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Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment?

With Gaza’s annihilation in plain sight, the question is what can compel global intervention to end Israel's genocide — and what form it will take.

‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza

The cries of hungry children echo through tent camps in Gaza City, with over 50 Palestinians in the enclave starving to death in the past five days alone.

JULY 24. 2025

‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts

In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers to prevent them from saving the wounded.

JULY 22. 2025

Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip, ’ says lawyer

Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.

JULY 21. 2025

We are starving

My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

JULY 18. 2025

‘I haven’t been here in 40 years’: Emotional reunions as Druze cross Israel-Syria fence

After a protest breached the Jawlan barrier, Druze from both sides rushed to see relatives as police stood by — a glimpse of what the land was and could be.

My journalist friend was arrested by Israel. He won’t be the last

The harassment of Nasser Laham and others like Israel Frey sends a message that neither Palestinian nor Jewish journalists who criticize Israel are safe.

JULY 17. 2025

Autel denies selling drones to Israel. So why are they roaming Gaza’s skies?

The Chinese firm said it never knowingly sold or authorized its drones for use by Israel’s army. Israeli importers say otherwise.

JULY 15. 2025

Aid for Gaza’s starving children is right at the gates. Let it in

Israel is blocking 6,000 UNRWA trucks from entering Gaza while children die of hunger. The world can still prevent further catastrophe if it chooses to act.

JULY 14. 2025

The suffocation of Sinjil

Encaging the West Bank town with barbed wire, Israel has cut off residents’ land and left others exposed to settler attacks, including a recent lynching.

JULY 11. 2025

Ceasefire talks give cautious hope. But the reality in Gaza couldn’t be more brutal

From a massacre at a clinic to an airstrike on tents, relentless Israeli bombing across the Strip has proven evacuation orders meaningless.

JULY 10. 2025

‘Like a video game’: Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones

Israeli soldiers tell +972 they deliberately target Palestinian civilians with drone strikes so others will ‘learn’ not to return.

JULY 9. 2025

With West Bank annexation in the air, settlers revel in their impunity

Israeli settlers have rampaged through Palestinian towns and rioted at a military base in recent weeks, knowing officials have their backs.

JULY 7. 2025

The Western liberal’s moral collapse in Gaza

Omar El Akkad’s new book explores why the West only venerates resistance in hindsight, and how we might reconstruct humanity from the ashes of genocide.