Disgraceful – Mark Jerusalem: Israeli settlers assaulted one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses.Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians detained in the village of Susiya, according to attorney Lea Tsemel. Police told her they were being held at a military base for medical treatment. She said she had not been able to speak with

This so shocking and heartbreaking – Mark The United Nations will start pulling its workers out of Gaza as the conflict with Israel claims a growing number of aid workers, medical personnel and journalists, including two reporters killed in strikes on Monday.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the organisation had made the “difficult” decision to withdraw a third of its international workers, after repeated Israeli strikes on its facilities in Gaza. A Red Cross building was also hit in Gaza on Monday, in what Israel said was

Shameful – Mark This picture taken from Nablus on March 23, 2025 shows east of the city the new expansion of the Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh in the occupied West Bank. (AFP) JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH: The Palestinian foreign ministry and an anti-settlement watchdog group on Sunday condemned an Israeli decision to recognize more than a dozen new settlements in the occupied West Bank, upgrading existing neighborhoods to independent settlement status. Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich earlier announced that the security cabinet approved a plan to separate 13 Jewish

In defiance of international rulings to boycott Israel for its ongoing violence and brutal occupation of Palestinian lands, Australia’s exports to Israel have increased by 20% in 12 months. by Kellie Tranter | 26 Mar, 2025 | Arms Trade, Gaza, genocide, Israel, Palestine Politics over humanity – Mark This month Israel unilaterally breached its US ‘guaranteed” ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Without a trace of humanity, it resumed its wholesale murderous slaughter of Palestinian civilians, including killing 174 children with bombs in one night with countless others requiring amputations without anaesthesia. It also launched policies calculated

Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour were the latest Palestinian journalists to be assassinated in Gaza. Responsibility for their killings rests in part on their Western colleagues who have failed to accurately cover Israel’s genocidal assault. So very sad – Mark On March 24, 2025, we witnessed the deliberate killing of yet another Palestinian journalist. Hossam Shabat, a 24-year-old reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and contributor to Drop Site News, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike targeting his vehicle in northern Gaza. Hours earlier, Mohammad Mansour, a

March 27th, 2025 Last week, the ceasefire broke in the middle of the night, with Israeli attacks killing over 700 Palestinians in the span of 3 days. In the renewed attacks, Israel bombed a hospital as well as blocked movement from the North to the South. This push comes after 20 days of an aid blockade on Gaza, with displaced Palestinians running out of water and flour.  Holy God, there are no words left to describe our pain. We can only echo the words of the

How I wish Fatah would focus on keeping the Palestinians safe in the West Bank from the continued Genocide by Israel – Mark Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement called on its Islamist rivals Hamas on Saturday to relinquish power in order to safeguard the “existence” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.“Hamas must show compassion for Gaza, its children, women and men,” Fatah spokesman Monther al-Hayek said.He called on Hamas to “step aside from governing and fully recognise that the battle ahead will lead to

(The Australian, 24/3/2025) This so sad – even honest Jews are threatened if they dare criticise Netanyahu – the Jewish soul is seriously compromised – Mark Victoria Police has taken extraordinary court action targeting an online campaigner against anti-Semitism, declaring her ¬social media posts are a risk to the personal safety of the leader of a left-wing Jewish group, Sarah Schwartz.Police have applied for a personal safety intervention order on behalf of Ms Schwartz, the leader of the Jewish Council of Australia, alleging Instagram campaigner Zara