Hamas deputy head Saleh al-Aruri and leaders in the Qassam Brigades have been assassinated in Beirut’s southern Dahiya neighborhood. Hamas says the “cowardly assassination” will not undermine the continuation of the Palestinian resistance.
The sort of violence we see in Palestine has happened everywhere people refuse to be dominated. This New Year Day we celebrate the 220th anniversary of Haiti’s independence and are inspired by a revolution that reminds us liberation is possible.
As the world ushered in 2024 and demonstrators across the world called for a ceasefire, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for more than two million Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from Gaza.
South Africa’s 84 page long Application to the International Court of Justice to begin proceedings against Israel for its genocide in Gaza is a devastating document laying out Israel’s genocidal acts and statements in horrifying detail.
The Israeli war cabinet pressures Netanyahu to discuss “the day after” in Gaza as Hamas broadcasts videos of targeting Israeli tanks, and the PFLP says a captive soldier died during an Israeli airstrike. Meanwhile, UNRWA warns of widespread hunger.
ZAKA is one of the leading organizations alleging Hamas atrocities on October 7. But the organization’s volunteers have systematically given false testimonies, and continue repeating them to journalists on behalf of the Israeli government.
The Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition demands President Minouche Shafik stop demonizing Palestine advocacy on campus and end Columbia’s complicity in the Gaza Genocide.
Israel faces growing tensions between the war cabinet and the far-right coalition government as Egypt presents a ceasefire proposal. Meanwhile, Israeli forces kill at least three Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
I did everything I could to throw my son Qais the birthday party he deserved, even after we witnessed a bloody massacre on the same day he turned 1.
Ethnic cleansing or “transfer” is an intrinsic part of Zionism’s early history, and has remained an essential feature of Israeli political life. More recently, “transfer” has been mainstreamed by billing it as encouraging “voluntary emigration.”