Human rights groups and lawyers say ‘voluntary migration’ policy amounts to ethnic cleansing Palestinians wait to receive food at a distribution centre in Khan Younis, Gaza, 27 May 2026. Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Israel’s defence minister has said he is committed to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza through large-scale migration of Palestinians as part of Israel’s long-term plans for the territory. Israel Katz said the government would implement a plan for large numbers of

EU says the sanctioned individuals and groups violated a range of rights, from the right to physical and mental integrity, to the right to education. Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank village of Ras Ein al-Auja [File: Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Getty Images] The European Union has sanctioned four entities and three individuals it says are “extremist Israeli settlers” responsible for “serious” human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The EU sai

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called for police to prosecute people chanting “globalise the intifada” during demonstrations, calling it an example of “extreme racism”. So far seven people have been arrested and charged for holding up signs with “globalise the intifada,” but what does the phrase really mean? Does it really denote an extreme form of racism or is Prime Minister Starmer merely striving to criminalise political protest and free speech criticising the government

A year since I left Gaza for survival and freedom, I am now, however, trying to survive a mental occupation and emotional death. Abubaker Abed in Dublin, Ireland. Lying with my shaking, fragile body on a dilapidated mattress under my favourite blue blanket in our house’s guest room, I video-called my friend Abdul-Ruhman Ismail to bid farewell and make some final memories before I set foot outside Gaza for the first time in my life. He was inconsolable. Behind his cheerful faç

Donegal student gets recognition for biodegradable plastic that breaks down safely Tala and Farah Mousa said they 'refused to see rubble only as destruction". Photograph: The Earth Prize Teenage sisters from Gaza have won a global environmental award for turning rubble into reusable bricks and are competing for the global award. Farah (15) and Tala (17) Mousa, who live in a tent and have been repeatedly displaced since their home was bombed, have been named the Middle East re

How a family visit to Israel turned Andrey Khrzhanovskiy into a full-time activist documenting violence in the West Bank Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, 28, is better known to his hundreds of thousands of followers as Andrey X. [Photo Credit: Moti Milrod] After two weeks of nonviolent protests by the schoolchildren of Umm al-Khair, the kiddie YouTube star Ms. Rachel shared a series of photos from the West Bank village. "I just had a two-hour call with the children of Umm al-Khair," she

Jerusalem embassy told to issue protest to Palestinian Authority leaders, warning ‘consequences will follow’ if they do not comply The Trump administration is seeking to pressure the Palestinian Authority to drop its bid amid fear it would allow Palestinians to chair high-profile debates on the Middle East. Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock The US has ordered its Jerusalem embassy to press the Palestinian leadership into dropping a bid for a senior position at the UN general as

A film director, historian and Holocaust survivor speak to Al Jazeera as opinions shift. Stephen Kapos and Gillian Mosely at the London screening of Planet Israel [Beardvoyage] London, United Kingdom – The lights come up slowly inside a cinema in London’s buzzy Soho district, but nobody rushes for the exit. As the credits roll, one woman lowers her face into her hands. A couple sit motionless. In the row ahead, someone exhales and says “Free Palestine”. This screening of Plan

Following reports linking Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure to Israeli surveillance operations targeting Palestinians, the company removed senior figures from its Israeli subsidiary. Microsoft has dismissed the head of its Israeli subsidiary and several senior managers following an internal investigation into allegations that its cloud infrastructure was used to surveil Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, marking one of the most serious accountability crises to hi

Israeli settlers set fire to two vehicles and a Bedouin tent south of Nablus in one attack last month [Credit: EPA] The twenty-seven foreign ministers of the European Union approved new sanctions on Monday on Israeli settlers over rising violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. There has been a surge in attacks by settlers since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the UN has recorded. Settlements - illegal under international law - are built on Israeli-