Israeli soldiers torched food, homes, and a critical sewage treatment plant...
Younis Tirawi & Yaniv Cogan
Drop Site News / October 12, 2025
Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches”.
In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s announcement on Thursday that both Hamas and Israel had signed off on an agreement to stop the fighting, the Israeli military launched...
Double standard for Israeli and Palestinian hostages
Mitchell Plitnick
Cutting Through / October 12, 2025
Most media are glossing over Israel soon releasing 1,700 Palestinians it abducted and held without charge--in other words, hostages they kidnapped. And they're not releasing all of them.
For two years, many Israelis and Israel supporters have, quite understandably, fretted ceaselessly about the hostages...
[VIDEO] Drone footage shows destruction as Gazans reflect on returning back...
Reuters / October 11, 2025
Drone footage on Saturday showed damaged and destroyed buildings in Gaza City, a day after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect.
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Thousands of displaced Palestinians streamed north along the coast of Gaza back to their abandoned homes to find their neighbourhoods in ruins.
Agencies prepare to bring aid to starving people in Gaza as...
Oliver Holmes
The Guardian / October 11, 2025
UNICEF says ‘humanitarian crisis continues’ and expects to scale up aid deliveries on Sunday.
Aid agencies are preparing to bring large amounts of vital aid to starving people in Gaza this weekend, as a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas appeared...
Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’
David Smith
The Guardian / October 11, 2025
After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics.
Washington – For more than a decade Shouk offered an Israeli-inspired, plant-based and kosher menu in and around Washington. Last week the...
Donald Trump and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to chair Gaza peace summit...
Daniel Lavelle
The Guardian / October 11, 2025
Meeting will take place in Sharm al-Sheikh and include leaders of the UK, Italy, Spain and France.
Donald Trump and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, are due to chair a Gaza peace summit with several world leaders in Sharm al-Sheikh on Monday.
The meeting...
[VIDEO] Thousands of Palestinians return to Gaza City to find a...
Abdel Qader Sabbah & Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Drop Site News / October 11, 2025
“There’s nothing left for them to destroy”
GAZA CITY – Nizar Daghmash, the 56-year-old head of the Daghmash family council, stood in front of the ruins of his family home in Gaza City on Friday after making the...
The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression...
Sam Jones, Alice Speri, Deborah Cole, Angelique Chrisafis, Angela Giuffrida & Rory Carroll
The Guardian / October 11, 2025
Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting.
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has been met with joy and relief across...
Palestinians search Gaza rubble for loved ones as ceasefire takes hold
TNA Staff
The New Arab / October 11, 2025
Palestinians returned to the ruins of Gaza as a fragile ceasefire took hold, allowing rescue teams to recover bodies.
Palestinians combed through the ruins of their homes on Saturday, pulling bodies from beneath the rubble as Israel’s ceasefire took effect after two years...
International journalists urge Israel to allow reporters into Gaza after ceasefire...
Joseph Gedeon
The Guardian / October 11, 2025
Foreign Press Association (FPA) joins long list of global media agencies demanding press freedom in devastated territory.
Washington – International journalists in Israel have called for reporters to be granted immediate access to Gaza after the rapidly negotiated ceasefire came into effect, joining a...
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Kwestie Palestina
De ‘Kwestie Palestina’ verwijst naar de strijd van Palestijnen tegen het zionistische, koloniale project in Palestina, waarbij zionistisch-joodse kolonisten vanaf het eind van de 19e eeuw door middel van kolonisatie stelselmatig toewerken naar het omvormen van Palestina in een Joodse Staat. Deze omvorming betekent in de praktijk dat de...
de Palestijnen
Palestina – het gebied dat zich uitstrekt tussen de Middellandse Zee en de rivier de Jordaan – is door de inspanningen van joodse kolonisten/de Staat Israel opgedeeld in drie delen: Palestina’48 (Israel), de Westelijke Jordaanoever (inclusief Oost-Jeruzalem) en de Strook van Gaza.
In 2016 woonden in Palestina woonden 6,5 miljoen...