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Gaza toll rises as Israeli strikes kill seven; West Bank settlements face renewed scrutiny
world3 hours ago

Gaza toll rises as Israeli strikes kill seven; West Bank settlements face renewed scrutiny

Israeli strikes across central and southern Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians and wounded others, including hits near a Bureij police post and a displacement camp in Bani Suheila, with hospitals reporting fatalities and critical injuries. The Gaza death toll has surpassed 72,000 since October 2023. UN rights chief Volker Turk condemned the violence, calling it part of an unrelenting pattern. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces and settlers conducted raids and arrests, while 34 new West Bank settlements were recently approved, drawing international condemnation from the EU, Turkiye, Sweden and the OIC.

via Al Jazeera|
#casualties#gaza#israel-palestine
politics18 hours ago

DNC Middle East Task Force Struggles to Forge a Path Forward

The Democratic National Committee formed a Middle East working group to address Israel-Palestine debates and broaden electoral coalitions, but after seven months it has struggled to meet consistently, agree on core objectives, or produce results, with a recent resolutions clash underscoring deep internal tensions and prompting renewed focus on delivering a concrete, time-bound plan.

via Politico|
#dnc#israel-palestine#middle-east
Israel votes to set death penalty as default for West Bank attackers
world11 days ago

Israel votes to set death penalty as default for West Bank attackers

Israel's parliament approved a law making the death penalty the default for West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly nationalist attacks, with hanging to be carried out within 90 days (potentially extendable to 180 days) and some Israeli citizens facing similar charges; rights groups call the bill discriminatory and it drew international condemnation.

via Euronews.com|
#death-penalty#human-rights#israel-palestine
Press groups condemn assault on CNN crew in West Bank by Israeli soldiers
world13 days ago

Press groups condemn assault on CNN crew in West Bank by Israeli soldiers

The Foreign Press Association condemned an Israeli soldiers’ violent assault and detention of a CNN crew reporting near Tayasir, noting rifles pointed at journalists and a photographer choked with a camera damaged. The IDF said the incident would be investigated, and CNN corroborated the events; this follows another CNN incident earlier this month, highlighting ongoing tensions and threats to press freedom in the West Bank amid broader Gaza-related violence.

via The Guardian|
#idf#israel-palestine#journalism
Texas State professor fights termination over off-campus Israel-Palestine remarks
higher-education-and-state-government16 days ago

Texas State professor fights termination over off-campus Israel-Palestine remarks

A Texas State University philosophy professor, Idris Robinson, filed a federal lawsuit to block his May 31 termination, alleging administrators retaliated against him for an off-campus talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in violation of his First Amendment rights; the university placed him on paid leave and later declined to renew his contract, a move Robinson says violates speech protections and which follows other university controversies over faculty remarks.

via The Texas Tribune|
#first-amendment#higher-education-and-state-government#idris-robinson
Toll climbs to 16 as Israeli strikes hit Gaza and West Bank
world26 days ago

Toll climbs to 16 as Israeli strikes hit Gaza and West Bank

Palestinian health authorities say Israeli forces killed 16 people in Gaza and the West Bank in one day, including a Gaza airstrike near Zawayda that killed a senior police official and eight officers and another strike in Nuseirat that killed three; in the West Bank’s Tammun, a drive-by attack during an Israeli arrest operation killed a father, mother and two children, with the military saying the vehicle accelerated toward forces and the incident under review. The deaths come amid renewed regional tensions and ongoing violence despite a prior ceasefire.

via HuffPost|
#airstrike#civilian-casualties#gaza
CCTV shows troops nearby as Palestinian teen bleeds to death during West Bank raid
world1 month ago

CCTV shows troops nearby as Palestinian teen bleeds to death during West Bank raid

BBC-verified CCTV and eyewitness accounts show 14-year-old Jad Jadallah was shot at close range during an Israeli raid on Al-Far’a refugee camp in the West Bank and lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes as soldiers stood nearby; ambulances were reportedly blocked and his body remains in Israeli custody, with no independent autopsy comments provided. Israel has withheld Palestinian bodies and labeled Jadallah a “terrorist” without public evidence. The case adds to broader patterns of withheld remains and child fatalities in the occupied territory, with Jadallah one of 55 children killed last year in the area.

via Middle East Eye|
#cctv-footage#civilian-casualties#human-rights
Family of UN rights investigator sues U.S. over Gaza-related sanctions
world1 month ago

Family of UN rights investigator sues U.S. over Gaza-related sanctions

The family of Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the West Bank and Gaza, filed a Washington, D.C. lawsuit arguing U.S. sanctions last year violate the First Amendment by punishing her critical reporting on Israel’s actions in Gaza; the State Department calls the move baseless lawfare, while Albanese continues to publish reports and the U.N. and other actors weigh in on the Gaza ceasefire and casualties.

via AP News|
#first-amendment#francesca-albanese#israel-palestine
Al-Aqsa status quo fracturing as far-right pushes reshape sacred space
world1 month ago

Al-Aqsa status quo fracturing as far-right pushes reshape sacred space

A six-decade agreement governing Muslim prayer and Jewish access at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa compound has effectively collapsed under far-right Israeli leadership, with arrests of Muslim Waqf staff, bans on hundreds of worshippers, and police raids during Ramadan, signaling a dangerous shift that could ignite broader tensions in Jerusalem and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

via The Guardian|
#al-aqsa#israel-palestine#jerusalem
Israel moves toward death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, unveils 'Green Mile' plan
middle-east2 months ago

Israel moves toward death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, unveils 'Green Mile' plan

Israel’s Prison Service is preparing to apply a death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, including creating a facility nicknamed 'Israel’s Green Mile' for executions and sending a delegation to study how capital punishment works elsewhere. A death-penalty bill passed its first Knesset reading and would, at least initially, target Hamas’ Nukhba and other serious attackers, with executions planned by hanging and carried out within 90 days of a final verdict. The plan would not apply to Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians. Rights groups and UN experts have condemned the move, calling it a dangerous, unprecedented expansion of state violence.

via middleeasteye.net|
#death-penalty#hamas-nukhba#human-rights
Rebuilding as leverage: Gaza’s slow-motion strategy for demographic change
world2 months ago

Rebuilding as leverage: Gaza’s slow-motion strategy for demographic change

From Davos to Gaza, reconstruction is framed as humanitarian aid, but Israel’s blockade of cement and other materials turns rebuilding into political leverage; analysts warn the process could reshape Gaza’s demographics through delays and privatized profits, a strategy dubbed 'silent demographic engineering' with debris clearance years and full reconstruction potentially decades.

via Al Jazeera|
#demographics#dual-use#gaza
Cardinal Pizzaballa urges concrete actions and shared leadership to rebuild trust in the Holy Land
world2 months ago

Cardinal Pizzaballa urges concrete actions and shared leadership to rebuild trust in the Holy Land

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, speaking in Rome, says a short-term peace between Israelis and Palestinians is unlikely after Gaza and warns slogans won’t rebuild trust; he urges concrete actions, opportunities for encounter, and leadership on both sides, questions the Board of Peace as serving major powers, notes the worsening plight of Christians in the Holy Land including emigration and permit hurdles, backs working toward a two-state solution, and calls pilgrims to return to Bethlehem and Jerusalem to show presence.

via Vatican News|
#christians#gaza-strip#holy-land