Gaza's ruling Hamas militant group launched an unprecedented attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets as hundreds of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land and sea, catching the country off guard on a major hol...
Palestinian people are seen at a temporary camp in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Feb. 18, 2024. Over the past few weeks, Israel has signaled its intention to conduct a ground operation in Rafah, Gaza's southernmost town, to "eliminate" Hamas and rescue Israeli hostages. The...
The general impression among us Palestinians — whether at home or abroad — is that as Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza, what the soldiers saw contradicted their worldview of the inferior, subhuman Palestinian. They had to destroy all and re-create an image of Gaza that matched thei...
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Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif) defended the Harris campaign’s position on the Israel-Hamas war in the wake of criticism that the Democratic National Convention does not have a speaker from the Uncommitted National Movement to speak out for Palestinians. “She has been very clear about how sh...
“There is no victor but God” on October 7. Meanwhile, prominent Jewish-Israeli artists were calling to “treat most of them [Palestinians in Gaza] as complicit” in the Hamas-led October 7 attack, and singing “May your village burn!”— but the law in Israel never cared about what ...
Oct. 7, Hamas fightersstaged a surprise attackon Israel from the Gaza Strip, touching off the deadliest war between Israel and Palestine in decades. More than 1,400 Israelis were killed in the attacks, and Israel has responded with a barrage of airstrikes that havekilled 4,300 Palestinians....
1 of 3 | Israel has formally declared war and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas following its weekend attack. (Oct. 9) 2 of 3 | FILE - Palestinians and Hamas militants transport Yarden Bibas to Gaza after kidnapping him from his home in...
aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver, the aid group said Tuesday, as they were delivering food from its latest shipment to Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been pushed to the brink of famine by Israel’s offensi...
Lebanon is a country of about 5.3 million people just to the north of Israel. The two nations have fought multiple wars. When the state of Israel was established in 1948, more than 100,000 Palestinian refugees fled to Lebanon. UNRWA, the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians,saysthere ...