October 7 war

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

Eight-month-old Salam Wadi at an UNRWA clinic in Gaza City, July 9, 2025. (Hussein Owda/UNRWA)

Aid for Gaza’s starving children is right at the gates. Let it in

Israel is blocking 6,000 UNRWA trucks from entering Gaza while children die of hunger. The world can still prevent further catastrophe if it chooses to act.

By Juliette Touma July 15, 2025

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. (Khalil Kahlout/Flash90)

Ceasefire talks give cautious hope. But the reality in Gaza couldn’t be more brutal

From a massacre at a clinic to an airstrike on tents, relentless Israeli bombing across the Strip this week has proven evacuation orders meaningless.

By Ahmed Ahmed July 11, 2025

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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

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

Israeli rescue crews clear the debris and search for the missing in the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva after an Iranian missile strike hit a seven-story building, claiming the lives of at least four people, June 24, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

12 days that brought the war home to Israelis

Iran’s missiles caused many Israelis to feel existential fear for the first time. Even if the ceasefire holds, their shattered sense of immunity will linger.

By Oren Ziv June 24, 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 flag next to the flag of Pahlavi Iran, at a protest against the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 29, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Why everything Israelis think they know about Iran is wrong

For historian Lior Sternfeld, Israel's regime change fantasies ignore realities inside Iran and risk repeating historic mistakes.

By Orly Noy 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

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Tamra, June 15, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Unprotected from Iranian missiles, Palestinians in Israel decry neglect

The tragic death of four members of one family in the Arab city of Tamra has highlighted the systemic discrimination in Israel’s civil defense infrastructure.

By Baker Zoubi June 17, 2025