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Medics rush to rescue a Palestinian wounded at an aid site in northern Gaza City, June 17, 2025. (Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills)

‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts

In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers, paramedics, and other civilians to prevent them from saving the wounded, an investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham July 24, 2025

Israeli soldiers release a drone (model unknown) from a building in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 13, 2024. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Autel denies selling drones to Israel. So why are they roaming Gaza’s skies?

Responding to a +972 investigation, the Chinese firm said it never knowingly sold or authorized its drones for use by Israel’s army. Importers say otherwise.

By Yuval Abraham July 17, 2025

A rendering of an EVO drone hovering over the ruins of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2025. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘Like a video game’: Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones

The Israeli army is weaponizing Chinese-made drones to police expulsion orders across Gaza, with soldiers saying they deliberately target civilians so others will ‘learn’ not to return, an investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham July 10, 2025

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Illustrative photo showing family and friends mourning over the body of Palestinian journalist Saed Sabri Abu Nabhan who was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper, at Al-Awda Hospital, northern Gaza Strip, January 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

How operating drones became a death sentence for Gaza’s journalists

Israeli airstrikes have killed or maimed at least five Palestinian journalists who used drones to document Gaza’s destruction since October 7. Survivor testimonies and Israeli military sources reveal that this is no accident.

By Youssr Youssef and Magdalena Hervada March 27, 2025

The USS Carney shoots down a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea, Oct. 19, 2023. (U.S. Navy Photo/Wikimedia Commons)

A year after hijacking the Galaxy Leader, the Houthis aren’t going anywhere

With Hamas and Hezbollah debilitated, the Yemeni group has emerged as Iran’s premier non-state ally, set to continue to disrupt trade and strike Israel.

By Magnus Fitz November 19, 2024

Palestinians fleeing Jabalia camp arrive in Gaza City, October 6, 2024. (Omar El-Qataa)

‘Dead bodies everywhere’ in Jabalia camp as Israel besieges northern Gaza

Gazans in the north are trapped in their homes as Israel launches a new military operation, threatening hospitals and shooting at fleeing residents.

By Ibrahim Mohammad and Mahmoud Mushtaha October 10, 2024

Ismail Al-Ghoul. (Courtesy of Al Jazeera)

In memory of journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul, Gaza City’s voice to the world

How do we continue with business as usual after another friend, and another icon of Palestinian journalism, was brutally killed by Israel for doing his job?

By Mohammed R. Mhawish August 7, 2024

A press helmet is placed over the grave of Hamza Dahdouh, a Palestinian journalist who worked for Al Jazeera and the son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, who was killed in an Israeli drone strike on Rafah, January 7, 2024. (Mohammed Talatene/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

How Israeli drone strikes are killing journalists in Gaza

Survivor testimonies and audiovisual analysis reveal a pattern of strikes by Israeli UAVs on Palestinian journalists in recent months — even when they are clearly identifiable as press.

By Mariana Abreu, Aïda Delpuech, Eloïse Layan and Yuval Abraham June 25, 2024

Palestinians inspect the remains of a house that was the target of a drone strike by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, September 4, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israel’s armed drones are heralding an era of automated killing

The army's use of UAVs has led to soaring exports and a mounting Palestinian death toll, yet there is no public debate over their legality or morality.

By Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown) September 19, 2023

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to media in front of a killer drone during a security tour of the Palmachim Airbase, October 27, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

How AI is intensifying Israel’s bombardments of Gaza

With algorithms making warfare easier to sustain, automated weapons have turned Israeli assaults on besieged Palestinians into an annual event.

By Sophia Goodfriend June 6, 2023

A drone on the lookout point on the Mount of Olives close to Jerusalem's Old City, July 12, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Drones terrorized Gaza for years. Now they’ll do the same in the West Bank

Israel's army is promoting drone warfare as a less bloody means of governing the West Bank. Palestinians in Gaza know that won't be the case.

By Sophia Goodfriend October 13, 2022

An Israeli military watchtower and cameras over Road 60, occupied West Bank, Jan. 30, 2006. (Activestills)

The watchful eye of Israel’s surveillance empire

Israeli cyber companies are at the forefront of a booming facial recognition market, threatening basic freedoms in Israel-Palestine and beyond.

By Jonathan Hempel May 3, 2022

A new security drone seen flying near a Palestinian village, May 6, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Thanks to Gaza protests, Israel has a new crop of ‘battle tested’ weapons for sale

Grenade-carrying drones that commit suicide, ‘smart fences,’ and other new tools to suppress demonstrations. A new report reveals how Israel is using the protests in Gaza to showcase its arms industry. By Meron Rapoport In an interview earlier this past April, Sa’ar Korush, who until recently served as the CEO of the company that built the wall surrounding…

By +972 Magazine July 2, 2018