'The Palestinian photographer Saif Kwasmi, who was attacked on Wednesday by Jewish youths participating in the flag march in Jerusalem, was detained by police for a few hours later. As far as is known, the police did not arrest any of Kwasmi's attackers.' haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

One obvious but important lesson of conflict reporting (or any reporting really) is that the ones who try to block journalists are almost always the ones who have more to hide.

Two Weeks Inside Gaza’s
Ruined Hospitals nytimes.com/2024/05/21/opi…

Under Israeli Bombs, a Wartime Economy Emerges in Gaza

Amid the destruction, a marketplace of survival has arisen focused on the basics: food, shelter and money. nytimes.com/2024/05/18/wor…

Under Israeli Bombs, a Wartime Economy Emerges in Gaza
Amid the destruction, a marketplace of survival has arisen focused on the basics: food, shelter and money.
Raja Abdulrahim
nytimes.com/2024/05/18/wor…

At an Israeli detention facility doctors amputated Palestinian limbs due to injuries from constant handcuffing; medical procedures were performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation as “a paradise for interns” and the air is filled with the smell of rotting wounds.

At an Israeli detention facility doctors amputated Palestinian limbs due to injuries from constant handcuffing; medical procedures were performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation as “a paradise for interns” and the air is filled with the smell of rotting wounds.

New Human Rights Watch documentation shows how Israeli security forces in the West Bank have used lethal force in fatal shootings of Palestinians, including deliberately executing people who posed no apparent security threat. hrw.org/news/2024/05/0… Richard Weir.

The IDF says it is telling civilians to evacuate parts of Rafah ahead of a planned offensive, but our recent investigation into similar past warnings showed safe zones were repeatedly targeted anyway.

Congratulations to Samar Abu Elouf of the The New York Times for winning the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for best photographic reporting with courage and enterprise, for coverage of Gaza. Watch the acceptance speech here: youtu.be/AuLbBdL8rAc #OPCAwards85

'He had lost his kids, his grandkids, his home,' Sam recalls, 'and he's alone in the corner of this dark hospital, maggots going out of his wounds, and he was screaming: 'The worms are eating me alive please help me’” -US medic in Gaza, by Fergal Keane
bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

New: Bellingcat and Scripps News followed one IDF battalion’s movements across Gaza, geolocating their social posts to highlight IDF involvement in systematic destruction of Palestinian land and livelihoods: bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

We tracked an IDF combat engineering unit as they moved across Gaza, using social media and satellite imagery to build a picture of where they went, what they demolished and why.

By their own count, they destroyed hundreds of homes.

bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

With Temperatures Soaring, Gazans Swelter in Makeshift Tents
By Raja Abdulrahim
#Gaza
nytimes.com/2024/04/24/wor… (gift article)

CNN’s analysis of dozens of videos and testimonies from 22 eyewitnesses’ casts doubt on the Israeli military's timeline of February 29, when more than 100 people were killed and 700 injured during a food aid delivery southwest of Gaza City. edition.cnn.com/2024/04/09/mid…

Gaza has become a 140-square-mile graveyard, each destroyed building another jagged tomb for those still buried within.

Harrowing read on the thousands killed by Israeli strikes but unaccounted for, by Vivian Yee

In what seemed like cruel mocking to Gazans, a resident said Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets that read, “May your fast be accepted, your sins forgiven and iftar delicious.”

Asked about the leaflets the Israeli military did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Facing Israeli Restrictions, Many Palestinians Barred from Reaching Al Aqsa Mosque

Muslim access to the mosque compound has long been a point of contention as Israel has exerted tighter control over the third holiest site in Islam.

nytimes.com/2024/03/11/wor…

They represent a fraction of the more than 30,000 killed in Gaza. Their stories offer a snapshot of the vast human loss — one in every 73 of Gaza’s 2.2 million people.

More than two-thirds were women and children. Most were killed with their families in Israeli airstrikes.

An investigation into the items Israel rejects as humanitarian aid to Gaza - including green sleeping bags because 'green is military.'