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Family and friends mourn near the body of Palestinian journalist Saed Sabri Abu Nabhan, who was shot and killed by an Israeli army sniper, at Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, January 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

‘Legitimization Cell’: Israeli unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas

Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive army intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.
By Yuval Abraham
Israeli and U.S. flags seen on MIT's campus during the university protests, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 4, 2024. (Peaceearth/Wikimedia Commons)

After crushing dissent, U.S. universities are deepening ties with Israeli academia

Israeli universities collaborate with the military, which destroyed academic life in Gaza. That's done nothing to slow U.S.-Israeli partnerships.
By Dikla Taylor-Sheinman and Georgia Gee
Activists at a Palestine solidarity demonstration in Oslo, Norway, hold a sign reading "Boycott Israel", April 28, 2024. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills)

Will the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund divest from Israel?

Norway's Oil Fund is invested in dozens of companies complicit in Israeli occupation and genocide. But civil society is pushing back.
By Magnus Fitz
Mourners at the gravesite of slain Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, including his cousins Alaa Hathaleen (left) and Tariq Hathaleen (right), in the West Bank village of Umm Al-Khair, Aug. 7, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

PHOTOS: Awdah Hathaleen laid to rest after Israel withheld body for 10 days

Israel finally allowed the burial of the Palestinian activist shot by a settler in Umm Al-Khair, only to disrupt his funeral with checkpoints.
By Oren Ziv
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Microsoft's Israel R&D Center. (World Economic Forum/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0; Gili Yaari/Flash90))
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Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians

The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, a joint investigation reveals.
By Yuval Abraham
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Palestinian citizens of Israel protest against Israel's genocide in Gaza, in the northern city of Sakhnin, July 25, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
From Sakhnin to Ramallah, a new wave of Palestinian popular struggle takes root
Amid growing outrage over Gaza, protests and hunger strikes mark a renewed Palestinian movement determined to bridge division and sustain resistance.
By Awad Abdelfattah August 6, 2025
Awdah Hathaleen and his eldest son, Watan, in Umm Al-Khair, the West Bank, March 2021. (Emily Glick)
Israel is holding Awdah Hathaleen’s body. His killer roams freely through his village
On hunger strike to demand his return, Umm Al-Khair's women can't even sleep undisturbed as the army detains the village's men in nightly raids.
By Sahar Vardi and Basel Adra August 5, 2025
Richard Peter's "View from the Town Hall Tower to the South, 1945," showing Dresden reduced to dust and ruin in the aftermath of Allied bombings. (Deutsche Fotothek‎)
Germany’s angel of history is screaming
As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course — all in the name of atoning for Germany's own genocidal history.
By Amos Brison August 1, 2025
B’Tselem and PHRI hold a press conference announcing their respective reports on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Jerusalem, July 27, 2025. (Flash90)
‘Our genocide’: Israeli rights groups abandon their restraint on Gaza
After months of hesitation, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that the war is meant to erase Palestinian life — now and in the future.
By Shatha Yaish July 31, 2025
Rabbi Avraham Zarviv poses for a picture on June 29, 2025. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
Israel’s destroyer-in-chief in Gaza lives in a settlement home marked for demolition
Avraham Zarviv, who boasted of razing 50 buildings a week as a reservist in Gaza, has an unenforced demolition order on his own West Bank home.
By Oren Ziv July 30, 2025
Awdah Hathaleen celebrates his 27th birthday with friends, in Um Al-Khair, the West Bank. (Emily Glick)
‘The most peaceful person’: Umm Al-Khair mourns activist slain by Israeli settler
Contrary to the settler’s account, eyewitness testimony and analysis of video footage shows that Awdah Hathaleen was gunned down in cold blood.
By Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham and Oren Ziv July 29, 2025
Palestinians walk through the streets with bags of flour after humanitarian aid trucks arrived via the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing into southern Gaza, in Khan Yunis, July 24, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
Israel’s aid concessions merely offer Gazans survival on a leash
To deflect international outrage, Israel’s strategy is clear: maintain enough control to kill with impunity, and enough relief to look humane while doing it.
By Mohammed R. Mhawish July 28, 2025
Israelis look on as smoke rises from an Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, July 23, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment?
With Gaza’s annihilation in plain sight, the question is what can compel global intervention to end Israel's genocide — and what form it will take.
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 25, 2025
The uncle of three-month-old Fadi Al-Najjar holds his body after he died of malnutrition, at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, July 19, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)
‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza
The cries of hungry children echo through tent camps in Gaza City, with over 50 Palestinians in the enclave starving to death in the past five days alone.
By Ahmed Ahmed July 25, 2025
Medics rush to rescue a Palestinian wounded at an aid site in northern Gaza City, June 17, 2025. (Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills)
‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts
In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers, paramedics, and other civilians to prevent them from saving the wounded, an investigation reveals.
By Yuval Abraham July 24, 2025
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