The city had been spared from widespread demolitions during previous military operations there. This time is different.

Hospitals have also shut down in Gaza City as Israeli attacks escalate.

Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

Spanish prime minister says double standards over Gaza and Ukraine threaten to undermine the west’s global standing * ‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right ​Europe and the west’s double standards over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza threaten to undermine its global standing, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has warned, describing the response to Israel’s assault on the Palestinian territory as one of the darkest episodes of international relations in the 21st century. In an interview with the Guardian before talks with UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, in London on Wednesday, the socialist leader also said the US under Donald Trump was trying to end the post-second world war, rules-based global order it had originally created. Continue reading...

An Israeli official told The Associated Press on Saturday that Israel is planning to halt or slow the meager aid supplies that are entering Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza as Israel is expa...

Several aid seekers killed in southern Gaza and several others killed in attacks on Gaza City, medical sources say.

THE Israeli military killed at least 31 more Palestinians in Gaza today, including 13 who were seeking food aid.Residents of Gaza City, focus of a renewed offensive and planned occupation, reported “r...

Marah Abu Zuhri, 20, arrived in Pisa on an Italian humanitarian flight along with other critical patients A 20-year-old Palestinian woman suffering from severe malnutrition who was evacuated from Gaza to Italy this week has died, a hospital in Pisa has said. The woman, named by Italian media as Marah Abu Zuhri, arrived in Pisa on an Italian government humanitarian flight on Wednesday night. Zuhri had come to Italy with her mother on one of three Italian air force flights that arrived this week with a total of 31 critical patients suffering from serious congenital diseases, wounds or amputations, the Italian foreign ministry said at the time. Continue reading...