Media Coverage

The United Nations has called for the immediate release of two Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla activists abducted by Israeli authorities last week, calling for an investigation into the “disturbing accounts of severe mistreatment”. Israel must “immediately and unconditionally” release activists...

Israel has launched multiple strikes across southern Lebanon, killing at least 10 people in further violations of the “ceasefire” declared two weeks ago. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said the latest wave of attacks on Saturday increased the total recorded over the previous 24 hours to 41. The...

Israeli military forces have intercepted boats traveling with the Global Sumud Flotilla, using drones, communications jamming technology, and armed raiding parties to halt the humanitarian fleet in the middle of the Mediterranean as it heads to Gaza, according to organizers and Israeli media. “Our...

Lebanon’s prime minister has accused Israel of perpetrating a “heinous crime” in the targeting and killing of civil defense emergency workers, three of whom were among five people killed in a double Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. Two successive ⁠Israeli strikes on a building in the town of...

Israel and Lebanon on Thursday, April 23, extended a shaky ceasefire by three weeks, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday, April 23, as he voiced hope for a historic three-way meeting soon and a potential peace deal. Trump, at a standstill in negotiations with Iran, spoke in glowing terms of...

The Iran war will push more than 30 million people back into poverty, with the knock-on effects of the conflict likely to increase food insecurity in the coming months, the United Nations has warned. Disruption to fuel and fertilizer supplies due to the ongoing blocking of cargo vessels through the...

Sexual violence and other forms of gender-based abuse committed by Israeli settlers and soldiers are spurring Palestinians to leave the occupied West Bank, according to a report. Researchers from the West Bank Protection Consortium detailed at least 16 cases of conflict-related sexual violence...

A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has come into effect, with celebratory gunfire heard in Beirut as the truce began. United States President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire on Thursday and confirmed that Iran-backed Hezbollah were also included in the cessation of hostilities. The...

With the global attention fixated on the diplomatic efforts to end the war on Iran, Israel has systematically escalated its attacks on Gaza and choked off vital aid, plunging the besieged enclave into what economic experts are now calling an “engineered, compounded famine.” The number of aid trucks...

Israeli and Lebanese officials have held their first direct negotiations since 1983, as Israel continues its deadly military campaign against Hezbollah. Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Lebanon has tested the fragile ceasefire struck on April 8, which paused the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran...