Israeli military tanks apparently reached the main highway of the Gaza Strip on Monday morning, pushing deep into the eastern part of the territory, according to statements from Hamas officials as well as report
meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his latest bid to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip and begin to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the territory.
Blinken will travel to Jordan and Turkey on Thursday and Friday for talks expected to focus largely on Syria but also touch on long-elusive hopes for a deal to end the fighting in Gaza that has devastated the Palestinian territory since October 2023. The S...
Israeli forces have killed at least 395 people in the territory since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The ongoing war began after Hamas-led militants launched an unprecedented incursion into southern Israel from neighboring Gaza...
The Palestinian Authority governs parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank under interim peace deals reached in the 1990s and cooperates with Israel on security matters. But it has been powerless to prevent the expansion of settlements in occupied territory it wants for a future state, and there ...
Palestinian-Israeli conflictstate of exceptionThis article argues that the Israeli colonial project is 'spacio-cidal' (as opposed to genocidal) in that it targets land for the purpose of rendering inevitable the 'voluntary' transfer of the Palestinian population primarily by ta...
One result is the attempt to create a moral equiva- lence between the State of Israel and Hamas and other Palestinian groups responsible for suicide bombings, random stabbings and other indis- criminate forms of violence aimed directly at civilians. In more recent years, the idea of Israel as...
As he touted the deal, two people in the room accused him of complicity in Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians in loud outbursts that forced him to pause. One shouted, “Why aren’t you in the Hague?” referring to the International Criminal Court based i...
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The UN envoy for the Middle East on Wednesday reiterated that Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territory has no legal validity and constitutes a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-state solution. ...
Blinken will travel to Jordan and Turkey on Thursday and Friday for talks expected to focus largely on Syria but also touch on long-elusive hopes for a deal to end the fighting in Gaza that has devastated the Palestinian territory since October 2023. The State Department said Blink...