NewsFeed Israeli strikes hit multiple areas across Gaza overnight, including tents sheltering displaced families in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis. In Gaza City, an attack on a residential apartment injured many Palestinians, most of them children, according to eyewitnesses. Published On 30 Jul 202630 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link
NewsFeed ‘F*** you Bibi.’ ‘War criminal!’ Protesters confronted Benjamin Netanyahu’s motorcade, waving Palestinian flags and calling for his arrest, as the Israeli PM arrived in Washington for talks with US President Donald Trump. Published On 28 Jul 202628 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link
Alison Sargent is pleased to welcome Shaina Low, Communications Advisor for the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Palestine mission. Despite the reduction in large scale hostilities Low argues that Gaza remains trapped in a state of structural emergency, where humanitarian actors are prevented from moving beyond short term relief because of extensive restrictions on aid, construction materials, fuel, and operational access. She asserts that the central issue is no longer simply the scale of destruction, but the inability to reverse it despite the existence of a ceasefire. Keywords for this article Source link
Humanists UK has welcomed the Genocide Determination Bill passing its second reading in the House of Lords today. The Bill, introduced by Lord Alton, would allow UK courts to make an initial legal finding that genocide is taking place overseas, or that there is a serious risk of genocide. The UK Government has long argued that genocide should be determined by a competent court. However, there is currently no clear route for UK courts to examine evidence and make such a finding about grave international crimes taking place in another country unless UK citizens are involved. The Genocide Determination Bill seeks to close that gap. Humanists UK briefed members of the House of Lords ahead of today’s debate, supporting the work of the Coalition for Genocide Response which has largely coordinated backing for the Bill. Preventing genocide The Genocide Convention requires countries, including the UK, to prevent and punish genocide. The duty to prevent genocide begins when a country knows, or should know, that there is a serious risk of it taking place. Countries must …
(RNS) — American Jews woke up to a stark new reality Wednesday: Decades of unequivocal support for Israel is no longer a key plank of the Democratic Party. That reality was plain when almost half of Democrats in the House of Representatives (103 out of 212) voted Wednesday (July 15) to cut all $3.3 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Israel from a foreign affairs spending bill. The measure failed and only one Republican supported it — Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who sponsored the amendment to the bill. But it underscored an emerging reality, that unconditional support for Israel’s actions in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon are no longer deemed acceptable by as many as half of elected Democrats. Ian Lustick, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and a consultant to past administrations on Israel, likened the result of the vote to a balloon popping. “There’s a principle in physics and politics of constrained volatility,” Lustick said. “If there’s a tremendous amount of discontent that’s constrained over …
NewsFeed Christians in the UK are urging the Church of England General Synod to pass a motion to formally engage with Kairos Palestine II, a document by Palestinian Christian leaders that describes Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocidal war and which calls on churches to boycott Israel. Published On 12 Jul 202612 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link
A UN Fact-Finding Mission found that the paramilitary’s systematic campaign of violence in Darfur amounted to genocide. By Al Jazeera Staff and Reuters Published On 9 Jul 20269 Jul 2026 Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed genocide in the western city of el-Fasher, carrying out mass killings, gang rapes and deliberate starvation as part of an intentional policy, a United Nations investigation has found. The UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan released its findings on Wednesday, concluding that the RSF’s systematic campaign of violence against civilians during and after its siege of the capital of North Darfur state amounted to genocide, building on a February report that had already identified hallmarks of the crime. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The mission’s chairman warned that the findings have urgent lessons for el-Obeid, another major city now ringed by RSF forces, where the UN human rights chief has warned a “catastrophe” is unfolding. In Wednesday’s report, survivors in el-Fasher described being raped in rooms where bodies of recently killed civilians, including their own family members, …
In Gaza, the week marked 1,000 days since Israel’s genocidal war began. Gaza’s Government Media Office said that more than 90 percent of the Strip had been destroyed. By July 6, Gaza’s Ministry of Health put the toll since the October “ceasefire” at 1,072 killed, with the cumulative figure since October 2023 reaching 73,098. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The killing did not pause for the anniversary. Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians in a drone strike near al-Hilu station on July 1 and at least seven more over the following 48 hours, among them a child killed by a quadcopter-dropped bomb at the Shujayea junction and 10-year-old Tareq Sabah, killed near Khan Younis, according to local field reports. Strikes on tents sheltering the displaced in the designated al-Mawasi humanitarian zone recurred throughout the week. The enclave’s sick and wounded – deprived still of critical medical supplies in the decimated Strip – protested outside Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital to demand that Israel lift travel restrictions on medical evacuations, with Gaza health …
NewsFeed Prada is facing boycott calls after appointing Palestinian singer Saint Levant as a brand ambassador, with pro-Israel social media users angered over a necklace he’s wearing in a campaign video that depicts historic Palestine. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Al Qawasmi explains. Published On 2 Jul 20262 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link
(RNS) — The largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States voted Tuesday evening (June 30) to recognize Israel’s war in Gaza as a genocide, two days after the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) unanimously voted to divest from Palantir Technologies and General Electric Aerospace over technologies used in the war. Tuesday’s vote at the denomination’s General Assembly in Milwaukee passed 454-15 and called for Presbyterians to also lobby Congress for an arms embargo against Israel and to boycott Israeli products that contribute to the war. Additionally, the American Academy of Religion adopted a Resolution in Solidarity with Gaza last week condemning the Israeli government for the war in Gaza, calling it a genocide. The association of religious studies scholars that boasts 6,000 members worldwide referred to the war at its Annual Business Meeting in Atlanta as a “scholasticide,” or an “intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.” The motion was approved by 98% of members, according to a news release. The religious organizations’ resolutions add to growing criticism accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza — a claim …
