(2024-04-02). Israel Launches Deadly Attack on Iranian Consulate in Syria. telesurenglish.net Israeli airstrikes hit the Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, killing at least five people, including a senior Iranian commander. | RELATED: | According to the Syrian Defense Ministry the missile attack occurred at about 5: 00 p.m. local time (1400 GMT) when Israel launched an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, targeting the building of the Iranian Consu…
(2024-04-02). Exclusive: Behind the Scenes of Ansar Allah's Operations aboard the Galaxy Leader Ship. mintpressnews.com 
Get unprecedented insight into Ansar Allah's strategies and operations as we take you aboard the Galaxy Leader ship and speak directly with top officials.
(2024-04-02). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 179: Israel kills 7 international aid workers in central Gaza, passes law banning Al Jazeera. mondoweiss.net 
The World Central Kitchen called the attack that killed seven of its aid workers "unforgivable" as Israeli forces killed 71 people across the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Israeli government voted to approve a bill banning Al Jazeera.
(2024-04-02). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 178: Israel Withdraws From Hospital. popularresistance.org The Palestinian health ministry reported that Israeli forces committed 14 massacres across the Gaza Strip since Saturday, killing 140 Palestinians and wounding 202, raising the death toll of Israel's assault since October 7 to 32,782 with more than 75,392 wounded. | In Gaza City, medical sources reported finding at least 50 dead bodies in the surroundings of al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli army withdrew from the medical complex following two weeks of raids. The health ministry said in a statement on Sunday that medical staff are unable to recover the bodies and the wounded under the rubble.
(2024-04-02). International Coalition To Stop Genocide In Palestine Global Action. popularresistance.org On March 17, the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine (ICSGP) held its first Global Call to Action as a webinar moderated by Ajamu Baraka of The Black Alliance for Peace and featuring Azhar Sakoor, a lawyer and executive with the Palestine Solidarity Alliance Youth League in South Africa, Marcy Winograd with CODEPINK, Pavel Wargan, the Coordinator of the Secretariat at the Progressive International, Lamis Deek, a Palestinian born and internationally practicing attorney based in New York…
(2024-04-02). A Collective Mural Calls For Neighborhood Reflection. popularresistance.org Artists and cartoonists carried out an urban intervention in the central Paseo Avenue of the Cuban capital, on the occasion of the Palestinian Land Day, that commemorates the first general strike against the theft of part of the Palestinian territory by the Zionist regime. | Now, 176 days after the unprecedented massacre in Gaza, world solidarity is increasingly necessary. The solidarity cannot slow down it needs to grow in many ways. This was the understanding of the renowned cartoonist Ares, National Humor Prize (Cuba 2020) and Grand Prix UYACC Anticoronavirus (China 2020), when he called others to join in on t…
(2024-04-02). In Palestine, Healthcare Is Also A Form Of Resistance. popularresistance.org When we talk about the strength of the health system, we are talking about these highly educated and dedicated professionals who are also a sort of resistance. If you need to exterminate a population because you want to take its lands, healthcare workers are the first ones to be attacked. We see that not only in the case of health care, but also in the case of cultural and intellectual figures, journalists, professors, and scientists, who have been murdered. They represent part of people's needs; if you have a tactic of extermination, they are the first targets. | That's what we have seen during all Israel's atta…
(2024-04-02). Palestinian Resistance Demands 'Land Back' On Land Day. popularresistance.org Land Day was a qualitative, cumulative event in the context of the ongoing and comprehensive battle that our people are waging against the Zionist colonialist and racist settler project. On this day, the Arab masses in the occupied interior demonstrated their insistence on clinging to their land and not abandoning it, and the unity of the land, identity and destiny. | We call on our masses in the occupied territories in 1948 to unite and confront the racist Zionist policies and laws, and the necessity of abandoning any illusions regarding political, electoral and parliamentary participation in the enemy's institu…
(2024-04-02). Colombia President Threatens To Break Relations With Israel. popularresistance.org Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, warned on Tuesday that Colombia will break diplomatic relations with Israel if it does not comply with the recent resolution of the United Nations Security Council, which demands a ceasefire in Gaza, Anadolu Agency reports. | "If Israel does not comply with the United Nations ceasefire resolution, we will break diplomatic relations with Israel," Petro published on his X account. | Israel's response to the Colombian President's statement did not take long. The country's Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, responded on X that Petro ¥s "support" of Hamas is a "disgrace to the Colom…
(2024-04-02). Israel Keeps Getting More Murderous. caitlinjohnstone.com.au In the span of just a few hours we learned that Israel committed a horrific massacre at al-Shifa hospital, struck an Iranian consulate in Syria killing multiple Iranian military officers, and killed a vehicle full of international aid workers in an airstrike.
(2024-04-02). Why and How the UK and US Shaped Israel to Create Endless Conflict. dissidentvoice.org Even though the land could not yet absorb sixteen million, nor even eight, enough could return… to prove that the enterprise was one that blessed him that gave as well as him that took by forming for England a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism." — Ronald Storrs, Military Governor …
aljazeera.com (2024-04-02). Israel's war on Gaza live: Seven aid workers killed after food deliveryUS-based aid group World Central Kitchen confirms seven staff members were killed in a "targeted attack" by the Israeli military and called on it to stop "this indiscriminate killing" in Gaza. Those killed were from Palestine, Australia, Poland, the UK, and a US-Canada citizen.
(2024-04-02). Israel views us as subhuman. electronicintifada.net A neighbor of mine died after an attack on an aid warehouse.
(2024-04-02). Postpartum depression and trauma await mothers and newborns in Gaza. electronicintifada.net Rates of PTSD and depression spiking as a result of Israel's genocidal violence.
(2024-04-02). Haitian Community Defenders Fight US-Armed Death Squads and Puppet Governments. scheerpost.com 
Movement of Equality and Liberation for All Haitians (MOLEGHAF) organizes an event in Port-au-Prince in February 2024 against the genocide in Gaza. MOVEMENT OF EQUALITY AND LIBERATION FOR ALL HAITIANS By Danny Shaw / Truthout As the stars illuminate the dark alleyways of Solino, Ezayi's heavy beige Timberlands stomp across the cracked concrete. He is …
(2024-04-02). Jewish activists demand an end to Israel's genocide, occupation, apartheid. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-04-02). Erdoğan's AKP suffers setback in Turkish local elections as CHP comes first. wsws.org In elections dominated by the cost-of-living crisis and held amidst the genocide in Gaza and NATO's escalating war against Russia, the ruling party suffered a significant defeat.
(2024-04-02). Jewish activists demand an end to Israel's genocide, occupation, apartheid. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-04-02). War on Gaza: We were lied into genocide. Al Jazeera has shown us how. mronline.org 
Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October.
(2024-04-02). On Cartoon Noses, Antisemitism and the Slaughter in Gaza. orinocotribune.com By Yves Engler — Mar 26, 2024 | Once again, the accusation of antisemitism was weaponized to trump both common sense and support for the victims of Israel's murderous rampage. | Last week prominent Quebec cartoonist Serge Chapleau caricatured Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire. The cartoon published in La Presse reads "Nosfenyahou, en route to Rafah." | The pro-Israel and genocide lobby immediately condemned the caricature of Israel's prime minister. So did NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice and others. | In my opinion there's nothing antisemitic about the cartoon and Chapleau should be celebrated for using his mainst…
(2024-04-02). Washington's enablers of Israeli genocide in Gaza. wsws.org The Biden administration and the entire US ruling elite are directly responsible for the war of extermination that Israel is waging against the Palestinians in Gaza.
(2024-04-02). Stop Genocide! Protest at US Naval Ship Harvey Milk in San Francisco. indybay.org Hundreds of opponents of the genocide in Gaza rallied at the US naval ship Harvey Milk in San Francisco and some tried to stop the sailing of the ship by boarding it.
(2024-04-02). Will Turkey fully support Neo-Nazi junta in exchange for return to F-35 program. infobrics.org The US would be "willing to provide F-35 fifth generation fighter jets to Turkey" if it meets "American conditions in regards to ensuring it does not operate Russian S-400 air defense systems alongside [the F-35]". If Washington DC returns Ankara to "the fold" and the latter acquires the F-35, it would give NATO another certain carrier of the latest B61 thermonuclear bombs, helping the belligerent alliance in surrounding Russia with hostile nuclear-armed vassals.
(2024-04-02). Israel passes law to ban Al-Jazeera, calls it a "terrorist channel" peoplesdispatch.org The Israeli parliament passed a law on Monday, April 1 giving direct powers to the government to ban Al-Jazeera from broadcasting in the country and seize its assets. "I intend to act immediately in accordance with the new law to stop the channel's activities," Netanyhau The law, first introduced in February this year, was adopted on April 1 by a vote of 71 members of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) in favor and just 10 aga…
(2024-04-02). DC-Based Aid Group Pauses Gaza Operations After Israeli Strike Kills 7 Workers. truthout.org World Central Kitchen said Tuesday that a targeted Israeli airstrike killed seven members of its aid team in Gaza as they left a warehouse in the city of Deir al-Balah, where they had just unloaded more than 100 tons of food set to be distributed to starving Palestinians. The Washington, D.C.-based aid organization said the seven killed included a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada as well as… |
(2024-04-02). Israel in Chaos as Largest Protests Since 7 October Erupt. globalresearch.ca
(2024-04-02). 'Obscene': Biden Quietly OKs More 2,000-Pound Bombs, Warplanes for Israel. scheerpost.com 
(2024-04-02). Al Jazeera accuses Netanyahu of 'frantic campaign' after parliament bill. middleeasteye.net 
Al Jazeera accuses Netanyahu of 'frantic campaign' after parliament bill | After the Israeli parliament passed a bill allowing the temporary closure of the Qatari network, Al Jazeera accused prime minister of 'dangerous, ludicrous' lies | | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pictured on 18 Fe…
(2024-04-02). Israel Kills 6 Int'l Aid Workers & Gazan Driver in Attack on Chef Andrés's World Central Kitchen Convoy. democracynow.org 
Israel is facing global condemnation after killing several international aid workers in Gaza. The workers with charity group World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike after unloading more than 100 tons of food aid carried by ship from Cyprus into Gaza. The charity staff, including three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national and an American-Canadian dual citizen, and their Palestinian driver were struck while traveling in a clearly marked convoy branded with the charity's logo. World Central Kitchen said the attack occurred after the workers left a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, ev…
(2024-04-02). Israeli airstrike destroys Iranian consulate in Syria. wsws.org The Israeli attack is a flagrant act of war, undoubtedly discussed with Washington, aimed at provoking a wider conflict throughout the Middle East with Iran and its allies.
(2024-04-02). White House defends Shifa hospital massacre that killed over 400. wsws.org The Israeli army's withdrawal from Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Monday revealed that the complex had been turned into a killing field, with hundreds of bodies of men, women and children showing signs of mass summary execution, torture and mutilation.
(2024-04-02). Headlines for April 2, 2024. democracynow.org World Central Kitchen Suspends Aid Operations After Israeli Airstrike Kills 7 of Its Workers, Biden Admin Could Send Another $18M in Arms to Israel Despite Mounting Deaths, Public Opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu Plans to Ban Al Jazeera, One of the Few Major Outlets Reporting Inside Gaza, Tehran Vows Revenge After Israeli Attack in Syria Kills 7 Iranian Officials, Incl. Top Commander, Primary Voters Urged to Protest Biden Support for War on Gaza at the Ballot Box, Florida's Top Court Approves 6-Week Abortion Ban But Offers Hope with Abortion Ballot Measure, Germany Decriminalizes Cannabis for Personal Use, Ar…
(2024-04-02). Iran Vows Retaliation After Israel Bombs Its Consulate in Syria. truthout.org Iran has vowed to retaliate after Israel bombed the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, Syria, killing at least seven people, including three senior Iranian commanders and at least four other Iranian officers. Among the dead is senior commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the highest-ranking Iranian military officer to be killed since the U.S. assassinated General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in 2020. |
(2024-04-02). Tuesday 4/2: Virtual Event: Canada Bans Weapons to Israel – Codepink Congress Capitol Calling Party. indybay.org Zoom | www.codepink.org/cpc042…
(2024-04-02). Apr 2, 2024. sitrepworld.info 
George Carlin — You Have No Choice (Video) Why We Question Everything, by John Leake How Private Interests Seized Control of America, by Paul Craig Roberts Israel: In Violation of God's Law, Natural Justice, the Laws of War & Intl Humanitarian Law, by Ilana Mercer Starvation in Gaza: The World Court's latest intervention, by Binoy Kampmark Israel's war, Netanyahu's gamble, by Alastair Crooke Israel's Savage Destruction Of Gaza's Healthcare System Is Exactly What It Looks Like, by Caitlin Johnstone MoA: Zionist Entity Assassinates Iranian General In Syria Russian aerospace forces are quickly whittling away at…
(2024-04-02). Tuesday 4/2: Webinar: Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. indybay.org YouTube | www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f0JydhiYps…
(2024-04-02). Beyond Any Reasonable Circumstances. commondreams.org 
Honestly, we were going to mark the date with a spoof report — light in the darkness! — of Israel razing multiple pavilions at the upcoming Venice Art Biennale because they mistook talk of a new hummus place for threats of a new Hamas attack. But Gaza's latest news is too gutting: Hundreds of burned, …
(2024-04-02). Huge Transfer Of U.S. Bombs To Israel Not Newsworthy To The New York Times. progressivehub.net NORMAN SOLOMON…
(2024-04-02). Huge Transfer of 2,000-Pound Bombs from U.S. to Israel Not Newsworthy to the NY Times. indybay.org Not Newsworthy to the New York Times…
(2024-04-02). Falling Into the pro-Israel Trap: The La Presse Cartoon Scandal. socialistproject.ca 
On 20 March, Montreal newspaper La Presse published a cartoon by Serge Chapleau harshly critical of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's announced intention to invade Rafah, where millions of Gazans are taking refuge. From across the globe, condemnations, even from political leaders, warn of the further deadly consequences of the attack, coming, as it does, after more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and even more starve. | The cartoon portrays Netanyahu in the iconic pose of
(2024-04-02). Latest Huge Transfer of 2,000-Pound Bombs from U.S. to Israel Not Newsworthy to the New York Times. worldbeyondwar.org 
When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that "the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel," a lot of people cared. #WorldBEYONDWar…
(2024-04-02). Israeli Forces Retreat From Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital After Weeks of Siege. orinocotribune.com The Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli forces have withdrawn tanks and vehicles from Gaza's main hospital al-Shifa after a two-week siege of the medical complex. | In a statement on Monday, the ministry said that dozens of bodies, some of them decomposed, had been found at the complex after the Israeli pullout, which also left behind a vast swath of destruction. | It emphasized that Israel retreated from the hospital "after burning down the complex buildings and putting it completely out of service." | "The scale of the destruction inside the complex and the buildings around it is very large," the ministry said.
(2024-04-01). War on Gaza: Israeli strike kills British aid worker along with six others. middleeasteye.net 
War on Gaza: Israeli strike kills British aid worker along with six others | Attack on World Central Kitchen staff comes amid sustained Israeli targeting of aid workers in Gaza | | UN staff inspect the carcass of a car used by the US-based aid group World Central Kitchen on 2 April 2024, that was hi…
(2024-04-02). Israel's Chain of Command Disintegrating! youtu.be
(2024-04-02). Israeli missile hits Iranian consulate building in Syrian capital. muslimmirror.com Damascus : An Israeli missile strike hit the consulate building in the compound of the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, leveling the building to the ground and leaving an unknown number of casualties, according to a media report. Reporters on Monday saw thick plumes of smoke rising from the building located on the …
(2024-04-02). Assassination of Iranian brigadier general. workers.org 
The following statement was released by the Resistance News Network on April 1, 2024 from the official for Arab and National Relations in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abu Ahmad Fouad, to Al-Mayadeen. Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi The "israeli" aggression on the Iranian consulate in Damascus . . . |
(2024-04-02). State Dept. Whistleblower: Biden Is Skirting U.S. Law by Rushing More Bombs & Warplanes to Israel. democracynow.org 
The Washington Post reports the Biden administration has recently authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel. The arms package includes more than 1,800 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, which can be used to level entire city blocks. The U.S. is also sending 500 MK-82 500-pound bombs and 25 F-35 fighter jets. "It has been doing this on a weekly basis since the conflict began, just an open tab of arms," says Josh Paul, former State Department official who worked on arms transfers before resigning in October to protest increasing arms sales to Israel. "These are the a…
