Gaza

UN-backed watchdog lowers famine threshold in Gaza report

The move, as well as the addition of a new metric, will likely make it easier for the agency to declare a famine in the Strip compared to in other parts of the world

By Jacob Jaffa

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The IPC has reportedly lowered its threshold to declare famine in Gaza (Image: Getty)

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Bono just showed celebrities how to criticise Israel without crossing the line

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The IDF has released footage showing terrorists posing as World Central Kitchen aid workers (Image: IDF)

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IDF releases footage of terrorist fighters posing as aid workers in Gaza

By Jacob Jaffa

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Israeli hostage Evyatar David looking emaciated. David, who turned 24 in captivity, was abducted during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. (Getty: Image)

By Alex Hearn

Rabbi Baginsky and Rabbi Levy ignored the spirit of the hostage rally with their speech

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Israeli review of Hamas health data claims most ‘malnutrition’ deaths were due to ‘pre-existing medical conditions’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Israeli security forces drag a resisting Jewish settler onto a bus during the forced evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom, in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 18, 2005. (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Twenty years since Israel pulled out of Gaza – how Western folly fuelled the current bloodshed

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Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg heading back to Gaza on new flotilla ‘with dozens of boats’ and Susan Sarandon

By Neta Bar

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By Dennis Ross

Recognising a symbolic Palestinian state will only help Israel’s far right block a real one

Instead of empty gestures, Western leaders could have pressed for a detailed post-war plan – securing Gaza, removing Hamas from power, reforming the Palestinian Authority, and laying real foundations for future statehood

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August 11, 2025 13:16

Israeli far-right cabinet members Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich (Image: Getty)

By Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

If a terror group is welcoming government policy, something is seriously wrong

The speech by Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis at Sunday’s hostage rally

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August 11, 2025 11:46

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis takes part in a 'National march for the Hostages' organised by Stop the Hate UK, in central London on August 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Al Jazeera reporter killed in Gaza strike was ‘head of terror cell’, IDF claims

Five employees of the Qatari-based network were killed when their tent was hit outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

August 11, 2025 10:49

The IDF has claimed that Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terror cell in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Western Wall defaced with ‘Gaza Holocaust’ graffiti

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Rabbi of the Western Wall, condemned the act as ‘desecration’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

August 11, 2025 10:29

A segment of the Western Wall has been defaced with graffiti declaring that 'there is a Holocaust in Gaza' (Image: X/@ shilofreid)

By Yaakov Katz

Netanyahu’s Gaza options are limited but the biggest constraints are self-inflicted

Attacked by left and right, the prime minister’s plans to seize the Strip’s capital risks deepening the Jewish state’s isolation. The failure to outline a coherent “day after” plan is a huge mistake

4 min read

August 10, 2025 13:41

Protesters gather in a demonstration organised by the families of the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 calling for action to secure their release outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Gantz and Rubio criticise UK, Western moves they say hurt hostage talks

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have accused the UK, France and other allies of undermining the prospects for a ceasefire

By JC Reporter

2 min read

August 10, 2025 10:31

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (Image: Getty)

Progressive and Masorti rabbis to hold Havdalah vigil, calling for ceasefire

Organisers say they are standing in solidarity with the hostages and demanding more aid into Gaza

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

August 8, 2025 13:37

Palestinian girls walk at a makeshift displacement camp set up amid building rubble in Gaza City in May (Photo: Getty)

By Josh Feldman

The New Yorker sees Israeli indifference to Gaza – and misses the story

What David Remnick calls a “zone of denial” says far more about his and other Western newsrooms than it does about the Jewish state. It’s a denial of history, of trauma, of the deeply rational fear driving Israeli behaviour

4 min read

August 8, 2025 12:32

David Remnick speaks onstage during The New Yorker Festival, October 07, 2023 in New York City. (Image: Getty)

By Philipp Peyman Engel

Israel is the only nation in history accused of starving those it feeds

A lie amplified by Western media and feckless politicians – who have abandoned the hostages and increasingly abandon Israel itself – is fueling a new wave of unashamed antisemitism

4 min read

August 8, 2025 10:14

Thousands of pallets of humanitarian aid already inside Gaza were waiting to be picked up and distributed from the crossings by UN agencies and international organizations. (Image: COGAT)

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Gaza

UN-backed watchdog lowers famine threshold in Gaza report

Bono just showed celebrities how to criticise Israel without crossing the line

IDF releases footage of terrorist fighters posing as aid workers in Gaza

Rabbi Baginsky and Rabbi Levy ignored the spirit of the hostage rally with their speech

Israeli review of Hamas health data claims most ‘malnutrition’ deaths were due to ‘pre-existing medical conditions’

Twenty years since Israel pulled out of Gaza – how Western folly fuelled the current bloodshed

Greta Thunberg heading back to Gaza on new flotilla ‘with dozens of boats’ and Susan Sarandon

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