Is Gaza still occupied? Israel and Palestinians disagree
In the decades that followed the creation of Israel, it fought several wars and ended up occupying the West Bank and Gaza - territory the UN had not in 1947 designated it should possess. While Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, it still occupies the West Bank -...
The White House said Wednesday that a current intelligence assessment shows Israel was “not responsible” for the explosion at a Gaza hospital, but that information was still being collected. The assessment is “based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open source information,” Nation...
And then there is Gaza: A finger of land pointing into Israel’s heart like some cancerous tumor. This territory is occupied by Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood branch of the so-called Palestinian Arabs. As Adrian Morgan, a past editor ofFamily Security Matters, in his foreword to the third ...
When Israel leftGazain 2005, uprooting some 8,000 Jewish settlers from a territory it had controlled since 1967, no one knew quite what to make of the decision. Some hoped that Israel’s willingness to cede occupied territory would be a trend, a step towards a final settlement with the Pa...
"I have warned for months of the risks of the conflict spreading," said the UN chief, adding that the situation in the occupied West Bank is "boiling over," and attacks in Lebanon are threatening the entire region. He said that over the last few days, exchanges of fire between Hezbollah...
In 2005, under international and domestic pressure, Israel withdrew around 9,000 Israeli settlers and its military forces from the Gaza Strip, leaving the enclave to be governed by the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority, which also controlled parts of the occupied West...
Headlines Have Shifted to Iran, but Israel Is Still Starving, Bombing and Expelling the Population of Northern Gaza. While Israeli Society as a Whole Has Activated Its Denial Mode, the Horrifying Images – and the Policy, Statements and Reality ...
Under the new strategy, spending will rise in 2024 in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Haiti due to growing violence there, but fall in Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan and South Sudan, a spokesperson said. (Reporting by Emma Farge; editing by Miranda ...
in early October 2024. WithIsrael's war against Hamasin Gaza still raging and fueling violence in the West Bank, he wasn't even going to try to reach his olive trees.Aida said he'd normally hire laborers to help him with manual labor, "but I'm not going to take that chance to let...