We can bring you more updates from our correspondent Sara Khairat in occupied East Jerusalem where she says tensions are high today. “To give you an idea about the atmosphere in occupied East Jerusalem as well as the occupied territories, shopkeepers are saying they are shutting their stores early. “They are worried they’ll be arrested…
The strikes continue, and the misery and the tragedies that they create continue to make Palestinians’ lives in the Gaza Strip difficult. Within the past few minutes, I spoke with a civil defence crew member who was evacuating people from Khan Younis, from the vicinity of Nasser Hospital to Rafah. He described to us the…
Foreign Ministers from the Middle East will meet with US. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington later on Friday. The Biden administration says Israel needs to do more to protect civilians. Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane reports from Washington DC. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera…
Bombardment, people crying, destruction of Gaza. That language has been translated into action by the Israeli military, inflicting mass destruction and targeting the people of Palestine. A genocide broadcast to the world in real-time. Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig takes a look at the war on Gaza two months on and the massacres that have taken…
Hamas has condemned the stripping of Palestinians inside Gaza, calling the move a way for Israel to take revenge over the strategic failure suffered on October 7. “Stripping them of their clothes in a humiliating manner, is a blatant Zionist crime to take revenge on our defenseless civilians, as a result of the blows suffered…
Israeli air strikes have targeted a home in Gaza, killing the renowned Palestinian writer, poet and professor Refaat Alareer. He co-founded a youth-led Palestinian non-profit project called We Are Not Numbers. Six members of his family including his two siblings were also killed in the strike. Ahmed Nehad, a Friend of Refaat, joins Al Jazeera…
Every winter, major Indian cities especially the capital New Delhi are affected by polluted air. Scientists say corrective measures are too little, too late. And warn that decisive action is needed throughout the year, not just in the winter months. More than two million people die each year from toxic air in the country, according…
"Trauma is utterly unprecedented“ UNICEF tells Al Jazeera that the lack of water, food, medicine and protection is becoming an even bigger threat than bombs to the lives of thousands in Gaza. James Elder, UNICEF global spokesperson said Israeli authorities were unmoved by the unfolding humanitarian disaster. Elder joins Al Jazeera live from Geneva. Subscribe…
In the United States, accusations of racism are used against people of Palestinian and South Asian descent to shut down discussion around human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip. Sahar Aziz, a professor and director of the Center for Security, Race, and Rights at Rutgers University’s Law School, joins Al Jazeera live from Newark, New…
Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori has been released from prison on humanitarian grounds. The 85 year-old was serving a 25-year sentence for committing human rights abuses in the 1990s. The constitutional court ordered his release despite the Inter-American Court of Human Rights asking for a delay to study the ruling. Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez reports…