In Deir al-Balah, displaced families are living next to growing rubbish piles as destroyed infrastructure forces authorities to rely on unsafe temporary dumps. Across the Gaza Strip, poor sanitation and pest infestations are raising serious health concerns despite limited humanitarian aid. Keywords for this article Source link
“This is historic! With God’s help, soon we will execute them one by one!” These were the words spoken by Israel’s far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday, March 31, just after a 62–48 vote in the Israeli Knesset that passed a law to apply the death penalty to convicted ‘terrorists’. Ben-Gvir celebrated the Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill by popping open bottles of champagne and embracing fellow supporters at the Knesset. In the run-up to the vote, he had worn a lapel pin in the shape of a noose, symbolising his support for the legislation. Limor Son Har Melech, a member of Itamar Ben-Gvir’s nationalist party, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), was in tears as she read out the results. Melech had introduced the law along with Nissim Vaturi, Knesset deputy speaker and member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch …
A cloud of orange-tinted, thick dust spread across the Gaza Strip on Saturday as first responders told Palestinians to stay home, especially those with respiratory illness. People were also urged to secure their tents to prevent them from being blown away. Israel’s war with Hamas has left most of Gaza’s 2 million residents displaced, living in tents and damaged buildings with little protection from the elements such as rain, wind and sand. Story by Catherine Viette. Keywords for this article Source link
A sandstorm swept across the Gaza Strip on Saturday. Millions of displaced people remain there without proper shelter amid the Israel-Hamas war. Source link
(RNS) — Sari Bashi was working at a Tel Aviv nonprofit providing legal assistance to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip when she fell in love with one of her clients. The man she calls “Osama” in her memoir, “Upside-Down Love,” was born in Gaza but had been living in Ramallah, in the West Bank, unable to leave for fear he would be arrested and taken by force back to Gaza. In 2006, he was accepted to a doctoral program in London and sought legal help to allow him to leave Ramallah and return there — not to Gaza — when he completed his studies. Bashi, who is Jewish, grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Yale Law School with a passion for human rights. She co-founded a law clinic to help Palestinians work through Israel’s draconian regulations that control the movement of Palestinians who live there. Bashi secured Osama’s passage to London and back. Years later, after he completed his Ph.D. and returned to Ramallah, Osama and Bashi began a tenuous, on-and-off-again relationship. It …
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Some Palestinians say they fear the widening war sparked by U.S. and Israeli attacks against Iran could overshadow the fragile situation in Gaza, just over a week after U.S. President Donald Trump rallied billions of dollars in pledges for the territory’s reconstruction and tried to nudge a ceasefire forward. Residents say they are scared of neglect and deprivation, with Israel in the wake of the weekend strikes closing all crossings into their shattered territory of over 2 million people. COGAT, the Israeli military body overseeing civilian affairs in Gaza, has closed crossings into the territory and frozen the entrance and exit of humanitarian workers because, it says, the crossings cannot not be safely operated under fire. It said crossings would reopen as soon as the security situation allows. It said that Palestinians there have enough food stockpiled, though some organizations warned they could soon run out of supplies. Palestinians told The Associated Press they were rushing to markets, haunted by memories of painful food scarcity last year under months …
Israel’s Supreme Court decided in a ruling published Friday that a government ban on 37 foreign NGOs working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank will be frozen until it reaches a final decision. “Without taking any position, a temporary interim order is hereby issued,” the court said in a ruling responding to a petition from more than a dozen NGOs, seeking to reverse the ban after Israel’s government revoked their status in Israel. The decision theoretically allows the NGOs to continue working in Gaza and the West Bank until the court issues a final ruling, though aid groups expressed uncertainty as to how the freeze would be implemented. Read moreAid groups petition Israel’s top court to halt ban on Gaza, West Bank ops The organisations, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Oxfam, the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE were notified on December 30, 2025 that their Israeli registrations had expired and that they had 60 days to renew them by providing lists of their Palestinian staff. If they failed to do so, they would have …
Arab and Islamic countries issued a joint condemnation on Sunday of remarks by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who suggested Israel had a biblical right to a vast swath of the Middle East. Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and a fervent Israel supporter, was speaking on the podcast of far-right commentator and Israel critic Tucker Carlson. In an episode released Friday, Carlson pushed Huckabee on the meaning of a biblical verse sometimes interpreted as saying that Israel is entitled to the land between the river Nile in Egypt and the Euphrates in Syria and Iraq. In response, Huckabee said: “It would be fine if they took it all.” When pressed, however, he continued that Israel was “not asking to take all of that”, adding: “It was somewhat of a hyperbolic statement.” The backlash widened sharply on Sunday as more than a dozen Arab and Islamic governments – alongside three major regional organisations – issued a joint statement denouncing the US diplomat’s comments as “dangerous and inflammatory”. The statement, released by the United Arab Emirates’ foreign ministry, …
Swiss sports commentator Stefan Renna sparked an international controversy after referencing the political statements of Israeli bobsledder Adam Edelman while commentating on the event during the Milano‑Cortina Winter Olympics. Source link
In southern Gaza, volunteers from a Turkish NGO paint rubble and decorate a destroyed street as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan approaches. Gaza is facing a daunting task ahead to rebuild as more than 80 percent of buildings have been destroyed by the two years of war with Israel, according to the UN. Keywords for this article Source link
