Report by a UN team accuses Hamas of rape, gang rape occurred during attack on Israel
The UN team said it also received information from institutional and civil society sources and direct interviews, about “sexual violence against Palestinian men and women in detention settings, during house raids and at checkpoints” after October 7. The detention centres were in Israel.
Palestine Question: As American Jewish support for Israel grew, Jerusalem and its allies began to push back on anti-Zionism
Instead, Breira wanted to provide the “alternative” and called for Israel to recognize Palestinians’ desire for nationhood; it was the first American Jewish group to advocate for a two-state solution. The New York Times editorialised in early 1976 that Breira was overcoming “the misapprehension of many Jewish Americans that criticism of Israeli policies would be seen as a rejection of Israel.”
Middle East crisis: How Israel quietly crushed early American Jewish dissent on Palestine
Since the murderous October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel, and Israel’s overwhelming retaliatory attacks against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, American Jews have organized dramatic protests. They have demanded everything from a ceasefire and to an end to US military funding for Israel.
US Vice-President Harris urges Hamas to agree to an immediate pause, pushes Israel on aid to Gaza
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 3, 2024. Credit: Reuters
UN estimates over 9,000 women have been killed in Gaza war at the rate of 37 mothers per day
At the current rate, an average of 63 women will continue to be killed if the fighting goes on. Roughly 37 mothers are killed every day, leaving their families devastated and their children with diminished protection.
Israel, Hamas standoff delays deal to pause war during Ramadhan as offensive and aid crisis rage on
US President Joe Biden and other world leaders are under growing pressure to ease the increasingly desperate plight of Palestinians after five months of war and Israeli blockade of Gaza. The United Nations says a quarter of the population – 576,000 people – is one step from famine.
US President Biden concedes Israeli army killing of 100 Palestinians will jolt Gaza ceasefire talks
Medics in Gaza said they could not cope with the flood of serious injuries, which came as the death toll in nearly five months of war passed 30,000, according to Palestinian health authorities.
Biden: Israel willing to pause attacks in Gaza during Ramadhan if Hamas agrees to hostage deal
The start of Ramadhan, around March 10, is seen as an unofficial deadline for a ceasefire deal. The month is a time of heightened religious observance and dawn-to-dusk fasting for hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world.
Biden says Gaza ceasefire is on horizon, hopes Israel and Hamas will agree during Qatar talks
A US official said US negotiators had been pushing hard to get a pause-for-hostages deal by Ramadan’s beginning on March 10 and top US officials were working on the issue last week. The optimism appeared to grow out of meetings between the Israelis and Qataris, the official said.
Ceasefire or not, Israel vows to hit Lebanon’s Hezbollah even if a deal is signed with Hamas
A Lebanese security official said on Sunday that five Hezbollah members were killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes on trucks in the border area between Lebanon and Syria. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to share the information with journalists. Hezbollah announced that three of its fighters had been killed, but did not say where.