(2024-04-02). Israel's Bombing of the Iranian Consulate in Damascus Was a Strategic Mistake. globalresearch.ca
(2024-04-02). Israel coordinates with international food aid workers, only to murder them in a drone strike. thecanary.co NGO World Central Kitchen aid workers were coordinating their journey with Israel and in clearly marked vehicles when the Israeli military murdered them with repeated drone strikes. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) killed seven people working with the NGO after the aid workers dropped off 100 tonnes of food at a warehouse in central Gazan …
(2024-04-02). Israel "Risking a Two-Front War, Maybe a Three-Front War," After Latest Strike Against Iran in Syria. democracynow.org 
Iran has vowed to retaliate after Israel bombed the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, Syria, killing at least seven people, including three senior Iranian commanders and at least four other Iranian officers. Among the dead is senior commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the highest-ranking Iranian military officer to be killed since the U.S. assassinated General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in 2020. While Israel sees strikes on foreign soil as "part of their self-defense strategy," Iran feels it must respond to this "breaching serious diplomatic norms," says Akbar Shahid Ahmed, senior diplomatic cor…
(2024-04-02). I Could Not Stay Silent: Annelle Sheline Resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza Policy. scheerpost.com By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now! A State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resigned Wednesday in protest of U.S. support for Israel's assault on Gaza. Annelle Sheline, who worked as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, was not planning on publicly resigning, …
(2024-04-02). Palestinian Resistance on Land Day: Liberation Can Only Be Achieved via Resistance. orinocotribune.com
(2024-04-02). Spring 2024 National Immigrant Solidarity Network News Alert! indybay.org The World and Activists Demands: Free Palestine! NO Attacks on Palestinian-American Anti-War Activists! Gaza Special Report…
(2024-04-02). Thursday 4/4: Virtual Teach-In about Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | http: //tinyurl.com/PalestineThursday…
(2024-04-02). When NYC Invented Modern Policing: Emily Brooks on WWII—Era Surveillance and Discrimination. publicbooks.org "I often think how much better off we would be if there were more free recreational activities for youth that were not nested under the carceral sphere."
(2024-04-02). Australasian Muslim Times applauds growing support for Palestine. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-04-02). Racism behind go-stop-partly-go visas for Gazans. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-04-02). The Left, the far-Right and climate chaos. mronline.org 
Electoral politics and compromises won't save the climate or stop the far right.
(2024-04-02). Racism behind go-stop-partly-go visas for Gazans. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-04-02). Australasian Muslim Times applauds growing support for Palestine. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-04-02). Suman 32.845 los palestinos asesinados por Israel en Gaza. telesurtv.net La madrugada de este lunes, el Ejército israelí confirmó su retirada del hospital de Al Shifa, en ciudad de Gaza, que ha quedado fuera de servicio tras la destrucción causada por las tropas sionistas.
(2024-04-02). Minuto a minuto del asedio israelí contra la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net Organizaciones de DD.HH. han realizado varios llamados a un alto al fuego inmediato ante la grave situación que se vive en los territorios palestinos.
(2024-04-02). Colombia intervendrá en la CIJ contra Israel. telesurtv.net Colombia insiste en que la comunidad internacional no puede permanecer impávida cuando un país emplea el hambre como método de guerra.
(2024-04-02). Israel destruye e incendia hospital Al-Shifa tras dos semanas de asedio. telesurtv.net El director del Shifa, Marwan Abu Saada, afirmó que "la destrucción del complejo hace que sea imposible retomar el trabajo y el hospital ha quedado fuera de servicio".
(2024-04-02). Parlamento de Israel prohíbe transmisión de canal Al Jazeera. telesurtv.net El órgano aprobó una ley con la cual se podrá cerrar la señal de un canal y cuya "decisión se tomará sujeta a una opinión profesional de los funcionarios de seguridad".
