Al Jazeera Forum discusses the regional impact of Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Four months into the Gaza ceasefire, Palestinians in the devastated territory are coming to terms with the post-war situation. At this year's edition of the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, delegates are focusing on the power shifts created by Israel's genocide. A new committee of technocrats is expected to be in charge of Gaza's governance.
United States President Donald Trump launched the Board of Peace on Thursday, saying it's one of the most consequential bodies ever created in the history of the world. This is all part of the agreement to reach a ceasefire in Gaza after more than two years of Israel's genocidal war on Palestinians in the territory. Trump said the board will work in partnership with the United Nations to address crises far beyond Gaza.
Israeli crews have started bulldozing the Jerusalem headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Jerusalem and fired teargas at a UN vocational school in Qalandia, in the West Bank. Israel accuses the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unwra) of collaborating with Hamas a charge the agency denies and last year banned it from operating on its territory. The demolition marks Israel's latest step against Unrwa, which provides aid to millions of Palestinian refugees.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- After declining to call Israel's actions in Gaza "genocide" during a congressional debate forum, State Senator Scott Wiener has changed course. Wiener posted a video to social media Sunday, saying he does believe the conflict in Gaza is genocide. The statement comes days after a forum featuring Wiener and other candidates who are hoping to fill Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress.
Hamas-led militants launched an attack on communities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 more, according to Israeli authorities. The resulting war in Gaza led to the deaths of more than 70,000 Palestinians inside the enclave, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. On Oct. 10, 2025, a ceasefire went into effect between Israel and Hamas, mediated by the U.S., Qatar, Egypt and Turkey.
The walkouts came after the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union a group of public broadcasters from 56 countries that runs the glitzy annual event met to discuss concerns about Israel's participation, which some countries oppose over its conduct of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. At the meeting, EBU members voted to adopt tougher contest voting rules in response to allegations that Israel manipulated the vote in favor of their contestants, but took no action to exclude any broadcaster from the competition.
A U.S.-drafted U.N. resolution endorsing President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, set for a Security Council vote Monday, has encountered stiff opposition from both Israel, which says it goes too far in envisioning a Palestinian state, and Palestinian organizations that say it does not go far enough. The views of many of the 15 council members remain unclear. Nine must approve the measure with no vetoes from the permanent members - Britain, France, Russia and China, in addition to the United States.
The United States had evidence last year that Israeli officials discussed how their soldiers sent Palestinians into tunnels in Gaza that the Israelis believed were potentially lined with explosives, two former US officials have told the Reuters news agency. The information was shared with the White House and analysed by the intelligence community in the final weeks of former President Joe Biden's administration, the officials said.
Two former senior EU officials, speaking separately, criticised the decision not to move forward with sanctions. Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, a former EU representative to the Palestinian territories, told the Guardian that Kallas missed the point on legal accountability. Sanctions are not just a measure to induce or coerce a third party to change or adjust its behaviour. Restrictive measures are part of the tools the EU has given itself to react to breaches of both European and international law, he said.
Hamas has freed all 20 living hostages held in Gaza and Israel has released almost 2,000 jailed Palestinians US President Donald Trump arrives in Egypt following his speech to the Israeli parliament Trump and Egyptian president will co-host a summit of more than 20 world leaders in Sharm El Sheikh German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is attending Egypt summit, says he hopes Trump can now use his influence to end war in Ukraine
I started writing "The Human Scale," I guess many years ago because I spent so many years in the region. But I knew when I was writing this book that it was a dangerous book because people feel so strongly, one side or the other, and they're deaf to hearing any excuses or explanations for behavior from the other side. And that was a challenge. When things get black and white, that's when it gets really dangerous.
No other international leader has been as frequent a visitor to the White House during Donald Trump's second term as Benjamin Netanyahu: the Israeli prime minister visited the Oval Office Monday for the fourth time in eight months. None of his previous visits yielded any progress toward peace, and those meetings only served to buy the Israeli leader more time in his deadly offensive in Gaza.
Of course, there's no question about it. The Jews spread from this land to various parts of Europe, to the Middle East, and elsewhere, but we never, never forgot this land. We said, Next year in Jerusalem, next year in Jerusalem.' My great-grandfather came here in the 19th century. Most of the Palestinians who are alive today came after him, Netanyahu replied, adding:
The article gives any United Nations member state the right to intervene in a case when the interpretation of a treaty to which it is a party is in question. Brazil used the article to formally recognize that Israel is violating the Genocide Convention of 1948. South Africa and Israel are now invited to furnish written observations on the declaration of intervention, the World Court said.
Formally, the UK is recognising Palestine as an independent state as part of an attempt to preserve and nurture the vision of a two-state solution in which the state of Palestine coexists next to Israel. There are genuine fears that Israel is about to annex the West Bank or make Gaza so uninhabitable that Palestinians are forced over the borders into Jordan or Egypt, so destroying the possibility of a Palestinian homeland.
Israel's apartheid across the occupied Palestinian territories is "far worse" than the apartheid perpetrated by white nationalists for decades in South Africa, Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela, said in remarks on Wednesday. "Many of us that have visited the occupied territories in Palestine have only come back with one conclusion: that the Palestinians are experiencing a far worse form of apartheid than we ever experienced," said Mandela. "These last two years, what you have been witnessing, is a testament to that."
Starmer's approval rating remains low at -41%, down 5 points. His net score fell on attributes like 'strong leader' (-40%) and 'represents what most people think' (-47%).
An investigation has revealed a consistent pattern of Israeli military gunfire targeting Palestinians near food distribution centres, with heavy injuries documented among those seeking food.
