NewsFeed Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says Israel has transferred authority over Hebron to the army. It includes control of the key holy site, Cave of the Patriarchs. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh explains. Published On 17 Jun 202617 Jun 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
Warning: This story includes descriptions of sexual assault that some readers will find disturbing. A companion essay to Al Jazeera’s Bodies of Evidence: Israel’s Darkest Weapon, directed and executive produced by Awad Joumaa. He was in the next room. The walls were thin. The door between the rooms was open. He could hear everything. In…
Violence in the occupied West Bank has escalated since Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza in 2023. Published On 6 Jun 20266 Jun 2026 Israeli forces opened fire on a car in the occupied West Bank, killing a seven-month-old boy and wounding his parents. Sam Fahd Abou Haikal was killed and his parents injured…
Adam Hamawy, a plastic surgeon, army veteran and conflict-zone medical worker, has won a crowded Democratic primary for an open seat in the United States House of Representatives. The Egyptian-born doctor’s victory puts him on track to represent New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, a Democratic stronghold. He will face off with Republican Gregg Mele on…
NewsFeed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in defiance of the October 2025 ceasefire agreement. Netanyahu said Israeli forces already control around 60 percent of the Palestinian territory. Published On 28 May 202628 May 2026 Click here to share on…
NewsFeed Palestinians across Gaza marked Eid al-Adha prayers amongst rubble and destruction as Israeli attacks continued across the enclave. Families mourned loved ones at cemeteries, while funerals were held for victims killed in strikes that continued into the hours before Eid day. Published On 27 May 202627 May 2026 Click here to share on social…
The lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student targeted for deportation by the United States government over his pro-Palestine advocacy, have called on an immigration appeals court to reopen and terminate his case. The latest legal appeal points to new evidence, some of which was documented in media reports, that Khalil’s lawyers said it…
Israel continues to violate a ‘ceasefire’ agreed to in October with hundreds more killed across the Strip. Published On 9 May 20269 May 2026 A Palestinian man has been killed, and several others injured, after an Israeli drone strike targeted a motorcycle west of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, amid Israel’s continued violations…
The Muslim-majority nations denounce Israel’s ‘increasingly discriminatory’ practices that ‘entrench a system of apartheid’. Published On 2 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 Eight Muslim-majority countries have issued a joint statement that “strongly condemned” Israel’s one-sided bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks. Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and…
Israeli violence against Palestinians in the last week has killed at least 18 people in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. The majority of those killed were victims of Israeli air strikes in Gaza, even as the head of the US President Donald Trump-appointed Board of Peace pushes for a framework to disarm…