(2024-04-02). Decimonoveno Gobierno palestino presta juramento. telesurtv.net Este tiene entre sus prioridades detener la agresión israelí contra el territorio, aumentar el volumen de ayuda humanitaria para la zona afectada y mejorar las condiciones económicas y financieras.
(2024-04-02). Venezuela condena ataque de Israel a embajada de Irán en Siria. telesurtv.net El Cuerpo de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica (CGRI), la unidad de élite de las Fuerzas Armadas de Irán, ha confirmado la muerte de dos de sus generales en el ataque aéreo.
(2024-04-02). Canciller de Cuba condena ataque de Israel en Siria. telesurtv.net Las fuerzas sionistas de Israel atacaron con misiles este lunes un barrio en la capital siria las instalaciones de la embajada de Irán.
(2024-04-02). Consulado de Irán en Damasco queda destruido tras ataque israelí. telesurtv.net Como consecuencia del ataque, al menos seis personas fueron asesinadas.
(2024-04-02). Venezuela rechaza declaraciones del presidente de Argentina. telesurtv.net "Las macabras expectativas del neonazi se volverán a hundir", aseguró el canciller venezolano, en referencia a las pretensiones de Javier Milei.
(2024-04-02). Iran vows to punish Israel for deadly strike on embassy annex. newarab.com 
Iran warned arch foe Israel on Tuesday that it will punish an air strike that killed seven Four other people were also reported killed in Monday's strike which levelled the five-storey building adjacent to the Iranian embassy and further stoked tensions already running high as the Gaza war nears the end of its sixth month. | Israel declined to comment on the strike, which fuelled Middle East tensions already enflamed by the war in Gaza b…
(2024-04-02). 11 killed, including Iran Guards, in Israeli strike in Syria. newarab.com 
Britain-based war monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 11 people, including several Guards members, were killed when "Israeli missiles destroyed the building of an annex to the Iranian…
(2024-04-02). Several aid workers killed in Israeli strike in Gaza: NGO. newarab.com 
Several people working for US-based charity World Central Kitchen were killed Monday in an World Central Kitchen "lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Earlier, the health ministr…
(2024-04-02). Arab states condemn Israel strike on Iran consulate in Syria. newarab.com 
Arab states have condemned a deadly strike, blamed on Israel, on The attack — suspected to have been carried out by Is…
(2024-04-02). Global condemnation after Israeli strike on Gaza aid workers. newarab.com 
The United States and Britain led international criticism Tuesday of a deadly strike in the Gaza Strip that killed seven charity staff as they unloaded desperately needed aid brought by sea to the war-torn territory. | World Central Kitchen – one of two NGOs spearheading efforts to deliver aid by boat – said a "targeted Israeli strike" on Monday killed Australian, British, Palestinian, Polish and US-Canadian staff. | Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the strike was "unintentional". The Israeli army has vowed to hold an investigation and promised to "share our findings transparently". | The cha…
(2024-04-02). Israel claims 170 dunams as 'state land' in West Bank. newarab.com 
Extremist government minister The area affected, equivalent to 0.17 squ…
(2024-04-02). Horrific scenes follow Israeli army withdrawal from Al-Shifa. newarab.com 
On Monday, the Avichai Adraee, a spokesperson for the Israeli army, declared that the Israeli forces had "completed the operation" in the Al-Shifa complex and left the hospital area after a siege that lasted about two weeks. | The health mini…
(2024-04-02). Biden considering $18 bn Israel arms aid amid Gaza backlash. newarab.com 
(2024-04-02). Sullivan to visit Saudi Arabia for talks on Israel deal. newarab.com 
