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October 7 war

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 August 14, 2025

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 August 8, 2025

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Microsoft's Israel R&D Center. (World Economic Forum/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0; Gili Yaari/Flash90))

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 August 6, 2025

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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

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

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

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

A sit-in protest in Hebron in front of the headquarters of the International Red Cross Committee against the arrest of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and the targeting of medical personnel in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 9, 2025. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer

Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.

By Shatha Yaish July 22, 2025

Palestinians try to recive a hot meal prepared by volunteers, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 20, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

We are starving

My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. Gaza's children are dying in front of our eyes, and we are powerless to help them.

By Ruwaida Amer July 21, 2025

Israeli soldiers release a drone (model unknown) from a building in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 13, 2024. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Autel denies selling drones to Israel. So why are they roaming Gaza’s skies?

Responding to a +972 investigation, the Chinese firm said it never knowingly sold or authorized its drones for use by Israel’s army. Importers say otherwise.

By Yuval Abraham July 17, 2025