Author: Charlie Jaay

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17-year-old boy fatally shot by settlers in Sa’ir, north of Hebron

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17-year-old boy fatally shot by settlers in Sa’ir, north of Hebron

Israeli settlers have murdered a Palestinian boy. They shot him in his chest with live ammunition, outside his home in the occupied West Bank. IOF accompanied settlers on their killing spree A group of around 50 illegal colonisers — some armed with military-issued assault rifles, and others riding on government supplied ATVs, attacked homes in the Hamroush area of Sa’ir, a town north of Hebron, opening fire at residents. They were accompanied by Israeli occupation forces (IOF). The settlers shot 17-year-old Kareem Sanad Shalaldeh at close range, in the chest, according to his father Sanad. The father of 17-year-old Palestinian Karim…

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Israeli settler violence: The siege of the Sufan family in Burin

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Israeli settler violence: The siege of the Sufan family in Burin

As the siege on Palestinian homes in the village of Qusra continues for a second week, Israeli settlers feel confident they will face no consequences for their terrorist activities. Inaction from the Netanyahu government and the international community has given these colonists a growing sense of confidence. It has also encouraged them, and given them the green light to use the same tactics elsewhere. Israeli settlers cut off electricity supply On 18 August, settlers broke an electricity pole, which provided power to the home of brothers Ayman and Musab Sufan, and their families. The long-suffering Sufans live in the West Bank…

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‘Israel’ kills Gaza’s civilian police yet again in attempt to derail ‘Peace Plan’

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‘Israel’ kills Gaza’s civilian police yet again in attempt to derail ‘Peace Plan’

On 19 August, Israel attacked Gaza’s provincial police headquarters, killing nine Palestinians, including two female officers: Lt. Samaher Misbah Abdelhadi Hamada and police chief Col. Fatina Al-Sahhar. Moreover, a 13-year-old girl, Dana Haitham al-Jamasi, was also killed: https://x.com/gazanotice/status/2090082511284048316/video/1 Claims that Israel was after Hamas “completely unfounded” The Israeli occupation alleges it was targeting ‘resistance leaders.’ Hamas says these claims are false and “completely unfounded.” In a statement, Hamas says ‘Israel’ put forward these lies to: Justify its aggression and cover up its deliberate targeting of the civilian police and defenseless civilians in Gaza. The attack followed a recent meeting between Hamas…

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Father and son shot by Israeli forces as settlers overrun Hebron

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Father and son shot by Israeli forces as settlers overrun Hebron

The Palestinian city of Hebron has been the target of another Israeli military excursion. Occupation personnel flooded into the Old City to roll out the proverbial red carpet for “settlers tours” in the southern West Bank city — a coloniser gathering held on Shabbat that compounds the terror Palestinian residents experience in Hebron, one of the most heated fronts of colonial settler violence. Israeli military presence is not incidental. It safeguards setters, offering them a carte blanche to overrun indigenous Palestinian territories. With the military on their side, they are answerable to neither local nor international law, acting with repugnant impunity.…

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Silencing the witnesses to its crimes: ‘Israel’s’ war on Palestinian journalists

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Silencing the witnesses to its crimes: ‘Israel’s’ war on Palestinian journalists

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Awad, 38, was recently arrested by Israel’s occupation forces at his home in Beitunia, west of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. His wife, Eman Awad, told the Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the family’s home around 6am. This was after they blew open the door of the family’s old apartment, but found no one inside so left. Mohammed Awad is one of 40 Palestinian journalists currently detained by the Israeli occupation Eman Awad said her husband – a freelance journalist who worked for AFP and Al Jazeera, and…

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It’s time to criminalise Britain’s West Bank settlement trade

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It’s time to criminalise Britain’s West Bank settlement trade

For decades, the UK government has consistently stated that ‘Israeli’ settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are illegal under international law. Yet it has taken no action to prevent British trade and financial dealings with businesses operating in the West Bank. Then, in June, former Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper strengthened the government’s guidance to businesses, but still stopped short of introducing a ban. In a statement, she said: “British citizens and businesses should not conduct any economic or financial activities in illegal Israeli settlements… We believe that settlements are a fundamental barrier to peace and a flagrant breach of international law, and…

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Zionist Israel just assassinated Gaza’s police chief in yet another war crime

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Zionist Israel just assassinated Gaza’s police chief in yet another war crime

