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As it resumes military operations in the Gaza Strip, Israel has expanded its ground incursions across southern Syria in recent weeks, while also launching airstrikes throughout the country — from Latakia and Homs to rural Damascus. In a major attack on March 25, Israeli forces shelled Koya, a small village in the Yarmouk Valley in Deraa Governorate, leaving at least six dead.

“[Israeli troops] started shooting at the farmers as soon as they saw them,” Nadia…

Israel has bombed one of Gaza’s only operational water desalination plants that was supplying clean drinking water to the strip. Many Palestinians now fear dying of thirst before being killed in the ongoing bombardment.

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)-
Shoshana Strook, daughter of Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strook, said she was sexually assaulted by her parents, with the assault filmed. She added that she is ‘in danger’ and has asked Israeli police to protect her from her family.

She said she filed a police complaint in Italy accusing her parents and one brother of sexually assaulting her. She also revealed disturbing memories of harming three younger brothers.

“I was sexually…

Lissu’s lawyer Rugemeleza Nshala said the charges against his client were politically driven.

A court in Tanzania has charged opposition party leader Tundu Lissu with treason after his arrest at a public rally in which he called for electoral reforms.

The charges against the chairman of the Chadema party will bring new scrutiny to President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s bid for re-election in October as critics accuse the government of cracking down on the opposition.

The opposition leader was…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli Air Force Commander Tomer Bar “personally met with reservists” to warn them that they would be dismissed if they went ahead and signed the letter, according to Haaretz.

Close to 1,000 current and former Israeli Air Force reservists have called for the return of all captives held in Gaza, “even at…

Occupied Jerusalem (Quds News Network)- The Israeli occupation has released Palestinian detainee Ahmad Manasra after a decade in prison; he was arrested at the age of 13.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported that Manasra had endured physical and psychological torture at the hands of the prison authorities since his arrest at the age of 13, spending prolonged periods in solitary confinement.

Manasra was expected to be released at Nafha prison, where his family were…

By Jeremy Salt

In this article, Jeremy Salt chronicles the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s people, history, culture, and identity, revealing the genocidal aims behind the ongoing conflict.

The genocide intended for the whole of Palestine began not in 1948 or 1917 but when, in the 1890s, Theodor Herzl…