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Being a Palestinian under Israeli occupation will not help someone make a good film, according to Rashid Masharawi, but a good film-maker will help Palestine. With his anthology film From Ground Zero (in Arabic: From Zero Distance) he attempts to do just that by bridging the space between the Palestinians in Gaza who have endured a campaign of annihilation behind closed doors to those around the world watching as an incomprehensibly vast tragedy unfolds in real time.

As any prosecutor and surely Mr. Woodward knows, the person on the inside who calls and says 'I want to talk' is an informant, or snitch, and is generally looking to bargain a deal, to improve his or her own situation, to place the blame on someone else in return for being allowed to plead down or out certain charges, and therefore "knows that his or her testimony will be unrespected, even reviled, subjected to rigorous examination and often rejection."

Your home is not just a building. It is a space carefully crafted by your family - a place that witnessed your first steps, heard your whispers, and held your laughter and tears. It is the place where your childhood lives. Every room tells a tale. A nook holds old toys. There's a window where the morning sun kissed your face, and the threshold you crossed thousands of times.

Driving the news: On Friday, President Trump said the U.S. is "in deep negotiations with Hamas" on a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal. He stressed the U.S. message to Hamas is: "If you immediately release the hostages, good things are going to happen, but if you don't - it is going to be tough and nasty for you." Trump comments came as the Israeli military began flattening high-rise buildings in Gaza City that it claims are used by Hamas for military purposes. It marked the first major phase in Israel's new offensive to occupy Gaza City, which the government says is aimed at rooting out Hamas. The operation - backed by Trump - is expected to escalate in the coming days.

As medical students in Gaza, we are taught how to save lives with nothing and how to make impossible decisions. It was my childhood dream to study medicine. I wanted to be a doctor to help people. I never imagined that I would study medicine not in a university, but in a hospital; not from textbooks, but from raw experience.

On Friday, the Israeli military ordered people in Mushtaha Tower, a 12-storey building located on the western side of Gaza City and surrounded by hundreds of makeshift tents, to evacuate, and later struck the building, claiming it was Hamas infrastructure and was used to plan and carry out operations against Israeli forces. list of 3 itemsend of list Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary said the building was one of the biggest high-rises in the heart of Gaza City.

It contains 48 poems, each representing a kilogram of bodyweight, with the book literally thinning as the pages turn. The final poem declares: I die without a voice. / He skins me, flesh from bones. / Cuts me into forty-eight pieces. Distributes the parts in blue plastic bags / & throws them to the four corners. Unlike the Muses who buried Orpheus's dismembered limbs, the poem ends with the paramedic guessing which of these bags / contain my flesh.

The tribunal is being jointly chaired by the former Labour leader and is the kind of political initiative that will be a thorn in Keir Starmer's side as his party seeks to retain the backing of leftwing and Muslim voters at the next election. The tribunal, which will be livestreamed from London, has been framed to look at what has happened in Gaza over the past two years, Britain's legal responsibilities, any evidence of British covert support for Israel, and whether the government's actions match any legal obligations to prevent a genocide.

When it comes to hunger, Gaza is currently at the top of the pyramid: the UN has confirmed that half a million people are on the brink of death from starvation, something that has only happened three times in the last two decades and never for reasons strictly linked to political decisions. Beyond the horror provoked by witnessing the famine caused by the Israeli blockade of food supplies, 295 million people worldwide are threatened by hunger.

At least 21,000 children have been disabled in Gaza since Israel's genocidal war on the besieged enclave broke out nearly two years ago, a United Nations committee has said. The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) reported on Wednesday that about 40,500 children have suffered new war-related injuries during the war, leaving more than half of them disabled.

In Gaza, there is no escape from the reality of war, said Al Jazeera's Ibrahim al-Khalili, reporting from Gaza City, where exploding buildings and chaos reign and desperate people attempt to escape gunfire at food distribution sites. Added to these horrors is the ever-present sound of Israeli drones, he said, pausing to listen to the sound of a drone flying above.

Last Friday, the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, I woke at 5:30 a.m. At 6:15 a.m. I got out of bed. For about 20 minutes, I prayed. I knelt on a wooden prayer bench I made with a Jesuit brother named Bill Foster at Red Cloud Indian school 15 years ago. I prayed four traditional prayers: "God, I offer myself..." and "Take Lord, receive..." and "God, grant me..." The final prayer intoned the Immaculate Heart of Mary.