On 13 August, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) assassinated Gaza Governorate’s civil police chief, 43-year-old Jamal Mahmoud Abu Kamil. His vehicle was targeted by a drone, which fired three missiles, while travelling on al-Rashid Street, southwest of Gaza City. Two other Palestinians were reportedly wounded in the strike. ‘Israel’ uses accusations of Hamas membership yet again as excuse for assassination ‘Israel’ has claimed, with no evidence as usual, that Kamil was a 7 October Hamas commander. In a social media post, the IOF said: the terrorist was eliminated from the air to remove the threat. Gaza’s Interior Ministry confirmed the killing, saying…

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Settlers continue their siege on Palestinian homes in Qusra

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Settlers continue their siege on Palestinian homes in Qusra

On 9 August, settlers established a new outpost in Qusra, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, setting up a tent just metres away from Palestinian homes. They continue to lay siege on three family homes, which are on the outskirts of the village, on a hill. The settlers have cut water and electric lines, and are blocking access routes and deliveries of essential supplies. The residents remain trapped inside their homes, while occupation soldiers and settlers have been seen praying, barbecuing, and dancing together. “We will remain steadfast and stay in our homes, even if we are martyred.” Now…

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Settlers use water to ethnically cleanse the occupied West Bank

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Settlers use water to ethnically cleanse the occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers were filmed deliberately emptying vital water tanks in the Palestinian herding community of Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley. Ein al-Hilweh freshwater spring had been used by the farmers and Bedouin shepherds of the village for generations. But in 2019, illegal ‘Israeli’ colonists from the nearby Maskiyot settlement, with the help of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), seized the spring and fenced it off. Now, Palestinians no longer have access to it and the IOF has threatened them with forcible displacement if they try. The community now relies on tankers for their water supply, which is why these…

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Father grieves son, 27, after Israeli settler shooting leaves his second child paralysed

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Father grieves son, 27, after Israeli settler shooting leaves his second child paralysed

Israeli settlers continue their violent campaign of intimidation, displacement and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. On 9 August, colonisers from the nearby Susya settlement attacked residents of Wadi Rakhim village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. Israeli settlers devastate family-of-three During the attack settlers opened fire on residents and threw stones. Five Palestinians were assaulted and beaten while Mohammed Shiniran (pictured below), was shot in the shoulder and taken to hospital. Mohammed’s two sons were shot on 7 March by Luria Lusky, an illegal settler who wore a military reserve uniform. Sadly, 27-year-old Amir was killed while…

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Ben-Gvir’s crocodile project halted but abuses at Ketziot Prison continue

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Ben-Gvir’s crocodile project halted but abuses at Ketziot Prison continue

An Israeli occupation court has temporarily stopped the transfer of Nile crocodiles to Ketziot Prison in the Southern Negev, a facility used to hold Palestinian detainees from Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including freedom fighters. Planned use of crocodiles at prison was to further humiliate and dehumanise Palestinians The project, which was promoted by so-called national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, involved digging a moat around a high-security section of the prison, and filling it with crocodiles. It would have added a deliberately intimidating, humiliating and dehumanising spectacle to an already brutal detention environment for Palestinian prisoners, if given the go-ahead. It…

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‘Israel’ isolates Palestinian prisoners from outside world, renewing ban on visits from their family, and ICRC

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‘Israel’ isolates Palestinian prisoners from outside world, renewing ban on visits from their family, and ICRC

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) has condemned the Israeli occupation’s  renewal of an order barring families from visiting Palestinian prisoners. It says the measure is part of a wider policy of isolating detainees and shielding prison authorities from scrutiny. No oversight or accountability for Israeli occupation’s crimes against Palestinian prisoners The order was announced by illegal settler, war criminal, and so-called Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. And it is a continuation of policies that have cut prisoners off from the outside world. According to the Club, the restrictions have created conditions in which torture, starvation, medical neglect and other abuses…

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From Qalandiya to Jenin, Israel’s war on West Bank refugee camps

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From Qalandiya to Jenin, Israel’s war on West Bank refugee camps

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have ended their raid on Qalandiya Refugee Camp and neighbouring Kafr Aqab, north of occupied East Jerusalem. This followed a dawn assault on 5 August that saw roads blocked and residents placed under strict curfew. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported that more than 60 Palestinians had been arrested and interrogated by 12pm local time on 6 August. Those detained included women and children. Israeli occupation forces continued their raid on Qalandiya refugee camp for the second day, demolishing shops, raiding homes, and blocking roads. The Palestine Red Crescent said 10 Palestinians were injured, while its crews…

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Gaza recovers 112 bodies after painstaking recovery effort

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Gaza recovers 112 bodies after painstaking recovery effort

