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Israel has restarted strikes on Gaza, the fiercest since a now-expired ceasefire came into effect in January. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the recent airstrikes on Gaza are, "only the beginning." Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says the strikes killed over 400 Palestinians, including many children.
The IDF has ordered evacuations in eastern Gaza, while Israelis have called for protests. In Tel Aviv, the families of hostages joined thousands protesting against the Israeli strikes on Gaza - accusing Netanyahu's government of sacrificing their relatives.
Israel has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza, demanding Hamas agree to a US plan for a ceasefire extension.
The first phase of the ceasefire expired on Saturday, and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Hamas had so far refused to accept a temporary extension under a proposal by Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff.
A Hamas spokesman said blocking supplies to Gaza was "cheap blackmail”, and urged mediators to intervene.
The initial phase of the ceasefire halted 15 months of fighting between Hamas and the Israeli military, allowing the release of 33 Israeli and five Thai hostages for about 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
But negotiations on phase two, including the release of all remaining living hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, have barely begun.
Western ideals of morality and international law have been dealt a fatal blow by Israel’s war on Gaza, argues author Pankaj Mishra.
Mishra, whose latest book is The World After Gaza: A History, tells host Steve Clemons that US and Israeli leaders are normalising the idea of mass expulsion of the two million Palestinians who live in the Gaza Strip and may eventually succeed in carrying it out as the world watches.
The author dives into the racist logic behind some Western foreign policies and argues that India has lost “moral and diplomatic leadership” due to its support for Israel.#gaza#israel#donaldtrump#hamas#pankajmishra#india#palestine#aljazeeraenglish
Peter Alexander Beinart is an American liberal columnist, journalist, and political commentator. A former editor of The New Republic, he has also written for Time, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books, among other periodicals. He has written four books.Wikipedia
US President Donald Trump's plan to take control of the Gaza Strip and clear out Palestinians has drawn international condemnation.
Western and Arab governments, the United Nations and human rights groups were all quick to say it was tantamount to ethnic cleansing. But many media outlets in the US and France did not make the same connection.
Why? Was it poor taste, bad judgment or something else?
Our guests are Thomas Fenton, head of FRANCE 24's English channel; Kethevane Gorjestani, foreign editor and former White House correspondent; and Arno Pedram, co-founder of the anti-racist journalist organisation AJAR.
Israel's military has withdrawn from a key area in the Gaza Strip. The Netzarim Corridor is a six-kilometer militarized zone that was created by Israel in the early days of the war, cutting the territory in two. Palestinians are now moving between Gaza's north and south.
Tens of thousands fled to southern Gaza as Israel's war against Hamas intensified in the north. The withdrawal is part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas, which carried out the October 7 terror attacks.
Trump and Netanyahu seem to be putting there "bad blood" aside as Trump continues talks of moving Palestinians out of Gaza, says The Sunday Times's Mark Urban.
Peter Beinart’s new book, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza,” uses the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as Beinart’s deep Jewish faith to chart a path forward for peace and safety for both Israelis and Palestinians.
“If you don't contextualize things, you can't stop them from happening again,” Beinart says.
What would drive an Egyptian filmmaker, born a Muslim, to make a documentary about Israel's October 7th massacre?
“The truth has to be told,” Majed al-Shafi told CBN News. “Israel has a special place in my heart, and God used Israel to save my life.”
Born in Egypt and raised as a Muslim, Majed became a Christian and was persecuted for his faith. He fled to Israel because it was the only place in the Middle East where he could find asylum and now he’s in Canada where he started One Free World International. Fast forward to October 7th, and the film Majed made about that day, “Dying to Live,” so he could let Israelis know they’re not alone in this fight.
Read the full story from CBN Israel's Julie Stahl:
https://cbn.com/news/israel/egyptian-...
Israel says four hostages have been released by Hamas. It's the second such release under a ceasefire agreement that stopped the fighting in Gaza last weekend. Hamas brought the four women soldiers onto a stage in Gaza City, where they were handed over to the Red Cross.
They were then taken to Israel. The Palestinian militant group and allied groups captured some 250 hostages during the October 2023 terror attacks that began the war. Dozens of Palestinian prisoners are also set to be released from Israeli jails under the terms of the six-week truce.
Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least nine Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "large-scale and significant military operation". It comes only two days after the start of a ceasefire in Gaza.
A ceasefire deal agreed between Israel and Hamas has gone into effect after a nearly three-hour delay.
The statement came after Hamas named the three Israeli female captives to be freed on Sunday as Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari.
Netanyahu said earlier that Hamas had not lived up to its commitment to provide the names of the three captives it’s set to release in exchange for dozens of Palestinian prisoners.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary joins us from Khan Younis in southern Gaza and Stefanie Dekker joins us live from Amman to discuss the latest developments.
Israel's prime minister says his Cabinet has postponed its approval of the ceasefire deal, accusing Hamas of backtracking on certain terms. Hamas has denied the accusation.
That UN security council meeting comes as Israel issues new evacuation orders for some of Gaza’s hospitals.
