Mahmoud Al-Ghafari remembers his son, Yousef, who was killed in the Gaza genocide. “Israel killed Yousef, snuffed out his dreams, and silenced his beautiful spirit,” he writes. “For no crime other than the fact that fate decreed he be born in Gaza.”
Israeli forces carried out another massacre at an aid center in southern Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Witnesses described Israeli tanks shooting toward the crowds with machine guns and soldiers sniping aid-seekers in the head.
Nasser Hospital, the last medical center still operating in southern Gaza, is threatened with shutting down as the Israeli army tightens its siege on the area. The hospital warns that fuel shortages will turn the facility into a “silent graveyard.”
Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington this week to meet with Trump administration officials following the countries’ joint attack on Iran. The lack of transparency about what was actually discussed could be a very dangerous sign.
A recent announcement that Israel intends to “concentrate” Gaza’s population into camps built on Rafah’s ruins before forcibly displacing them has elicited widespread international condemnation. But Israel has already been rolling out this plan for months.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has taken over the aid system in Gaza on behalf of the Israeli army by cultivating a local network of companies and organizations to collaborate in its operations. The organizations that refused have been shut down.
After the U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accused Hamas of attacking two American employees at its distribution center, eyewitnesses and local journalists say the GHF fired grenades on the crowd first before aid-seekers threw them back at them.
A new report from UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese uncovers the economic interests benefiting from Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The world professes reverence for childhood, but hollow platitudes about universal children’s rights aren’t meant for the colonized.
Hunger in Gaza is making us long for food that reminds us of ordinary days. A bowl of thin lentil broth might temporarily fill the stomach, but not the soul.