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The suffering in Gaza continues as Israeli attacks intensify, targeting residential neighborhoods in Gaza City and displacing tens of thousands within just a few days. Families are being forced to flee toward central and southern parts of the Strip, often walking for hours without transportation or safe shelter. Many are now living in tents purchased at high prices, facing harsh conditions and sev...

A national day of action is underway in Israel - organised by the families of captives still held in Gaza. The mass action is expected to shut down schools, businesses and public transport across the country. Several rallies are planned, including a big demonstration in Tel Aviv. Protesters say they want to pressure the government into signing a Gaza ceasefire and captive release deal with Hamas....

The focus of the Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling in recent days has been the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods, a little east of Gaza City. There have been endless Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling, and continuous bombardment. People are saying the explosions do not stop. Zeitoun neighbourhood is being wiped off the map. This is the same exact scenario that took place in Rafah,...

Israel is using “bureaucratic measures to block aid, and the impact of that means that it will only deepen starvation in Gaza”, Bushra Khalidi, policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory for Oxfam, a global charity, has told Al Jazeera. “Most major international NGOs since the second of March have been virtually unable to deliver a single truck of life-saving supplies, and we have millions...

Israeli journalists held a vigil in Tel Aviv condemning Israel's killing of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, accusing the military of systematically targeting media workers to suppress reporting. Oren Ziv, an Israeli journalist with +972 Magazine, explained that while most Israeli society and mainstream media celebrated these killings, a small group was protesting to show solidarity with Palestinia...

Two NGOs are bringing a case before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, against senior Israeli military commanders for allegedly authorising the murder of the four Al Jazeera journalists and two freelancers. The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) have named the Israeli chief of general staff and seven others. They also accuse Prime Minis...

Ian Williams, President of the US Foreign Press Association, told Al Jazeera that Israel’s deliberate targeting of Al Jazeera journalists reveals a systematic effort to control Gaza’s narrative. He condemned Israel’s posthumous smearing of reporters like Al Jazeera’s slain correspondent Anas al-Sharif as “Hamas operatives” – a tactic he compared to McCarthyism, noting over 270 journalists killed....

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert criticised Netanyahu’s government for rejecting a two-state solution and prolonging the Gaza war, which he called militarily aimless. While condemning ministers’ calls to restrict aid to Gaza as "unforgivable negligence", he denied claims of a deliberate Israeli starvation policy, despite acknowledging widespread suffering. Olmert admitted to "war crimes" occurring bu...

Gideon Levy, a journalist and columnist for Israeli news outlet Haaretz, has spoken about the Israeli army’s targeted killing of the Al Jazeera team in Gaza, including journalist Anas al-Sharif. Levy called Anas a “courageous journalist who enabled us to see what was going on in Gaza” and said his killing follows a longstanding pattern of Israel targeting journalists whose coverage it is threatene...

Ahmed Al-Najjar, speaking from Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, has paid tribute to five Al Jazeera staff killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, describing it as the most devastating loss the enclave’s journalist community has faced.

Israel has killed at least 237 journalists and media workers since it launched its war on Gaza. Many of them worked for Al Jazeera. Janine di Giovanni is the executive director of The Reckoning Project and a senior fellow in human rights at Yale University. She says she's worked 35 years as a war correspondent, but the genocide in Gaza is the worst she's ever seen.

Palestinians are struggling to survive on two fronts: the daily quest to find food in a strip devastated by a starvation crisis and Israel's nonstop bombardment - which has not let up. At least 13 Palestinians have been killed across the Strip so far on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, 28, was one of Gaza’s most recognisable faces for his constant reporting of the reality on the ground over the last 22 months. The father of two was born in Jabalia refugee camp and graduated from Al-Aqsa University’s Faculty of Media. His father was killed by Israel in an air strike on the family home in December 2023.

Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), stated that Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza constitutes “a clear breach of international humanitarian law” and amounts to a “war crime.” Speaking to Al Jazeera, Al-Kheetan stressed that “any condemnations by member states must be followed by action,” urging countries with leverage over Isr...

Israel’s latest killings of journalists in Gaza are an addition to a long list of criminality, said Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara. “We at Al Jazeera do not want to be the story; we are forced to be the story because of the criminality of the Israeli government,” he said. He said that while Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif was reporting “every minute of the day” and while...

Irene Khan, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, said that Israel killed Anas al-Sharif over his work as a journalist and that Israeli claims he was a Hamas member are totally unsubstantiated. “If they had real evidence [of this], do you not think that they would put it out, up front, right away in the international arena? Of course they would. But why are they not doing that? Becau...

Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdouh, who has lost his wife and several other members of his family to Israeli attacks, has reacted to Israel’s latest deadly targeting of Al Jazeera journalists. “What is happening is unjustifiable and is not in line with any humanitarian law or any human values,” Dahdouh said. “This is astonishing. How can they target a tent where journalists were shelteri...

Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, and the author of a book called “The Palestine Laboratory”, which looks at Israel’s arms and surveillance industry. He says Western media has been largely complicit in what's happening in Gaza, including Israel's targeting and murder of journalists.

Israel has murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif. They were targeted by a strike on their media tent outside al0Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, overnight. Al Jazeera Media Network has called it a “deliberate assassination” and urged the international community to act

Mustafa Barghouti is the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative. He says the lack of international action and consequences has enabled Israel to continue its campaign in Gaza, including its targeting of Palestinian journalists and civilians.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns in the strongest terms the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Zaher, and Mohamed Noufal, by the Israeli occupation forces in yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom.

Israel has murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif. They were targeted by a drone strike on their press tent outside al-Shifa Hospital. Al Jazeera Media Network has called on the international community to halt Israel's targeting of journalists. Earlier on Sunday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to allow journalists into the Gaza Strip...

Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, described Gaza’s starvation crisis as "a package of suffering" during an Al Jazeera interview. Over 100 children have died from acute malnutrition, with 55,000 infants lacking milk and 350,000 under-fives at risk. He condemned Israel’s aid restrictions, noting only 10% of needed supplies enter, while diseases spread due to polluted water and c...

At an emergency UNSC session addressing Israel's planned seizure of Gaza City and forced displacement of 1 million Palestinians, Algeria's Ambassador Amar Bendjama delivered a blistering condemnation. He accused Israel of "genocidal ethnic cleansing", citing 22 months of atrocities - 18,000 children killed, 12,000 women dead, and starvation deployed as a weapon. "Israel treats Palestinians as 'hum...

Speaking at an emergency UN Security Council session convened to address Israel’s planned military seizure of Gaza City and the forced displacement of nearly one million Palestinians, Ramesh Rajasingham, head of UN OCHA, issued a stark condemnation of the crisis. He demanded an immediate end to the "unacceptable catastrophe," warning that Israel’s expanded operations would exacerbate atrocities an...