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These are the words of 13-year-old Abdullah Al Yazuri, the Palestinian child narrator of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. After spending nine months working on the documentary, he has been left exposed to threats and harassment following the BBC’s decision to pull the film under political pressure. Now, he is speaking out.
Israel has blocked humanitarian aid to Gaza in an attempt to force a change to the ceasefire agreement. The revised deal would secure the release of hostages without requiring an Israeli military withdrawal, delaying Phase 2 negotiations, which were set to focus on the release of remaining hostages, a permanent ceasefire, and the reconstruction of Gaza.
28 February 2025
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian paediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, was arrested on 27 December 2024 after refusing to abandon his patients. He has since endured torture, starvation, and indefinite detention without charge. This chronology outlines key events in his life and imprisonment, including the killing of his son by an Israeli sniper, his mother’s fatal heart attack after his arrest, and international calls for his release.
20 February 2025
The Unlawful Detention of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya: A Case That Demands International Accountability
Israeli Channel 13 has aired footage of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, shackled and handcuffed, appearing visibly thin and exhausted.
14 February 2025
US President Trump claims Gaza is nothing more than a demolition site, ignoring the fact that American bombs created it.
7 February 2025
In a world where displacement is treated like a logistical problem—just a matter of packing up and starting over—people forget what home really means. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu openly talk about turning Gaza into a “luxury Riviera” after forcing Palestinians to “go somewhere else.” As if centuries of history, culture, and identity can be swapped for beachfront resorts. But that’s not how the Middle East works. What they meant was forcible displacement and ethnic cleansing.
4 February 2025
Fourteen months ago, the renowned Palestinian poet, writer, and academic, Dr. Refaat Alareer, was tragically killed in an Israeli airstrike on December 6, 2023, in northern Gaza, alongside his brother Salah, sister Asma, and four other relatives.
In Gaza, AI and cloud computing power systems of surveillance and violence, evolution peaks: machine-generated targeting lists and tech giant partnerships reshape conflict. Civilian tools, re-engineered for war, mask brutal realities, turning Gaza into a stark example of how the digital economy profits from violence, implicating us all.
22 January 2025
Talking with a friend who lives in the West Bank, she told me: “all cities are locked down because of checkpoints but nothing like Jenin. We just keep praying that things get better for everyone in Gaza and the West Bank.
Following Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s arrest in northern Gaza, his wife describes her fears over the hospital director's fate and the tragedy of their son's killing.
13 January 2025
Dr. Hussam Abu Safieh's son, Elias Abu Safieh, has shared that Dr. Hussam, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is in critical condition due to severe torture by the Israeli army. Despite no formal charges being filed, his detention has been extended until February 13, and he is prohibited from meeting with a lawyer until January 22. The family remains deeply concerned and still has no information about the reasons behind his arrest. International calls for his release are growing. He was recently transferred to Ashkelon Court after spending ten days in custody at Sedi Timan Prison. Current whereabouts unknown.
5 January 2025
Words feel useless now. When every instrument designed to safeguard human rights fails, to whom do we appeal? The Geneva Conventions, written in the shadow of the Holocaust, were a promise to the world that such atrocities would never be repeated. Yet today, the institutions entrusted with upholding these rights—the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice—are powerless against the greatest military force on earth. A force that has become one of the greatest terrorisers of this planet.
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, broke down in tears on January 3 during a session of the UN Security Council as he recounted the devastating human tragedy in Gaza. Mansour quoted the final words of Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, who was killed in 2023 during an Israeli airstrike.
Agnes Callamard, the Secretary General of Amnesty International and former UN Special Rapporteur has called on Israeli authorities to disclose the location of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh after they denied he had been detained.
2 January 2025
This morning, the IDF informed Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHRI) that they have no record of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh’s detention.
2 January 2025
The wilful blindness and the complicit silence of those who subscribed to “Never Again” is sickening. The Geneva conventions created rules of war to prevent the descent into barbarity. We have gone beyond that for over a year now. The extent of depravity of the Israeli regime supported by the US and UK is like nothing seen before. And then I saw this CNN news piece.
22 December 2024
Seventeen injured children and babies were recovered after a house was targeted in Jabalia. That’s all there is in Gaza. Children. These are the “terrorists” we must kill to make way for expensive beachfront properties and gas/oil exploration.
30 November 2024
Clare Rogers is campaigning to highlight the arrest of her daughter Zoe Rogers who is being held in prison accused of taking part in a protest against a subsidiary of Israel's largest arms factory. Her trial is due in 2025, and she and nine others could face years in prison. Rogers highlights Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms company, for producing weapons she believes fuel violence against Palestinians. These weapons, marketed as “battle-tested” on Gazans, symbolise a cycle of violence perpetuated with UK complicity. She wrote a poem called Prison Conversations.
19 November 2024
Israeli forces have prohibited the entry of tents into Gaza. As a result, people are living in makeshift shelters made of plastic and blankets, which have all been flooded due to the heavy rain.
18 November 2024
This is one story among thousands that have unfolded during the ongoing genocide being perpetrated by the rogue State of Israel in Gaza. Told by J Shawna, a Palestinian from Gaza who escaped to Cairo with his wife and kids.