After 136 hours of painstaking search and recovery efforts, Gaza’s Civil Defense recovered the remains of 112 civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes. A mass funeral was held for the victims on 4 August 2026. The victims were found beneath the rubble of a residential block in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, which was heavily bombarded by Israeli airstrikes. Among those recovered were 40 children, 38 women and seven people with disabilities. https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/fea-first-firsr.mp4 Gaza: 112 recovered, 196 still missing The building was home to members of the extended Abu Sharia and Al-Husayna families before it was targeted in an Israeli airstrike on 23…

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Palestinians face escalating settler attacks in the West Bank

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Palestinians face escalating settler attacks in the West Bank

Illegal Israeli settlers have intensified their campaign of harassment, intimidation and terror across the occupied West Bank. Recent episodes mark a significant ratcheting up of attacks against Palestinian civilians. Supported and protected by Israeli occupation forces (IOF), settlers have been assaulting residents, seizing land, and vandalising or torching property. Settlers desecrate Palestinian cemetery In Tal, southwest of Nablus, armed settlers returned a week after the deadly shooting that killed four Palestinians and two “Israelis”. They raided the village and its surroundings several times. They were accompanied by IOF soldiers who arrested several residents. In the same week, settlers vandalised a Palestinian…

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15 year old Palestinian on life support five months after Israel arrest

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15 year old Palestinian on life support five months after Israel arrest

15 year old Mohammad Suleiman Hamed, was detained by genocidal Israel. Because he suffered no previous health conditions, his family was surprised by a call from Physicians for Human Rights, informing them their son would undergo surgery in the hospital. Hamed is now unconscious, on life support in the intensive care unit of the “Israeli” Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, in occupied Jerusalem. Israel carrying out systematic torture Hamed, from the town of Tuqu, Southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, was held in the juvenile section of Ofer Prison. He has endured torture, starvation, abuse, denial of family and International…

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UKLFI’s desperate efforts to control anti-Israel narrative succeeds after vegan fest cancelled

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UKLFI’s desperate efforts to control anti-Israel narrative succeeds after vegan fest cancelled

A new four‑day vegan festival in London, billed as being “built on principles of love and kindness for all sentient beings” has been cancelled after complaints from UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). The Scout Association cancelled the Great Vegan Festival’s venue booking just weeks before the event was to take place at their Gilwell Park Activity Centre in Chingford. The association pulled the plug after UKLFI wrote to management warning them that several acts on the line‑up were “antisemitic”. A statement from the Great Vegan Gathering read: After pressure from UK Lawyers for Israel, Gilwell Park decided to cancel our venue…

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Hackney votes to end 58-year Haifa twinning, citing “anti-racist values”

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Hackney votes to end 58-year Haifa twinning, citing “anti-racist values”

Hackney’s Green Party-led Council has voted to end its 58-year-old twin-city agreement with Haifa, a port city that “Israel” violently captured in 1948. Councillors have upheld the vote as a commitment in their May 2026 local elections manifesto. They have pledged to end the twinning arrangement at “the earliest possible opportunity,” the details of which are under consideration. The decision follows years of pressure by Palestine solidarity activists. The decades-long campaign involved a broad coalition of groups. These included the Greens, Stop the War, Hackney Independent Socialist Collective, and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). The campaign gathered steam in 2024. At…

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Everything’s a target: Israel’s war on reproductive health in Gaza

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Everything’s a target: Israel’s war on reproductive health in Gaza

The destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system has placed reproductive health under unprecedented threat. Israel has decimated hospitals and healthcare infrastructure, and restricted access to reproductive and maternal care. This has left Palestinian women without the support they need to sustain life. The war on reproductive health has been allowed to continue under the farcical “ceasefire” announced in October 2025. Meanwhile, women have nowhere to turn. Reproductive violence Pregnant women are moving between overcrowded shelters, sleeping in tents, or damaged buildings. Nothing is guaranteed, not even their next meal or when they may go into labour, and epidurals are largely unavailable. Ultimately,…

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Israel ramps up its exterminationist campaign in the West Bank

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Israel ramps up its exterminationist campaign in the West Bank

There are no limits to “Israel’s” depravity or genocidal campaign against Palestinians. Its “defence” minister, Israel Katz, has now issued orders to the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) to seize another refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and expel its residents. New targets Katz issued the order on 27 July. This was after a security assessment with the heads of the occupation’s military, police, and counterintelligence agency Shin Bet. It is not yet known which refugee camp Katz is planning to capture and demolish. News reports suggest that the takeover will replicate the model previously used in Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur…

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