As I stood by the side of the road, I felt a small hand tugging at my clothes. I looked down and saw a little girl, no older than eight. She was barefoot, her shirt was torn, and her hair was messy and unwashed. Her eyes were beautiful, and her face showed innocence, yet exhaustion and despair clouded it. She pleaded: Please, please, give me just one shekel, God bless you.
The footage, aired on Israeli TV, shows the captives observing Hanukkah in a Gaza tunnel months before they died. Israeli media outlets have aired footage of six Israeli captives lighting Hanukkah candles in a Hamas tunnel in Gaza, eight months before their deaths during Israel's genocidal war in the besieged enclave. The footage, depicting captives Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Ori Danino and Alex Lobanov, was released online on Thursday night after being aired on Israeli television.
An Israeli sniper shot my six-year-old sister at a family friend's wedding in northern Gaza during the ceasefire on November 3. In the Daraj quarter, far from the Israel-controlled yellow area, Sundus was playing on the first floor of a wedding hall with other kids, happy with her new clothes, while the wedding itself was taking place upstairs. Suddenly, she collapsed.
The Israeli efforts to establish Palestinian rule in Gaza loyal to the occupation are doomed. [The death of Yasser Abu Shabab] marks the end of a dark chapter one that did not reflect our tribe's history and principles The Tarabin tribe stands with the Palestinian resistance in all its factions it refuses to let our tribe's name or members be exploited to form militias that work for the benefit of the occupation.
The German chancellor said "lasting peace is possible" in Gaza and that the possible establishment of a Palestinian state, alongside Israel, offered the best prospect for future peace. DW has more. Speaking at a joint news conference with visiting German Chancellor Merz, Netanyahu said Israel believed that any Palestinian state would pose a risk to Israel's securityImage: Michael Kappeler/dpa/picture alliance
We're here trying to present so many activities for children to live in a positive vibe, said Minass al-Jabour, the initiative's media coordinator. So we are trying to make them skip the scenes, the hard scenes that they were living during the war in Gaza.
Mohammed and his daughter face the emotional fallout of his political activism in Gaza and imprisonment in Israel, that left her to grow up without him. A fractured family tries to heal itself across borders and generations. Palestinian Mohammed Dahman, from Gaza, served nearly 20 years in Israeli jails when he was younger. This powerful observational film follows Mohammed and his daughter, Mai, as they confront the emotional scars left by his years of absence, both in jail and as a political activist.
Microsoft provides "major services" to other Israeli ground, air, and naval forces despite widespread agreement among experts that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to the legal aid groups. The letter lists multiple examples, including Mamram, the Israeli military's central computing system and "weapons platform" that assisted the assault on Gaza with AI support and cloud services. Microsoft provided "rapid support" to Mamram during the initial months of the genocide to keep systems from crashing, according to the letter.
At the height of the Catalan independence movement, back in October 2017, a couple of people criticized me for tweeting about restaurants and recipes when revolution was apparently about to erupt in Catalonia. Their reproaches seemed so absurd that I didn't even try to argue with them, but those indignant people planted a seed in my mind, because since then, I've wondered more than once what the point is of discussing seemingly trivial matters when the world around us is burning.
