in NablusIsraeli forces have killed two Palestinian fighters in a pre-dawn clash in the occupied West Bank and attacked a fishing boat off the Gaza Strip coast that was accused of smuggling in Hamas supplies from Egypt.The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade militant group […]

A couple are under house arrest after a 30-year-old man died during a private party at a house in Karmi YosefPolice in Israel have placed a couple under house arrest, a day after a man attending a party at their villa died after being sucked into a sinkhole that formed at the bottom of their swimming pool.The man and woman, both in their sixties, are […]

Gil Tamary of Israel’s Channel 13 sparked online fury after he filmed himself in Islam’s holiest city despite a ban on non-Muslims A Saudi citizen who allegedly helped a non-Muslim enter the holy city of Mecca has been arrested, police in the kingdom said, after an online backlash against a journalist working for Israeli television.The journalist, Gil […]

Drone footage captured a swarm of jellyfish floating in the waters near Haifa in northern Israel.The video footage was released by Israel's Parks and Nature Authority.Jellyfish typically migrate in the summer months and drift close to the shores of the eastern Mediterranean.Sea pollution and climate change are citied by authorities among the reason for […]

Donna Edwards, leading contender in Maryland primary for safe seat, lost after pro-Israeli groups poured millions to block herPro-Israel groups have heralded the defeat of a leading Democratic contender for Congress after pouring millions of dollars into blocking her election, for failing to be sufficiently supportive of Israeli government policies.Donna […]

An opaque council controls smartphone access for Israel’s Haredim population, but many are making forays online anywayTel Aviv’s booming science and technology industry, bolstered by graduates of elite state intelligence units, has earned Israel the nickname “start-up nation”.Yet in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox suburb just a few miles east of Tel […]

Critics say Aipac and its allies are seeking to influence Democratic politics with money from Republican billionairesPro-Israel lobby groups have poured millions of dollars into a Democratic primary for a Maryland congressional seat on Tuesday, in the latest attempt to block an establishment candidate who expressed support for the Palestinians.A surge in […]

Unlawful spying using NSO Group’s software continues a year after our investigation. A moratorium is neededDanna Ingleton is deputy director of Amnesty TechOne year ago, the Pegasus project revealed the unlawful targeting of activists and human rights defenders by governments using controversial surveillance software sold by NSO Group.The scale of the […]