UN accuses Israel of committing four genocidal acts in Gaza

Published on: October 30, 2025 3:31 PM The United Nations General Assembly heard a grave accusation on Thursday as Navi Pillay, chairperson of the Independent Commission of Inquiry, declared that Israel had committed “four genocidal acts” in Gaza....

Israel 'using captive bodies issue to undermine Gaza ceasefire'

The Qassam brigades have been tasked with handing over the bodies of Israeli captives [Getty] Palestinian officials have accused Israel of using the issue of captive bodies in the Gaza Strip as a pretext to violate the ceasefire and prolong its...

Gaza latest: Trump backs Netanyahu’s ‘powerful’ strikes and threatens Hamas

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Inside the Shin Bet’s secret startup factory

Israel’s war with Hamas may be coming to a precarious close, but that doesn’t mean Israel’s defensetech sector is showing any signs of slowing down. A summertime Demo Day for an accelerator program co-hosted by Shin Bet and TAU Ventures saw five...

Illegal Settlers Ramp Up Attacks on Palestinian Farmers across Occupied West Bank

Tariq Fakhoury, a Palestinian landowner whose property was targeted, said this was the third assault on the area by settlers in recent months. The Ramallah-based Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission reported that settlers, often under the...

Anti‑Israel coalition faces off with Johannesburg Holocaust museum over Gaza

Several anti-Israel groups in South Africa held a protest outside the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, spray-painting slogans on the museum’s property in opposition to the war in Gaza. The demonstration followed a letter sent by a...

Rhodes University students hold memorial for Gaza’s journalists

Rhodes journalism student Charlotte Mokonyane said the memory of Gaza’s slain reporters must drive young journalists to remain a voice for the voiceless [photo credit: Joseph Chirume] At Rhodes University’s Makhanda campus, students and staff...

Gaza flotilla participant ‘I saw the mentality of the Zionist regime. We’re not going to stop’

Solidarity spoke to Hamish Paterson, a member of the Maritime Union of Australia who joined the Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, about their brutal treatment by Israel and what they learnt about the violence inflicted on Palestinians Our aim was to break...

This isn’t a real ceasefire in Gaza – it’s a holding pattern before war returns

Israel’s recent airstrikes in Gaza, which have killed more than 100 people, shows just how fragile this arrangement truly is. This is not the first violation since it came into effect on 10 October, but rather one of many over past weeks –...

Israel kills three Palestinians in West Bank raid involving air strike

The attack took place in the early morning hours in the village of Kafr Qud, west of Jenin, when Israeli forces stormed the area and surrounded a house, according to local media reports. The raid sparked heavy exchanges of fire and aerial...

UK rule change allows Palestinian scholars to bring families from Gaza

Palestinian students taking up scholarships at UK universities will be allowed to bring their families from Gaza with them after the government said it would consider case-by-case exemptions. The Gazan students had previously been unable to take...

Palestinian human rights lawyer arrested by Palestinian Authority

Mohannad Karajah, a Palestinian human rights lawyer in the occupied West Bank, appears to have been arrested by Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces after being the target of what rights groups have called a smear campaign. Video posted to...

The Name ‘Palestine’ Literally Just Means ‘Land of Israel’ in Greek

The name Palestine occupies an extraordinarily politicized position in the study of Near Eastern ethnonyms and toponyms. Its contested etymology has long ceased to be a matter of neutral philology; it has become a cipher for competing claims of...

Indian digital trade financing firm Drip Capital secures $50m credit line from TD Bank

Drip Capital, a company that provides digital trade financing and supports B2B e-commerce, has secured a $50-million credit line from Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD Bank), with the option to expand it by another $25 million, per an announcement. TD...

France, Spain demand limits on UN veto powers to ensure justice in Gaza

ISTANBUL France and Spain renewed on Thursday calls to restrict the use of veto powers at the UN Security Council, saying the mechanism has repeatedly blocked global action in the face of humanitarian crises such as the one in Gaza. French Foreign...

BBC casts former SNP MP in 8-part legal drama – meet all the actors turned politicians

Mhairi Black spent nearly a decade in the House of Commons, serving as the Scottish National Party (SNP) MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, until she stood down in last year's general election, citing her mental health and what she described...

UNICEF data show there was no famine in Gaza

A market in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, a few days after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, Oct. 14, 2025. Photo courtesy of Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. By MIKE WAGENHEIM JNS Many have long said that accusations of famine in...

Poll shows over half of Palestinians say decision to launch Oct 7 attacks was correct

Palestinians take control of an Israeli tank after crossing the border fence with Israel from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 7, 2023. (Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90) A recent Palestinian poll found that more than half of...

Inside the US-led plan for Gaza: Muslim coalition, no Western boots on the ground

The International Stabilization Force (ISF) being assembled for Gaza will consist solely of troops from Arab and Muslim countries, with no Western soldiers expected to operate inside the Strip, according to senior diplomatic sources familiar with...

Food Sovereignty, Greenwashing & Palestine

On the 31st of July 2025, the Israeli occupation destroyed the Seed Multiplication Unit in Hebron, claiming that it was ‘abandoned’ state-owned land. They razed it to the ground, wiping out around 70 heirloom seed varieties from the West Bank and...