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Palestinians walks amid the destruction in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip on January 4, 2025, as the war between Israel and Hamas militants continues. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Unmatched cruelty in Gaza while world celebrates the new year

While Benjamin Netanyahu keeps boasting about having defeated Hamas and gleefully claiming that it is not a threat, his soldiers continue their killing spree under his orders

‘Spare no one’: Israel has declared a war of attrition, of annihilation, in Gaza, and its leaders have invoked not only the Book of Samuel but also the Crusades. Civilians, even children, are killed in the war that includes starvation as a weapon. Photo: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images

God edition: Where is God in the Gaza war?

The Israeli invasion is also a battle between religion and law with no certain outcome

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What’s the fuss about Israel’s observer status at the AU?

Nongovernmental organisations applying for observer status at the African Union are subjected to intense scrutiny but a non-African state merely needs the approval of the AU…

Israeli forces intervene in Palestinians protesting Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip with tear gas during a demonstration held as part of the 73rd anniversary of Nakba, on May 17, 2021 in Nablus, West Bank. (Photo by Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israel-Palestine conflict: The past laid the violent foundations

Israel’s iron grip over Palestinians had its beginnings in the demise of the Ottoman Empire and Britain and France’s arbitrary mapping out of the Middle East

Most people would agree with the principle of justice and freedom for all peoples — Palestinians, Israelis, South Africans, Syrians, Iranians and Brits among them. But there can only be freedom and justice where there is law, and facts underpinning these principles.

We should have a vaccine against viral propaganda

A response to “The dark side of Israel’s vaccine success story”, Mail & Guardian, 13 January 2021

While it is immunising its citizens against Covid-19 at an unrivalled rate, the Israeli government is not doing anything to vaccinate millions of Palestinians living under its military occupation.

The dark side of Israel’s vaccine success story

Israel is refusing to provide the vaccine to the millions of Palestinians it is forcefully ruling over.

Palestinian children light candles during a rally held in Gaza City.

Palestinians eye changes to key accord with Israel

The Palestinian Authority has formally asked Israel for talks on changing the Paris Protocol governing economic ties between the two sides.

Israel releases frozen Palestinian tax funds

Israel has decided to release tax money it had been withholding from the Palestinian Authority since its admission to Unesco a month ago.

South Africans divided on Palestinian UN bid

President Zuma supports the Palestinian bid to seek a seat at the UN, but not all SA voices who feel they have a stake in the matter favour the move.

Settlement freeze reports ‘an Israeli manoeuvre’

The Palestinians said on Wednesday that reports of an Israeli freeze in construction in West Bank settlements was a ”new deceiving Israeli manoeuvre”.

Clinton to push for Palestinian statehood

Hillary Clinton pledged on Tuesday to press for Palestinian statehood, putting Washington on a possible collision course with Benjamin Netanyahu.

Hamas rule could hinder efforts to rebuild Gaza

The war in Gaza may have ended but the territory remains under Hamas rule and Israeli sanctions, which could hinder efforts to rebuild the enclave.

Gaza peace talks under way in Egypt

A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire with Israel.