Israel rejects Hamas truce offer; ministers vote to intensify Gaza strikes

PM informs security cabinet that he has turned down proposal for ceasefire on ‘mutual basis’ made via Russia; cabinet member says campaign ‘far from over,’ as ‘whatever we don’t do now, we will have to do in six months or a year’ The security cabinet on Wednesday night approved a plan to intensify military attacks

Cable News Stuns With Accurate Reporting On The Israeli-Palestinian Crisis – The Rational National

CNN, MSNBC, and CBC News all offered up shockingly accurate reports about what’s been going with the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.

‘Full-scale war’ feared as fighting between Israel and Hamas escalates amid air strikes

Spiralling violence between Israel and Hamas Islamists is “escalating towards a full-scale war”, the UN envoy for Middle East Peace warned on May 11, 2021. Tor Wennesland’s statement followed a day that saw the Palestinian militant group fire more than 600 rockets at Israel, which responded with hundreds of air strikes. The violence has left

Stop evictions in East Jerusalem neighbourhood immediately, UN rights office urges Israel

The UN’s human rights office (OHCHR), on Friday, called on Israel to immediately halt all forced evictions, including those in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, as well as to exercise maximum restraint in the use of force while ensuring safety and security there. Eight Palestinian refugee families residing in Sheikh Jarrah are facing

Palestinians vow to save Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood

Palestinians continue solidarity protests against forced displacement of families from the occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli forces raided the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem for the second night on Tuesday, spraying skunk water, a chemically enhanced type of sewage water, and physically assaulting residents and solidarity protesters. Several Palestinians were arrested, including Tala Obeid,

Video shows Israeli settler trying to take over Palestinian house

Video captures Palestinian woman confronting Jewish settler in her family home in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah. “If I don’t steal your home, someone else will steal it,” was the answer given by an Israeli settler to Mona al-Kurd, a young Palestinian woman who accused him of stealing her home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood

‘Grave abuses’: Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of apartheid

Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians as a report finds the country has crossed a vital threshold and is privileging one group of people at the expense of another and carrying out inhumane acts. Both apartheid and persecution are deemed crimes against humanity under international law. Human Rights Watch

Israel destroys Irish aid to Palestinian village community

Tents, solar panels and herd shelters smashed as Ireland and EU urged to evolve policy The labels read “Humanitarian support to Palestinians at risk of forcible transfer in the West Bank” and they lie in the rubble of a destroyed community that is home to over 60 people, more than half of them children. The