October 7 war

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, September 18, 2019. (U.S. Department of State)

How Gaza’s horrors turned Israeli normalization into a Saudi domestic crisis

Before Oct. 7, the kingdom was meticulously reshaping public opinion to support a peace deal. Gaza upended this strategy — forcing MbS to recalibrate.

By Hind Al Ansari April 24, 2025

Palestinians collect drinking water in Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip, April 10, 2025. (Ruwaida Amer)

Bombing plants, severing pipelines: Israel pushes Gaza water crisis to the brink

Since March, the army's intensified targeting of water infrastructure has left Gazans no choice but to drink seawater and ration contaminated supplies.

By Ibtisam Mahdi April 23, 2025

A demonstrator protests outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City, calling attention to sexual violence against women during Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, December 4, 2023. (Yakov Binyamin/Flash90)

Where’s the outrage over ‘systematic’ sexual violence against Palestinians?

Despite mounting evidence of the army’s gender-based crimes, Israeli women’s groups have largely ignored or denied the UN’s damning new report.

By Samah Salaime April 17, 2025

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Displaced Palestinians seek shelter on the campus of the Islamic University in northern Gaza, March 24, 2025. (Ruwaida Amer)

PHOTOS: A ruined university in northern Gaza becomes a refuge

Forced out of their homes once more, thousands of Palestinians have crowded into the Islamic University campus, west of Gaza City — where burning books is the only way to boil water, heat food, and stay warm.

By Ruwaida Amer April 15, 2025

Israeli soldiers seen on the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, December 3, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

The Israeli army is facing its biggest refusal crisis in decades

Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the war’s waning legitimacy.

By Meron Rapoport April 11, 2025

Palestinians who were injured from Israeli airstrikes on the town of Bani Suhaila arrive at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘I operated on more children in Gaza in one night than I do in the U.S. in a year’

American surgeon Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered in war zones around the world. But nothing prepared him for Israel bombing his hospital in Gaza.

By Michal Feldon April 9, 2025

Palestinians mourn those killed in an Israeli airstrike, Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, March 24, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘They’ll kill us all’: Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify

Israel’s army is pummeling Gaza with an intensity that parallels the deadliest phase of the war, displacing civilians en masse from Rafah and Gaza City.

By Ruwaida Amer and Ahmed Ahmed April 7, 2025

Students walk by as relatives of Israelis held hostage in Gaza protest for their release, outside the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, July 16, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The schizophrenic existence of Palestinian students on Israeli campuses

We've learned to suppress our identity and emotions, unable to speak about the carnage in Gaza. But in our relative safety, we are also trapped by guilt.

By Guevara Bader April 4, 2025

Wounded Palestinians crowd the floors of Nasser Hospital after the bombing of a residential area near a school sheltering a large number of displaced people, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, December 3, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills)

In Gaza’s devastated hospitals, treatable patients face ‘slow, quiet death’

Bleeding out from moderate shrapnel wounds. Dying from illnesses doctors don’t have time to treat. Going blind waiting for medical evacuation abroad. These are the manifold victims of Israel's war on Gaza's health system.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha April 3, 2025

An Israeli soldier stands next to the fence encircling the Gaza Strip, March 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp

Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest.

By Meron Rapoport April 1, 2025

A pro-Palestine demonstration in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin, October 28, 2023.

Germany moves to deport four foreign residents for pro-Palestine activism

The four slated for deportation have not been convicted of any crime but are alleged to have participated in protests against Israel's assault on Gaza.

By Hanno Hauenstein April 1, 2025

Palestinians take part in a protest calling for the end of the war and of Hamas' rule in Gaza, Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, March 26, 2025. (Flash90)

‘We want to live’: Rage at Israel fuses with ire at Hamas as protests rock Gaza

In the enclave's largest demonstrations in years, Palestinians called for an immediate end to the war and elections to choose a new leadership.

By Ruwaida Amer March 27, 2025

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