Peace and potato chips: Dreams big and small as 2024 approaches in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

Peace and potato chips: Dreams big and small as 2024 approaches in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – It is bitterly cold, and people are trying to build adequate shelter to protect themselves in a new refugee camp set up in Deir el-Balah to cope with the overwhelming numbers of people fleeing in search of safety. In the camp, which is close to…

Israeli minister reiterates calls for Palestinians to leave Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli minister reiterates calls for Palestinians to leave Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel’s far-right finance minister says Israelis who would replace Palestinians would ‘make the desert bloom’. Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Palestinian residents of Gaza to leave the besieged enclave, making way for the Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”. Smotrich, who has been excluded from Israeli…

‘Outraged’: Brazilian Muslims face growing Islamophobia over Gaza war | Islamophobia News

‘Outraged’: Brazilian Muslims face growing Islamophobia over Gaza war | Islamophobia News

Sao Paulo, Brazil – It wasn’t unusual for patients to arrive in a foul temper at the hospital emergency room in São Paulo, Brazil, where physician Batull Sleiman worked. After all, every day brought new medical crises, new requests for urgent care. Sleiman had seen it all. But she was…

Pro-Palestine campaigners call for Gaza ceasefire on New Year’s Eve | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Pro-Palestine campaigners call for Gaza ceasefire on New Year’s Eve | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Activists are asking people to turn the New Year’s countdown in their countries into a countdown for a ceasefire in Gaza. Activists have launched a global campaign asking people to turn the New Year’s countdown in their countries into a countdown for a ceasefire in Gaza, which has been under…

US forces sink ‘Houthi’ boats in Red Sea after attack on Maersk vessel | Houthis News

US forces sink ‘Houthi’ boats in Red Sea after attack on Maersk vessel | Houthis News

Global shipping giant Maersk is suspending operations in the Red Sea for 48 hours after the attack. The United States military says it has sunk three boats waging an attack on a container ship in the Red Sea as it continues its patrol mission to counter threats from Yemen’s Houthi…

Israeli bombardment destroyed over 70% of Gaza homes: Media office | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli bombardment destroyed over 70% of Gaza homes: Media office | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza for nearly three months has destroyed 70 percent of the homes in the besieged Palestinian enclave, according to the Government Media Office. No further details were provided but an earlier report said more than 200 heritage and archaeological sites were destroyed in the Israeli bombardment…

Netanyahu says Gaza-Egypt border zone should be under Israeli control | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Netanyahu says Gaza-Egypt border zone should be under Israeli control | Israel-Palestine conflict News

BREAKINGBREAKING, The Israeli prime minister also predicts the war in Gaza and on other regional fronts would last many months. The border zone between the Gaza Strip and Egypt should be under Israel’s control, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, as he predicted the war in the Palestinian enclave…

Israeli air raids target Syrian city of Aleppo as regional tensions rise | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli air raids target Syrian city of Aleppo as regional tensions rise | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Syrian defence ministry says the ‘aerial aggression’ came from the Mediterranean and hit a number of places. Israel has targeted Iranian military positions in Syria’s Aleppo with an air raid, causing some material damage, according to the Syrian Ministry of Defence. “Israel carried out an aerial aggression from the direction…

How do Palestinians factor into Israel’s vision for the Middle East? | Israel-Palestine conflict

How do Palestinians factor into Israel’s vision for the Middle East? | Israel-Palestine conflict

David Frum, writer for The Atlantic magazine and pro-Israel commentator, says Palestinian statehood is not the solution. David Frum, staff writer for The Atlantic magazine and a pro-Israel supporter, tells host Steve Clemons that Israel and the United States should “avoid solution-ism” for the Palestinians and focus on day-to-day necessities,…