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Israel-Palestine war: Gaza’s residents experience a return to the ‘stone age’
Crowds of men patiently stand outside the Al-Sunbula bakery in the Deir al-Balah refugee camp in central Gaza waiting to...
Israel-Palestine war: Israeli officials ‘unhappy’ with released woman’s description of captivity
Israeli officials are reportedly unhappy with an interview given by an elderly former captive of Hamas in Gaza because she...
‘From the river to the sea’: What does the pro-Palestine chant actually mean?
At demonstrations across the world in support of the Palestinians and in opposition to Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza, one refrain can regularly be...
Israel-Palestine war: Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn
Western politicians and media act as if they are caught in a permanent spell, sympathetically indulging even the most wildly...
Israel-Palestine war: Chaos and horror inside Gaza’s hospitals as bodies litter the floors
The corridors may be dimly lit, but the devastation that has engulfed Gaza's Dar al-Shifa hospital is on full display...
Is Turkey uniquely positioned to mediate between Palestinians and Israel?
The war on Gaza has seen Turkey step forward as a potential mediator to not only end Israel’s bombardment of...
Israel-Palestine war: When will Lebanon’s Hezbollah enter the battle?
After the recent Israeli air strike on Gaza's al-Ahli Arab Hospital, which killed close to 500 people, and amid ongoing tensions...
Instagram faces backlash over alleged censorship of posts supporting Palestine
Instagram users are accusing the platform of deliberately censoring posts supporting Palestine amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Users, including the Pulitzer...
McDonald’s franchises in Middle East at odds over Israel-Hamas war
Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator Thomas Friedman in the late 1990s famously claimed that two countries with McDonald’s outlets had never gone...
Analysis: Will Israel attack Gaza on the ground and if so, when and how?
For nearly two weeks following Hamas’s attack, the Israeli response has been to bomb the Gaza Strip relentlessly from the...
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