Israel’s military has dropped the prosecution of five reservists accused of the violent rape of a Palestinian man in a notorious defence detention centre, under the cover of the country’s war with Iran. Warning: This story contains distressing details of sexual abuse. The shocking incident in July 2024 was caught on CCTV and later broadcast on Israeli television, sparking a nationwide debate about the treatment of Palestinians within Israeli prisons. The group could be seen dragging a man to the side of a large room

Gaza & Iran   by Jonathan Kuttab It should come as no surprise that we at FOSNA are opposed to the current war that was unleashed on Iran by Israel and the US, and which now seems to be engulfing much of the Middle East. Any war, even one appearing to be justified, is bad. War brings nothing but death, destruction, loss, and continued enmity. It disrupts regular civilian life, and it provides an excuse for and an opening to all forms of military excess

Attack on Nablus-area mosque is latest in surge of Israeli settler and military violence targeting Palestinians. Israeli settlers have defaced and set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, marking the latest incident in a wave of Israeli violence against Palestinians in the territory. The Wafa news agency reported on Monday that settlers graffitied racist slogans on the walls of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq Mosque, located between the towns of Sarra and Tal, near Nablus in the north

Academic studies suggest that the number of dead has been underestimated Israeli forces have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians since the genocide in Gaza began on 7 October 2023. While the Palestinian Ministry of Health of health says it documanted just over 72,000 deaths, a study published by The Lancet Global Health in February found that the true toll during the first 16 months of the conflict was likely significantly higher than official figures indicate. The Israeli attack has been described as a genocide by major international and Israeli

Minab is not a remote military enclave. It is a populated coastal city in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, east of Bandar Abbas and situated along routes that connect inland communities to the Strait of Hormuz. It is a place where fishermen return at dawn, where markets open early, and where children walk to school carrying notebooks and packed lunches. On Saturday morning—Iran’s working week begins on Saturday—students were reportedly in class at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school when the strike hit. Witness accounts described

Over the last week. the war has been spreading and escalating. Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon and Beirut, which forced more than 300,000 people to flee and killed more than 200 people. In Iran, US-Israeli strikes targeted five key fuel depots in the Iranian capital Tehran in an act of ecocide and environmental devastation. More than 9 million people were exposed to toxic chemicals and chemical rain as a result of the massive fires. More than 1000 Iranian civilians have been killed by US-Israeli strikes, and 10 civilians were killed by Iranian strikes in Israel. Holy God, we echo the despair of the Psalmist: “Why, O Lord, do you stand far

A chink of good news – Peter Israel’s High Court has temporarily halted a ban on international aid groups from working in the occupied Palestinian territories unless they meet strict new rules. The injunction came ahead of an Israeli deadline for 37 well-known organisations to stop work, something the groups warn will remove a lifeline for vulnerable people and cause “irreparable harm”. Four months into a fragile ceasefire in war-torn Gaza, most of the more than two million population relies on aid – for food,

It’s wartime again, with the war, yet again, coming to solve Israel’s existential problems once and for all. It will again be declared a stunning victory at first, with everyone applauding, with Yair Lapid writing that we are a strong and united nation and with analysts competing over who can laud Israel’s brave feats more, all of this until the next satisfying venture. Again, almost all Israelis are convinced that there is no war more justified or successful than this one, and “what choice did