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Nine Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) medics in ambulances, as well as some Civil Defence workers, went to help people in Rafah, Gaza, and disappeared on March 23 after coming under attack from Israeli forces. What followed was a week of Israeli obstruction until international teams were finally able to enter the area where the medics and rescue workers disappeared. Recommended Stories list of 3 item

Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including an Al Jazeera journalist. Hossam Shabat, a journalist who worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher, was killed in northern Gaza on Monday. Witnesses told the network that his car was targeted in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Analysis: Israelis protest as Netanyahu focuses on s

Ann Telnaes, a long-term cartoonist for The Washington Post, decided to quit after one of her cartoons was censored by the newspaper [File: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais] On February 14, US Vice President JD Vance caused a stir at the Munich Security Conference when he decided to accuse America’s European allies of practising censorship. Outraged Europeans hit back, pointing at the track record of V

A protestor raises Sudanese and Palestinian flags as US rapper Kendrick Lamar performs during the Super Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 9, 2025 [Chandan Khanna/AFP] On Sunday night amid the spectacle of the Super Bowl halftime show, a performer raised the flags of Sudan and Palestine. In an event as meticulously controlled as the Super Bowl, his interruption was brief, quickly handled b

Syria opposition forces have declared that the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad has come to an end, hours after fighters entered the capital, Damascus, following a lightning advance across the country. In a statement broadcast live on Syrian national television on Sunday, a group of fighters said the “tyrant al-Assad has been toppled” and that all prisoners have been freed from a major pr

Syria war updates: Opposition takes Damascus, al-Assad fleesThese were the updates on Syria’s war for Sunday, December 8.

‘Appalling’: ICC president says threats, sanctions put court in jeopardy US politicians are threatening to sanction court officials over the arrest warrant against Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. For many victims, 'a world without the ICC is inconceivable,' Judge Tomoko Akane says [File: Eva Plevier/Pool via AP/ANP] The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has warned that attacks on th

Warning: This article includes descriptions or mentions of sexual violence that some readers may find disturbing. Dr Adnan Al-Bursh’s life sat in stark contrast to the manner of the charismatic 49-year-old’s death. The head of orthopaedics at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital was working at the al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza in December when he and other medics were arrested by the Israeli army for, the

On November 6 and 7, fans of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv rampaged through Amsterdam ahead of a match between their team and the Dutch football club Ajax. They assaulted local residents, attacked private property, destroyed symbols of Palestinian solidarity, and chanted racist, genocidal slogans that glorified the slaughter of children in Gaza and the death of all Arabs. While the Is

Shakespeare left us the much-quoted adage about the relationship between things and names. In his tragedy Romeo and Juliet, his character Juliet complains that her family won’t accept her lover Romeo and boils it down to his name: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.” In essence, Shakespeare gives us the theory of the arbitrariness of signs long be

Hezbollah and Israeli forces have exchanged attacks across the Lebanon-Israel border in a marked escalation of the tit-for-tat engagement they have been undertaking since October 7. Here’s everything you need to know about what happened on Sunday morning. (Al Jazeera) What exactly happened? Israeli jets attacked southern Lebanon in the early hours of Sunday morning, saying it was a preemptive stri

In the past nine months, national and local authorities in the United States have tried to suppress and criminalise Palestinian activism and expressions of identity. This crackdown has affected various sectors, including politics, business, civil society, higher education, culture and others. Security forces have quelled peaceful protests, officials have made sweeping accusations of anti-Semitism

Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have tied a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military vehicle during a raid on the city of Jenin, appearing to use him as a human shield. A video posted online on Saturday, and verified by Al Jazeera, showed Mujahed Azmi, a Palestinian resident of Jenin, strapped to a military jeep that passes by two ambulances. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsli

The damaged gate of Al Aqsa University, which was destroyed by the Israeli army, stands in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 14, 2024 [File: Reuters/Doaa Rouqa] We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of our colleagues and our students, and the insistence on our future, in the face of all current attempts to

Al Jazeera Media Network has condemned the Israeli government’s decision to close its operations in Israel as a “criminal act” and warned that the country’s suppression of the free press “stands in contravention of international and humanitarian law”. “Al Jazeera Media Network strongly condemns and denounces this criminal act that violates human rights and the basic right to access of information.

I arrived in Rafah in the early hours of October 9 and made my way to my family home in Gaza City amid intense Israeli air strikes. The next day, I walked with my cousin to al-Shifa Hospital to begin work, not realising this would be the beginning of a 43-day nightmare. During those 43 days, I moved between hospitals, including to al-Ahli (Baptist) Hospital. Founded in 1882, this is one of the old

Inas Abu Maamar wears a plain blue garment and a mustard brown headscarf decorated with a pattern of raised knots. Her arms cradle the shroud covering a small, slumping body, nestled on her lap. Her head and face are bowed into the crook of her left arm. It is as though Abu Maamar is willing the body of her five-year-old niece, Saly, back to life, so that she would be able to sit one more time on

How will Iran respond to Israel’s attack on its Damascus consulate? Analysts say Iran is under pressure to respond in kind to Israel’s assassination of a senior Iranian commander in Damascus, but Tehran’s options are limited. Iranians rally in Tehran to mark Quds Day and the funeral of IRGC members who were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus on

In November, Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, uploaded on its official X page a video of Israeli children singing a song celebrating their country’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The broadcaster deleted the video clip after a huge online backlash. Even after the video was silently erased from social media, however, the song remained a subject of discussion and controversy. Many across

After more than 15 months of war, a ceasefire deal agreed between Israel and Hamas came into effect on January 19. The head of the Gaza Government Information Office told a news conference earlier today that the bodies of 76 percent of the Palestinians killed in the conflict have been recovered and brought to medical centres. However, at least 14,222 people are still believed to be trapped under t

Israel-Palestine escalation updates: Gaza under bombardmentThese are the updates for the escalation between Palestinian fighters and Israel military on Saturday, October 7, 2023.

Japan shrugs as Americans fume over Gwen Stefani ‘appropriation’ Japanese people say they are bemused at controversy over US pop singer’s fascination with their culture. American pop singer Gwen Stefani has expressed a deep fascination with Japanese culture [Ethan Miller/Reutes] Tokyo, Japan – When Eriko Sairyo, a 30-year-old professional who lives in Shizuoka, Japan, saw that American pop singer

A threat assessment from the United Nations has warned the Taliban is intensifying a search for people who worked with United States and NATO forces and is going “door to door” to find them. The confidential report – provided by the UN’s threat-assessment consultants and seen by a number of news media – says the group has “priority lists” of individuals it wants to arrest and is threatening to kil

Over the past few days, the Taliban has taken 26 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals. The armed group now controls an estimated 65 percent of the country’s territory, as the US-led foreign forces are about to complete the pullout from the country after 20 years of war. At least 244,000 people have been internally displaced since the beginning of May, when the Taliban group began multiple offen