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan plans to travel to Saudi Arabia this week for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid a U.S. push for progress toward Talks on normalisation had been put on ice in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 attack by Palestinian Hamas fighters in southern Israel and Israel's subsequent assault on Gaza, but conversations have resumed in recent months. | Riyadh has said it will only accept a deal with…
(2024-04-02). Thousands of Israelis protest Netanyahu as talks stall. newarab.com 
Tens of thousands of Israelis protested Protesters on Sunday said that their demonstration was the largest ever against Netanyahu since Israel's war on Gaza broke out. | They blocked one of the main highways in Jerusalem, while police used water cannons agains…
(2024-04-02). Why criticism of Israel is so rare in Azerbaijan. newarab.com 
(2024-04-02). US, Israel to hold virtual meeting to discuss Rafah invasion. newarab.com 
The US and Israel will hold a virtual meeting on Monday to discuss a possible Citing four American and Israeli officials, Axios said the meeting will discuss alternative proposals by President Joe Biden's administration to the potential invasion of Rafah, adding that the meeting was supposed to be held last week. | Rafah, at the southernmost end of the besieged Gaza Strip, is the last major urban centre in the enclave y…
(2024-04-02). What is World Central Kitchen targeted by Israel in Gaza. newarab.com 
(2024-04-02). Civilians under fire in Gaza as Israel creates 'kill zones'. newarab.com 
Anyone entering "kill zones" established by the The Israeli army has "broad latitude to designate areas with loose rules of engagement where soldiers This prac…
(2024-04-02). Italy plays key role in equipping Israeli navy. newarab.com 
[This piece is part of a yet-to-be launched investigative section called "For the Record". The New Arab believes that public interest comes first and that publishing research findings, even if not conclusive, can inform future investigative efforts]. | [This article is the third part of The Israeli Navy has been actively involved in attacks against Gaza. Since October 9, Israeli naval vessels have supported…
(2024-04-02). Netanyahu vows to enact Al Jazeera broadcast ban. newarab.com 
The potential ban escalates the running conflict between Israel's government and the
(2024-04-02). Palestinian doctors' bodies found in Al-Shifa Hospital ruins. newarab.com 
The bodies of a prominent Israeli forces engaged in On Monday and Tuesday, Palestinians began to excavate some of the dead found in the hospital grou…
(2024-04-02). Israel 'to take into account' US concerns over Rafah assault. newarab.com 
Israel will take "into account" US concerns over its planned offensive in the crowded city of Tensions have risen between Israel and its chief backer the United States over the heavy civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip, and especially over Israeli plans to send ground forces into the southern city. | But the two…
(2024-04-02). Israel proposes dismantling UNRWA, replacing with new body. newarab.com 
Israel has proposed dismantling the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, Citing UN sources, the proposal was made last week by Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi to UN officials in Israel, who in turn passed it onto United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he wanted to see the agency dismantled and replaced with…
(2024-04-02). 'Grave concern' as Israel looks to ban Al Jazeera over Gaza. newarab.com 
Press organisations and media workers are "alarmed" by Israel's bid to The Knesset on Monday overwhelmingly backed a bill to close foreign media networks accused of harming the "state's security" with authorities allowed to confiscate equipment. | Following the vote, Netanyahu pledged to ban Al Jazeera, who he accused of "actively" taking part in Hamas's 7…
(2024-04-02). Ships of undelivered aid to turn back after Israeli strike. newarab.com 
Cyprus announced on Tuesday that ships carrying around 240 tonnes of undelivered aid for Gaza will be turning back following Israel's attack which killed seven aid workers.