The meeting was called after Israel destroyed Kamal Adwan hospital following a weeks long siege and detained its director.
Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo has more from the United Nations in New York.
In northern Gaza, the director of the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital says five medical workers were among 50 people killed in Israeli strikes near the hospital. Israeli forces then stormed the hospital and forced hundreds, including patients, into the streets.
This all comes as The New York Times has confirmed past reporting by +972 Magazine that on October 7, 2023, Israel loosened military rules meant to protect noncombatants in Gaza.
Award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy decries the moral decay of Israel, which has gone so far as to open a luxurious rest area for soldiers in northern Gaza: "It's the same moral blindness to what's going on around you." Levy also discusses his latest piece, headlined "The IDF's Own Sickening 'Zone of Interest' in the Heart of Gaza."
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Palestinian health authorities say at least ten people have been killed in separate Israeli strikes in Gaza.
The strikes hit Gaza City in the north and Nuseirat in central Gaza. The toll includes five journalists from the Al-Quds televison network, which is affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group. They were killed when their vehicle was hit outside a hospital. The Israeli military said it targeted the group's militants at the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Israel's government has approved plans to double the population of Israeli settlers in the occupied Golan Heights, an area of Syria that Israel unilaterally annexed in 1981. The government's move comes in the wake of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. The Israeli army has also advanced into Golan's demilitarized buffer zone in Syria and launched hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian military targets. DW Correspondent Emily Gordine reports from Ein Zivan in the occupied Golan Heights.
The Israeli military has carried out a wave of attacks across the Gaza Strip, hitting targets in Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Younis.
A school sheltering displaced families and the Kamal Adwan Hospital, in northern Gaza, were among the sites hit, killing at least 28 Palestinians overnight and into recent hours.
It comes as mediators try to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Hamas officials say a deal is closer than ever if Israel does not impose new conditions.
Concerning the strike on the school, the Israeli military said that the school was a command and control centre being used by Hamas.
The critically acclaimed feature-length documentary ‘Israelism’ investigates a movement of young American Jews who are campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel.
At the heart of the documentary are Simone Zimmerman, who grew up in Los Angeles and visited Israel on an exchange programme; and fellow American Eitan, who joins the Israeli military after graduating high school. Simone and Eitan are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs but their lives are changed when they witness the mistreatment of Palestinians with their own eyes.
Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers gave them as children.
‘Israelism’ features interviews with academics and political activists, including Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Lara Friedman and a former director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman. The film was initially released in February 2023, generating significant debate across American campuses.
Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement on their Facebook pages since October 2023.
BBC News Arabic and BBC World Service analysis of more than 100,000 Facebook posts shows that news organisations based in Palestinian territories have seen a 77% drop in engagement since the start of the war in Gaza.
The first comprehensive data analysis by territory since the start of the war on Gaza.
Analysis of similar pages from Israel and neighbouring Arabic speaking countries shows a rise in engagement – the term used for likes, reactions, comments and shares.
It comes after a year of Palestinians complaining that they are being so called ‘Shadow banned’.
On Facebook’s sister platform, Instagram, exclusive access to leaked documents exposes how a change was made to Instagram's algorithm at the start of the war in Gaza, targeting Palestinian users only.
Meta confirmed changes to Instagram’s algorithm were made, and says “temporary product and policy measures” were adopted on Facebook in response to the conflict.
But denies deliberately silencing Palestinian voices and stands by its decision to alter how many people see content from Facebook Pages on safety grounds.
A BBC News Arabic and Specialist Hub collaboration.
Reporter: Joe Tidy
Lead Journalist: Ahmed Nour, additional journalism by Yara Farag
Producer: Natalie Merzougui, additional producing by Rehab Ismail
Assistant Editor: Sarah Saey
One of the most immediate and noticeable effects of shadowban on any social media platform, like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook etc., is a sudden and unexplained drop in engagement. This includes fewer likes, comments, shares, and overall interactions on your posts.Sep 17, 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the political transition in Syria, movement on a potential cease fire in Gaza, the transition to the Trump administration, and the prospect of normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Blinken spoke with David Gura on “Bloomberg Surveillance."
As the official death toll in Gaza tops 45,000 and Israel's wars throughout the Middle East continue, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in court for a long-awaited corruption trial, making him the country's first sitting leader to face criminal charges.
He is charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases. For more on this extraordinary case, we speak with acclaimed filmmaker Alex Gibney, whose latest documentary The Bibi Files features leaked behind-the-scenes footage of police interrogations of Netanyahu, his wife and those accused of bribing him.
The film has been banned in Israel, and Netanyahu even tried unsuccessfully to stop it from screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, but Gibney says it is being widely shared inside Israel through unofficial channels.
"Strictly speaking, this is a film about corruption," Gibney tells Democracy Now! "It starts with petty corruption — being bribed with gifts and cigars, champagne, jewelry — but then the ultimate corruption is how he's tried to elude a reckoning for his misdeeds, and in so doing, he wraps himself in the mantle of prime minister and then wages endless war."
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