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The number one health issue in Palestine is the Israeli occupation
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim, International President of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), highlights how Israel's actions since October 2023 have systematically eroded Palestinians'…
Legalising murder: Israel’s shift from control to elimination
Israel has passed a law permitting the execution of Palestinian prisoners, codifying practices previously carried out extrajudicially. With conviction rates in military courts…
Not in ritual; but restriction
As Easter approaches, access to Jerusalem’s holy sites reveals the politics of occupation, not a clash of faiths
South Africa reviews ICJ case against Israel as West Bank family killed before Eid
As Israel submits its legal response to the ICJ, South Africa weighs its next move in the landmark genocide case amid ongoing civilian casualties in Palestine
How the US government sabotaged the genocide convention orders against Israel
South Africa can move to get more emergency orders from the International Court of Justice. The UN General Assembly’s Uniting for Peace power can overcome the US government’s…
Why Marwan Barghouti’s name matters
Hamas’s demand for Barghouti’s release reflects his symbolic and political weight
Protesters demand that Cape Town holocaust centre recognise genocide in Gaza
The vigil also marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide
US ratchets up diplomatic war against South Africa
The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott
South Africa’s role in the draft UN Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity
Given the close comparison between apartheid and the challenges faced by Palestinians, the government must be called upon to lead the quest for justice
Israel’s offensive in Iran breaches the Geneva Conventions
The airstrikes are about more than Iran’s nuclear capacity; they are aimed at the network of supporters of Palestinians’ right to exist
UN credibility crisis: The US veto shields Israel’s destruction of Gaza
The United Nations Security Council needs reform. The US has, since 1946, exercised its veto more than 80 times, many of those to block resolutions critical of Israel
Why South Africans must stand with Palestine and why the world must act
South Africans know what it is like to be dehumanised, displaced and silenced and so it is important to support the Palestinians
Nakba 2.0: The catastrophe continues
Seventy-seven years ago hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes. Since then they remain under siege in the West Bank and Gaza, where 50,000…
Fires ablaze in a stolen land: Israel’s trees planted over Palestinian villages are in flames
The genocidal state asks the West for help to fight the fires while its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.
Macron redraws Europe’s diplomatic map by recognition of the State of Palestine pledge
The move reflects France’s strategic recalibration amid rising domestic pressures, European fragmentation over Gaza and a widening rift with Washington.