A landmark report by the Committee to Protect Journalists documents how 58 of 59 Palestinian journalists released from Israeli custody since October 2023 describe being subjected to torture or abuse — including beatings, sexual violence, starvation, stress positions, and psychological threats against their families.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the killing of 19-year-old Palestinian-American Nasrallah Abu Siam, who was shot and beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Mukhmas while trying to prevent them from stealing his community’s sheep. Three others were wounded in the same attack.
Contracting records reviewed by the Guardian reveal the Trump administration’s Board of Peace is planning a 5,000-person military installation covering more than 350 acres in southern Gaza — complete with armored watchtowers, bunkers, and a firing range — on land whose ownership is unclear and where 1.9 million displaced Palestinians now live.
On the first day of Ramadan, Israeli occupation forces imposed sweeping movement restrictions around Al-Aqsa Mosque — capping West Bank access at 10,000 worshippers and issuing more than 250 expulsion orders — while simultaneously demolishing a residential building housing over 40 Palestinians in Hebron.
Immigration Judge Nina Froes terminated deportation proceedings against Mohsen Mahdawi — a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student and refugee camp-born lawful permanent resident — after the Trump administration failed to properly authenticate the key evidence in its case: a memo by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
A coalition of Palestinian footballers, clubs, and advocacy groups filed a 120-page complaint at the International Criminal Court on February 16 accusing FIFA president Gianni Infantino and UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity — specifically apartheid and the transfer of civilians into occupied territory — by allowing Israeli settlement clubs to compete in official football leagues.
Israel has threatened to resume its war on Gaza within 60 days if Hamas does not disarm completely. For the roughly 6,000 Palestinians — a quarter of them children — living with amputations from two years of bombardment, the ultimatum means recovery itself is now under threat.

Trump’s Ambassador Said Israel Could ‘Take It All.’ Fourteen Nations Condemned Him. The White House Said Nothing.
In a Tucker Carlson interview, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all the biblical territory described in Genesis — a comment that triggered condemnations from fourteen Arab and Muslim nations, Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry, and the OIC, while the White House remained silent.