After blocking all aid entering the battered enclave, Israel has now announced it will stop electricity to Gaza. God help all those trapped in Gaza – Mark Israel says it has cut off electricity to Gaza in what seems like another attempt to force Hamas to accept changes it wants to impose upon the ceasefire terms agreed in January. Israel imposed a blockade of humanitarian aid entering Gaza early in March in an attempt to force Hamas into extending the ceasefire’s first phase and releasing more captives. It wants to

In a stark escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against Palestine activism, on Saturday night, ICE agents raided the home of Mahmoud Khalil and detained the activist who had been among the leaders of Gaza protests at Columbia University. By Michael Arria  March 9, 2025   On Saturday the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the Gaza protests on Columbia University’s campus, at his apartment in New York City. Khalil, who is Palestinian, is a permanent U.S. resident, but according to his attorney, Amy Greer, U.S.

Over 3000 “Christian Zionist” leaders affiliated with American Christian Leaders for Israel (ACLI), a project of the extremist International Christian Embassy of Jerusalem (ICEJ), recently issued a deeply immoral statement calling on President Trump to declare Israeli sovereignty over the entirety of the Holy Land. That statement can be accessed here. Trump is expected to make an announcement on the topic of annexation within the coming weeks, if not days. The ACLI statement is wholly inconsistent with the God witnessed to in the pages of scripture

13th of March 2025 Israeli occupation forces continue their military operations in the West Bank, carrying out mass arrests and demolishing homes. Meanwhile, extremist settlers persist in their violent actions across the region, such as stealing 800 sheep near Jericho and injuring Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, all without intervention from the Israeli Army.  God of justice, in this season of Lent, as we grieve the destruction in the West Bank, we remember Christ’s journey to the cross and his call to stand with the oppressed. As homes

On 19 January 2025, once the ceasefire in Gaza went into effect, the Israeli government declared it was adding the demand for “increased offensive activity” in the West Bank to its official list of “war objectives”. The addition was merely a formal affirmation of Israel’s treatment of the West Bank since 7 October 2023 as another front in the all-out war declared on the Palestinians since the Hamas attack. In keeping with this approach, the Israeli regime has ramped up its oppression of Palestinians in the

The Age / New York Times| 11 March 2025 Another illegal, immoral and evil action by a Government that has lost all moral authority – Mark Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said he was immediately cutting off electricity to the Gaza Strip, a move that may have limited impact in Gaza, given restrictions already in place, but that comes as Israel tries to pressure Hamas amid talks over their fragile truce.“We will employ all the tools at our disposal so that all the hostages are returned,

Of course Israel rejects it – they just want the land for themselves with all Arabs either dead or somewhere else – Mark Israel has rejected a proposal from the Arab League under which Gaza would be rebuilt without its remaining population being displaced. (AP: Evan Vucci)“But what other option is there?”“Why don’t the Arabs come up with a solution?”This reaction — repeated especially often in the US media — to President Donald Trump’s AI-washed and hummus-infused vision of Gaza-a-Lago, is one of the most frustrating

Mar 4, 2025 The Australian government’s decision to award $4 million in funding to health organisation Project Rozana is a cynical attempt to whitewash Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its decades-long system of illegal occupation and apartheid. Rather than supporting Palestinian self-determination, this funding entrenches Israeli control over Palestinian healthcare, bypassing Palestinian institutions, sidelining Palestinian medical sovereignty, and legitimising the very regime responsible for systematically dismantling Palestinian healthcare, its economy and society. By design, Project Rozana does not challenge the root causes of Palestinian suffering: the lack of

While the month traditionally brings families together to fast, pray, and share meals, Palestinians in the West Bank struggle to survive More and more evil – God help them all – Mark As Ramadan arrives in the occupied West Bank, the Islamic month that brings joy, community, and spiritual reflection is overshadowed by despair, displacement, and economic hardship. For many Palestinians in the region, this year’s Ramadan has been met with great challenges, leaving little room for celebration amid ongoing Israeli military operations disrupting daily life, displacing thousands, and

The bombing has destroyed agricultural land and poisoned the soil, while Israel’s sweeping blockade has made water scarce for farmers who once provided a third of Gaza’s food needs. Israel has proven that its stated aim of destroying Gaza in every way is coming true – Mark GAZA—On an afternoon in early February, Sami Abu Amr, a 61-year-old farmer, walked through his roughly three-acre stretch of land that lies east of the Gaza City neighborhood of Shuja’iyya where he once tended olive trees and grew seasonal