Gaza

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

Displaced Palestinians return to what is left of their homes in the Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza city, January 28, 2025. (Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills)

The Western liberal’s moral collapse in Gaza

Omar El Akkad’s new book explores why the West only venerates resistance in hindsight, and how we might reconstruct humanity from the ashes of genocide.

By Amir Rotem July 7, 2025

Gazans visit the ruins of Al-Baqa Cafe, Gaza City, after Israeli forces dropped a 500lb bomb on the site, June 30, 2025. (Omar El Qataa)

Gaza’s Al-Baqa Cafe was a sanctuary amid the genocide. Now it lies in ruins

With a 500lb bomb, Israel destroyed a beloved seaside cafe that offered rare respite for journalists and residents. Gazans remember the dozens killed.

By Ruwaida Amer July 3, 2025

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Rafi Greenberg, Tel Aviv, June 2024. (Oren Ziv)

‘It comes with the territory’: How Israel’s archaeologists legitimize annexation

Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's destruction.

By Dikla Taylor-Sheinman July 1, 2025

Palestinians mourn the death of those killed in an Israeli airstrike outside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, September 12, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

The tears of Gaza’s men are an act of rebellion

Despite the intentional dehumanization of our people and emasculation of our men, Gaza is birthing a new kind of masculinity — based not on militarism or stoicism but on moral clarity and dignity, even in starvation.

By A. J. June 30, 2025

Rajab Al-Rifi and his team training children at Gaza Port in western Gaza City, May 20, 2025. (Ahmed Ahmed)

Skating through rubble: The volunteers reclaiming joy for Gaza’s children

Through skateboarding, circus, and art therapy, young Gazans bring healing and brief moments of normalcy to children living through genocide.

By Ahmed Ahmed June 26, 2025

Thousands of Palestinians walk along Al-Rashid Street carrying bags of flour after aid trucks entered through the Zikim area in northern Gaza city on June 17, 2025. Several of those seeking aid were shot by Israeli forces. (Yousef Zaanoun /Activestills)

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: ‘What choice do we have?’

By Ahmed Ahmed and Ibtisam Mahdi June 20, 2025

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene of an Iranian ballistic missile strike in Tel Aviv, June 17, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s Iran gambit aimed to realign the world behind Israel. It may backfire

For Iran expert Ori Goldberg, Israel overreached in starting a war with Tehran, and can only avoid getting bogged down by dragging the West into the conflict.

By Amos Brison June 17, 2025

Palestinians walking near an aid distribution point in the Netzarim Corridor, in the central Gaza Strip, June 9, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

The planned expulsion of Gaza’s population is already underway

Israel is conditioning aid delivery to force Gazans south into 'concentration zones.' This plan has begun to stall, but that only portends greater brutality.

By Gadi Algazi June 13, 2025

Armed and masked Palestinians secure trucks loaded with humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, on Salah al-Din Road east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 19, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

How Israel is engineering Gaza’s social collapse

By empowering criminal gangs and weaponizing aid provision, Netanyahu seeks to fracture the Strip into rival fiefdoms — allowing only chaos to reign.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha June 12, 2025

UK-flagged vessel Madleen enter the Ashdod port, after the Israeli army took control on the vessel overnight, in Ashdod, June 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Trolling the Madleen reveals the depths of the Israeli media’s delusion

After Israel seized the Gaza-bound flotilla and subjected its passengers to humiliating displays, the media and public framed it as a “PR win.”

By Oren Ziv June 11, 2025

Protesters march through the streets of Haifa calling for an end to Israel's war on Gaza, May 31, 2025. (Yahel Gazit)

In Haifa, where ‘coexistence’ requires silence about Israel’s war crimes

Last Saturday, I joined thousands in the streets to protest the genocide. But the ensuing backlash has made me question whether I'm welcome in my own city.

By Ghousoon Bisharat June 6, 2025

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike, in the Jabalia area, Gaza, on June 1, 2025. (Khalil Kahlout/Flash90)

Israel is falsely designating Gaza areas as empty in order to bomb them

The army is using an algorithm it knows to be inaccurate to declare Gaza neighborhoods as “green,” or cleared of residents, and carry out airstrikes — killing hundreds of civilians in recent weeks, a joint investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham June 4, 2025