In its statement on Wednesday, the IDF said the presence of an armed guard with the convoy had not been flagged to it before the convoy set off, and that he was falsely identified as a Hamas fighter. It also accused the convoy of deviating from the route co-ordinated with the military. Notwithstanding “serious failures”
It was during a ceremony at a settlement in the occupied West Bank last September that Israel’s prime minister made his intentions clear. “We are going to fulfill our promise that there will be no Palestinian state,” said Benjamin Netanyahu. “This place belongs to us.” He was signing an agreement to push ahead with the
Kaouther Ben Hania, the director of last year’s Oscar-nominated docudrama “The Voice of Hind Rajab” — about the killing of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza by Israeli forces — has rejected the news that Israel is launching an investigation into Rajab’s death, describing it as “a smokescreen.” On Wednesday, the Israeli military admitted that
Israel captured the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War. It annexed East Jerusalem in 1980, in a move not recognised by the vast majority of the international community. Opponents of the E1 project have warned that it would effectively block the establishment of a Palestinian state because it
Locarno became the latest film festival to see protests at the continuing situation in Gaza and Palestine‘s Occupied Territories. While music from the Campari Lounge boomed into the evening, approximately 100 demonstrators unwound a shroud bearing the names of 60,000 people who have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war two and
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected US President Donald Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza, stating that no military pull-out will happen until Hamas is “genuinely” disarmed. Trump’s Board of Peace said last month it had reached an agreement for the “complete disarmament” of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. But Hamas said handing