(2024-04-02). Gaza's Al-Shifa 'mass graveyard' as Israel troops exit. newarab.com 
Hundreds of people, including some who had been sheltering in the
(2024-04-02). UK MPs call on govt to resume UNRWA funding 'without delay'. newarab.com 
British parliamentarians are calling on the government to immediately resume funding of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, In a letter sent to Foreign Minister David Cameron, MPs and members of the House of Lords questioned why the UK decided to cut off financial aid to UNRWA, an…
(2024-04-02). Spain to recognise Palestinian statehood by July, PM says. newarab.com 
Spain will State news agency EFE and newspapers El Pais and La Vanguardia cited Sanchez as making the informal remarks to the travelling press corps late on Monday in the Jordanian capital,
(2024-04-02). Why more non-Muslims are embracing Ramadan for Palestine. newarab.com 
Ramadan is the spiritual leveller. For Muslims, there's no other time like it; But not everyone is fasting for this reason. | These are non-Muslims who have committed to participating in Ramadan, not necessarily to know Allah better, but to exercise discipline, commi…
(2024-04-02). Blinken urges Palestinian reforms in call with Abbas. newarab.com 
Blinken told Abbas that the United States "looks forward to working with the new PA cabinet to promote peace, security and prosperity and urged the implementation of necessary reforms," State Dep…
(2024-04-02). US ambassador to Iraq urges KDP join Kurdistan's June vote. newarab.com 
The United States Ambassador to Iraq, Alina L. Romanowski, is spearheading a diplomatic endeavour to encourage the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to engage in the Kurdistan region's forthcoming elections slated for June 10, as Iraq's Electoral Commission assures the timely conduct of the vote. | On March 19, the political bureau of the KDP reiterated its firm opposition to participating in the electoral process, labelling it as fundamentally flawed. This stance was prompted by the ruling of Iraq's Supreme Federal Court on February 23, which deemed the Kurdistan region parliament's minority quota seats…
(2024-04-02). Palestine Authority seeking April vote on full UN membership. newarab.com 
(2024-04-02). Jordan makes arrests amid growing Gaza protests. newarab.com 
The Jordan's Public Security Directorate (PSD) announced that security forces arrested "a number of rioters" in a Palestinian refugee camp just outsid…
(2024-04-02). New Palestinian government sworn in, gets wary greeting. newarab.com 
(2024-04-02). Israel Itching to Ignite World War III. sonar21.com 
There is no other way to look at it. Israel bombed a diplomatic building protected under international law when it destroyed Iran's Consulate in Damascus, Syria today. There is no justification for this. I don't care if Iran was harboring Adolf Hitler inside the Consulate, this is an egregious crossing of a redline. The United States correctly condemned the fledgling Iranian regimen when "students" stormed the U.S. Embassy in the fall of 1979 and took hostages. Yet, when Israel destroys a diplomatic facility protected by the Geneva Convention, the United States plays dumb. At this point, Iran would be fully…
(2024-04-01). Palestinian prisoners living 'never-ending nightmare' in Israeli detention this Ramadan. middleeasteye.net 
Palestinian prisoners living 'never-ending nightmare' in Israeli detention this Ramadan | Israel has arrested almost 8,000 Palestinians since 7 October. Those detained, often without charge, describe regular beatings and a solitary daily meal designed simply to keep them alive | | Relati…
(2024-04-01). Iran says Israel behind deadly strikes on its consulate in Damascus. middleeasteye.net 
Iran says Israel behind deadly strikes on its consulate in Damascus | Iran blames Israel for the unprecedented strike against its consulate building in Syria and has vowed to respond | | Emergency and security personnel search the rubble at the site of strikes which hit a building annexed to the Ira…
(2024-04-01). War on Gaza: The Palestinian doctors found dead in the ruins of al-Shifa hospital. middleeasteye.net 
War on Gaza: The Palestinian doctors found dead in the ruins of al-Shifa hospital | Ahmad al-Maqadmeh and his mother Yusra, both working at al-Shifa, were found executed at the nearby Carrefour Mall roundabout | | Ahmad Maqadmeh, a plastic surgeon in his early thirties, was killed outsid…
(2024-04-01). Iftars hosting US and UK politicians stir outrage in Muslim communities amid Gaza war. middleeasteye.net 
Iftars hosting US and UK politicians stir outrage in Muslim communities amid Gaza war | Muslim activists say the iftars are 'photo ops' amid western support for Israel's war on Gaza | | New York City mayor Eric Adams speaks at an iftar in Brooklyn, New York, on 29 March 2024 (X/Mayor Eric Adams) | A…
(2024-04-01). War on Gaza: Palestinians dig through rubble with their bare hands to find loved ones. middleeasteye.net 
War on Gaza: Palestinians dig through rubble with their bare hands to find loved ones | Hours after Israeli forces ended their siege on al-Shifa hospital, Palestinians are facing the difficult task of trying to locate survivors buried under rubble without search and rescue teams |
(2024-04-01). War on Gaza: Israeli troops withdraw from al-Shifa hospital, leaving piles of dead bodies. middleeasteye.net 
War on Gaza: Israeli troops withdraw from al-Shifa hospital, leaving piles of dead bodies | Two week siege of Gaza's largest medical complex ends in destruction of all buildings and hundreds of deaths | | Palestinians gather to identify loved ones and survey the damage aft…